saying in a correspondence you shall not use le weekend,

即在通信中禁止使用"周末"一词
but you'd rather use la fin de la semaine,

但你最好使用la fin de la semaine[法语:一周之末]
the end of the week.

来表示周末的意思
Well, that lasted a matter of days

这只持续了几天
because that's simply not terribly practical.

因为这并不实际
English words began to permeate, with a sort of chic sense of being

英语词汇开始由一种时尚的方式
cool, the French language--le drugstore.

融入法语之中比如"药店"
I can remember around Paris Saint-Germain,

我记得在巴黎圣日耳曼旁
at the metro there, en face, right across there

那里地铁站正对面就有一家药店
was le drugstore; and it was, it was a pharmacy and it

那是家药房
had your basic green flashing light saying it's a pharmacy,

基本的绿色闪光灯说明这是个药房
but they also sold all sorts of things.

但他们卖很多东西