101 Extreme sports Flashcards

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1
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avoir le goût du risque

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to like taking risks

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avoir le goût de l’aventure

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to have a taste for adventure

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aimer l’aventure

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to be adventurous

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4
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la prise du risque(s)

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risk taking

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5
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un preneur de risques

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a risk taker

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un casse-cou

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a daredevil

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risquer sa vie / risquer sa peau

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to risk one’s life / to risk one’s neck

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mettre sa vie en danger

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to put one’s life at risk

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faire quelque chose au péril de sa vie

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to do something at the risk of one’s life

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avoir une montée d’adrénaline

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to get the adrenalin doing

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11
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un amateur de sensations fortes

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a thrill seeker

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se donner des sensations fortes

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to get a thrill / a kick out of something

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aimer se faire peur

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to like thrills and spills / thrills and chills

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14
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rechercher le danger

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to push the danger button

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15
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braver le danger / la mort

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to court danger / death

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16
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courtiser la mort

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to flirt with death

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17
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jouer avec le feu

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to play with danger / with fire

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18
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un comportement à risques

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risk-taking behaviour

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19
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prendre des risques extrêmes

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to take extreme chances

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20
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vivre dangereusement

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to live dangerously

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21
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jouer sa vie à quitte ou double

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to live life on the edge

22
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le base jump

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BASE jumping

23
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le saut à l’élastique

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bungee jumping

24
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le snowboard

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snowboarding

25
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l’escalade des murs de glace

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ice climbing

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l’escalade

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rock climbing

27
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l’alpinisme

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mountaineering

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le parapente

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paragliding

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le deltaplane

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hang-gliding

30
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la plongée sous-marine

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scuba diving

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la plongée en apnée

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apnoea diving

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plonger en apnée

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to dive without a breathing apparatus

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le rafting

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(whitewater) rafting

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la descente en rappel

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abseiling / (US) rappelling

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la parachutisme en chute libre

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skydiving

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la spéléologie

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caving / potholing

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le canyoning

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canyoning

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le ski hors piste

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off-piste skiing

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le VTT extrême

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extreme biking

40
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Des sports extrêmes aux rapports sexuels non protégés, la recherche de sensations fortes est de plus en plus en vogue

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From extreme sports to unprotected sex, thrill seeking is becoming more and more popular

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Qu’est-ce qui les pousse à sauter, au juste, quand ils regardent dans le vide ?

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What exactly makes them leap when they are looking down at the ground?

42
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Les gens rechercheraient-ils le risque plus que jamais auparavant si la vie de tous les jours n’était pas si terne ?

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Would people seek risk as never before if everyday life was not so dull?

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Les gens prennent des risques parce que, dans la vie de tous les jours, les risques sont limités et qu’ils ont besoin d’un défi

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People are taking risks because everyday risk is minimized and they want to be challenged

44
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C’est seulement en prenant des risques qu’on profite de la vie au maximum

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It is only by taking risks that you enjoy life to the max

45
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Les générations précédentes n’avaient pas besoin d’aller au-devant des risques : ils survenaient régulièrement sans qu’on les ait cherchés

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Previous generations didn’t need to seek out risk : it showed up uninvited and regularly

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Certains prennent des risques que leurs parents auraient évités et que leurs grands-parents auraient refusés en les qualifiant tout simplement de complètement idiots

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Some people engage in risks their parents would have shunned and their grandparents would have dismissed as just plain stupid

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La mode grandissante des sports extrêmes témoignent d’un vif désir de repousser ses limites personnelles

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The rising popularity of extreme sports bespeaks an eagerness to push out personal limits

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Bien sûr qu’ils ont peur, mais ce qui leur importe est de vaincre la peur

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Sure they are scared, but what matters to them is to conquer their fear

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Il a sauté d’une falaise simplement pour se faire peur

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He jumped from a cliff just for the thrill of it

50
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Beaucoup de base jumpers finissent à l’hôpital, leur vie ne tenant qu’à un fil

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Lots of BASE jumpers end up in hospital, their lives hanging by a thread

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Le VTT extrême est une activité où on n’a pas droit à l’erreur. On n’a pas de deuxième chance

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Extreme biking is an activity without margin for error. There are no second chances

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En octobre 2012 Felix Baumgartner est devenu le premier homme à franchir le mur du son, bravant la mort en effectuant un saut en chute libre de 39 km

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In October 2012 Felix Baumgartner became the first man to break the sound barrier with a death-defying 24-mile skydive