12/02/2025

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Clients (qui font les magasins)

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Shoppers

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Client (d’un avocat)

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Client

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Lacérer, réduire (considérablement)

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To slash

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Attirer

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To pull in

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La concurrence

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Competition

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Une compétition rude

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A fierce competition

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Un article à prix défiant toute concurrence

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An item at rock bottom prices

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Toucher le fond

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To hit rock bottom

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Acheter

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To buy, to purchase

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Un article

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An item

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Soldes d’été

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Summer sales

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Soldes d’hiver

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Winter sales

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Pour tenter de

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In an attempt to do

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Être en bonne ≠ mauvaise santé

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To be in good ≠ bad health

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En mauvaise santé

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Ailing

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Immobilier

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Housing, property market

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Avoir du mal

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To have difficulty/ trouble (+ing)
To struggle to do

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Recommencer

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To restart, to relaunch

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Vivre selon ses moyens

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To live within its means

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Vivre au-delà de ses moyens

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To live beyond its means

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Blanchir de l’argent

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To launder money

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Blanchiment d’argent

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Money laundering

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Personnes soupçonnées

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People on suspicion of

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Être qc de très précieux (pr quelqu’un)

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To be a real boon (to someone)

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Les habitants du coin

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The locals

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Je vais au pub

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I’m off to the local

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Dépasser la limite autorisée de vitesse

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To break the speed limit

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Les auteurs de grands excès de vitesse

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Excessive speeders

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Se voir retirer le permis (de conduire)

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To lose your (driving) licence

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Sur le champ

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On the spot

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S’ils se font choper / attraper

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If they are caught

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La digue

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The dyke

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Consolider

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To strengthen

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Renforcer, consolider

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To shore up

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Une inondation

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A flood

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Éviter

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To stave off

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Les dépenses

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Expenditures

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Remettre qc sur les rails

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To get something back on track

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Un plan détaillé

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A detailed plan

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Redresser

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To revitalize / to relaunch

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Industrie en mauvaise santé

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The ailing industry

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Être en mesure, en posture de faire qc

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To be in position to do something

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Surmonter

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Overcome

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Surmonter une crise / braver la tempête

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To weather a crisis

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Pour réussir ≠ rater le test

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To managed to pass ≠ to fail the test

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Réussir à faire

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To succeed in doing

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Il ne peut s’en prendre qu’à lui-même

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He will only have himself to blame

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Les agriculteurs

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The farmers

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Porter la responsabilité de la mauvaise récolte sur le temps

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To blame the crop failure on the bad weather

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Un projet

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A project, a scheme

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Être à la base de

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To underpin

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Impopularité

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Lack of popularity, unpopularity

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Risquer de

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To be likely to

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Aiguiser (un couteau)

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To sharpen

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Émousser (un couteau)

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To blunt

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Risquer fort de tempérer

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To be likely to blunt

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Ce n’est pas sorcier

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It is not rocket science

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Pas besoin d’être un génie pour

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It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to

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Reculer

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To postpone

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À l’heure actuelle

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At present

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Côte de popularité

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Approval rating

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Le monde marche sur la tête

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It is a topsy-turvy world

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Être un tournant décisif

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To be a tipping point

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Être géré

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To be run

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Faire une ultime tentative

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To make a last-ditch attempt

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Limiter

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To curb

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La propagation

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The spread

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VIH / virus du sida

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HIV

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Les groenlandais

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The people of Greenland

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Voter massivement

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To vote overwhelmingly

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La totale inutilité

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The utter pointlessness

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D’autant plus

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All the more

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Groupe de réflexion (du gouvernement)

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(The government’s) think-thank

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Idées neuves

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Fresh ideas

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Le monde vous appartient

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The world is your oyster

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Mettre en veilleuse

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To put on the back burner

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L’Afrique a besoin qu’on l’aide

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Africa needs to be given a helping hand

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Une promesse

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A pledge

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S’attaquer

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To tackle

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Réduire la pauvreté dans le monde

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Halving global poverty

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Inaccessible

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Unattainable