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2A5 Flashcards

1
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rentabilité

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profitability / financial viability

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indispensable

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indispensable

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contrainte/pression sociale

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social coercion

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responsabilité

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responsibility

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comité d’éthique

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ethics committee

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une catastrophe

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a disaster

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des sandales

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sandals

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un gilet

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a cardigan; a waistcoat (gilet de costume)

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un chemisier

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a blouse

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une étiquette

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a label

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un pli

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a crease

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une fermeture éclair

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a zip

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une boucle (attache)

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a buckle

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des lacets

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laces

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la semelle

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the sole

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la doublure (vêtement) / le revêtement

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the lining

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une tenue de soirée

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an evening dress

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un jeu de mots

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a pun

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19
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la rentrée

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the start of term

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la répression

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repression / crackdown

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21
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transgresser –> une violation

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to breach –> a breach

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un volant / frou-frou / une fanfreluche

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a frill

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dépenaillé / débraillé / miteux

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scruffy

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un sosie

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a look-alike

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calvitie naissante

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early signs of baldness

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la verrière

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the glass roof

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sentir (impression, pressentiment)

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to sense (that)

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il y a anguille sous roche

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I smell a rat / it can smell a rat etc

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daigner faire/ condescendre à faire

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to condescend to do

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correct, comme il faut, convenable

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proper –> to behave properly

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pendre, dépasser (ex: langue pendante)

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to hang out

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32
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garder son sang froid

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to keep one’s cool/head

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être autorisé à entrer

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to be allowed inside

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34
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en laisse

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on a leash

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un moustachu

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a moustached man

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l’entrée, l’accès (permission d’entrer)

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the admittance

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défense d’entrer

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Keep out / no admittance

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38
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feindre

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to feign

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39
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louche (bizarre)

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shady / shifty

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suspect (qui cause des suspicions)

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suspicious

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un pigeon

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a pigeon

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un rossignol

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a nightingale

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43
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pépier, gazouiller –> un pépiement

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to twitter –> a tweet

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une pie

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a magpie

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un rouge-gorge

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a red robin

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un perroquet

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a parrot

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un faisan

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a pheasant

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48
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une oie –> des oies

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a goose –> geese

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un moineau

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a sparrow

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une hirondelle

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a swallow

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51
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un coq

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a rooster

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52
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dodeliner de la tête

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to nod head

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53
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virulent/bruyant

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vociferous

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54
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serrer dans ses bras

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to hold stg

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55
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ferme, inflexible, catégorique

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adamant

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56
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se plisser / se froisser

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to crease

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57
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éploré, affligé

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mournful

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58
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des ragots, des cancans

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dirt

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59
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voûté –> courbé en avant

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hunched –> hunched forward

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60
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impénétrable, insondable

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inscrutable

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retomber en/dans, revenir à, redevenir (return to earlier condition)

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to revert to stg

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Si il avait été prévenu

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had he been warned

63
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précédemment, auparavant, jadis, autrefois…

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formerly

64
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il voudrait nous faire croire

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he would have us believe (that)

65
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les personnes âgées

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elderly people

66
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avoir des haut-le-coeur

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to heave

67
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à quelle heure… ?

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What time .. ?

68
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une coupure publicitaire, un spot publicitaire

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a commercial (break)

69
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l’affaire Johnson

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the Johnson case

70
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Je n’ai aimé ni l’un ni l’autre/aucun

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I liked neither

71
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de nombreux

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numerous

72
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faire évacuer qqch

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to have stg evacuated

73
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MSF

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Doctors Without Borders

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alerter la presse

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to alert the press

75
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un villageois

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a villager

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qqch de couru d’avance

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a foregone conclusion

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l’embarras (gêne)

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the embarrassment

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la légitimité

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the legitimacy

79
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assez grand/important, d’une certaine ampleur

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sizable

80
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des séquences (ciné) / images (journalisme)

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footage

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un lieu saint/ sanctuaire

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a shrine

82
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animé (quartier etc)

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bustling

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revêtir, enfiler

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to don / to put on

84
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un treillis (vêtement militaire)

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fatigues

85
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une bouffée

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a puff

86
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pousser un petit cri aigu

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to squeak

87
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grincer (escalier)

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to creak

88
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siffler (serpent, chuintement, chat énervé…)

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to hiss

89
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faire un bruit de ferraille

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to rattle

90
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gronder (tonnerre) ou gargouiller (ventre)

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to rumble

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fredonner

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to hum

92
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faire un bruit sourd

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to thud

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croquer/ faire craquer (ex: neige sous des pas)/ craquer

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to crunch

94
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carillonner

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to chime

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être susceptible de

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to be likely to

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un contrat de travail

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an employment contract

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un fournisseur

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a supplier

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fiable

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reliable

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un employé de banque

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a bank clerk

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un découvert

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an overdraft

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l’équipe de nuit

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the nightshift

102
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fermer définitivemen (magasin, usine)

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to close down

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grogner (cochon)

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to grunt

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bêler

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to bleat

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croasser

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to croak

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barrir

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to trumpet

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hennir

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to neigh

108
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rugir

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to roar

109
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meugler

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to low

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caqueter/glousser

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to cackle

111
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cancanner

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to quack

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hululer

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to hoot

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miauler

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to mew

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bourdonner

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to hum

115
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braire

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to bray

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hurler (loup)

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to howl

117
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chant du coq + vb

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(to) crow

118
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une pelle

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a shovel

119
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l’homme fort

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the strongman

120
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pester, vitupérer

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to rail

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un acteur de muet

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a silent cinema actor

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se pencher vers

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to lean toward

123
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une défaillance

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a failure/ a breakdown

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un chef (neutre)

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a head

125
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s’emporter, perdre son sang froid

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to lose one’s temper

126
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Dès (à partir de)

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Ever since / from … onwards

127
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consciencieusement

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conscientiously

128
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dans l’ignorance

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in the dark

129
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l’interprête

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the interpreter

130
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en ce sens, dans ce sens là (fig)

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in that sense

131
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pour ainsi dire

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so to speak

132
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demander à qqun de faire qqch (exiger!)

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to require sb to do stg

133
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trimer, travailler comme un esclave

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to slave oneself / to work flat out

134
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le numéro deux (d’une entreprise, gvt etc)

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the second in command

135
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à l’orée de la forêt

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on the edge of the forest

136
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passer à table

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to sit down to eat/to lunch/ to dinner

137
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sans broncher

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without turning a hair / without flinching

138
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un bond, un saut –> se lever d’un bond

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a leap –> to leap up

139
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se vanter d’être

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to boast of being

140
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exhorter qqun à faire qqch

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to urge sb to do stg

141
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amèrement, âprement

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bitterly

142
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lugubrement, d’un air sombre

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gloomily

143
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des oeillères / les clignotants (voiture)

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blinkers

144
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oublieux de

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oblivious to

145
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attentivement, intensément (regard)

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intently

146
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attirer le regard de

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to catch the eye of

147
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jeter un coup d’oeil à travers/ dans qqch

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to peep through / into

148
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planter un clou

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to hammer a nail

149
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un loup solitaire

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a lone wolf

150
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ranger qqch (le remettre à sa place)

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to put away stg

151
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un saxo(phone)

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a sax(ophone)

152
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un accordéon

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an accordion

Anglais (23 decks)

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