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Frottement

Traîner des pieds

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Shuffling

To shuffle

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Crissement, couinement, grincement

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Squeaking

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L’étendue des dégâts

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The destruction

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Faire craquer les jointures de ses doigts d’un geste sec

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To give a brisk crack of one’s knuckles

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Avoir les oreilles dressées

Tends l’oreille !

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To have the ears pricked

Prick up your ears !

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Errer, vagabonder, flâner

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To rove, To wander

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Rôder (cambrioleur par exemple)

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To lurk, to prowl (burglar)

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Décrocher le téléphone

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To grab the phone

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Se ruer à travers la pièce

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To launch oneself across the room

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Se mêler de ce qui ne nous regarde pas

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To interfere

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Ne t’imagines pas ça

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Don’t think that

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Devant le miroir

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At the mirror

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Donner deux coups de brosse

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To make two brushing strokes

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Cachant en partie

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part-concealing

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Relever les coudes

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To angle up the elbows

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Dans le but de

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To, so as to, in order to

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Émacié, décharné

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Gaunt

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Svelte, fin
Mince
Maigre
Squelettique
Gros, gras
En surpoids 
Obèse 
Obésité
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Slender 
Slim 
Thin 
Skinny 
Fat 
Overweight
Obese 
Obesity
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Un tic

Agité, fébrile

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A restless movement

Restless

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Le désarroi

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The dismay

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Avoir, prendre un air distrait
Enjoué
Niais

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To go vague
Bright
Idiotic

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Balancer les coudes nerveusement
Se redresser rapidement
Tirer d’un coup sec
Un coup sec, un mouvement brusque

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To jerk one’s elbows up and down
To jerk up
To jerk stg, to pull quickly
A jerk

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Sous l’effet de la contrariété (agacement, mécontentement), du chagrin

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In annoyance, in pain

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Rire pétillant de gaieté

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Bright bubbling laughter

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D’autant plus….que

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All the more…as/since

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C’est d’autant plus facile

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It’s All the easier

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Salarié

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A wage earner

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Qlq soit la personne, où que, quoi que tu fasses/aies fais
Si riche qu'il soit/ fût, 
Bien qu'il soit riche 
J'ai beau faire des efforts 
Quoi qu'il arrive
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Whoever, wherever, whatever you may do/may have done/might do
However rich he may/might be, Rich as he may be
However rich he is
No matter how i’ve tried/However much i may try/try as I may
Come what may

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Rendre des comptes a quelqu’un

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To answer to someone

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Non seulement il a fait ça

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Not only did he do that

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Par terre

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On the floor

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Un emballage

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A wrapper

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Si elle n’avait pas fait

Sí elle avait

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Had she not done

Hand she done

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Toucher le chômage

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To be on the dole

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Persuader quelqu’un de faire qlch
Dissuader qlqun de faire qlch
Menacer quelqu’un pour qu’il fasse qlch

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To get sb to do stg/to talk sb into doing stg
To talk sb out of doing stg
To threat sb to do stg

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Informations secrètes

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Classified information

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De moins en moins de femmes

D’argent

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Fewer and fewer women

Less and less money (ne se compte pas)

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Grimper les échelons de l’entreprise

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To climb the corporate ladder

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Les prix de l’immobilier

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Property prices

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Manifester

Descendre dans les rues

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To take to the streets

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Contre-attaquer

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To fight back

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Opérer un patient

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To operate on a patient

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Décliner une proposition

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To turn down an offer

43
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Les plus de 60 ans

Les moins de 50 ans

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The oversixties

The underfifties