6/11/13 Flashcards by Jean-Baptiste Beck | Brainscape

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Baillonner

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To gag

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En termes très véhéments

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In no uncertain terms

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En perspective

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In the offing

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Contourner

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To bypass

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Être intimement liés

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To be intertwined

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La folie s’est installée en elle

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She lost her sanity

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Faire un petit saut

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To skip

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La porte du wagon

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The carriage door

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Un gros morceau

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A lump

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Saisir qqch

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To grasp

Intellect

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Le front

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The forehead

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Un bord

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An edge

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Virgule

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Comma

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Un chapeau melon

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A bowler

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Des témoins occulaires

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Eyewitenesses

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Détaler

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To scuttle

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Éparpillé

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Scattered

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Une girouette

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A weather-wane

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Être pris dans le sillage de

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To be caught in someone’s slipstream

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Avoir de la marge de manoeuvre

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To have some leeway

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Des violences religieuses

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Sectarian violences

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Se sentir lésé

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To feel wronged

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Retirer qqch de la circulation

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To put something “beyond use”

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A shipward

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Un chantier naval

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Revendiquer son identité

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To build up one’s identity

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Un gouvernement qui comprend des membres issus de plusieurs partis

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A cross-party cabinet

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La mise hors service des armes

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The decommissioning of weapons

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Reprendre une activité

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To resume sth

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L’emporter dans une élection

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To top the polls

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Ouvrir la voie à

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To pave the way for

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Autorité conjointe

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Joint rule

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Se rendre aux urnes

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To go to the polls

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Une entreprise

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A business

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À une écrasante majorité

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Overwhelmingly

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Sur le point de, au bord de

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On the verge of

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Député que Thatcher a laissé mourir

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Bobby Sands

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¿ Es saad el mejor de la clase ?

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Ola chicos dit il en sortant ses chicos