84. Old Age Flashcards

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1
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Les personnes âgées

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Old people

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Un vieil homme

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An old man

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3
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Une personne du troisième âge

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A senior citizen

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4
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Vieillir

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To grow old

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5
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Prendre de l’âge

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To be getting on in years

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Les plus de 70 ans

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The over-70s

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Un septuagénaire

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A seventy-year-old man

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Un octogénaire

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A eighty-year-old man

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Un centenaire

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A centenarian

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Grisonner

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To go grey

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Un homme aux cheveux blancs

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A white-haired man

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Avoir des cheveux blancs

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To have white hair

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Etre chauve / la calvitie

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To be bald / baldness

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Une ride

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A wrinkle / a line

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15
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Les infirmités de la vieillesse

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The infirmities of old age

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Vulnérable

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Vulnerable

17
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Handicapé

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Disabled

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L’impuissance sexuelle

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Impotence

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Impuissant sexuellement

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Impotent

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La faiblesse / faible

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Weakness / weak

21
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S’affaiblir

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To weaken

22
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La maladie

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Illness / sickness

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Etre en bonne / mauvaise santé

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To be in good health

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La sénilité / sénile

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Senility / senile

25
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Perdre la mémoire

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To lose one’s memory

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La perte de mémoire

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Memory loss

27
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La maladie d’Alzheimer

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Alzheimer’s disease

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Nécessiter des soins particuliers

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To require special care

29
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Etre grabataire

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To be bed-ridden

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Une maison de retraite

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A home from the aged

31
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Une maison médicalisée

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A nursing home

32
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La gériatrie

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Geriatrics

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Un gérontologue

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A gerontologist

34
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Le racisme anti-vieux

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Agism

35
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Etre rejeté par la société

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To be rejected by society

36
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Le pouvoir économique des personnes âgées

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Grey power