Actuality Vocabulary Flashcards by Julien TEIXEIRA

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Le périphérique

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The ring road

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La banlieue

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The suburbs

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L’agriculture intensive

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Industrial farming

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La grippe aviaire

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Avian flu

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Le commerce équitable

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Fair trade

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L’exode rurale

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Rural exodus

Drift from the countries

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Délocalisation

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Relocation

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Sous-traiter

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To subcontract

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Les fonds spéculatifs

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Hedge funds

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Le blanchiment d’argent

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Money laundering

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Un altermondialiste

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An anti-globalization activist

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L’eolien

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The wind power

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Les terres rares

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Rare earth

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Sables bitumineux

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Oil sands

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Le réchauffement de la planète

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Global warming

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L’effet de serre

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Green house effect

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La génétique

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Genetics

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Cellules souches

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Stem cells

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La discrimination positive

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Positive discrimination

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Les agences de notation

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Rating agencies

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Un banlieusard

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A suburbanist

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La mal bouffe

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The junk food

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La fièvre aphteuse

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Foot and mouth diseases

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La grippe porcine

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Swine flu

Le développement durable

Sustainable developement

L'urbanisation galopante

The urban sprawl

Délocaliser

To relocate

La criminalité en col blanc

White collar crime

L'évasion fiscale

Tax evasion

Les énergies renouvelables

Renewable energies | The renewables

Le solaire

Solar energy

La fracturation hydraulique

Fracking

Les gaz à effet de serre

Green house gases

Les pluies acides

Acid rain

Les manipulations génétiques

Genetic engineering

Le plafond de verre

Glass ceiling

Les zones de 'non droit'

No-go area

Le 'bio'

Organic food

La vache folle

Mad cow diseases

Les réfugiés climatiques

Climate refugies

La mondialisation

Globalization

Externaliser

To outsource/ to farm out

Dégraisser ( entreprise )

To streamline

Les paradis fiscaux

Tax heaven

Le pétrole

Oil

Les agri carburant

Bio fuels

Le gaz de schiste

Shale gas

L'empreinte carbon

Carbon footprint

Le clonage

Cloning