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1
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une rubrique

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a section

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la une

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the front page

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à la une du journal

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front page news

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le chapeau

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lines under the title

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avoir les yeux plus gros que le ventre

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to have eyes bigger than your belly

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pisser dans un violin

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like talking to a brick wall

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péter un plomb

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to get really angry

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en faire tout un fromage

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to make a big deal out of something

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pédaler dans la semoule

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to struggle

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sans soucis

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carefree

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des soucis

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worries

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pourtant

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however

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et pourtant

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and yet

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un rêve

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a dream

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agité

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restless, troubled

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sitôt

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immediately

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publier les bans

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to announce a wedding

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le bahut

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sideboard / school

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le loyer

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rent

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être sur la paille

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to be broke

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la paille

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straw

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la sortie de secours

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fire exit

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un pneu crevé

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a puncture (bike)

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je suis crevée

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I’m knackered

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un désir

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a desire

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un souhait

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a wish

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un pneu

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a tyre

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susciter

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to arouse, awaken

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un moyen

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a way

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briser

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to break

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quoique (+subjunctive)

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although, even though/if

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fervent

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enthusiastic

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fouillé

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meticulous

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jusqu’à présent

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until now

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fulgurant

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swift

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advenir

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to come about

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en revanche

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on the other hand

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a l’instar de

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like

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s’échiner

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to work really hard at something

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saccager

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to wreck, trash

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la bêtise

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stupidity

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répliquer

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to answer

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parvenir

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to succeed

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plier

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to bend

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la laideur

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ugliness

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un malfaiteur

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a wrongdoer

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abrutir

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to make stupid

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les rendre

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it makes them

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une tasse de café

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a cup of coffee

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une tasse à café

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a coffee cup

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51
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l’argot

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slang

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le langage familier

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colloquial language

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s’échapper

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to escape

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le savant fou

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mad scientist

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gueuler comme un âne

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to shout like an idiot

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le coup de foudre

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lightening strike / love at first sight

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donner un coup de main

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to give a hand

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picoler

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to drink alcohol

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chaleureusement

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warmly

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chauve

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bald

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un fauteuil

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an armchair

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les pantoufles

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slippers

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près de

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close to, near

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raccommoder

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to patch up

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rance

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rancid

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du coin

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on the corner

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la côte

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hill

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cuit

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cooked

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cuire

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to cook / bake

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frais

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fresh

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se lécher les babines

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to lick your lips

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un poireaux

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a leek

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anis étoile

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star anis

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s’en mettre plein la lampe

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to stuff your face

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la ménagère

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housewife

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la gourmandise

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gluttony / love of good food

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la preuve

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proof

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la marmite

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cooking pot

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les reins

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kidneys

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l’appendicite

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appendicitis

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soigner

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to treat

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aucunement

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not at all

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guérir

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to get better

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les vagues

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waves

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ailleurs

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elsewhere

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un charlatan

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fake, phoney

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la marine

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the navy

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les marins

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the sailors

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décédé

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deceased

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un nouveau-né

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a newborn

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Chétif

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Sickly, puny

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Une complicité

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A bond

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Soulager

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To be a relief

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De par le fait que

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Given the fact that +subj

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Ressentir

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To feel

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Se ressentir

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To suffer, feel the effects

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Le mal-être

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Uneasiness

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Guérir

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To heal, make better

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Serein

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Calm

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À ce propos

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On this subject

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Débordant

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Overflowing

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Dès

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From

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Malingre

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Punt, sickly, frail

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Décharné

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Scrawny, scraggy

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Un débarras

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Store room

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Interdire

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To forbid

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D’abord

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At first

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Céder

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To give in

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Sans cesse

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Continuously

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Un demi-frère

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A half brother

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Une soixantaine

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Sixty ish

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Un cabinet de soins

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Treatment room

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In pied-bot

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Club foot

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Lorsque

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When, as soon as

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Emménager

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To move in

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Lors de

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During

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Transpercé

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Transfixed

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Auprès de

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Close to, with

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Éblouir

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To bedazzle

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Plutôt que

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Rather than

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Entre temps

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In the meantime

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Sans encombre

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Without a problem

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Effondré

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Crushed

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Succomber à

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To succumb to

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Le lendemain

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The day after

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Une sépulture

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Grave, tomb

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Le traumatisme

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Trauma

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La souffrance

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Suffering

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Maigre

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Skinny

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Pâle

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Pale

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Obsédant

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Haunting

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Inquiétant

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Worrying

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D’ailleurs

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For that matter

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Dompter

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To train, tame

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Se dérouler

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To take place

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Puisque

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Because

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Ne … que

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Only

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Deviner

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To guess

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Le dénouement

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Outcome

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Un sous-entendu

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A hint

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Un lien

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A link

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Le métier

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Occupation, profession

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Ainsi

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In this way

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Soigner

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To treat, be a cure for

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La vérité enfouie

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The buried truth

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Refoulé

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Suppressed

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Parvenir

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To reach

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Étonnant

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Surprising

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Blâmer

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To blame

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La communauté juive

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The Jewish community

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Susciter

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To provoke

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Des reproches

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Criticisms

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Assumer

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To accept

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Un principe

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A principle

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Remis en cause

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Challenged, questioned

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