Anglais 2

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Donner un signal d’alarme

Answer 0

To blow the whistle

Question 1

Chapeau melon

Answer 1

Bowler hat

Question 2

Doubler quelqu’un / trahir

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To doublecross

Question 3

Preuve

Answer 3

Évidence

Proofs

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Mettre en place

Answer 4

Implement

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Une piste de ski

Answer 5

A ski slope

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A defect (synonym)

Answer 6

A flaw

Question 7

Perfect (synonym)

Answer 7

Flawless

Question 8

What does health care inflation imply?

Answer 8

Because companies pay, they keep wages low
They pay 67% of insurance
If you want to change jobs, you think twice

Question 9

Freiner / gener / faire obstacle

Answer 9

(Something) hinders

Question 10

Have to pay ..

Answer 10

To foot the bill

Question 11

Revenir en arriere

Answer 11

To backpedal

Question 12

Les coûts sont faramineux

Answer 12

Costs are sky high

Question 13

Arbitraire

Answer 13

Arbitrary

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Compulsory

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Mandatory

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Cosy deal

Answer 15

Off the record arrangements

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It was a shambles

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It was a muddle / a mess

America’s health shambles

Question 17

Big government

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Interventionist government

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To make fun of something

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To deride something

Question 19

Mid term elections

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Where the senate and the congress get elected

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Moyenne

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Average

Below average

Question 21

To foot the bill

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Negative connotation

Reluctant to pay

Question 22

Medicare

Medicaid

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Medicare: For the old who cannot pay
Medicaid: for the not very well of

Created in the 1960' 
Ancestors created after the WWII 
=> shortage of workers 
=> offer health cover as a bonus with salary 
=> to boost work market

Question 23

2 meanings of “resort “

Answer 23

A skiing resort

As a last resort

Question 24

To be hard up

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To be poor | To be broke

Question 25

An insurance premium

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The price you have to pay for insurance

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...sure

Answer 26

Insure Ensure (make sure) Assure ( I confer )

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To haggle

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To look for the best price

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Sky high / sky is the limit

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Tres important

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To ban

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To forbid

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Mixed results

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Double sided

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Dangerous / risky | Advantages and disadvantages

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A double edged sword

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A handout

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Faire la manche | An entitlement society ( you can get something from the society)

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To nudge someone to do something

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To spur someone to do something Macbeth, spurred by his wife kills King Duncan / he did it on the spur of the moment

Question 34

To scrap a law

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To abolish a law

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Terrible

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Gruesome

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Se dérober

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To unfold

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Fuir

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To flee

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Pays ravagés par la crise

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Crisis torn countries

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Emanations de gas

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Engine fumes

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Calé de bateau

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Vessel's hold

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Se bousculer

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To scramble

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Poignarder

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To stab

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Embarcation

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Vessel

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Blasé

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Inured

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S'échouer

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To ram on

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Demandeur d'asile

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Asylum seekers

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Une poignée

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A handful

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Les derniers ...

Answer 48

The remaining ...

Question 49

S'intégrer

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To blend in

Question 50

Cabane en rondins

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Log cabin

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La rue qui descendait de l'église

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The road which sloped down from the church

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Des réfugiés

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Displaced people

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Transmettre

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Pass down

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Représenter | " les demandeurs d'asile politique représentent 5% du total des immigrés "

Answer 54

Account for

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Une personne arriérée

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A backward / retarded person

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Dans les environs

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In and around

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Record historique

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Historic high

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Bafoué

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Flouted

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Être dans une situation inextricable

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To be in a bind

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Se porter garant de

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To vouch for

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Travel by boat

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A voyage

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L'apogée

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The heydays of

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Un président avec le congrès et Le senat de l'autre partie

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A lame-duck president

Question 114

Peu importe combien je travaille, je ne comprends pas

Answer 114

No matter how hard I work, I do not understand

Question 115

Démentir / nier

Answer 115

To deny | To be in a denial

Question 116

Être acquitté

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To be acquitted

Question 117

Poursuivre quelqu'un en justice

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To sue someone To file a complaint To go to court

Question 118

the Bronte sisters

Answer 118

Winthering Heights | Jane Eyre

Question 119

Faire une Remarque | Remarquer

Answer 119

To Witness

Question 120

Engouement / mode

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A fad | A new fad

Question 121

Perdre une mauvais habitude

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To grow out of something

Question 122

Ancien

Answer 122

Former

Question 123

Avouer

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Admit | Confess

Question 124

J'ai perdu mon énergie

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I lost my mojo

Question 125

Traîner d pieds

Answer 125

To shuffle