Anglais Isup Flashcards
Englober
To encompass / to embrace
Minimizer les repercussions de la crise
To minimize / to play down / to down play the repercussions / backlashes / reverberations of the crisis
Cela se r?sume ?
It boils out to / it comes down to
Venir ? bout d’un probl?me
To solve / address / tackle / handle / come to grip / cope with / overcome / manage
Vivre au jour le jour
To lead / have a hand-to-mouth existence
Se maintenir ? flot
To keep one’s head above water / to keep the economy afloat
Joindre les deux bouts
To make ends meet
Dans le contexte de la crise
Against the background of the crisis / economic slump / recession / downturn / contraction / slowdown / meltdown
D?verser de l’argent dans
To poor money into
Un plan de sauvetage
A bailout / stimulus package / resume plan / recovery plan
Cela engendre le racisme
To trigger / entail / spark / result in / engender / fuel / to result in/from
amertume
Bitterness (/frustration / discontent)
Dans la mesure o?
Insofar = to the extend
Jusqu’? (temps)
Until
Jusqu’? (il est all? jusqu’? dire)
So far as to
Prendre de l’ampleur / prendre de l’influence
To gain/lose momentum/ground
Corruption
Corruption = bribery
Un pot de vin
A bribe
Perte de confiance
Suspicion = distrustfulness = loss of confidence
Exigeant, stricte
Firm
Tomber sous les griffes de
To fall into the grip of
Des bobards
Bamboozling
Faire le sourd
To turn a deaf hear / to turn a blind eye to smth
Amener quelqu’un ? faire qqch
To prompt someone to do something
Apparement/visiblement
Seemingly
fl?au
Plague / scourge
Situation tr?s difficile, d?sesp?r?e
Plight
D?tricoter / d?faire
Unravel = undo
Faire voler en ?clat
To smash
Faire empirer la situation
The cure would be worse as the disease = to make the situation even worst
D?tendre, relaxer
To loosen
Serie de r?formes
Scheme
Largement r?pandu
Widespread = widely-shared
Caprice
Fantasies / whims / vagaries
Sous l’influence de
Under the yoke of
Contre toute attente
Against all odds
Probl?me
An issue / concern / matter / question
Un enjeu ? ce qui est en jeu
A Stake ? what is at stake
Un gros probl?me, qui touche tout le monde
A major concern / an issue of major concern
Les probl?mes que l’on subit
The hardships
On est vraiment mal barr? : situation dure/d?sesp
To be in a predicament = plight
Subir une ?preuve (vraiment dur : conflit, guerre)
To undergo an ordeal
Avoir des problems (pour une personne)
To be in dire straits
Une dol?ance / complainte
A grievance / complaint
Disfonctionnement / d?faut
A flaw
Insuffisance /
A shortcoming
Un ?chec / une faille
A failure / failing
faiblesse
A weakness
Les maux de la soci?t?
The ills / evils of society
Un obstacle
A pitfall / hindrance / hurdle
Un frein
A brake
/ un m?fait
The wrongdoing / misdeed
Probl?me de management
Mismanagement
D?faillance / dysfonctionnement (l’?conomie)
A disruption
Troubles sociaux
Social unrest
Faire des d?g?ts
To cause/do damage
Endurer/subir des probl?mes
To endure/suffer something
Souffrir de qqch
To suffer from something
Saper les efforts de qqun
To sap sby’s effort
Ruiner les espoirs
To dash hopes
Emp?cher / ?touffer les efforts
To hinder / stifle
menacer
To threaten / jeopardize
Provoquer / engendrer
To result in/from
Les retomb?es
The fallout
S’engager ? faire qqch
To be committed to doing stg / to pledge to do stg
?tre totalement d?vou? ? faire qqch
To commit oneself to doing something
Avoir pour but de faire qqc ?????
To strive to do stg
Adherer ? / soutenir
To adhere to values
Soutenir renforcer
To backup
Pencher vers
To be tilted / tipped in favour of
Se ranger aux c?t?s de
To side with / rally something
Supporteur
A supporter / defender
D?sapprouver
To disapprove something
?tre reticent
To be reluctant to do stg
Reticent
To resent doing stg
?tre partag?
To have mixed feelings about something
?tre reserve
To express reservations
?tre prudent
To be cautious
Mais ?a n?cessite une nuance
But this needs qualifying
- : inconv?nients
+ : avantages
A drawback
A benefit
A downside
An upside
A disadvantage
An advantage
The flip side of the coin (revers de la m?daille)
An asset
report?
Postpone = delayed
Une amie de longue date
A long-standing friend
Aussi jeune soit-il
Young as he may be / young though he may be / However young he is
Une grosse concentration
An acute concentration of
Une crise sans pr?c?dent
An unprecedented crisis
Un grand nombre = a lot of
A large number of
Un grand ?cart (entre riche et pauvre)
A huge disparity
Une id?e largement r?pandu
A widespread idea/argument
Faire de gros d?g?ts
To cause serious damage to
Un gros contraste
A sharp contrast
Un probl?me important
A major concern
Jouer un gros r?le
To play a vital / crucial role
Une question cl?
A key issue
Une croissance significative (grosse)
A significant / substantial rise in
Un ?v?nement important
A meaningful event
De grosses r?formes (qui balaient tout)
Sweeping reforms
Des consequences importantes (? haute port?e)
A far-reaching consequences
Une croissance importante
A fast growth
Faire de gros progr?s
To make considerable progress
De gros changements
A profound / radical change
Un ?v?nement tr?s important, historique, uniq
An historic / unique event
Un gros d?bat
A fierce debate
Quelqu’un d’important
A leading / prominent / influential figure
Un gros deficit (b?ant)
A gaping deficit
Une grosse dette
A dizzying/heavy debt
Un gros argument
A sizeable argument
To benefit sby / to benefit from sby / to benefit of sth
Beneficial / positive
Des arguments senc?s, utiles
Sensible / valid arguments
Une bonne d?cision
The right decision
Une mauvaise decision
A wrong decision
Avoir des mauvais r?sultats
To get poor result
Head of states / politicians / policy-makers / decision-makers / high officials
Politique
- Citizens, voters, constituents, tax payers (contribuables), households (m?nages)
Autres en dessous, qui ?lisent
Consumers, purchasers, buyers
Economique
Web users/surfers/browsers (internautes)
Nouvelles technologies, r?seaux sociaux
TV-watchers, TV-viewers
Television, media
Employees, workers
Travail
Upper/lower middle class
Categories sociales
The wealthy
Les riches
The deprived (d?pourvus), needy (dans le besoin), the destitutes (pauvres ++)
Les pauvres
The squeezed middle
Les moyens, ?cras?s
The masses = 99%
Les beaucoup de pas riches
The few = the 1% = the elites = the Establishment
Les plus riches
The rich-poor gap is widening
L’?cart entre riches et pauvres s’?largit
To advocate something
Pr?coniser quelque chose
Domestic policy
Politique int?rieure
Incumbent mayor
Maire sortant
A landslide victory
Une victoire ?crasante
To pay lip service to stg
Pr?ter attention en fa?ade seulement
To be on the stump (US)
?tre en tourn?e ?lectorale
The latter
Ce dernier
The former
Ce premier
Lenient
Laxiste
Ruthless / thought
Stricte/dure
Two sided / double-edged
Double tranchant
To prevail
?tre plus important/ prevaloir
Devolution
D?centralisation
To live on the benefit
Vivre d’allocations
