Anglais Vocabulaire Flashcards

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Absurde

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Nonsensical

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Déclencher

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Trigger

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Honteux

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Shameful

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Amèrement

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Bitterly

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Sévir

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To crack down on smbdy/sthg

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Flagrant

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Blatant

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Mépriser

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Disregard

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Être intransigeant

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To be adamant

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Laisser quelqu’un entrer

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To let sbdy in

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Être dans le flou,dans l’incertitude

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To be in limbo

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Pourrir

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To rot

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En attendant

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Pending

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Sordide

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Squalor

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D’autant plus

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All the more…. as

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Provenir de, venir de

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To stem from, To result from, To come from

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Être complice avec

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To be in collusion, To collude with sbdy

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Mettre un point d’honneur

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Makes a point of

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Porter des oeillères, être borné

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To were blinkers

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Montrer l’exemple

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To set an example

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20
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Une démocratie occidentale

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A Western democracy

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S’engager à, s’impliquer à

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To commit oneself To (doing) sthg

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Stricte

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Stricte, tough

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Conclure

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To strike, To conclude, To righ, To reach

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Un accord

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An agreement

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Jusqu'à
Up to
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Une demande d'asile
An asylum application
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La dernière (en date)
The latest
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Une affiche
A poster, a bill
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Une devise
A motto
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Utiliser des tactiques chocs
To use shock tactics
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C'est fini
It's down
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C'est clair
It's settle
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Une expression
A phrase
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La partie haute
The upper/top half part
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Le tout
All of this // the whole thing
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Destiné
To be targeted at sbdy
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Le but
The aim
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Viser
To aim
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Destiné à
Targeted at // aimed at // intented for
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Essayer
To attempt to
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Une pénurie
A shortage
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Travailler qualifié
Skilled workers
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Un pays d'opportunité
A land of opportunity
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Un pays de cocagne (d'abondance)
A land of plenty
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Travailler dans un atelier clandestin
To work in a sweatshop
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La main d'oeuvre clandestine
Sweated labour
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Un travailleur au noir
A moonlighter
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Faire fortune
To make a fortune
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Un contrebandier
A smuggler
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Fuir
Flee
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Pays d'origine
Native contry
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Faire de la contrebande de marchandise
To smuggle goods into a country
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Travailleurs sans papiers
Undocumented workers
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Pays d'accueil
Host country
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Remplir les critères, les conditions
Discriminated against qualify
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Demander l'asile politique
To seek political asylum
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Renforcer une loi
To tighten (up on) a law/rule
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Assouplir
To loosen/relax a law
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Éviter
To shum sthg // To avoid sthg
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Étant donné
Given
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Peser sur
Burdening
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Être un fardeau pour
To be a burden on sthg
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Faire fortune
A rags to riches story
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Un échelon
A rung
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Assouplir, contenir, limiter les flux/ fléau
Curbing the flow
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Se faufiler/entrer clandestinement
Sneak into
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Bouc émissaire
Scape goats
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Un aimant
A magnet
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Un fardeau social
A social burder
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S'élever socialement par le travail
Working one's say up/ To the top
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Demander la nationalité
Apply for citizenship
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Dépasser
Over stayed
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Reconduit / escorté jusqu'à la frontière
Escorted back to the border
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Prendre les emplois des travailleurs souche
Push native-born workers out of jobs
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Éviter
To shum/ To avoid sthg
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Étant donné
Given
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Peser sur
Burdening
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Être un fardeau pour
To be a burden on sthg
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S'avérer
Turn out To be
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À bord
On board
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Un camion
A lorry
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Les temps sont durs
There are hard/ though times
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Se frayer un chemin à travers la foule
To elbow/ walk one's way through the crowd
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Indésirable
Unwanted
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Déraciné
Unprooted
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Un permis de travail
A work permit
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Un permis de séjour
A residence permit
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Mener
To leach/ To implement
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Même si
Even if/though
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Des voix s'élèvent
To raise one's voice
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Interrogatoire
Interrogation
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Les interrogations
The concerns
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Pas mois de
No les than
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Une publicité
An add, an advert, an advertissement
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Une campagne publicitaire
An advertising campaign
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Surtout
Above all
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Une manifestation
A démonstration, a protest
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Plusieurs
Several
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Organiser
To hold/ To stage
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Pays tiers
Third countries
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Dénoncer
To denounce, To decry
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Être mal élevé
To be ill-bred
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Des peurs infondées
Ill-founded fears
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Devant (un lieu)
Outside
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Se garer, arrêter (une voiture, un véhicule)
To pull up, To pull, to draw up
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Être nostalgique
To be wistful about sthg/ To be melancholy about sthg