Big Picture - Chap 16 Flashcards

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Le niveau de vie

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Standard of living, living-standards

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Le PIB par tête, par habitant

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GDP per head, per inhabitant

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Mode de vie

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Lifestyle, way of life

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Le pouvoir d’achat

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Buying power, spending power, purchasing power

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Riche

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Rich, wealthy

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La richesse

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Wealth

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Aisé

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Well-off

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Nanti

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Well-to-do

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Fortuné

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Well-heeled

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Être nanti, vivre dans l’aisance

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To be affluent

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La richesse, l’abondance

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Affluence

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La société d’abondance

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The affluent society

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Les riches

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Rich people, the rich

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Des richesses

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Riches

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Les grandes fortunes

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The super-rich, the mega-rich

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Bourré de fric, plein aux as

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Stinking rich

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Parmi les nantis, les possédants

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In moneyed circles

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Un millionaire

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A millionaire

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Un millionnaire en dollars

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A dollar millionaire

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Un milliardaire

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A billionaire

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Un multimilliardaire

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A zillionaire, a multimillionaire

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Un magnat du pétrole

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An oil magnate

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Un baron de la presse

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A press baron

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Un magnat des médias

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A media mogul

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Un roi des logiciels

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A software tycoon

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Le revenu

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Income

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L’impôt sur le revenu

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Income tax

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Un paradis fiscal

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A tax haven

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La fraude fiscale

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Tax evasion

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Famille à hauts / bas revenus

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High-income / low-income families

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Un contribuable

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A taxpayer

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Les gains

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Earnings

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Un gros richard

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A fat cat

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La pauvreté

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Poverty

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Les pauvres

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Poor people, the poors

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Les travailleurs pauvres

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The working poor

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Pauvre

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Poor, impoverished

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Les nécessiteux, les indigents

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The needy

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La misère

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Extreme poverty, poverty

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Le dénuement, la misère noire

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Destitution

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Les plus démunis

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The most destitute

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Tomber dans la misère

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To fall on hard time, to become destitute

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Sombrer dans la pauvreté

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To sink into poverty

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En dessous / au-dessus du seuil de pauvreté

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Below/above the poverty line

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Un ménage à revenu modeste

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A low-income household

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Défavorisé

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Deprived, disadvantahed, underprivileged

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Vivre avec deux dollars par jour

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To live on $2 a day

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Vivre d’allocations

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To live on the benefit (GB), on welfare (US)

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Le paupérisme

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Pauperism

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La paupérisation

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Pauperization

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L’inégalité

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Inequality

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Inégal

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Unequal, uneven

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Partager

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To share

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Répartir

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To share out

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La répartition des richesses

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The distribution of wealth

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Le tissu social

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The social fabric

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Le fossé entre les riches et les pauvres

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The gap between rich and poor

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La fracture sociale

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The gap between the haves and the have-nots

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Combler le fossé

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To bridge, to close the gap

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Le fossé se comble

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The gap is closing, narrowing

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Le fossé se creuse

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The gap is widening

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Le fossé social, la fracture sociale

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The social divide

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Un écart

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A discrepancy

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Un gouffre, un abîme

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A chasm

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L’équilibre/le déséquilibre

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Balance/imbalance

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Équilibré/déséquilibré

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Balanced/unbalanced

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Rétablir l’équilibre

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To redress the balance

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La mobilité sociale

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Social mobility

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La promotion sociale

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Social advancement

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L’ascension professionnelle

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Career advancement, professional advancement

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L’ascenseur social

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The social ladder

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Monter dans l’échelle sociale

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To move up the social ladder

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Monter dans l’échelle sociale

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To be upwardly mobile

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L’ascension sociale

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Upward mobility

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Un self-made man

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A self-made man

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L’histoire de quelqu’un qui est passé de la misère à la richesse

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A rags-to-riches story

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Partir de rien

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To start from scratch

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Faire fortune

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To strike gold, to strike it rich

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L’égalité des chances

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Equality of opportunity

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Égalitaire

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Egalitarian

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L’égalitarisme

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Egalitarism

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Le niveau social

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Social standing

83
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Le statut social

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Social status

84
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Le déclassement

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Fall in status

85
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Une baisse du niveau de vie

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A decline in living standards

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Peiner à s’en sortir

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To struggle to get by, struggle by

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Avoir du mal à payer les factures

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To have difficulty paying the bills

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Joindre les deux bouts

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To make ends meet

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Vivre au jour le jour

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To live from hand to mouth

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Vivoter

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To scrape by

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Survivre

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To survive

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La survie

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Survival

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Sans abri

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Homeless

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Il y a de plus en plus de sans abri

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Homelessness is on the rise

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Un clodo

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A tramp, a bum

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Une clocharde

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A bag lady

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Une soupe populaire

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A soup kitchen, a bread line(US)

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Le quart monde

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The underclass

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Un taudis

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A slum