Buzz N13 Flashcards by alex trb

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Limiter, freiner

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To curtail

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Combersome

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Encombrant

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To cushion

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Amortir, attenuer

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A cushion

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Un coussin

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Simple, clair et net

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Cut and dried

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A looming danger

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Un danger menacant

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A ce jour

Etre a jour

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To date

To be up to date

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Daunting

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Redoutable, decourageant, intimidant

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Eblouissant

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Dazzling

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In dead earnest

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Dans le plus grd serieux

“ he is dead earnest” = il est tres serieux

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S’opposer absolument a qqch

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To be dead set agaisnt smthg

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Triste, mort

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Dead-and-alive

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A dead-end

A dead-end job

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Une impasse/ un trou

Un travail sans avenir

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Fichu

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Dead in the water

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Pile a l’heure

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Dead on time

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Deadlocked

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Dans l’impasse, en difficulté

“The peace talks have reached (a) deadlock”

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Deadpan

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Sans expression, qui ne montre pas d’emotion

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Discutable

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Debatable

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Dementir/ discrediter

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To debunk

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La deterioration

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Decay

“ moral decay “

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Avoir foi en

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To have faith in

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Devout

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Fervent, croyant

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Un croyant / non-croyant

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A believer/ an unbeliever

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Holy, scared

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Saint, sacre

A Godsgate

Un scandale religieux

Une escroquerie a caractere religieux

A Godscam

Un bienfait insoupçonné, un mal pour un bien

A blessing in disguise

Une catastrophe naturelle

An act of God

La devotion

Devotion

Fundamentalism (list)

L'integrisme ( un integriste )

Pieux

Pious

Un sacrilege

An act of sacrilege

Le Jugement Dernier

The Last Judgement

Chistianisme

Christianity

Le gvt est considéré responsable

The gvt is considered responsible

Bill Gates est considéré comme l'homme le plus riche du monde

BG is considered the richest...

L'article a été publié en ....

This article was published in October 2008/ on the 26th of October 2008

Ca dépend de l'attitude de...

It depends on

La raison de la crise

the reasons for this crisis

La solution au pb

The solution to the pb

Tout autant que

All the more so as

En mm tps

At the same time

D'un pov economique

From an economic pov

Obeir a qqun

To obey someone

Face a un pb

Faced with this pb

Declarer la guerre à

To declare war on