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Ce qui est certain

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There is one inescapable fact/ there is one thing you can’t get away from

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Un mvt revendicatif

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Industrial action

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Exercer une enorme influence/ une influence marquee

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To exert huge/ marked influence over

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Influent

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Influential

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Etre parti pour

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To be in for

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To infringe on

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Empieter sur

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An infringement

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Une violation

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An inroad

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Une incursion

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Avoir des effets/ des répercussions

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To make inroads

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The ins and outs ( of)

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Les tenants et les aboutissants

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Un exemple

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An instance

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En l’occurence

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In the present instance

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Connecter

Des faits étroitement liés

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To interconnect

Interconnected facts

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S’ingérer/ se meler de

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To interfere

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Emmelé

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Intertwined

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Un pb qui touche tout le monde

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An issue of common concern

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Impossible à assumer

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Insupportable

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Un probleme insoluble

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An intractable problem

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La complexité

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Intricacy

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La colere

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The ire

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Irreparable

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Irretrievable

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Un cas isole

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An isolated case

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Une question qui seme la discorde

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A divisive issue

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Détailler

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To itemize

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To jeopardize

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Mettre en danger

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To jettison

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Se debarasser de/ abandonner

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S’allier à

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To join forces with

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Pull through

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S’en sortir

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Faire comprendre/ passer

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Put accross/ over

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Ranger/ remettre

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Put back

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Mettre sur le compte de

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Put down to

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Proposer/ expliquer

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Put forward

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Put up with

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Supporter

“ put up with the noise”

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Rule out

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Eliminer

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Denigrer

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Run someone down

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Rencontrer par hasard

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Run into/ across

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Se heurter a

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Run up agaisnt

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Réduire

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Scale down/ back

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Entreprendre/ s’attaquer à une tache

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Set about

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Set off

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Partir/ déclencher

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Progresser/ prendre forme

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Shape up

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Distinguer

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Single out

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Écrémer/ enlever

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Skim off

“ they skim off the best pupils”

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Mettre de l’ordre

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Sort out

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Apparaitre/ surgir

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Spring up

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Prendre du recul

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Stand back

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Defendre

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Stand up for

47
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Le baccalaureat

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Un “ A level”

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A secondary school GB

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Un college+ lycee

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A junior high school US

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Un college

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A grammar school GB

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Un lycee ( selectif et peu frequent)

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A high scool US

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Un lycee

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Un college privé( payant tres elitiste)

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A public school GB

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Frais de scolarite

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School fees

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Un pensionnat

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A boarding school

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La 6eme

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First form (GB) , Year 6 (US)

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La terminale

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Sixth form (GB), Year 12 (US)

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Une ecole d’ingenieurs

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An engineering college

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Une ecole de commerce

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A business school

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Recevoir une bourse

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To get a student grant

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Une licence

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A BA ( Bachelor of arts ( lettres ))
A BSc ( Bachelor of Science