Buzz N25 Flashcards by alex trb

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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

Mettre en danger

To jettison

Se debarasser de/ abandonner

S'allier à

To join forces with

Pull through

S'en sortir

Faire comprendre/ passer

Put accross/ over

Ranger/ remettre

Put back

Mettre sur le compte de

Put down to

Proposer/ expliquer

Put forward

Put up with

Supporter | " put up with the noise"

Rule out

Eliminer

Denigrer

Run someone down

Rencontrer par hasard

Run into/ across

Se heurter a

Run up agaisnt

Réduire

Scale down/ back

Entreprendre/ s'attaquer à une tache

Set about

Set off

Partir/ déclencher

Progresser/ prendre forme

Shape up

Distinguer

Single out

Écrémer/ enlever

Skim off | " they skim off the best pupils"

Mettre de l'ordre

Sort out

Apparaitre/ surgir

Spring up

Prendre du recul

Stand back

Defendre

Stand up for

Le baccalaureat

Un " A level"

A secondary school GB

Un college+ lycee

A junior high school US

Un college

A grammar school GB

Un lycee ( selectif et peu frequent)

A high scool US

Un lycee

Un college privé( payant tres elitiste)

A public school GB

Frais de scolarite

School fees

Un pensionnat

A boarding school

La 6eme

First form (GB) , Year 6 (US)

La terminale

Sixth form (GB), Year 12 (US)

Une ecole d'ingenieurs

An engineering college

Une ecole de commerce

A business school

Recevoir une bourse

To get a student grant

Une licence

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