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La pauvreté

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Poverty

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La misère

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Dire poverty

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La détresse

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Misery

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extrême

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Dire

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La persécution

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Persecution

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Les épreuves / la souffrance

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Hardship

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Un contestataire/ un dissident

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A dissident / a dissenter

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Un exode

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An exodus

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L’exile

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Exile

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Un exilé

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An exile

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Échapper à / s’échapper de

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Escape from

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Fuir

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Flee / run away (from)

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Migrer

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Migrate

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Émigrer

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Emigrate

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S’exiler

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Go into exile

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Chasser (dans le sens faire fuir)

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Drive away

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Persécuter

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Persecute

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Opprimer

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Oppress

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Malheureux

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Miserable

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Tyrannique

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Tyrannical

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Une incitation

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An incentive

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L’attrait

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Attraction / appeal

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L’attrait (trompeur) / le leurre

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Lure

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Le désir ardent / l’aspiration

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Yearning

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L’envie/ l’aspiration

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Longing

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La recherche (de)

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The search (for)

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La soif (de)

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The thirst (for)

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Un pôle d’attraction / un aimant

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A magnet

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La liberté

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Freedom

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Une occasion

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An opportunity

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Un gagne-pain

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A livelihood

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Un abri / refuge

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A shelter

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Les conditions de vie

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Living conditions

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Une perspective

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A prospect

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La richesse / l’abondance

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Affluence

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La fortune/ la richesse

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Wealth

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Les richesses

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Riches

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L’ascension sociale

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Upward mobility

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Un cas d’ascension fulgurante

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A success story

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Une réussite spectaculaire

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A rags-to-riches story

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Réaliser un rêve

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Fulfil a dream

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Satisfaire des attentes

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Meet expectations

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Souhaiter avoir quelque chose

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Wish for something

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Désirer

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Yearn for

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Désirer / aspirer à

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Long for

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Être attiré par

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Be attracted to

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Gagner sa vie

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Earn a living

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Satisfaire les besoins de sa famille

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Provide for one’s family

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Chercher refuge

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Seek refuge

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Trouver refuge

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Find shelter

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S’enrichir

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Become/ get rich

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S’élever

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Rise

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S’élever socialement

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Work one’s way up

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Chercher de l’or (en creusant)

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Dig for gold

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Découvrir de l’or

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Discover / strike gold

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Faire fortune

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Make a fortune

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Construire un empire

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Set up an empire

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Passer du dénuement à l’opulence

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Go from rags to richies

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Paisible / pacifique

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Peaceful

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Attirant

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Appealing

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Attrayant/ tentant

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Enticing/ alluring

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Plein d’espoir

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Hopeful

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La nourriture exotique

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Ethnic food

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Un arrière plan culturel

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A cultural background

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Un ancêtre

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An ancestor

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Une personne d’origine étrangère

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A foreign-born person

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Se distinguer/ ne pas passer inaperçu

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Stand out

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Apprécier

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Value

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Concilier

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Reconcile

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A l’esprit ouvert / sans préjugés

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Open-minded

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D’origine étrangère

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Foreign-born

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De la seconde génération

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Second-generation

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La frontière

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The Border

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La police des frontières

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The Border Patrol

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Limiter le flot

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Curb thé flow

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Restreindre

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Restrict

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Resserrer / renforcer

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Tighten

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Interdire

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Ban

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Empêcher d’entrer

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Keep out

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Renvoyer

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Send back

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Reconduire (a la frontière)

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Escort back (to the border)

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Jeter dehors

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Kick out

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Insurmontable

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Unsurpassable

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Sévère

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Harsh

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Des sentiments xénophobes

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Anti-immigrant feeling

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L’animosité / le ressentiment

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Resentment

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Un bouc-émissaire

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A scapegoat

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Un fardeau social

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A social burden

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Être victime de discrimination

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Be discriminated against

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En vouloir à / ne pas supporter

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Resent

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Mépriser

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Look down on

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Rendre qqn responsable de

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Blame sb for

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Séparer isoler exclure de

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Segregate (from)

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Discriminatoire

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Discriminatory

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Amer / plein de ressentiments

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Resentful

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La nationalité

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Citizenship

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Un citoyen potentiel

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A would-be citizen

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S’intégrer

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Assimilate

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Se fondre dans

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Blend / merge into

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Demander la nationalité

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Apply for citizenship

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Accorder la nationalité

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Grant citizen

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Un mélange

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A medley

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Un creuset

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A melting-pot

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Un atout

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An asset

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Un emprunt (style, couture)

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Borrowing

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Choisir (un nom, une couleur)

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To settle on

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Régler une affaire

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To settle a business

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Trancher (arbitre)

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To settle an argument

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S’installer se calmer se ranger

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To settle down

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Se contenter de

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To settle for

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Travailler dur

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Work hard, toil

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Trimer, travailler comme un forçant

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Slave away

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Ramasser (des fruits)

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Pick (fruit…)

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Tirer profit de

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Take advantage of

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Bon marche

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Cheap

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Non qualifié

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Unskilled

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Travailleur, laborieux

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Hard-working

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Sous-payé

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Underpaid

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Un immigré en règle

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A legal immigrant

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Un demandeur d’asile

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An asylum seeker

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Un étranger

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A foreigner

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Un réfugié politique

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A politcal refugee

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Un citoyen de seconde zone

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À second class citizen

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Un immigré clandestin

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An illegal immigrant / alien

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Un travailleur sans papier

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An undocumented worker

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Un passeur

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A smuggler

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Un permis de travail

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A work permit

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Un permis de séjour

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A Green Card

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Entrer clandestinement

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Enter illegally

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Se faufiler, entrer clandestinement

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Sneak into

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Demander l’asile

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Seek asylum

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Excéder une durée fixée

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Overstay

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Faire entrer clandestinement

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Smuggle (into)

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Déraciné

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Uprooted

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Sans racines

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Rootless

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Sans racines

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Rootless

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Une entrave, une gêne

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A hindrance

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