Chap 84 : Old age Flashcards

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1
Q

les personnes âgées

A

the old / the old people / the elderly

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un vieil homme / une vieille femme

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an old man / an old lady

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une personne du troisième âge

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a senior / a senior citizen / a third-ager

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4
Q

vieillir

A

to get old / to grow old

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5
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les plus de 70 ans

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the over-70s

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un septuagénaire

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a seventy-year man

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un octogénaire

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an eighty-year man

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un centenaire

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a centenarian

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9
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grisonner

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to go grey

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un homme aux cheveux blancs

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a white-haired man

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avoir les cheveux blancs

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to have white hair

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12
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être chauve / la calvitie

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to be bald / baldness

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13
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une ride

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a wrinkle, a line

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14
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les infirmités de la vieillesse

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the infirmities of old age

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15
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vulnérable

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vulnerable

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16
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handicapé

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disabled

17
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l’impuissance (sexuelle)

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impotence

18
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impuissant (sexuellement)

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impotent

19
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la faiblesse / faible

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weakness, weak

20
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s’affaiblir

A

to weaken

21
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la maladie

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illness, sickness

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être en bonne / mauvaise santé

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to be in good health / bad health

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la sénilité / sénile

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senility, senile

24
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perdre la mémoire

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to lose one’s memory

25
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la maladie d’Alzheimer

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Alzheimer’s (disease)

26
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nécessiter de soins particuliers

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to require special care

27
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être grabataire

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to be bed-ridden

28
Q

une maison de retraite

A

a home for the aged

29
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une maison médicalisée

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a nursing home, an old people’s home

30
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la gériatrie

A

geriatrics

31
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gérontologue

A

gerontologist, geriatrician

32
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l’âgisme, le racisme anti-vieux

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agism, ageism, age discrimination

33
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être rejeté par la société

A

to be rejected by society

34
Q

le pouvoir éco des personnes âgées

A

grey power