Chapitre 1 : Politics in the UK Flashcards

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triste

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bleak

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pleurnicher

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to whinge

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s’avachir, d’affaler, se vautrer

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to slump

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chuter

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to plummet

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forcément, c’est obligé

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to be bound to

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condamner

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to doom

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Par conséquent

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therefor

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la labeur

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toil

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répercussion

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fallout

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émouvant, vibrant

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stirring

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prévisible

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predictable, foreseeable,

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convenu, conventionnel, banal

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formulaic

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renverser

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to overthrow, to topple

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S’effondrer

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to topple (the tower toppled)

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les pauvres

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the down-at-heel, the destitute

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Les riches

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the comfortably off, the affluent

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être méprisé

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to be patronised, to be condescended, to be looked down on

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grossier, peu raffiné

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uncouth, coarse, oafish

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exprimer son mépris

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to express one’s scorn for, to sniff about

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insultes

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slurs

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réfuté

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disproved, refuted

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le sommeil

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slumber

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écrit diffamatoire, diffamation

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libels

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rétrécir

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to shrink

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faner

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to wither

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teinté

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hued, tinged

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désinvolte

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offhand

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visible

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conspicuous

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controversé

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controversial

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perplexe

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bewildered

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étonné, stupéfait

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astonished, astounded, stunned

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une gaffe

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a blunder, a snafu

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une mésaventure

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a mishap

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la colère

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anger, ire

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ironique

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ironic, wry

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rejeté, exclu

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dismissed, written off

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une dispute

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a quarrel, a spat

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rendre plus attractif (polir)

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to burnish

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principal, le plus en vue

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the foremost

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sans cesse, sans relâche

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ceaselessly

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hostile à

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hostile, inimical to

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quotidiennement

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on a daily basis, on a day-to-day basis

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des mensonges

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falsehoods, untruths

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les maux

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the evils, the scourges

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à peine

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hardly

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montrer, exhiber, étaler

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to display, to flaunt, to show off

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punir, descendre en flamme, dénoncer …

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to lambast, to castigate, excoriate

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détester

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to loathe

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répugnant

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loathsome , repelling

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le cadre

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the frame

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rédiger

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to draft

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monter en flèche

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to (sky)rocket

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fusionner avec

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to merge with

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être à l’horizon

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to be in the offing (offing=haute mer)