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Demande de brevet déposée

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Patent pending

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En attente, imminent

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Pending

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Détention provisoire

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Detention pending trial

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En attendant les résultats de l’enquête

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Pending investigation

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Effort (physical effort)

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Strain

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Pression (stress)

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Strain

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Source d’un virus

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Strain

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Entorse, élongation, claquage

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Strain

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Course-poursuite

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Car chase

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Réprimande, remontrance

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Scolding

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Ébats

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Frolic, frolics

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Gambader, folâtrer, batifoler

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To frolic

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Lingot

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Ingot, bar

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Savoir intuitivement

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To intuit

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Citer, mettre des guillemets

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To quote

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Déraciné

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Dug-up

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Creusé à la main

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Hand-dug

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Obstiné, tenace

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Dogged

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Début, commencement

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Outset, beginning

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Tenter sa chance

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Try your luck

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Manque de chance

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Tough luck

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Porter chance

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To bring luck

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Rater sa chance

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To miss the opportunity

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Laisser passer sa chance

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To miss the chance, to let the chance pass one by

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Saisir sa chance

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To seize an opportunity, to take a chance

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Etre poursuivi par la malchance

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To be dogged

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Stand, cabine

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Booth

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Musicien des rues

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Busker

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Apôtre

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Apostle

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Pertinent, juste

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Apposite

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Réalisation, concrétisation

Fécondité

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Fruition

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Éviter, fuir, rejeter, esquiver, s’abstenir

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To eschew

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Frénétique, intense, très agité

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Hectic

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Reculer, se dérober, fuir (devant)

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To shrink (from back)

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Perfectionner, développer, améliorer

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To sharpen

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Aiguiser, tailler, affûter

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To sharpen

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Strass

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Rhinestone

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S’éteindre (light, star)

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To go out

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Se retrouver

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To meet up (with)

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Lancement, commencement

Début

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Inception

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Orgue de barbarie

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Barrel organ

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Payer comptant

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To pay cash on the barrel head

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Réglisse

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Licorice (us), liquorice (uk)

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Avec/et tout le tralala, avec tout ce qu’il faut,

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With the works

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Foirer

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To screw up

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S’enrichir

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To grow rich

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Faiblir (voice)

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To grow weak

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S’imposer petit à petit

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To grow on

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Maigrir à vue d’œil

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To waste away

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Nœud coulant

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Noose

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Entériner dans une loi

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To enshrine in / into law

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Se casser la figure

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To take a tumble

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Faire une chute, culbuter, tomber à la renverse

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To tumble

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Qui n’éprouve aucun remord

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Unapologetic

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Présenter, offrir, donner (formal)

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To tender

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Riposte, réplique

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Retort

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1/ enthousiasme

2/ scandale, tollé, protestations

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Furor, furore

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Plonger dans, creuser dans, fouiller dans

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To delve into

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Être aux prises avec, se débattre avec

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To grapple with

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Guérir, cicatriser, se consolider

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To heal

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Tour (performance)

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Trick

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Tour, blague, farce

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Trick, prank, joke

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Truc, ruse, combine, astuce

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Trick

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Piège

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Trick

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Querelle, dispute, chamaillerie

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Quarrel, squabble

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À emporter

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Takeaway

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Moins (soustraction)

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Take away, minus

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Esquiver

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To duck out (of)

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Éviter de faire quelque chose

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To duck out of doing something

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Hors de portée, inaccessible

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Out of reach

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Tendre le bras

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To reach out

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Entrer en contact avec

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To reach out to

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Dompteur, dresseur

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Tamer

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Orgueil démesuré

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Hubris

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Affection (maladie)

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Ailment

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Notable (remarquable)

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Noteworthy

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Ecole buissonnière

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Hooky

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Sécher les cours (Canada : foxer les cours)

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To play hooky

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Infaillible, à toute épreuve

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Foolproof

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Contrefaire

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To forge

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Gratter, se gratter

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To scratch

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Gratter, démanger

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To itch, to be itchy, to make itchy

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