Chapter K - The energy crisis Flashcards

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Travailleur

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Worker

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Travailleur (adj)

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Hard-working

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La classe ouvrière

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The working-class

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Atelier

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Workshop

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Main d’œuvre, le personnel

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Workforce

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Permis de travail

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Work permit

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Vie active

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Working life

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Stage (en entreprise)

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Work placement

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Expérience professionnelle

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Work experience

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Cadre (contexte)

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Framework

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La paperasserie

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Paperwork

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12
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Émergents (pays)

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Emerging

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Inquiétant, préoccupant

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Worrying

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Préjudiciable, nuisible

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Damaging

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Sous jacent

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Underlying

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Durable (solution)

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Lasting

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17
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Prometteur

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Promising

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Intransigeant

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Uncompromising

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19
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Le phénomène des sans-abris

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Homelessness

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Efficacité (remède,politique…)

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Effectiveness

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21
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Inutilité

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Uselessness, pointlessness

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22
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Conscience

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Awareness

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23
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Absurdité

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Meaninglessness

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24
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Impuissance

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Powerlessness

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Cruauté, caractère impitoyable
Ruthlessness
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Bonne volonté
Willingness
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Plan en trois étapes
Three-stage plan
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Week-end de 3 jours
Three-day weekend
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Conflit qui dure depuis/ qui a duré neuf mois
Nine-month dispute
30
Les 35 heures
The 35-hour (working) week
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Mandat de 4 ans
Four-year term (of office)
32
Programme en 14 points
14-point programme
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Billet de 20 livres
Twenty-pound note
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Billet de 50 dollars
Fifty-dollar bill
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bon du Trésor à 10 ans
Ten-year Treasury bill
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La guerre des 6 jours
The Six Day War
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Marché de 50 000 dollars
$50,000 deal
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Émission de télé de 30 minutes
30-minute TV show
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Entreprise qui vaut des millions de dollars
Multi-billion dollar company
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Avancé
Advanced
41
Partial, tendancieux
Biased
42
Privilégié
Privileged
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Défavorisé
Disadvantaged, unprivileged
44
Démuni
Deprived
45
Handicapé
Disabled, handicapped
46
Désaffecté, abandonné (usine...)
Disused
47
Sacré
Sacred
48
Cultivé, instruit
Educated
49
Indigné, scandalisé
Outraged
50
Préoccupé, inquiet
Concerned
51
Qualifié
Skilled (worker)
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Travailleur manuel
Manual worker
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Ouvrier du bâtiment
Construction worker
54
Sauveteur
Rescue worker
55
Travailleur humanitaire
Relief worker
56
Quelqu'un qui travaille pour une organisation caritative
Charity worker
57
Travailleur sexuel
Sex worker
58
Chercheur
Research worker
59
Col blanc
White-collar worker
60
Membre du personnel soignant
Heath-care worker
61
Exprès
On purpose
62
D'un côté
On the one hand
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Dans l'ensemble
On the whole
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A première vue
Oh the face of it
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Sur le papier
On paper
66
Si l'on regarde de plus près
On closer inspection
67
A la télé
On tv
68
Dans l'ensemble, globalement
On balance
69
Par principe
On principle
70
La pénurie d'énergie
The energy gap, the energy shortfall
71
Venir à manquer d'énergie
To run out of energy
72
Manquer de pétrole
To be short of oil
73
S'épuiser
To become depleted, to become exhausted
74
L'épuisement des ressources
The depletion, the exhaustion of resources
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Gaspiller / économiser de l'énergie
To waste / save energy
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Économies d'énergie
Energy savings
77
Quatre quatre energivore
Gas guzzling SUV
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Mesure d'économie d'énergie
Energy-saving measure
79
Le pétrole
Oil
80
Le gaz
Gas
81
Le charbon
Coal
82
Les énergies fossiles
Fossil fuels
83
Les réserves de pétrole
Oil supplies, oil reserves
84
Le prix du pétrole
Oil prices
85
100 dollars le baril
$100 a barrel
86
Une centrale électrique, thermique
A power station, a power plant
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Centrale fonctionnant au charbon
Coal-fired/oil-fired power station
88
Les dérives du pétrole
Oil products
89
Réduire la consommation de pétrole
To reduce oil consumption
90
Un pétrolier, un tanker
An oil tanker
91
Une plateforme pétrolière
An oil rig
92
Un puits de pétrole
An oil well
93
L'essence
Petrol (GB) gas (US)
94
Renouvelable
Renewable
95
Les sources d'énergie renouvelable
Renewables
96
L'énergie éolienne
Wind power
97
Une éolienne
A wind turbine, a windmill
98
L'énergie solaire
Solar power, solar energy
99
Un panneau solaire
A solar panel
100
Les bio-carburants
Biofuels
101
La biomasse
Biomass
102
Le bioéthanol
Bioethanol
103
La géothermie
Geothermal energy
104
L'énergie nucléaire
Nuclear power, nuclear energy
105
Une centrale nucléaire
A nuclear plant
106
Le nucléaire
The nuclear industry
107
Des installations nucléaires
Nuclear facilities
108
Les déchets nucléaires
Nuclear waste
109
Des matériaux radioactifs
Radioactive material
110
Éliminer les déchets
To dispose of waste
111
L'elimination des déchets nucléaires
Nuclear waste disposal
112
L'hydroélectricité
Hydroelectricity, hydropower
113
Un barrage
A dam
114
Une voiture électrique
A battery-powered car