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Playwright

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Dramaturge

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An extract, an excerpt

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Un extrait

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An account

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Un compte-rendu, un exposé

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The scope

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La portée, l’étendue

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A discrepancy

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Une contradiction, une divergence

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The stress, the emphasis

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L’insistance, l’accent

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A critisism

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Une critique

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An uderstatement

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Une litote

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A préjudice

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Un préjugé

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A bias

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Un parti pris

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An assumption

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Une supposition

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A statement

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Une déclaration

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An Outlook (on)

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Perspective (sur)

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Commonplace

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Banal, ordinaire

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Far-fetched

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Forcé, tiré par les cheveux

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Misleading

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Trompeur

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Spurious

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Faux

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Fallacious

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Fallacieux

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Consistent with

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Cohérent avec

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Hackneyed

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Rebattu, galvaudé

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Concise, concisely

Exhaustive, exhaustively

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Concis, avec concision

Exhaustif, complètement

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Outspoken

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Franc, carré

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Disparaging(ly)

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Désobligeant, méprisant

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Uncompromising(ly)

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Intransigeant, en se refusant à toute concession

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Non-committal

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Réservé, sans se compromettre

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Paradoxica(ly)

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Paradoxal(ement)

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To state

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Déclarer

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To claim

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Prétendre

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To express

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Exprimer

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To convey

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Communiquer, faire passer

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To reveal

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Révéler

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To expose

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Dévoiler

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To account for

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Justifier, expliquer

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To expound

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Exposer, expliquer

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To comment on

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Commenter

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To convince

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Convaincre

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To refer To

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Faire référence à

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To allude to, to hint at

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Faire allusion à

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To imply

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Laisser entendre, impliquer

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To note

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Noter, remarquer

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To dwell on

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S’arrêter, s’étendre sur

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To enlarge on

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Développer

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To digress

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Faire une digression

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To infer

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Déduire, conclure

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To stem from

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Découler de

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To result in

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Aboutir à

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To result from

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Résulter de

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To entail

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Entraîner, comporter

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To aim at + nom ou girondif

To aim to + infinitif

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Viser, aspirer à

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To consider

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Considérer, envisager

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To overlook

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Oublier, négliger

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To omit

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Omettre

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To elude, to evade

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Éluder, éviter

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To advocate

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Préconiser

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To extol, to praise

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Faire l’éloge de

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To criticize

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Critiquer

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To object to

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Élever une objection contre

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To reconcile

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Concilier, réconcilier

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The text bears upon/on the issue of

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Le text porte sur la question de

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Le document que nous devons commenter

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The document We have to comment on

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L’auteur s’intéresse surtout à

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The author is mainlly concerned with

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Sharp

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Cinglant, acerbe

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Acute

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Perspicace, aigu

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Mere(ly)

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Purement et simplement

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(Un)biased

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(Im)partial

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Humorous(ly)

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Humoristique, avec humour