Conflict Flashcards by Robin Piquet

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Une polémique

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A controversy

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Le souci, l’inquiétude

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A concern, a worry

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Reprocher qqch à qqn

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To reproach with/for sb

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Contrarier, fâcher, blesser

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To vex

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Blesser, froisser

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To offend

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Ennuyer

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To bother

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Se disputer (avec qqn)

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To quarrel (with sb) / To have an argument

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Se brouiller (avec)

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to fall out (with)

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La méchanceté, la cruauté (méchant, pervers)

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Wickedness (wicked)

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Railler qqn

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To jeer at sb

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Impitoyable

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Ruthless, pitiless

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La tromperie (tromper)

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Deception (to deceive)

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Faire semblant

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To pretend

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Indigne de confiance

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Untrustworthy

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L’orgueil

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Pride

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Le mépris (méprisant)

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Contempt, scorn (contemptuous, scornful)

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L’égoïsme

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Selfishness

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Un vantard (se vanter de)

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A boaster (to boast of, to brag about)

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Mépriser / regarder de haut

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To despise / To look down on

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L’envie, la jalousie

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Envy

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Une envie (de) / Désirer ardemment

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A craving (for) / to crave for

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Etre en colère contre

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To be angry/be mad with

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Perdre patience

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To lose one’s temper

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Un préjugé

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A prejudice

Etre victime de discrimination

To be discriminated against

Rejeter, exclure

To expel, to ban

Harcèlement

Harrasment

Un délit

An offence

Un homicide involontaire

A manslaughter

Un assassinat

An assassination

Un complice

An accomplice

L’agression

Assault, mugging

L’enlèvement, le rapt

Kidnapping, an abduction

Le détournement d’avion

Hijack

Donner des coups, frapper

To deal blows

Donner des coups de poing/pied

To punch/To kick

Une femme battue – un mari violent

A battered wife – a wife beater

Une manifestation

A demonstration, a protest

Un défilé

A march

Une revendication

A claim, a demand

L’escalade de la violence

The escalation of violence

Un soulèvement, une crise

An upheaval

La prise d’otages

Hostage-taking

Déclencher

To trigger off

Prendre d’assaut

To take by storm

Un tyran, la tyrannie

A tyrant, tyranny

Un dictateur, une dictature

A dictator, dictatorship

La souffrance

Suffering

Violer (des droits)

To abuse, to violate

Réprimer

To crack down (on)

Totalitaire

Totalitarian

La purification ethnique

Ethnic cleansing

La déportation dans un camp

Internment

La déportation

Transportation

L’esclavage, l’asservissement

Slavery, bondage

Réduire à l’esclavage

To reduce to slavery

Le dernier cri (mode)

The last word

On dit que…

Word has it that…