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Gaspilleur

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Wasteful

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Cohérent

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In-keeping

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D’autres chats à fouetter

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Other fish To frie

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Entrave

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Hurdle

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Parfait exemple

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A case in point

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Sombre bilan en terme de victimes

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A grim toll

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Naufrage

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Sinking

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Élitiste

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Lofty

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Faire des efforts communs

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Make common efforts, join their acts

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Encore un autre

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Yet another

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Décapité

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Beheaded

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Meuble

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Piece of furniture

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5 pièces supplémentaires

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5 extra pieces

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Inondations

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Floods

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Une cheville foulée

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A sprained ankle

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Un arabe, parler arabe

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An Arabe, To speak arabic

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Un espagnol , parler espagnol

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A spaniard,To speak spanish

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Madam et Sir s’emploient sans le nom ou avec ?

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Sans

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Arrivant

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Upon arriving

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Commencé

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Creaked into third gear

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Promettre

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To promise,To pledge, To vow

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Critiquer vivement

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To Rail against, to sharpy criticize

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Gros pb de liquidité

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Cash crunch

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Tardivement

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Belatedly

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Avoir la frousse

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To have The jitter

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Dégraisser

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Downsizing

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Une impasse

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A stand-off

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Prendre des risques

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To run risks

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Soit disant, qui montrerait

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Purpotedly

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Bidonvilles

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Townships

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Qui regroupe

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Gathering

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Des campements de fortune

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Makeshift camps

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repère

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Landmark

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Dès lors qu’elle

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When it comes To

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Apaiser les critiques

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To assuage critics

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36
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Plusieurs montants de salaire

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Several figure wages

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Qui fuit

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Leaky

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Présager

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To portend

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Convaincre, avoir de l’effet

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To cut ice

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Vitesse vertigineuse

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Giddying speed

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Minimiser

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Play down

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Omniprésent

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Pervasively

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Le comble de l’ironie

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Further irony

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Doux amer

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Bitter-sweet

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A la suite de, avec, du fait de

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In the wake of

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Creuser, faire un creux

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Hollow out

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S’échelonner

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Stagger over

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Laisser pourrir

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To be left to rot

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Gérer

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To be handed

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Stratégie du bord de l’abîme

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Brinkmanship

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Étripage, miné, affaibli

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Evidcerating

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Accident

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Casualty

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Pleurer

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weep

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Réfléchir, considérer

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Ponder

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Frétiller, irriter

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Fret

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Le soulagement pourrait enfin être à l’ordre du jour

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Relief at long last could be the order of the day

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A la dernière minute, au dernier moment

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At one minute to 12

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Récit à suspens

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Cliffhanger

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Empilé avec

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Stacked with

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Tenir à distance

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To keep a bay

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Revers

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Flipside

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Stockage

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Stockpiling

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Synonyme de Gap

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Gulf

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Se remettre

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To get over

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Aux prix de / au détriment de

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It comes at the expense of

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Disgrâce

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Ignominy

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Primordial

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Overriding

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Contrecoup, retour de flamme

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Backlash

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Agitation, tapage, histoires

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Fuss

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Faire des histoires

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Make a fuss

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Précieux, utile

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Valuable

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Lieu

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venue

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Déstabilisant, perturbateur

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Disruptive

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A la différence de

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Unlike

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Saisie

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Bust

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Se couper de, se fermer

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To seal off from

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Décisif

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Declining

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Repli sur soi

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Withdrawal into one’a self

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Mal traité

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Ill-treated

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Être en cours de

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Be under way

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Empresser de dénoncer

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Quick to denounce

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Probabilité

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Likelihood

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Nuisible, préjudiciable

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Detrimental

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Période

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Timeframes

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Effet ventouse

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Suction effect

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Quelques semaines

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Matter of weeks

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Autrement

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Otherwise

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Retirer le chiffrement de bout en bout

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To remove end-to-end encryption

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Brouiller

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Scramble

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Désireux, vif, passioné

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Keen

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S’appuyer sur

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To press ahead with

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Correspondre

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Fall in line with

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Accusée d’une infraction de la loi

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Face the ban under act

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Mouvement, vague

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Spate

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A décidé

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Has prompted

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Arrangé à la hâte

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Hastily arranged

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Défendre

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To champion

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Éviter, prévenir

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To avert

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Requête

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Plea

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Coup, explosion

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Blast

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Saisir

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To grasp

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Redémarrer sur les chapeaux de roue

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To kick into full gear

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Durée

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Spans

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Niveau de vie

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Standard of living

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Accent

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Emphasis

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Doyen

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Dean

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Irriter

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To irk

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Grève avec une foule de monde

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Full-fledged strike

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Faire augmenter

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To drive up

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Lutter

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To jockey

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Décontenancé

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Discomfited

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Planer

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To hover

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Un mélange

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A blend

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Suivre

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To invoke

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S’immiscer

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To meddle

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Scrupule

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Compunction

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Medias

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Media (invariable)

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Suivre

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To invoke

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Par habitant

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Per capita

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Distinguer, choisir

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To single out

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Population

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Citizenry

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Afflux

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Influx

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Stratégie

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Gambit

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Opprimé

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Downtrodden

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Gauche à l’eau de rose

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Mushy left

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Tiède, peu enthousiaste

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Lukewarm

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Tracer la voie

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To chart a course

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Terriblement

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Disastrously

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Chercher la bagarre

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To pick a fight

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A son arrivée

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On arrival

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Députés

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Backbenchers

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De vives querelles

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Fierce row

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Directeur (école)

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Headmaster

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Directeur (économie)

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Manager

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La cour

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The courtyard

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Comme on pouvait s’y attendre

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Predictably

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En discussion

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There is talk about…

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Taches

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Stains

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Furent empreintes avec de la nostalgie

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Tinged with nostalgia

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Plus sévère

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Harsher

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En or

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Golden

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Au regard de

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Looking back to

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Idée d’anxiété et de crispation

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Flinching away

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Aperçus

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Glimpses

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Société globale, plus large

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Wider society

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Ecole privées réservées à l’élite

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Elite fee-paying schools

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Pour l’instant

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For now

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Oser

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Dare To

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  • comme (puisque, parce que)
  • quand
  • alors que
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As

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Prévaloir

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Hold sway

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Représenté

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Depicted (in)

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Jeter un regarde

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To glance at

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S’étonner de

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To be amazed at

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Afficher

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Display

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Temps libre

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Spare time

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Maîtresse d’elle meme

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Self composed

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Alléger

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To alleviate

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Comme

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As if

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Anecdote

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Anecdote

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Simple

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Mere

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Se diriger vers

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To head for

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Formation professionnelle

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Vocational training

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Sans parler

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Let alone

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Enraciné

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Entrenched

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Grief

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Grievance

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En effet

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Indeed

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Bien fondé

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Well grounded

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Défiance

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Defiance

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Sûr

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Certain

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Subrepticement

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Surreptitiously

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Car (dans registre littéraire)

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