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un bordel

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a brothel

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un fléau mondial

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a global scourge

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un violeur

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a rapist

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une femme voilée

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a veiled woman

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un crime d’honneur

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an honour killing

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une pratique barbare

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a barbaric practice

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le foulard islamique

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an Islamic headscarf

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participer à la vie politique

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to take part in political life

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une profession essentiellement masculine

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a male-dominated profession

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un avortement clandestin

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a backstreet abortion

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un aspirateur

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a vacuum cleaner

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la crise de la natalité

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the depopulation crisis

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une population vieillissante

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an ageing population

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un délit financier

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a white-collar crime

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la petite délinquance

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petty crime

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la délinquance

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delinquency

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la boulimie

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bulimia

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le désenchantement

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disenchantment

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abolir la peine capitale

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to abolish capital punishment

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procéder à une exécution

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to carry out an execution

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21
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obtenir un sursis

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to be granted a reprieve

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une erreur judiciaire

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a miscarriage of justice

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une métropole

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a metropolis

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l’expansion urbaine tentaculaire

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urban sprawl

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démolir un bâtiment

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to pull down a building

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les prix augmentent en flèche *2

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prices are soaring, prices are going through the roof

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un citadin

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a city dweller

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une agression

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a mugging

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29
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des problèmes liés au stress

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stress-related problems

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emmener une voiture à la fourrière

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to tow away a car

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la taxe anti-embouteillages (à Londres)

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the congestion charge

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le covoiturage

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car pooling

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33
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manquer une correspondance (pour)

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to miss a connection (to)

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un radar (contrôle routier)

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a speed camera

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le nettoyage ethnique

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ethnic cleansing

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36
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gaver une oie

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to force-feed a goose

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37
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une souris / des souris

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a mouse / mice

38
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un demi million

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half a million

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le 4ème pouvoir

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the forth estate

40
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la presse à scandale

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gutter press

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indépendant

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independent

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partial / impartial

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biased / unbiased

43
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la vitesse tend à être le critère utilisé pour mesurer la valeur de nos activités

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speed tends to be the yardstick through which we measure the value of our activities

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elle passa la main sur ses yeux

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she ran her hand over her eyes

45
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gentrifier

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to gentrify et pas gentrificate !!! n’existe pas !

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une ressource

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a resource

47
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l’accélération de notre consommation de ressources ne peut qu’avoir des conséquences terribles tôt ou tard

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the acceleration in our consumption of resources is bound to have terrible consequences sooner or later

48
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la vidéosurveillance

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CCTV (closed circuit television)

49
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donner à l’Etat des pouvoirs de surveillance renforcés

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to extend state surveillance powers

50
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une écoute téléphonique

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phone-tapping

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protéger la vie privée des abus commerciaux

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to safeguard privacy from commercial abuse

52
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un accent londonien

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a cockney accent

53
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avoir quelques notions d’anglais

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to have a smattering of English

54
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la souveraineté

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sovereignty

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un comte

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an earl

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succéder à quelqu’un

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to succeed somebody et pas to somebody !

57
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accéder au trône

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to ascend the throne

58
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le système éducatif *2

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the education system / the educational system

59
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l’illettrisme, l’analphabétisme

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illiteracy

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passer un examen

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to take an exam

61
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réussir un examen

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to pass an exam

62
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la laïcité

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secularism

63
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une mosquée

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a mosque

64
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un athée

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an atheist

65
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le foulard islamique

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the Islamic headscarf

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être en danger

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to be in jeopardy

67
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les chiffres sont stupéfiants

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the statistics are staggering

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la fonte des glaciers

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the melting of ice caps

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être en voie d’extinction

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to be on the brink of extinction

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trouver un nouvel équilibre avec la nature

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to find a new balance with nature

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se convertir à l’écologie

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to go green

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la diminution de la couche d’ozone

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ozone depletion

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rejeter du gaz carbonique

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to emit carbon dioxide

74
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une inondation

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a flood

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le protocole de Kyoto

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the Kyoto protocol

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la couche d’ozone

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the ozone layer

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la morue

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cod

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le colin

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hake

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la pénurie d’eau *2

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water scarcity, water shortage

80
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un ruisseau

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a brook

81
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un cours d’eau

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a stream

82
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la sècheresse

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drought

83
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construire un barrage sur un fleuve

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to dam a river

84
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s’attaquer au problème

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to adress the problem

85
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brutal, sévère

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stark

86
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dessalement

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desalination

87
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diminuer

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to dwindle

88
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hectic

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fou, endiablé

89
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les feux de circulation

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traffic lights

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une ville déshumanisée

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a dehumanized city

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la période fordiste

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the fordist era

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