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1
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Instaurer

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To implement

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Être candidat

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To apply

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Renforcer

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To enforce

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Empêcher

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Prevent

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Réaliser

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To realize

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Tenir compte de

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To account for

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Critiquer / S’en prendre à

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To take a swipe at

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Scandaleux / Scandalisé

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Outrageous / Outraged

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Reconnaître

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Acknowledge

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Connaissance

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Knowledge

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Dépendre DE

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To dépend ON

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Être responsable de

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To be responsible for

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Empêcher quelqu’un de faire quelque chose

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To prevent somebody from doing something

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Être intéressé par

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To be interested in

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Blâmer quelqu’un de faire quelque chose

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To blame somebody from doing something

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En fait / Effectivement

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Actually

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Actuellement

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Currently / A current issue

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Finalement

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Eventually

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19
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Menacer

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Threat / Jeopardize / Endanger

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Un sujet d’actualité

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A topical issue

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Une question récurrente

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An ongoing issue

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Synonymes pauvres :

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(Be) poor, penniless, broke, wretched / The have-nots / The poor /

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Synonymes riches

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Wealthy, rich, affluent, the haves

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Rechercher

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Seeking

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Profondément

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Deeply

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Laïc

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Secular

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Les restes

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Remains

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Un État providence

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A Welfare State

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Un état nounou

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A nanny State

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Entraîner (qqch, qqln à faire qqch)

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To entail

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Provoquer

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To bring about / To result in / To trigger off / To provoke

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En conséquence

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Consequently / As a consequence

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Vers l’ouest

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Westward

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Un colon

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A settler

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Mettre en place

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To Carry out

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36
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Un avocat

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An advocate

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Plaider

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To advocate

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Partisan

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Aproponent

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Défendre

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To stand for

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Faire face à

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To cope with / To face a pb / To be confronted To a pb

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Améliorer une condition

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To improve one’s lot

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Diffusé

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Broadcasted

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Gronder

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To scold

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Fonder

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To found

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Trouver

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To find

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46
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Financer

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To fund

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Marmonner

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To mumble

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Forme, état

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Shape

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Un manque

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A lack

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50
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Manquer

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To lack

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51
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Encourager

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To foster

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52
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Dépression économique

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Economic downturn

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53
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Économie en difficulté

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Ailing economy

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54
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Rétrécir / réduire

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Shrink

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Rare

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Scarce

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Impliquer

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Imply

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57
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Investir beaucoup

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To plough money into

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58
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Progéniture

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Offspring

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Sphère d’influence

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Clout

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Une compétence

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A skill

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Une impasse

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A dead end / a gridlock

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62
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Alimenter

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Fuel

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63
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Avoir la flemme

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Be bothered

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64
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Partir à la retraite /retraité

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To retire / a retireree, pensioner

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Être favorable à

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To be keen on

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Revendiquer

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To claim

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67
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Personnes âgées

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The elderly

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Espionner

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To spy on

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Surveiller

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To watch / To monitor

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70
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Pub à la télé

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A commercial / an ad on tv

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71
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Jardin de devant / de derrière

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The front lawn / The backyard

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72
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Ça fait peur

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It’s scary / spooky / creepy

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73
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Voiture auto conductrice

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Self driving cars / driverless cars

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74
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Divertissement

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Entertainment

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75
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Être partout / omniprésent

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To pervade

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Pousser à

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To push / To prompt

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77
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Trier

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To sort out

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78
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Un morceau / une chanson

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A tune

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Tenir de son père

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Takes after his father

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80
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Un majordome

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A butler

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81
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Faire plus de mal que de bien

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Do more harm than good

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Grandir/ vieillir

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Aging

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83
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Dépasser

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Overtake

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84
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Traitement de texte

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Word processor

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85
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L’informatique

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Information technology

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86
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L’informatisation

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Computerisation

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87
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Numérique

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Digital

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88
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Fracture numérique

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Digital divide (gap)

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89
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Un casque

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Headphone

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90
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Un appareil électronique

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Electronic device

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91
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Brancher / débrancher

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To plug / unplug

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92
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Écran tactile

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Touch screen

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93
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Le combiné

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Handset

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94
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Décrocher

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Pick up / Hang up

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Position

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Stance

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96
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Liberté religieuse

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Worship

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97
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Liberté de croire

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Freedom of creed

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Dérober

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To rob

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99
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Recruter

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To hire / recruit

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Personnel, agent

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Staff, agents

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101
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Un événement qui marque un tournant

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A milestone / a watershed

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102
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Une décision historique

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A landmark décision

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103
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Numérisation

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Digitization

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104
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Sans précédent

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Unprecedented

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105
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Données

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Data

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106
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Banque / base de données

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Data bank / base

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107
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Clé USB

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Memory stick / flashdrive / USB device

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108
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Vulgaire

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Tawdry

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Forme

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Shape

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Exceptionnel

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Handsome

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111
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Promesse

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The promise

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112
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Ennuyer / agacer

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To annoy

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113
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Enterrement

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Burial

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114
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En un clin d’œil

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It was The blink of an eye

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115
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Plomb

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Tin

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116
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S’emplirent

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Filled / Brimmed

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Rides

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Wrinckles

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Tressaillir

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Quiver / twitch

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Menton

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Chin

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Être faible

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Be weak

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Digne

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Fit

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Se faire malmener

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Be bossed around

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Belle fille (marche pour tous les membres de la famille)

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Daughter IN LAW

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S’embarrasser de qqch

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Bothered about

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Difficultés financières

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Financial hardship

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Renoncer

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Give up

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S’installer

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To settle down / move into

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Effrayant

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Terrifying / appeilling / dreadful

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Étroit

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Poky

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D’ailleurs

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Besides

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Supporter

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Stand / put up with

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Présence

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Being

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Depuis

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Since then

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Médiatisé

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Broadcasted

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Partir de zéro

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Make a fresh start

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Gravir les échelons

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Climb The social ladder

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Réussir à gagner sa vie

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Suceed un making a living

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Gangrener

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To plague

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Entraver / gêner

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To hinder / To hamper

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Un fléau

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A plague / a scourge

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Touché par qqch (guerre, pauvreté)

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Hit by / afflicted with affected by

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Une cible

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A target

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Cibler

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To target

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Négocier

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To barter

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Tenter d’échanger / de négocier

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To bargain

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A la base

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Basically

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Rabaisser

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Belittle / diminish / lessen

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Les fondations (de la démocratie par ex)

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Underpinnings

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Non armé

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Unarmed

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Mort / décès

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Death / Denise

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Étrangler

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To choke

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Porter plainte

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To press charges

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Poursuite en justice

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To sue

154
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Un procès

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A trial

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Poursuivre qqln

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To chase

156
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Poursuite des rêves

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To follow / To pursuie a dream

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Feux arrière

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A tail light

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Vandaliser

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To vandalise

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Piller

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To loot / looting

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Émeutes

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Riot

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Étincelle qui déclenche une émeute

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Sparked off

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A la suite de

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In The wake of / following

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nuque

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Neck

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Moelle épinière

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Spinal cord

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Menotté

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Handcuffed

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Fausse arme, réplique

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Pullet gun

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A bout portant

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Point blank

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A qui la faute ?

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Whose fault is it ?
Who should be blamed ?
Who is To be blamed ?

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Être raciste

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Be raciste

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Être biaisé par rapport à la race

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Racial bias / racially biased

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Préjugés

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Prejudiced

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Insulter

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To abuse

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Insultes racistes

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Racial slur

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Un panneau ( sur la route)

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A sign

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Une pancarte dans les manifs

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A placard

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Un placard

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A cupboard / closet

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Un tiroir / une commode

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A drawer / a chest of drawers

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Tirer

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To draw

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Le dressing

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A walk-in closet

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Un manifestant

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A protester

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Un mouvement de protestation

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Protest movement

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Agitations sociale

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Civil unrest

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Racines profondes

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Deeply rooted / anchored

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Un reseau

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A network

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Odeur nauséabonde

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Reeking of

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Un fait remontant à une date

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Date back To / date from

187
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Subir

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Undergo

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Déclencher

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Spark off

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Renforts

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Backup

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Un cas d’école

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A textbook case / a cas in point

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Condamné

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Indict

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Mépriser

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To scorn

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Raviver un débat

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Rekindle a debate

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Obliger / rendre obligatoire

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Make compulsory / make mandatory

195
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Être discriminé

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Discriminated AGAINST

196
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Classer

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Rank

197
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Un rassemblement

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A rally

198
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Rassembler politiquement

A

To rally

199
Q

Faire un discours

A

To deliver a speech

200
Q

Qui arrive

A

Upcoming

201
Q

Déranger

A

To disrupt / To disturb

202
Q

Une conférence

A

A lecture

203
Q

Rassembler sans cause politique

A

To gather

204
Q

Un rassemblement sans cause politique

A

A gathering / get together

205
Q

Apaiser, calmer le jeu

A

To quell The protest

206
Q

Faire campagne pour les votes

A

To canvass for votes

207
Q

Génération passée

A

Former / previous génération

208
Q

Être médiatisé

A

To get media coverage / To increase their profile

209
Q

Un programme politique

A

Political platform

210
Q

Filthy

A

Sale / dégoûtant / atroce

211
Q

Spew

A

Cracher

212
Q

Cautionner

A

Condon

213
Q

Hurler / crier

A

Shriek

214
Q

Se redresser

A

To pull

215
Q

Maladroit / maladroitement

A

Clumsy / clumsily

216
Q

Trébucher / claudiquer

A

Stumble

217
Q

Balcon

A

Balcony

218
Q

Escaliers

A

Staircase

219
Q

Vissié / renfermé

A

Dank

220
Q

Briller

A

To shine / To glisten / To glow / To shimmer / To glitter

221
Q

Interrompre un discours

A

To heckle

222
Q

Un jeu de mot

A

A pun

223
Q

Au delà de

A

Beyond

224
Q

Contre productif

A

Counterproductive

225
Q

Faire un parallèle

A

To draw a parallel

226
Q

Entraîner

A

To entail

227
Q

Impliquer

A

To imply

228
Q

Être critique, critiquer

A

To be critical / to voice criticism

229
Q

Déplorer

A

To lament / to déplore

230
Q

Descendre dans la rue

A

To take to the streets

231
Q

Faire le bilan de

A

To take stock of the situation

232
Q

Nourriture malsaine

A

Processed food

233
Q

Tournant, remuant

A

Diddling

234
Q

Jeter un œil

A

To glance

235
Q

Sers toi

A

Help yourself

236
Q

Geste bien à lui

A

Dreamy gesture of his

237
Q

Idiot

A

Daft

238
Q

Tendre

A

Tender

239
Q

Inventer

A

Contriving

240
Q

Se pencher en avant

A

Leaning forward

241
Q

Plisser les yeux

A

Squinting

242
Q

Cuillère en bois

A

Wooden spoon

243
Q

Abandonner

A

To give up / to drop out / to quit

244
Q

Lever des fonds

A

To raise funds

245
Q

Corbeau

A

Raven

246
Q

Bureau de vote

A

Polling station

247
Q

Travailler à son compte / indépendamment

A

Free-lance

248
Q

Faire des vagues

A

Make ripples

249
Q

Être influent

A

To be influential

250
Q

Montrer la voie, pour que les autres le suivent

A

To pave the way / to follow suit in his footstep

251
Q

Ce qui est dans la norme / l’élite politique

A

The establishment / the elite

252
Q

Radoter

A

To rattle on / ramble

253
Q

Faire la course en tête / être à la traîne

A

To be (the/a) front-runner / to lag behind

254
Q

Les conséquences

A

The aftermath / the consequencies

255
Q

Le bord /

A

The edge

256
Q

Dernière technologie

A

Cutting edge technology

257
Q

Eau du robinet

A

Tap water

258
Q

Une usine électrique

A

A plant

259
Q

La boue

A

The mud

260
Q

Plafond de verre

A

The glass ceiling

261
Q

“Mettre un bulletin” = voter

A

Cast their ballet

262
Q

Atteindre l’âge de

A

Turn 35

263
Q

Collègues

A

Peers / counterparts / colleagues

264
Q

Écran plat

A

Flat screen

265
Q

D’autant plus que

A

All the more as

266
Q

Bondé

A

Crowded

267
Q

L’essence

A

GB petrol

US gas

268
Q

Pétrole

A

Oil

269
Q

Accorder (un droit de vote, une bourse) / Accorder (qqch de matériel, plus concret)

A

Grant / Provide

270
Q

Droit de vote

A

Suffrage

271
Q

Une bourse

A

A scholarship

272
Q

En moyenne

A

On average

273
Q

Faire qqch seul

A

On your own

274
Q

Être seul / se sentir seul

A

To be alone / to be lonely

275
Q

Élever

A

Educate / raise

276
Q

Comment se fait il.. ?

A

How come.. ?

277
Q

Un favori

A

A show-in

278
Q

Discréditer un opposant

A

Mud slinging

279
Q

Puéril

A

Childish / immature

280
Q

Devenir une norme

A

Mainstream , a new standard

281
Q

Disparaître

A

To vanish

282
Q

Un exemple modèle, qui sert d’exemple

A

The epitomy

283
Q

Une preuve, un symptôme (au sens de preuve de qqch)

A

Tokens

284
Q

Gazon devant la maison

A

Lawn

285
Q

Décrédibiliser

A

To debunk / to discredit

286
Q

Défendre un sujet

A

To Advocate

287
Q

Ni … Ni

A

Neither… Nor

288
Q

Mentalité

A

Mindset / mentality

289
Q

Tourner au ridicule

A

To disparage

290
Q

Dissuasif

A

A strong deterrent

291
Q

Un défaut / sans défaut

A

A flaw / flawless

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