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To climate-proof

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Protéger des phénomènes climatiques

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Greenhouse effect

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Effet de serre

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Une photo

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A photograph/ a snapshot

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Provoquer qqc

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To induce smthg

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Être déterminer à

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To be intent on

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Gaz de schiste

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Shale gaz

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Rechercher qqc

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To look for smthg - to seek

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Analyser/ étudier

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To look into smthg

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To look at smthg

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To review smthg

Examiner

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Avoir envie de qqc

J’ai envie d’aller à la plage

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To fancy doing smthg

I fancy going to the beach

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La position

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The stance

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Laisser la place à

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To give way to smthg

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Condamner qqc à qqc

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To doom smthg to smthg

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To had better do smthg

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Faire mieux de faire qqc

= to ought to

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Trouver/ inventer qqc

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To come up with smthg

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Jeter les déchets

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To throw/pitch/chuck rubbish

ou (garbage/Trash) si pas comptable

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Dairy

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Les produits laitiers

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Livestock

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Le bétail

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Le bétail

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Livestock

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An incentive

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Un avantage/ une motivation

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The hinge

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La charnière

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Crops

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Les cultures / récoltes

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Livelihood

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Le gagne-pain

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To pledge that

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Promettre que

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Aux yeux de

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In the eyes of

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To enquire

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Demander

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To compel sbdy to do smthg

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Contraindre qqn à faire qqc

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Bien que

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Even if/ even though + subj

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A landmark

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Un point de repère

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To rid smthg of smthg

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Débarrasser qqc de qqc

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Groundbreaking

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Révolutionnaire / novateur

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Faire appel à

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To call on smthg

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En retard

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Overdue

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Sale

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Filthy

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an exhaust

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Un pot d’échappement

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Les poumons

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Lungs

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To vow to do smthg

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Jurer de faire qqc

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Rigoureux

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Stringent

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Concevoir qqc

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To devise smthg

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Les partisans

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Proponents

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To stoke

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Raviver

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To shelve smthg

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Abandonner qqc

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Smthg ongoing

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Qqc en cause

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Un seuil

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A threshold

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To contend with smthg

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Lutter // affronter qqc / to struggle against

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To wreak havoc

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Faire des ravages

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A chunk

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Un gros morceau

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Cattle

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Livestock

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To deter smn

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Dissuader qqn

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If + negation =

If we don’t

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Unless+ affirmation

Unless we do

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To compound

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Combiner (différents choses) to make a mix

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To worsen

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Empirer/ se détériorer : to get worse

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évoquer qqc

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to mention smthg / to bring smthg up

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sans cesse

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continuously/ unremittingly

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to dwell

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demeurer/ résider

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s’attarder sur qqc

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to dwell upon/on smthg

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nombreux

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plentiful

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proposer de faire qqc

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to suggest doing smthg

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To prop smthg up

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Soutenir qqc

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To scavenge

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Faire les poubelles

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To coax into doing smthg

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Amadouer qqn pour qu’il fasse qqc

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to dry up

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s’assécher/ se tarir

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to enact (a law)

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adopter/ promulguer une loi

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to be shut down

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être arrêté/ stoppé

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pernicious

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néfaste

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néfaste

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pernicious/ noxious

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to dent smthg (my confidence)

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entamer qqn (le moral/ ma confiance)

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the forefront

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l’avant garde (dans le sens précurseur)

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la majeure partie

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the lion’s share

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the lion’s share

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la majeure partie (la part du lion)

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to summon

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rassembler/ convoquer

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Keen to do smthg

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Désireux de faire qqc

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the paucity

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the shortage/ the scarcity/ the lack (la pénurie / le manque)

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to be endowed

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être doté

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to be poised to

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to be on the verge of + bvb ing

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to fix smthg

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to solve smthg

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To comply with

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Respecter / se conformer à qqc

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To lift out poverty

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Sortir de la pauvreté

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To implement

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Mettre en œuvre to set smthg up

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To take a toll on smthg

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Nuire / avoir de graves répercussions sur

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To hinder / to hamper / to impede

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Entraver qqc/ gêner/ empêcher qqc

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Entraver

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To hinder / to hamper / to impede

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The gist of an argument

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Le cœur/l’essentiel d’un argument

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Our forebears

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Nos ancêtres

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Smthg equate with smthg

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Qqc assimilé à/ équivalent à qqc

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Weariness

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La lassitude/ la fatigue

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From (2020) onwards, …

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A partir de (2020),…

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Smthg onward

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Qqc en avant

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Participer à

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To participate IN smthg

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An endeavour

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Un effort

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To be entitled to do smthg

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Avoir le droit de faire qqc

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The rationale

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La justification

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The odds

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Les chances/ probabilities

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Smthg left in its wake

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Qqc laissé dans son sillage

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A surge

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Une hausse/ an increase

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Les nouvelles/journaux sont bons

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The news IS good

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To underpin

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Soutenir qqc

To prop smthg up

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The core

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The heart, the center

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Foreseeable

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Prévisible

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A breakthrough

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Une avancée une rupture

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To ditch smthg

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To give up smthg

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To relinquish smthg

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Renoncer à qqc

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To wean oneself from smthg

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Se sevrer de qqc/ réduire sa consommation de qqc

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To be driven by

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Être animé par

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Smthg uplifting

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Qqc d’encourageant/ motivant

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To fancy doing smthg

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To be eager to do smthg / avoir envie de faire qqc

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Être en guerre

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To bet AT war

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Des chiffres peu connus

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Little known figures

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To look at the big picture

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Regarder la situation dans son ensemble

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Examiner

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To review

To look at smthg

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To owe smbdy smthg

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Devoir qqc a qqn

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Devoir qqc à qqn

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To owe sbdy smthg

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Les chiffres

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Figures

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Figures

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Les chiffres

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Baisser (to collapse)

La température baisse

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To drop

Temperature is dropping

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Mettre en lumière qqc, clarifier qqc

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To shed light on smthg

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Donner l’allure, le ton

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To set the pace

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D’autant plus

C’est d’autant plus vrai

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All the more

That is all the more true

119
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To be ahead of schedule

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Être en avance

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Rendre compte de qqc

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To report ON smthg

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To report on smthg

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Rendre compte de qqc

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To tumble

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To fall to collapse

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