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1
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Accorder la priorité

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To lay the emphasis on

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Augmenter de

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To grow by

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L’accident de Tchernobyl

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The Chernobyl meltdown

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Une ampoule

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A light bulb

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Un barrage

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A dam

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Pour tout son attrait

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For all its attraction

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En perte de vitesse

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Losing momentum

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Accélérant

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Gathering speed

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Peu, à peine

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Sparsely

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Dépendre trop largement de

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To rely too heavely on

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Manque

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Scarcity

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Offre et la demande

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Demand and supply

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Diminution, épuisement

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Depletion

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Pénurie

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Shortage

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Surabondance

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Glut

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Rendement

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Yield

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17
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Un excédent

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Surplus

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Spectaculaire

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Deamatic

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Efficace (2 sens)

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Effective (qui a de l’effet)

Efficient (qui a un bon rendement)

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Bien/mal éclairé

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Well-lit

Ill-lit

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Inépuisable

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Inexhaustible

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Abondante (2 fois)

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Abundant

Plentiful

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Chauffé au charbon/gaz

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Coal-fired

Gas-fired

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Gapsilleur, peu économe

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Wasteful

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Minuscule

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Minute

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Se trouver propulsé à l’ère de…

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To leapfrog to the … era

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Rencontrer des avis partagés

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To meet mixed reactions

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Attachement des états-unis pour les grosses voitures

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America’s love affair with high consumption car

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29
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Inonder

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To swamp

-> to be swamped with calls

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30
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Un marais

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A swamp

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31
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Exploiter

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To tap

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32
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Domestiquer

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To harness

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33
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Faire le plein

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To fill up the tank

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34
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Carton

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Cardboard

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Processus avec beaucoup d’intermédiaires

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Russian doll process

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Voter (3 fois)

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To vote
To cast a vote
To cast a ballot

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Un état rural

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A rural state

38
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Une cabine

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A booth

39
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Un isoloire

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A voting booth

40
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Circonscription

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A precinct

41
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Déclarer son soutien à un candidat

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To endorse a candidate

42
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Battre la mesure de la campagne

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To set the tone of the campaign

43
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Compter des voix

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To tally votes

44
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Se diviser en petits groupes

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To split off

45
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Insister

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To entice

46
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Un nombre seuil

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A threshold bumber

47
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Créneau

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A slot

48
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Rire de quelqu’un (2 fois)

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To laugh at

To chuckle at

49
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Peuplé

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Populous

50
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J’aime ma Camille

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J’aime mon coeur

51
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Tester à l’épreuve

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To test the metal ~> test the popularity of a candidate

52
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S’adapter (2 fois)

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To adapt

To adjust

53
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Concentrer la haine

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To channel anger

54
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Attaquer verbalement

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To rail against

55
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À portée

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Within reach

56
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Les donneurs très riches

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Fatcat donors

SuperPAC (multinationales)

57
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Supprimer quelque chose

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To do away with something

58
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Supprimer une loi

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To abrogate a law

59
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Se superposer

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To overlap (par ex political programs)

60
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Le fossé générationel

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The generation gap

The generation divide

61
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Se faire sentir coupable

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To be guilt tripped

62
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Pour de nombreuse raisons

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For a litany of reasons

63
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Une réaction orageuse

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To uproar

64
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Le combat continue

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The fight rages on

65
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Alerter l’opinion (2 fois)

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To alert public opinion about

Letting public opinion know about

66
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To happen = to take place

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To happen = to take place

67
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Se concentre autour

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To agglomerate

68
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Contraction pas formel /!\

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Contraction pas formel /!\

69
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Because = as a result of the fact that

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Because = as a result of the fact that

70
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Prendre ses racines

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To be rooted in

To come from

71
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Le prix de la vie de tous les jours

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Cost of living

72
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Parager une chambre

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To share a room between

73
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Bannir

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To bannish (formel)
To get rid of (courant)
74
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Personne qui accumule des objets sans rien jamais jeter

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Hoarder

75
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Accumuler des objets sans rien jamais jeter

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To hoard

76
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Biens

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Merchandise (plural)

77
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Jamais finir par is /!\

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Jamais finir par is /!\

78
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To put something on ou put on something

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To put something on ou put on something

79
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Grande

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Vast
Big
Broad

80
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Profond, fouillé

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Deep

81
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Jamais haves, toujours avec have-nots /!\

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Jamais haves, toujours avec have-nots /!\

82
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Toujours these à l’écrit si c’est le même discours /!\

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Toujours these à l’écrit si c’est le même discours /!\

83
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Donner

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To give something to somebody

84
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This text sparks a discussion

This text raises an interesting point

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This text sparks a discussion

This text raises an interesting point

85
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The United States singular if country and plural if states /!\

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The United States singular if country and plural if states /!\

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