Feuille 5 Flashcards by Agathe Nivelet | Brainscape

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Le vainqueur

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The victor

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Barbare

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Barbarian

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Le hit parade

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Charts

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Pleurer quelqu’un

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To mourn

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Un fossoyeur

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A grave-digger

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Un parolier

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A lyricist

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En état d’ébriété

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Inebriated

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Quelqu’un qui arrête l’école

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A drop-out

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Excitation

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Excitment

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Celui en tête

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Frontrunner

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À part

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Apart from

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Mettre les pauvres en dehors de sa vue

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To put the poor out of sight

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Terrible

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Appalling

Awful

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Les grands de ce monde

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People in power

People in high places

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Les plus démunis

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The worst-off

The destitute

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Tirer le diable par la queue

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To keep the Wolf out of the door

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Survivre

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To make a living

To eke out a living

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Croquer la vie à pleine dents

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To live one’s Life To the fool

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Toutes dents dehors

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With a beaming smile
Flashing all your teeth
With monthful of teeth

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Illettrés

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Illiterate

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Inculte

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Uncultivated

Ill-read

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À juste titre

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Legitimately

Rightfully

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Donner l’image d’un monarque coupé du peuple

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To earn the image of a monarch cut off from the people

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Pauvres

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The have-nots
The dispossed
Underpriviledge

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Entassé

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Cramped
Crowded in together
Piled in

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Se serrer la ceinture

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To tighten one’s belt

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Vivre en dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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To live below the poverty line

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Vivre au jour le jour

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To live from hand to mouth

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Né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche

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Silver spoon beginnings

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Avoir du sang noble

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Blue bloodline

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Les enfants qui viennent d’un lieu défavorisé

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Chapter one children

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Élites

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Happy few

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Mauvais goût

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Bad taste
Poor taste
Doubtful taste

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Le gratin

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The upper crust

Everybody who’s anybody

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Être sévère avec

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To be hard on

To be scath about