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1
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les rayons du soleil

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sunrays

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scruter

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peer into

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une faille

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a fault

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un archipel

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an archipelago

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une presque-île

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a peninsula

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un isthme

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an isthmus

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un détroit

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a strait

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le relief

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relief

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une chaîne de montagne

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a range of mountains

a mountain chain

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la cordillère des Andes

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the Andean

the

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un sommet

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a summit

a mountain top

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une crête

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a crest

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une arête

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a ridge

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un glacier

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a glacier

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falaise

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cliff

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pente

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slope

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un col

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a pass

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un ravin

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a ravine

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un gouffre

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a chasm

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un vallon

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a dale

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vallée

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valley

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la hauteur

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heught

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montagneux

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mountainous

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vallonné

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hilly

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en pente

incliné

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sloping

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une pente douce

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a gentle slope

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une pente raide

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a steep slope

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abrupt

a pic

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precipitous

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en surplomb

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overhanging

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mer des Antilles

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the Caribbean Sea

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la pleine mer

la haute mer

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the open sea

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les fonds marins

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the sea bed

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les embruns

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spray

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une ondulation

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a ripple

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les moutons

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white horses

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les vagues déferlantes

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surf

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la houle

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the swell

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le ressac

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the backwash

the undertow

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la marée

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the tide

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la mrée est haute

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the tide is in /out

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la marée est montante

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the tide is coming in

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la marée descend

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the tide is going out

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un golfe

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a gulf

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une crique

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a creek

inlet

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creek US

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ruisseau

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l’embouchure d’un fleuve

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the mouth of a river

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estuaire

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estuary

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lagon

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lagoon

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le rivage

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the shore

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le littoral

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the coastline

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le bord de mer

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the seaside

the ocean

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un étang

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a pool

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en bord de mer

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at/by the seaside/the ocean

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une mare un bassin

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a pond

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chute d’eau

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waterfaall

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tourbillon

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whirpool

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un fleuve

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river

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la berge la rive

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the (river) bank

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le lit d’un fleuve

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the riverbed

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en amont

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upstream

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en aval

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downstream

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à contre-courant

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against the stream

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le courrant

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the stream

the current

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une source

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a spring

a source

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un ruisseau

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a brook

a stream

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couler

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flow

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se jeter dans

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to flow into

to run into

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déborder

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overflow

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côtier

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acoastal

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rocheux

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rocky

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caillouteux

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pebbly

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vaseux limoneux

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slimy

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larg e

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broad

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peu profon

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shallow

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sineux

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winding

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la saison des pluies

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the rainy season

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désrtique

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desert

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polaire

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polar

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les préicpiations

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rainfall

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la rosée

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dew

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la bruine le crachin

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drizzle

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une averse

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ashower

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une pluie torrentielle

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a downpour

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une trombe d’eau

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a waterspout

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déluge

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deluge

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brouillard

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fog

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brume

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mist haze

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flocon de neige

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snowflake

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neige fondue

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sleet

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grêle

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hail

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le gel

la gelée

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frost

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gelée blanche

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hoarfrost

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givre

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ground frost

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verglas

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black ice

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une plaque de verglas

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a sheet of black ice

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le temps est à la pluie

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look like rain

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bruiner

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drizzle

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tomber à verse

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pour

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se lever (brume brouillard)

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lift

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(se) givrer

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ice up frost over

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geler

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freeze

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empire

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get worse

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pluvieux

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rainy

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averses intermittentes

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scattered showers

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pluie battante

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a pouring rain

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variable

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changeable

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(in)stable

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(un)settled

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couvert maussade

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dull

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moite

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dump

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humide et froid

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dank

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brumeux

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foggy hazy misty

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la chaleur

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the heat

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canicule

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dog days

the midsummer heat

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sécheresse

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drought

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la chaleur (agréable)

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warmth

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des éclaircies

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sunny intervals

bright intervals

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dans la lumière du soleil

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in the sunlight / sunshine

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ensoleillement

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sunshine

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fraîcheur

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coolness

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une couche de nuage

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a cloud cover

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un vent léger

un souffle léger

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a breath of wind

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une brise

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a breeze

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un coup de vent

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a gust of wind

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une rafale de vent

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a squall

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une tornade

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a whirlwind

a tornado

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une tempête

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a storm

a gale

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le tonnerre

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thunder

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un orage

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a thunderstorm

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un coup de tonnerre

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a thunderclap

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les éclairs

la foudre

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lightning

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un éclair

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a flash of lightning

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se rechauffer

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get warmer

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se dégager (ciel)

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clear up

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s’éclaircir (pour le ciel)

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brighten (up)

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commencer à faire froid

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get cold

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s’atténuer
s’apaiser
diminuer

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abate

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se couvrir (ciel)

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cloud over

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ensolleilé

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sunny

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éclairé par le soleil

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sunlit

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sec

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dry

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doux

d’une chaleur agréable

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warm

nice and warm

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torride
brûlant
caniculaire

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scorching hot

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brûler

roussir

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scorch

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étouffant

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stifling

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bien frais

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nice and cool

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très frais

frisquet

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chilly

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glacial

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freezing cold

icy cold

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nuageux

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cloudy

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couvert

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overcast

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orageux

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thundery

stormy

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conditions métérologiques

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weather conditions

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prévisions météo

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the weather forecast

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le présentateur du buleltin météo

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the weatherman

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bulletin météo

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weather report

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  • 10 degrés
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10° below

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temépratures au-dessus de 0 (au dessous)

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above/sub-zero temperatures

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girouette

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a weather vane/cock

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glissement de terrain

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landslide

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un raz-de-marée

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tidal wave

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innondation

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flood

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l’oeil du cyclone

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the eye of the storm

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ouragan

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hurricane

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entrer en éruption

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erupt

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trembler

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quake

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effacer de la carte

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wipe out

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MO

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Middle-East

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Extrêm Orient

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the Far EAst

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les Antilles

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the West Indies (west indian)

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une patrie

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a homeland

a fatherland

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frotnière

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a broder

a boundary

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un peuple

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a people

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hymne national

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national anthem

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un argentin

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an Argentine

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autriche

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austria

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bangladais

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bangladeshi

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brésil

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brazil

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Birmanie

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Burma (burmese)

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Chilien

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Chilean

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chypre

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cyprus

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tchèques

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The Czech

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finlandais

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finnish

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un finlandais

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a finn

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hollandais

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dutchman

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hongrie

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Hungary

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iraquien

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Iraqi

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israelien

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israeli

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liban

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lebanon

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pays bas

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the Netherlands

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un truc

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a turk

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Turquie

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Turkey

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AS

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Saudi Arabia

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densité démographique

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population density

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croissance démo

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populatoin growth

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surpopulation

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overpopulation

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recensement

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a census

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effondrement démo

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baby bust

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densémement peuplé

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heavily populated

densely pop

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faiblement peuplé

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scarcely populated

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célérité

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stardom

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mettre en vedette

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to star smone

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horoscope

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the stars

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réveur idéaliste

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starry-eyed

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terre-à-terre

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down-to-earth

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sortir de sa rêverie

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to come down to earth

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remuer ciel et terre

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to move heaven and earth

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coûter les yeux de la tête

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to cost the earth

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il se trame qqchose

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somthing in the air

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des chimères

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castles in the air

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se volatiliser

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to vanish into thin air

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parler pour ne rien dire

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to let out a lot of hot air

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diluer qqchose

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to water smthg down

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ne pas tenir la route

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not to hold water

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pleurer comme une madeleine

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to turn on the waterworks

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étanche

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watertight

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indisctubale irréfutable

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watertight

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être changeant comme une girouette

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to change like a weather cock

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rompre la glace (ac qqun)

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to break the ice with

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veiller au grain

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to keep a weather eye on

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avoir vent de qqchose

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to get wind of smthg

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jeter un froid sur

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to cast a chill over

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un malheure n’arrive jamais seul

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It never rains but it pours

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