Géopolitique Flashcards

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Un antillais

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A west indian

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Un état

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A state

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A national anthem

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Une hymne national

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Un drapeau

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A flag

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Une frontière

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A border

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Un peuple

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A people

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Une frontière

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A boundary

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Native (of)

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Originaire (de)

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Conquérir

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To conquer

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Un conquérant

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A conqueror

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To settle

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(s)’installer

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Un colon

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A settler

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Une colonie d’implantation

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A settlement

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Une colonie

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A colony

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Un esclave

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A slave

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Affranchir

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To enfranchise

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Libérer (de)

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To free (from)

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La liberté

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Freedom

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En voie de développement

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Developing

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Émergent

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Emerging

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Un fardeau

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A burden

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L’endettement

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Indebtedness

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Pauvreté

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Poverty

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La pénurie

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A shortage

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Sous-alimenté
Underfed
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Mourir de faim
To starve
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Affamé/famelique
Famished
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Maladies
Diseases
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La sécheresse
Drought
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Fuir
To flee
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Un réfugié
A refugee
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Un asile
An asylum
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Humanitaire
Humanitarian
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Secourir
To rescue
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Un bénévole
A volunteer
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Distribuer
To distribute
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Des denrées alimentaires
Foodstuffs
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La traite des esclaves
The slave trade
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Un navire negrier
A slave ship
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Une ethnie
An ethnic group
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Des équipes de secours
Relief workers
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Habiter
To inhabit
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Rare
Scarse
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Peuplé/dépeuplé
Populated depopulated
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Dépeuplement
Depopulation
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Une chute de natalité
A baby bust
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Un recensement
A census
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Compter
To count
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Remplir
To fill in / to fill up (us)
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Comptage du nombre de personnes
The headcount
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Un foyer
A household
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Le revenu
Income
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Par tête
Per capita
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Moyen
Average
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La moyenne
The average
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Prévoir
To forecast
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Peuplé/ surpeuplé
Crowed/ overcrowded/overpopulated
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Augmenter
To rise / increase
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Considérablement
Significantly
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De façon spectaculaire
Dramatically
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Augmenter en flèche
To soar/ to (sky)rocket / to spiral
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Grossir --> l'accroissement
To swell --> swelling
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Doubler / double
To double / twofold
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Triple
Threefold
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Culminer
To peak
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To level off/ out
Se stabiliser
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Aggraver
To worsen
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Diminuer / réduire
To bring down
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Faire baisser
To lower
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Se réduire
To shrink
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S'effondrer
To collapse
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Chuter/diminuer
To fall/ to decrease
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Dépasser
To outnumber
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Prendre sa retraite
To retire
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Une tendance
A trend
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Les forces terrestres
The ground forces
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Un parachutiste
A paratrooper
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Un cuirassé
A battle ship
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Un porte avion
An aircraft carrier
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Un hélico
A chopper
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Un avion de chasse
A fighter
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La propagande belliciste
Warmongering
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Un motif de conflit
A contention
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Une impasse
A deadlock
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Une embuscade
An ambush
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Inevitable
Unavoidable/ inevitable
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Condamné
Doomed
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Prendre parti pour
To side with
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Une guerre eclair
A blitzkrieg
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Le guerre des tranchées
A trench warfare
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Une frappe aerienne
A air strike
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Les renforts
Backup
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Les disparus
The missing
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Les blessés
The wounded
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Une cicatrice
A scar
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Mutiler / mutilé
To maim / maimed
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Défiler
To parade
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Un conflit fronttalier
A border conflict
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Locaux
Premises
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To abide by the rules
Se conformer aux règles
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La paperasse
Red tape
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Légalement contraignant
Legally binding
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Il est grand temps
It's high time
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J'étais loin de me douter
Little did I know
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Provided that
À condition que
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A l'époque
In those days
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Ces jours-ci
In these days
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Pour essuyer
To wipe
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1 sur 10
One in ten or one out of ten
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Un large évantail
A wide range
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Targeted at
Destinés a
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Un cambrioleur
A burglar
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Matière scolaire
A subject
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Être réputé
Be renowed
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Strange as it may seem ( adjectif + as + sujet + verbe)
Aussi bizarre que cela puisse paraître (inversion exprimant la concession)
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faire suite à, résulter de, arriver à la suite de, surgir
To arise
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Augmenter
To rise
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Exciter, stimuler
To arouse
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Élever , faire pousser
To raise
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Être marié
To be married
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Se marier
To get married
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Se marier avec quelqu'un
To marry someone
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Le temps que, d'ici a que
By the time (that)
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Prêter
To lend
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Emprunter
To borrow
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Louer
To lease
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Louer ( courte période)
To rent
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Guerroyer/faire la guerre
To wage war
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S'appuyer (sur)
To rely (on)
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épuiser (les stocks)
To run out
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Mail-order
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Vente par correspondance
Mail-order
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Chiffres d'affaire annuel
Annual sales
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Remettre a plus tard
To put off
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Un devoir s'appuyant sur l'obligation morale
ought to
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Tu ferais mieux ( conseille une chose plutôt qu'une autre )
You had better (would better n'existe pas)
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Tu devrais (conseil)
You should
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Je le sens dans mes os
I can feel it in my bones
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Keen
Enthousiaste
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Vérifier ma dissertation
Looking over my dissertation
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Mentir comme un arracheur de temps
To lie through one's teeth
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Une bonne réponse ( jugement sur la réponse)
A good answer
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La bonne réponse (justesse de la réponse)
The right answer
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Quel dommage
What a pity
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Quelle honte
What a shame
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What a life
Quelle vie
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What a relief
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Quel soulagement
What a relief
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Dater de
To date from
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Afin que
In order that
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A moins que/ sauf si
Unless
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Tandis que
Whereas
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Arriver par hasard
To happen by chance
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Inviter quelqu'un a dejeuner
To invite someone FOR lunch
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Ne pas quitter(téléphone)
To hold the line
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Cela ne sert à rien de (verbe)
There is no point in +verbe en ing
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Sans but
To no purpose
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En aucune circonstance
Under no circumstances
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Réussir, parvenir a
To succeed in
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Succéder à
To succeed to
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Remettre, transmettre
To hand in
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Donner, distribuer
To hand out
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Passer le relais
To hand over
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Avoir des nouvelles de
To hear from something
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Entendre parler de
To hear of