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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

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Underfed

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Mourir de faim

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To starve

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Affamé/famelique

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Famished

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Maladies

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Diseases

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Fuir

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To flee

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Un réfugié

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A refugee

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Un asile

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An asylum

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Humanitaire

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Humanitarian

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Secourir

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To rescue

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Un bénévole

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A volunteer

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Distribuer

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To distribute

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Des denrées alimentaires

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Foodstuffs

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38
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La traite des esclaves

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The slave trade

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Un navire negrier

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A slave ship

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Une ethnie

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An ethnic group

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Des équipes de secours

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Relief workers

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Habiter

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To inhabit

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Rare

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Scarse

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Peuplé/dépeuplé

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Populated depopulated

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Dépeuplement

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Depopulation

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Une chute de natalité

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A baby bust

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47
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Un recensement

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A census

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Compter

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To count

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Remplir

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To fill in / to fill up (us)

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Comptage du nombre de personnes

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The headcount

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Un foyer

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A household

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Le revenu

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Income

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Par tête

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Per capita

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Moyen

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Average

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La moyenne

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The average

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Prévoir

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To forecast

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Peuplé/ surpeuplé

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Crowed/ overcrowded/overpopulated

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Augmenter

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To rise / increase

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Considérablement

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Significantly

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De façon spectaculaire

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Dramatically

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Augmenter en flèche

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To soar/ to (sky)rocket / to spiral

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Grossir –> l’accroissement

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To swell –> swelling

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Doubler / double

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To double / twofold

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Triple

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Threefold

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Culminer

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To peak

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To level off/ out

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Se stabiliser

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Aggraver

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To worsen

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Diminuer / réduire

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To bring down

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Faire baisser

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To lower

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Se réduire

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To shrink

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S’effondrer

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To collapse

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Chuter/diminuer

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To fall/ to decrease

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Dépasser

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To outnumber

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Prendre sa retraite

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To retire

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Une tendance

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A trend

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Les forces terrestres

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The ground forces

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Un parachutiste

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A paratrooper

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Un cuirassé

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A battle ship

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Un porte avion

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An aircraft carrier

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Un hélico

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A chopper

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Un avion de chasse

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A fighter

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La propagande belliciste

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Warmongering

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Un motif de conflit

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A contention

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Une impasse

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A deadlock

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Une embuscade

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An ambush

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Inevitable

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Unavoidable/ inevitable

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Condamné

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Doomed

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Prendre parti pour

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To side with

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Une guerre eclair

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A blitzkrieg

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Le guerre des tranchées

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A trench warfare

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Une frappe aerienne

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A air strike

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Les renforts

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Backup

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Les disparus

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The missing

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Les blessés

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The wounded

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Une cicatrice

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A scar

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Mutiler / mutilé

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To maim / maimed

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Défiler

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To parade

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Un conflit fronttalier

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A border conflict

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Locaux

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Premises

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To abide by the rules

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Se conformer aux règles

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La paperasse

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Red tape

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Légalement contraignant

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Legally binding

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Il est grand temps

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It’s high time

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J’étais loin de me douter

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Little did I know

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Provided that

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À condition que

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A l’époque

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In those days

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Ces jours-ci

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In these days

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Pour essuyer

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To wipe

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1 sur 10

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One in ten or one out of ten

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Un large évantail

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A wide range

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Targeted at

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Destinés a

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Un cambrioleur

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A burglar

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Matière scolaire

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A subject

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Être réputé

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Be renowed

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Strange as it may seem ( adjectif + as + sujet + verbe)

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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

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To arise

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Augmenter

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To rise

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Exciter, stimuler

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To arouse

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Élever , faire pousser

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To raise

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Être marié

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To be married

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Se marier

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To get married

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Se marier avec quelqu’un

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To marry someone

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Le temps que, d’ici a que

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By the time (that)

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Prêter

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To lend

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Emprunter

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To borrow

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Louer

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To lease

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Louer ( courte période)

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To rent

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Guerroyer/faire la guerre

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To wage war

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S’appuyer (sur)

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To rely (on)

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épuiser (les stocks)

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To run out

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Mail-order

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Vente par correspondance

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Mail-order

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Chiffres d’affaire annuel

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Annual sales

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Remettre a plus tard

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To put off

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Un devoir s’appuyant sur l’obligation morale

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ought to

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Tu ferais mieux ( conseille une chose plutôt qu’une autre )

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You had better (would better n’existe pas)

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Tu devrais (conseil)

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You should

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Je le sens dans mes os

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I can feel it in my bones

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Keen

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Enthousiaste

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Vérifier ma dissertation

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Looking over my dissertation

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Mentir comme un arracheur de temps

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To lie through one’s teeth

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Une bonne réponse ( jugement sur la réponse)

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A good answer

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La bonne réponse (justesse de la réponse)

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The right answer

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Quel dommage

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What a pity

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Quelle honte

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What a shame

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What a life

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Quelle vie

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What a relief

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Quel soulagement

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What a relief

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Dater de

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To date from

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Afin que

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In order that

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A moins que/ sauf si

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Unless

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Tandis que

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Whereas

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Arriver par hasard

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To happen by chance

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Inviter quelqu’un a dejeuner

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To invite someone FOR lunch

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Ne pas quitter(téléphone)

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To hold the line

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Cela ne sert à rien de (verbe)

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There is no point in +verbe en ing

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Sans but

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To no purpose

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En aucune circonstance

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Under no circumstances

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Réussir, parvenir a

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To succeed in

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Succéder à

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To succeed to

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Remettre, transmettre

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To hand in

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Donner, distribuer

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To hand out

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Passer le relais

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To hand over

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Avoir des nouvelles de

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To hear from something

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Entendre parler de

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To hear of

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