Groupe 26 : Les notions abstraites 3 Flashcards

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1
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La vérité n’est pas toujours bonne à dire

A

The truth is sometimes best left unsaid

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La vérité sort de la bouche des enfants

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Out of the mouths of babes and sucklings comes forth truth

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En fait

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In actual fact
= actually
= as a matter of fact

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Utiliser

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To use

/ to utilize

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L’utilité/ l’usage/ l’emploi

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Use

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Utilisable

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Usable

/ utilizable

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Utile

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Useful

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Utilement

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Usefully

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L’utilité

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Usefulness

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Inutile

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Useless

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Inutilement

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Uselessly

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L’inutilité

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Uselessness

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Un utilisateur/ usager

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A user

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Facile à utiliser

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User-friendly

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L’usage

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Usage

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L’utilité

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Utility

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Une utilisation

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Utilization

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Inutile/ vain

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Pointless

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Inutilement

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Pointlessly

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L’inutilité

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Pointlessly

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Servir de

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To serve as

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  1. Usage

2. Service

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Service

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Utilisable / en état de fonctionner

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Serviceable

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Vain

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Futile = vain

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Vainement = en vain

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Vainly
= in vain
= to no avail

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Vainement

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Unavailingly

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Profiter de

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To profit (by)

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Le profit/ un avantage

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Profit

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Avantageux

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Profitable

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Avantageusement / utilement

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Profitably

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Non rentable

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Unprofitable

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De façon peu rentable

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Unprofitably

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Commode

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Convenient

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De façon commode

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Conveniently

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Une fonction

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A function

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Fonctionnel/ en état de marche

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Functional

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Un but/ un usage

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A purpose

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Conçu pour un usage spécifique

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Purpose-built

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Utiliser qqch avec précaution

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To use sth carefully

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Utiliser qqch avec prudence

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To use sth cautiously

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Utiliser qqch en petites quantités

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To use sth sparingly

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Utiliser qqch judicieusement

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To use sth wisely

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Ne presque jamais utiliser qqch

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To hardly ever use sth

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Trouver un moyen de se servir de

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To find a use for

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De plus en plus utile

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Increasingly useful

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Incontestablement utile

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Undoubtedly

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Absolument
= complètement
= totalement inutile

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Absolutely
= completely
= utterly
= totally useless

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48
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À quoi sert ce truc ?

- il sert à

A

What’s this device used for?

It’s used to…

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49
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Cette caisse me sert de table

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I use this box as a table

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Employer qqch utilement

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To use sth profitably

/ to good purpose

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Bien/ mal employer qqch

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To put sth to good/ bad use

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Ne jette rien qui puisse servir

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Don’t throw away anything that may be of use

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Ce système est largement utilisé

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This system is in wide use

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54
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Cette expression ne s’emploie plus

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This phase is no longer in use

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55
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Je n’ai plus besoin de

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I have no further use for…

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Cette machine ne sert plus à rien ; il y a lgts qu’on ne l’utilise plus

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This machine has outlived its usefulness; it went out of use long ago

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57
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Ça n’aurait pas servi à grand chose

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It wouldn’t have been much use

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58
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À quoi bon s’inquieter ?

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What’s the use/ what’s the point of worrying

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59
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Ça ne sert à rien de la mettre en garde

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It’s no use 
= It’s useless 
= pointless 
= of no avail warning her 
= there’s no point in warning her
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Ça ne servira à rien

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That won’t do any good

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Il jouit encore de toutes ses facultés

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He still has full use of his faculties

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Il a perdu l’usage de sa jambe gauche

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He has lost the use of his left leg

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Prêt à l’emploi

A

Ready for use

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64
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Pour mon usage personnel

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For my own use

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65
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Puis-je vous aider en quoi que ce soit?

A

Can I be of any service of you?

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Vous m’avez rendu un grand service

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You’ve done me a great service

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67
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Ma vieille voiture a fait long usage

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My old car has seen good/ plenty of service

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68
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Joindre l’utile à l’agréable

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To mix/ combine business with/ and pleasure

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69
Q

À quoi sert cette pièce ?

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What’s the purpose of his room?

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70
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Je ne vois pas l’utilité DE prolonger cet entretien

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I see no purpose IN prolonging the interview

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Ça vous fera une belle jambe

A

A fat lot a good that’ll do you (coll)

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72
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Efficace

A

Effective
/ efficient
/ effectual

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73
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Efficacement

A

Effectively
/ efficiently
/ efficaciously
/ effectually

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74
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L’efficacité (abstractions)

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Effectiveness

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75
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L’efficacité (personnes et choses)

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Efficiency

76
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L’efficacité (choses, actions)

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Efficacy

77
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Inefficace

A

Ineffective

Inefficient

78
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L’inefficacité

A

Ineffectiveness

/ inefficiency

79
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Entrer en vigueur

A

To become effective

80
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Un médicament efficace

A

An efficacious drug

81
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Des mesures efficaces

A

Effectual measures

82
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Ce traitement est efficace dans des cas de fièvre

A

This treatment is efficacious in cases of fever

83
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Elle est efficace DANS son métier

A

She is efficient AT her job

84
Q

Il a eu beau essayer, il n’y est pas arrivé

A

However hard he tried/ try as he might, he could not do it

85
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Ça marche/ ça marche pas

A

It work / it doesn’t work

86
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Posséder

A

To possess

= to own

87
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Un possesseur, un propriétaire

A

A possessor

= An owner

88
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La propriété (droit légal)

A

Ownership

89
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Acquérir qqch

A

To acquire sth

90
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L’acquisition

A

Acquisition

91
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Appartenir

A

To belong

92
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Des affaires personnelles

A

Belongings

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Donner (qqch à quelqu’un )

A

To give (sth to sb)

94
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Brader qqch

A

To give sth away

95
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rendre Qqch

A

To give sth back

96
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Remettre Qqch

A

To give sth in

97
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Distribuer Qqch

A

To give sth out

98
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Abandonner Qqch

A

To give sth up

99
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Prendre qqch ( À quelqu’un )

A

To take sth (FROM sb)

100
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Prêter qqch (à quelqu’un )

A

To lend sth (to sb)

101
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Remettre qqch (à Quelqu’un ) (2)

A

To hand sth over ( to Sb)

102
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Distribuer (2)

A

To hand sth out

= to distribute sth

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Garder qqch

A

To keep sth

To hold on to sth

104
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Mon, ma, mes

A

My

105
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Le mien, la mienne, les miens, les miennes

A

Mine = my own

106
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Ton, ta , tes , votre, vos

A

Your

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Le tien, la tienne, les tiens, les tiennes, le votre, les votres

A

Yours = your own

108
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Son, sa, ses (possesseur masculin)

A

His

109
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Le sien, la sienne, les siens, les siennes (masc)

A

His= his own

110
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Le sien, la sienne, les siens, les siennes (Fém)

A

Hers = her own

111
Q

Son, sa , ses (fem)

A

Her

112
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La propriété

A

A property

113
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Les biens mobiliers

A

Movable

114
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Les ressources

A

Ressources

115
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À qui appartient cette maison ?

A

Whose house is this?

116
Q

Changement de propriétaire

A

Under new ownership

117
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La propriété des moyens de production

A

The ownership of the means of production

118
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Un homme qui a du bien

A

A man of property

119
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Un homme qui a de petits revenus

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A man of slender means

120
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Pareil/ semblable

A

Similar

121
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Semblablement

A

Similarly

122
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La ressemblance

A

Similarity

123
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Dissemblance

A

Dissimilar

124
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La ressemblance

A

Similitude = likeness

125
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Semblable

A

Like

126
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Dissemblable

A

Unlike

127
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Improbable

A

Unlikely

128
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Ressembler à

A

To look like

= to resemble

129
Q

La ressemblance

A

Resemblance

130
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Qui a les mêmes opinions / les mêmes gouts

A

Like-minded

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  1. Pareil (adj)

2. De la même manière (adv)

A

A like

132
Q

De même / également

A

Likewise

133
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Comparer (à)/ assimiler (à)

A

To liken (to)

134
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Analogue à, qui ressemble à

A

Akin to

135
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Copier

A

To copy

136
Q

Une copie

A

A copy

137
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Photocopier

A

To photocopy

138
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Une photocopieuse

A

A photocopier

139
Q

Faire un double de

A

To duplicate

140
Q

Le reproduction

A

Duplication

141
Q
  1. Un double

2. Un sosie

A

A double

142
Q

Un sosie

A

A lookalike

143
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Imiter

A

To imitate

144
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Un imitateur

A

An imitator

145
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L’imitation

A

Imitation

146
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Mimer, singer

A

To mimic

147
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Mimer

A

To mime

148
Q

Un mime

A

A mime

149
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Identique (à)

A

Identical (to/ with)

150
Q

De façon identique

A

Identically

151
Q

L’analogie

A

Analogy

152
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Analogue (à)

A

Analogous (to)

153
Q

(Le) même

A

(The) same

154
Q

La similitude

A

Sameness

155
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L’homologue

A

The counterpart

= the opposite number

156
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L’équivalent (de)

A

The equivalent (of)

157
Q

Équivalent (à)

A

Equivalent (to)

= tantamount to

158
Q

Être l’équivalent (de)

/ être conforme (à)

A

To correspond (to/ with)

159
Q

Égaler

A

To equal

160
Q

Également

A

Equally

161
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L’égalité

A

Equality

162
Q

Égal

A

Equal

163
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Supérieur (à)

A

Superior (to)

164
Q

Inférieur (à)

A

Inferior (to)

165
Q

La supériorité

A

Superiority

166
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L’infériorité

A

Inferiority

167
Q
  1. Différer

2. Être en désaccord

A

To differ

168
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Différent (de)

A

Différent (from)

169
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Différemment

A

Differently

170
Q
  1. Une/ la différence

2. Un/ le différent

A

A/ the difference

171
Q

En contradiction/ en désaccord avec

A

At variance with

172
Q

Une divergence, une contradiction

A

A discrepancy

173
Q

Un contraste

A

A contrast

174
Q

Contraster avec qqch

A

To contrast with sth

175
Q

Comparer (à)

A

To compare (with/ to)

176
Q

Une comparaison

A

A comparison

177
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En comparaison de/ par rapport à

A

In comparison with

178
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Un air de famille

A

A family likeness

179
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Une ressemblance frappante / troublante

A

A striking

/ an uncanny resemblance

180
Q

Ressembler à

A

To bear
/ to show
/ to have a resemblance to

181
Q

Faire pareil/ faire de même

A

To do the same

= to do likewise

182
Q

Être très légèrement en désaccord Avec quelqu’un

A

To differ marginally with sb

183
Q

Être sensiblement en désaccord avec un quelqu’un

A

To differ markedly
= noticeably
With sb

184
Q

Être nettement en désaccord avec un quelqu’un

A

To differ sharply with sb

185
Q

Une difference capitale

A

An all-important difference

186
Q

Une différence énorme

A

A tremendous difference

187
Q

Une différence manifeste

A

A glaring difference