Guns In America Flashcards

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Milices/mousquets

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Muskets

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Caricature

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Fat cat

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Activités de loisirs

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Leisure activities

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Qui n’ont pas fait d’étude

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With a high school graduation only

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5
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Soulever (questions)

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To stirre up

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Diffuser en direct

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Broadcaster live

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Pour réprimer les

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To crackdown on

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Vaciller

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To waver

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Reconnaissance

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Spate

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Point d’inflexion

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Tipping point

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Promulguer des lois

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To enact laws

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12
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Tentatives à freiner les ventes

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Bids to curb sales

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Une année record

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A banner year

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14
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The result the amount, the total

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A tally

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15
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Tailler, équarrir

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To hew

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16
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Les armes les plus mortelles

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The deadliest weapons

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Réfléchie à une loi

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To ponder a law

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Plonger

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To plunge

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19
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The part of a gun where bullets are held

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A magazine

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20
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Opprimé

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Downtrodden

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21
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L’impulsion du moment

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The spur of the moment

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22
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Avoir la gâchette facile

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To be trigger happy

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Être pris d’un accès de folie meurtriere

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To go on a killing spree

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24
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Effusion de sang

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A bloodshed

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Auto défense
Self-defence (UK) self-defense (US)
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Un activiste du port des armes
A gun-rights activist
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Dossier chaud, sensible
A hot-button issue
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Avoir un casier judiciaire
To have criminal record
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Interdire les armes
To outlaw guns
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Se faire justice
To take the law into one's hands
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Agir en état de légitime défense
To act in self-defence
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Un fabricant d'armes
A gun maker
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Coûter la vie
To claim the lives
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Soit-disant
So-called
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Empiéter/Porter atteinte à
To infringe on
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Dénaturer/mal représenter
To misrepresent
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L'escalade/la progressivité
Escalation
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Un arrangement spécial, particulier
A rule tweak
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Se dépêcher
To hasten
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Abolir
To overturn
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Système délabré
Ramshackle system / derelict / broken-down
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Sans peur
Out of fear
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Méfiance
Mistrust
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Vérification des antécédents
Background checks
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Être strict
To be tough, To be strict, Stern, adamant
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Accepter
To concur, To agree
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Gourmandise
Gluttony, greed, overeating
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Agir similairement, faire la même chose
To follow suit
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Un accomplissement
An achievement, an accomplishement
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Cancérigène
Carcinogenic
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Un frère ou une sœur
A sibling
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Viande transformée
Processed meat
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Prospérer
To bloom, To thrive, To prosper, To swell, To soar
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Réduire
To cut, To scale back, To reduce
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Être forcé à démissionner
To be hounded out
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Conflit au niveau politique
Political bickering
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Féliciter, interpeller
To hail, To congratulate
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Mentalité
Mindset
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Être du sérail
To be from the establishement
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Commettre une fusillade
To commit a shooting
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Libertarisme
Libertariarism
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Contrôler les criminels
To keep criminals in check
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Cela alimente la peur
It stokes fear
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Façon de penser
Frame of mind
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Ils sont pour les libertés individuelles (en faveur de)
To stick, To Cling to
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Niveau d'université
To be college-educated
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Borné
Narrow-minded
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Thaïlandais
Thai
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Une véritable erreur
A bad news
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Se vanter
To boast living
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Dans selle mesure
In this respect
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Le tourisme est un exemple puisque
Tourism is a case in point as
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A l'opposé
Conversely
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Symboliser
To embody
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Ne pas respecter
Disregarding
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Le pays est considéré
The country is held