Immigration Flashcards by Matilda Messer | Brainscape

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une acte

A

a deed

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Un ascendant

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ancestor

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l’asile

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asylum

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une bourse

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bursary

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une croissance démographique

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population growth

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une croyance

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a belief

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une décennie

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a decade

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un HLM (Habitation à loyer Modéré)

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housing commission flat

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une notice

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entry (in a book or a data base)

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les moeurs

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way of life

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un passeur

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smuggler

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une racine

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root

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la réparation

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compensation

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une subvention

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subsidy

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le sort

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fate

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une tromperie

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deception

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en vain

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unsuccessful

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amarrer

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to moor

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clandestinement

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surreptitiously

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se fair traiter de

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to be treated as

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se sentir floué

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to feel cheated

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mettre les bouchées double

A

to work twice as hard

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raser les murs

A

to keep a low profile

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repartir à zero

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to start from scratch

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mettre la main à la pâte

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to lend a hand, to pitch in

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se faire une place

A

to make a place for ourselves

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Un bouc émissaire

A

scape goat (Ils font des immigrés des boucs émissaires)

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to lend a hand

A

mettre la main à la pâte

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to start from scratch

A

répartir à zéro

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to keep a low profile

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raser les murs

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to feel cheated

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se sentir floué

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surreptitiously

A

clandestinement

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smuggler

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un passeur

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housing commission flat

A

Un HLM (habitation à loyer modéré)

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population growth

A

une croissance démographique

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l’asile

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asylum

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to work twice as hard

A

mettre les bouchées double