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Immigration In The UK Flashcards

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Grand nombre de personnes

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Scores

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Camions

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Lorries

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Se cacher dans l’objectif de fuir / ranger bagage dans compartiment

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Stowing away

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Propriétaires immobiliers

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Landlords, homeowners

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Être protégé par une zone tampon

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To be buffered from (a buffer = tampon, parre-choc)

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Estimé

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Reckoned, estimated

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Faire appel

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To lodge an appeal

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Vérifier / examiner

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To vet, to check up

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Renforcer, étoffer

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To beef up

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Volonté

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Will

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Irrité, irritable, peu arrangeant, désobligeant

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Testy

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Marasme

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(Be in the)Doldrums

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La ligne dure du parti conservateur

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Hawkish republicans

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Louer un appartement

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To rent a flat

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Servage de vis

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A crackdown

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Activité des passeurs (verbe)

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Smuggling

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Se mêler

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To blend

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Être ingérable et dangereux

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A loose cannon

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Enfler

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Swell

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Sceptique

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Skeptical

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Lignes de faille

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Faults line

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Enchevêtrée

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Tangled

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Céder

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To buckle

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Cadre juridique

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Legal framework

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Attitude

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Stance

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Férocement

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Fiercely, adamantly, unflinchingly

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Qui s’affaiblit

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Flagging

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Crouler sous (poids)

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To saddle with the (entire) burden

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Enfoncer des portes ouvertes (évident)

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To state the obvious

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Séduire, faire appel

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To court, To appeal to

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Électeurs d’extrême droite

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Far-right voters, hard-line right wing voters

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Paradis économique

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Eco paradise

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L’image désolante , le portrait désolant

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The sorry picture

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Un réseau d’organismes de bienfaisance

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A network of charities

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Se conformer à

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To comply with

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Mettre de l’eau dans son vin

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To out water into one’s wine

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Se confronter à un pb

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At grips with, struggling with

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Mettre à nu, dévoiler

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To lay bare

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Relever un défi

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To take up a challenge

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Une relation large

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Semi-detached relation, loose relation

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Prendre sa part, assumer

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To take its share

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Attitude cavalier seul, égoïste

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A go-it-alone attitude

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Décrire

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To depict

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En tant que tel

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As such

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S’entrechoquer, rentrer en conflit

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To conflate

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Faire allusion

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Hint at

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Ce mal

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This evil, plight, plague, woe, scourge

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Ténacité

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Willpower, tenacity, unrelentedness

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Un enjeur majeur

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A major/prominent challenge

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En outre

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Furthermore, on top of that

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Il est d’autant plus nécessaire

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It is all the more necessary

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Relancer la croissance

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Reignite the growth

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Argumenter sur des choses pas importantes

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To bicker (with sb over/about stg)

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Un enfant qui a récemment appris à marcher

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A toddler

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Petit canot (enventuellement pneumatique)

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Dinghy

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Faire un plan secret pour planifier qqchose

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To plot (to do stg with sbdy/against)

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De la sorte, ainsi, de ce fait, par ce moyen

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Thereby

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Avec aucune intention de changer son avis

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Adamantly, strongly, fiercely, stubbornly opposed

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La fiscalité

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Tax code

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Tranche de revenu, catégorie fiscale

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Tax brackets

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Impôt sur les sociétés

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Corporate tax

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Être réputé à, présumé à

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To be alleged to

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Exagéré, gonflé

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Inflated

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Nombre de victimes

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Death toll

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Présumant, impliquant

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Alleging

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Un bouc émissaire

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A scapegoat

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Grave

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Acute

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Être divisé

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To be split

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Être déchiré

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To be wrenched apart

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Lien étroit

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Close bond

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Déraciné

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Uprooted

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Entrelacés

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Intertwined

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Bonne volonté

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Willingness

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Bien qu’à peine

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Though barely

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Plus de diffulté à revenir en arrière

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More scope To turn back

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S’adapter

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Fit in

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Tendu

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Strained

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Baisser les salaires

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Depress wages

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Mettre de côté

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Set aside

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Submergé

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Swamped

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Infiltrer

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Creep in

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Surchargés

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Overburdened

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Donner l’exemple

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To set an example

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Mettre en place plus d’obstacles

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Put up more barriers

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Mini-reprise

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Boomlet

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Malgré les hurlements du monde des affaires, les règles sont à rigidifier

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Despite howls from business, the rules are To stiffen

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Prendre avantage

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Take in benefit

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Envahis, inondés

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Swamped

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Plus de confusion

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More fog

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Contrecarrer

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To circumvent

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Montrer la fatigue, l’épuisement

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To show the strain

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Faire semblant

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To pretend

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Prétendre

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To claim

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Chancelant

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Flagging

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La vague n’est pas en train de se retirer

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The tide is certainly not ebbing

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Faire face à

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To tackle

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Attiser, souffler sur les braises

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To stoke fire

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Et encore moins, sans parler de, a fortiori

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Let alone

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Pourvu que

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Provided that

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Faute de

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In want of, short of

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Changer d’avis pour se ranger à une opinion, se rallier, se mettre finalement d’accord

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To come round to a solution, a decision

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