Journal Ease Week 5 Flashcards by Lu Mo

Q

To chide

A

Gronder, réprimander

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Corvée

A

Chore

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Chunk

A

Un bon morceau

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Fonctionnaire

Militant pour les droits civiques

Un civil

A

Civil servant

Civil rights activists

A civilian

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To claim

Claimant

To claim that

A

Revendiquer, détruire

Demandeur

Déclarer, prétendre que

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Serrer la vis, freiner

A

To clamp down on

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To clear

To keep clear of

To make clear

A

Dégager nettoyer, Disculper

Tenir à l’écart de

Expliquer, préciser

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Boucher, obstruer

A

To clog (up)

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Clout

To have clout

A

Claque

Avoir de l’influence

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Éditorialiste, collaborateur, chroniqueur du journal

Rubrique

A

Columnist

Column

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To come across

To come by

To come in for

A

Rencontrer qlq par hasard/ se communiquer, faire de l’effet

Obtenir, souvent par hasard/ rendre visite

Être l’objet de, subir

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Changer d’avis, se laisser persuader

S’en tirer

Revenir à, aboutir à

A

To come round

To come through

To come to

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To come up

To come up again

To come up with

A

Se poser, se soulever

Se heurter à

Inventer, trouver

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Commettre

S’engager à faire qch

Qui n’engage pas

A

To commit

To commit oneself to sth

Noncommittal

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Commodities

Foodstuffs

Staples

A

Produits de base, tout ce qui est utile

Denrées alimentaires

Denrée de base

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Faire un trajet journalier

A

To commute

Q

To compel

Compelling

Compulsory

A

Contraindre, obliger, forcer

Irrésistible

Obligatoire

Q

Obéir à, se plier à

En conformité avec

A

To comply with

In compliance with

Q

To compound

A compound

A

Ajouter à, aggraver

Mélange, composé

Q

Remords, scrupule

Sans scrupule

A

Compunction

Unscrupulous

Q

To conceal

A

Cacher, dissimuler

Q

Béton

Concret

A

Concrete

Q

To condone

A

Excuser, accepter qch

Q

Qui attire les regards

Consommation ostentatoire

A

Conspicuous

Conspicuous consumption

Q

Constituency

Constituent

A

Circonscription électorale

Électeur

Q

Soutenir que

Faire face à

Disputer qch à qlq

Adversaire

A

To contend that

To contend with

To contend with sb for sth

Contender

Q

To contrive

Contrived

A

Inventer, combiner

Artificiel

Q

Commode, confort

A

Convenient, conveniences

Q

To cope with

A

Faire face à une difficulté

Q

Cœur, trognon, noyau

A

Core

Q

To corner

To corner the market

A

Mette qn au pied du mur

Accaparer le marché