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La Haine vocab Flashcards

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1
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the suburbs

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la banlieue

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block of flats

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un immeuble

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troubled areas

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Les quartiers difficiles/ sensible

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les quartiers populaires

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working class suburbs

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deprived areas

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les quartiers pauvres/ défavorisés

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a ghetto

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un ghetto

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les ZUS (Zones Urbaines Sensibles)

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priority areas in the suburbs

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educational priority zones

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les ZEP

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concrete

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le béton

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riots

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les émeutes

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rioters

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les émeutiers

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language often used on estates

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Le verlan

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un beur ( is rebeu in verlan)

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Second generation immigrant

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un delinquent/ voyou

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hooligan

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gang

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une bande

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drugs

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la drouge

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a lack of education

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un manque d’éducation

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violence

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la violence

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crime

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le crime

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hatred

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la haine

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feeling unsafe

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l’insécurité (f)

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to steal

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voler

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to kill

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tuer

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death

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la mort

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a fire

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une incindie

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to throw

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lancer/ jeter

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to demonstrate; protest

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manifester

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an estate

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une cité

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a tower block

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une tour

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high rise flats

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un grand ensemble

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council flats

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les HLM (habitations à loyer modéré)

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areas where people are financially stable

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les quartiers aisés

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housing

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le logement

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the working class

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la classe ouvrière

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a no-go area

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une zone de non-droit

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social problems

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les problèmes sociaux

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the police

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la police

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the riot squad (police force)

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les CRS (Compagnies Républicaines de Sécurité)

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Organisation working against racism

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SOS racisme

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those who are socially excluded

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Les exclus

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social exclusion

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l’exclusion sociale

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unemployment

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le chômage

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poverty

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la pauvreté

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racism

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la racisme

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discrimination

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la discrimination

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fear

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la peur

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to hate

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Haïr

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a theft

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un vol

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a thief

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un voleur

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to burn

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brûler

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to injure

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blesser

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on the edge of

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à la périphérie de

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to chase

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chasser

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a demonstration

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une manifestation

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Le metteur en scène

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A director

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Friendship

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L’amitié

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Social divide

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La fracture sociale

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To seek to/ look to

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Chercher à

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boredom

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L’ennui

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A riot

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une émeute

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To mind

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à l’esprit

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of which

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dont

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the police/ cop

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le flic

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native French or Europeans who immigrated to French Alegria whose descendants have been living there ever since

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les pieds-noirs

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overseas

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outre-mer

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family reunification

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le regroupement familial

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a scape goat

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un bouc émissaire

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act where someone is judged by their appearance e.g. skin colour

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le délit de faciès

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a police slip up

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une bauvre

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person born in France whose parent/ grandparents are from Maghreb

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un(e) beur(ette)

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social unrest

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la malaise

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crime; delinquency

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la délinquance

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unemployment

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le chômage

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workforce

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la main-d’œuvre

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makeshift dwellings

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les habitats de fortune (m)

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shantytowns

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les bidonvilles (mpl)

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low cost accomodation; social housing

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les HLM (habitations à loyer modéré)

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large housing estates

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les Grands Ensembles (mpl)

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30 years of prosperity in France after WWII

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Les Trentes Glorieuses

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dormitory estates

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les cités-dortoires (f)

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surroundings/ surrounding area/ vicinity

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les alentours (mpl)

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quest; search; collection

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une quête

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to become poor

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s’appauvrir

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notice/ sign/ placard

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la pancarte

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to die (not mourir)

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décéder

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Character

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Le personnage

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To pass sb/sth; cross

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Croiser

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to find your way

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se diriger

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to wander aimlessly

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déambuler

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close-up

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le gros plan

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in the backgound

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à l’arrière

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a gun

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le pistolet

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a gunshot

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un coup de feu

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dark

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sombre

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basement

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le sous-sol

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to keep calm

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garder leur calm

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cynical

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cynique

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buildings

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les batiments (mpl)

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overwhelming, suffocating

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écrasant

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anti-riot police force

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le CRS

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a visit

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une escapade

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heinous

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odieux

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to collect

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réupérer

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disapproval

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désapprobation

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to bully, oppress, tyrannise

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tyranniser

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the climax

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le point culminant

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flashing/ revolving light on top of police car

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le gyrophare

108
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a safari park near Paris

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Thiory

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blood

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le sang

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misfortune, misadventure

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la mésaventure

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friendly

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convival(e)

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obvious

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flagrant(e)

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to hang about

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traîner

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to misbehave, up to no good

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faire des bêtises

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survival

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la survie

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as a result of

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à la suite de

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a vicious circle

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un engrenage

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to strike; be obvious

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sauter aux yeux

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joker

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le balgeur/ euse

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social divide

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la fracture sociale

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to charge on without thinking

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foncer tête baissée

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