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La richesse et la pauvreté Flashcards

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1
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un lodgement fixe

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a home/fixed abode

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le loyer

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rent

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les sans-abri

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the homeless

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Les SDF (sans domicile fixe)

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the homeless

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une scolarité régulière

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regular schooling

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une ZUP (zone à urbaniser en priorité)

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urban development zone

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mendier

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to beg

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un mendiant

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a beggar

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ne pas avoir de toit

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to not have a roof over ones head

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s’enrouler dans sa couverture

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to wrap oneself in a blanket

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être expulsé

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to be evicted

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se faire blesser dans une bagarre

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to be injured in a fight

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manquer l’école

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to miss school

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se permettre de s’acheter..

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to be able to buy oneself…

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recevoir de quoi se nourrir

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to get enough to eat

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recevoir une consultation médicale gratuite

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to get a free medical appointment

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se refaire une santé

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to rebuild one’s health

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18
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se retrouver dans la rue

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to find oneself on the street

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se retrouver sans aucune ressource

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to be without any means

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20
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le bidonville

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shanty town

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21
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le choléra

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cholera

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la tuberculose

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tuberculosis

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23
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l’eau portable (f)

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drinking water

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manquer d’eau portable

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to lack drinking water

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une maison à ciel ouverte

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a house with no roof

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la pénurie de nourriture

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lack of food

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27
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une récolte de riz

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a rice harvest

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une maigre récolte de riz

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a poor rice harvest

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29
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une hutte de paille

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a straw hut

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30
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le sida

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AIDS

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la prévention du sida

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AIDS prevention

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32
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un taudis

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a hovel (a small, simply constructed hut)

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consommer

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to consume

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34
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faire la queue

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a queue

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puer

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to stink

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privé d’eau

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lacking water

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privé d’électricité

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lacking electricity

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surpeuplé

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overpopulated, crowded

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creuser un putis

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to dig a well

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être balayé par un raz de marée

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to be swept away by a tidal wave

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être englouti par les inondations

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to be flooded out

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le citoyen américain moyen consomme…

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the average American citizen consumes…

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une maladie de carence

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an illness caused by deficiencies

44
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souffrir d’une maladie de carence

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to suffer from an illness caused by deficiencies

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les droites de l’homme

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human rights

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protéger les droites de l’homme (m.pl)

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to protect human rights

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Mendier

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Beg

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Le déces

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Death

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Le périple

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Journey

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Clément

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Mild

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Des vivres

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Food

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guère

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Hardly.

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Des Parias

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Rejected

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L’enfer

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Hell

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Les huttes de paille

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Straw hut

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Engloutir

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Gobbled up: engulfed

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Le raz-de-marée

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Tidal wave

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Insalubres

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Unhealthy

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Bâtir

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To build

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L’assainissement

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Clean-up

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Glissements

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Landslides

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Pays en voie de développement

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Developing countries

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L’approvisionnement

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Supply

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Défavorisées

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Disadvantaged

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L’eau du robinet

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Tap water

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Avaler du poison

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Swallowing poison

67
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Les eaux usées

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Waste water

68
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culpabilité

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Guilt

69
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Rude

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Hard

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Laisser

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To leave

71
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Remonter

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Climb back up

72
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La pente

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Slope

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La mairie

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City hall

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Bientôt

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Soon

75
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Les américains qui constituent 5% de la mondiale consomment 25% de l’énergie utilisée dans le monde

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Fact.

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Taudis

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Slums

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Fumée épaisse

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Thick smog

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Déchire les poumons

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Rip the lungs

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Une puanteur insoutenable

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Unbearable stench

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Le fraude fiscal

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Tax evasion

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Allègements fiscaux

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Tax reduction

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Fictive

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Fictitious

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Le blanchiment d’argent

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Money laundering

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Détournement

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Misuse

A Level French (17 decks)

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