Le Commerce - Trade Flashcards

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Considéré comme qlc

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Reputedly stg.

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Le plus grand au monde

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The world’s leading

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Opérations

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Operating

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4
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Dans le monde entier

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Worldwide

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5
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A conquis

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Has taken over more

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Laisser une faible assise financière pour financier

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To leave a slimmer financial base from which to fund

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7
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Dans la lutte

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In the battle

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8
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Régulièrement

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Routinely

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9
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Articles électroniques

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Electronic goods

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Être battu par les firmes étrangères moins chères et plus performantes

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To be outpriced and outperformed by foreing competitors

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Dépasser

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To exceed

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12
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Les importations/exportations

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Imports/exports

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13
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En comparaison

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In contrast to

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14
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Une chûte des bénéfices

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Declining profits

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L’implantation étrangère

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foreign enroachment

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Ca pourrait finir par obliger qlq/qlc à

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It might well eventually force so. stg. to

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17
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Rechercher de nouvelles alliances

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To seek new partners

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18
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Rassembler ses forces

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To join one’s forces

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19
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Pour mettre au point

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In a drive to develop

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20
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Afin d’assurer

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So as to ensure

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21
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Restreindre ses ventes à la France

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To cut back sales to France

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22
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A la suite de quoi

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As a result

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23
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Avoir réussi à se convertir vers les marchés occidentaux

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To manage to redeploy and export to Western markets

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Alors que

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While

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Sur les six premiers mois de l’année

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In the first half of the year

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La dévaluation de la monnaie

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The devaluation of the currency

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Les ventes se sont envolées

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Sales rose sharply

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To raise

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Raise - raised - raised + something

To move stg. to a higher position.
To raise one’s voice = to speak more loudly.
To raise the standard of stg. = to improve it.

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To rise

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Rise - rose - risen

To move upwards: to rise by/a rise of/to rise to.
An amount rise = an increase ; A pay rise (USA a raise) ; to rise to an higher position = to become more successful or powerful.

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To arise

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Arise - arose - arisen

Abstract way : If a situation or problem or something arises, it comes into being and people become aware of it (se montrer, se posera, apparaîtra.. aux yeux de tous)

“If the opportunity arises”

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Favorable

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Encouraging

32
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Au cours du premier semestre

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In the first six months

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S’améliorer

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To improve

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Le pays a dégagé un excédent commercial en devises de plus de 2 milliards de dollars

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The country registered a currency surplus of more than $2 billion

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La balance des paiements

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The balance of payments

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La balance des paiements pourrait se rapprocher de l’équilibre dès cettte année, alors qu’on avait enregistré un féficit l’an dernier: un frein pourrait ainsi être mis au désepérant gonflement de la dette extérieure.

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In contrast to last year when there was a deficit, the balance of payments this year could come close to equilibrum and thus halt the alarming increase in the foreign debt.

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Un gonflement de la dette extérieur

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An increase in the foreign debt

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Désespérant

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Alarming

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Equilibre

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Equilibrum

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L’ouverture de l’Inde et de la Russie vers les économies occidentales vient bousculer la notion de “marché captif”, qui permettait à l’Inde d’écouler en Russie (et vice versa) une partie des produits de qualité inférieure qu’elle ne pouvait pas exporter vers des marchés plus sophistiqués.

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The notion that market are captive, which used to allow India to use Russia (and vice versa) as a dumping-ground for some of the substandard goods it was unable to sell on more sophisticated markets, has been shattered, as both India and Russia are now opening up to Western economies.

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Bousculer

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To shatter

42
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Des produits de qualité inférieure

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Substandard goods

43
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Se plaindre

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To complain

44
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Circuit de distribution

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Distribution network

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Une profonde désorganisation

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A serious disarray

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Souligner

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To argue

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Les industriels français se plaignent de la profonde désorganisation du circuit de distribution en Russie et les Russes soulignent l’instabilité politique qui règne en France depuis deux ans.

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The French industrialists complain the Russian distribution network is in a serious disarray, and Russians argue that for the past two years France has been politicaly unstable.

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Plus encore qu’hier, les USA demeurent le premier client et le premier fournisseur du Mexique.

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More than even before, the U.S is still Mexico’s biggest customer and leading supplier.

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Premier fournisser

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Leading supplier

50
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Un scénario bien connu

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A well-established pattern

51
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Un disque phare

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A soundtrack album

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Un battage médiatique

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A barrage of media type

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Le scénario de lancement d’un produit est désormais connu: un disque phare, un film, un battage médiatique suffisent à l’élever au rang de phénomène de société.

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Launching a product on the market no follows a well-established pattern: a soundtrack album, a film and a barrage of media type are enough to elevate it to the status of a social phenomenon.

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La clientèle visée par les grandes surfaces, hypermarchés ou méga-stores se situe prioritairement dans la tranche d’âge des 12-25 ans qui achètent de manière impulsive.

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The clientele targeted by departments stores, supermarkets and megastores are primarly the 12-25-year-old impulse buyers.

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Le gouvernement est favorable à l’abolition du monopole d’Etat du commerce extérieur mais pour l’heure, l’économie est une économie de plan.

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Although the governement is in favour of abolishing the state’s monopoly on foreign trade, the economy remains a planned one for the time being.

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La guerre civile terminée, les Français craignent que les Américains ne s’adjugent l’essentiel du gâteau de la reconstruction, les Britanniques récoltant le reste, comme le laissent croire les premières informations.

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Now that the civil war is over, the French fear the Americans will take the lion’s share of the reconstruction pie, leaving, as preliminary reports tend to suggest, the rest to the British.

57
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Quelques petits marchés viennent, il est vrai, de tomber dans l’escarcelle des Français. Thomson a annoncé vendredi qu’il avait conclu avec le ministère de l’information du Koweit un contrat pour la fourniture d’un système de télévision de première urgence.

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A few small crumbs have admittedly come France’s way. On Friday Thomson announced that it had signed a conrtact with Kuwait’s ministry of information to supply an urgently needed television system.