M1S1 Flashcards by Matthieu Didier

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Se dépêcher / presser de faire qqch

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To scramble to do sth

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Prétendre faire qqch

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To purport

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Impliquer / entraîner / causer

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To entail

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Sans intérêt / terre à terre

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Murdane

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Tenir / maintenir

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To stand by

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Indubitablement

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Undoubtely

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Remplacer

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To supersede

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Direct, simple

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Straight forward

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Analyser / examiner / déballer

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To unpack

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Passer vite sur / ne pas s’attarder sur

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To gloss over

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A peine, presque pas

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Barely / hardly

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Freiner / entraver

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To hamper

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Supposé

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Putative

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Irréfutable, convaincant

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Compelling

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Un morceau

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A chunk / a lump

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Disparaître

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To vanish

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Simple / seulement

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Mere

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Perturber

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To disrupt

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Un réfrigérant

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A coolant

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(Faire) frire

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To fry

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Presser, serrer

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To squeeze

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Un point, grain

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A speck

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Faire voler, soulever

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To kick up sth

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Lorsque les choses se seront tassées / tout aura décanté

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When / once the dust settles

Faire le bilan, le point de

To take stock of

Agitation, effervescence, foisonnement

A flurry of

Occasionnel, fortuit, décontracté, détendu

Casual

Flot, hausse, déferlement

Surges of

Rapidement, immédiatement, volontiers

Readily

Louable

Commendable

Présenter, annoncer

To bill sth

Surprendre, étonner

To startle

Obscur

Arcane

Sous le feu des projecteurs

In the limelight

Énorme, phénoménal

Tremendous

Voué à l'échec, raté

A nonstarter

Un alliage

An alloy

Une répartition

A distribution

À part entière

Full-fledged / fully-fledged

Un bouche-trou

A placeholder

Énigmatiquement, mystérieusement

Unfathomably

Déconcerter

To confound

Bizarre / étrange

Strange / weird / odd / fishy / bizarre

Impressionnant, sidérant

Staggering / flabbergasting / baffling

Cruellement, désespérément

Tantalizingly

Inaccessible, hors de portée

Out of reach

La recherche

The search / the quest

Exploiter

To harness

Réussir, parvenir à faire qqch

To manage to do/achieve / to succeed

Novateur, révolutionnaire

Groundbreaking

Contrôler, maîtriser

To master