Nib 6 Flashcards
John Kerry
s an American politician, member of the Democratic Party.
He served under the Obama administration and lost to incumbent President G. W. Bush in the 2004 US presidential election
un émissaire
An envoy
e’vent
ɪˈvent
nuclear
ˈnjuːkliər
fusion
ˈfjuːʒən
Saint Graal
The holy graille= a sought-after prize
se rapprocher de qqc
To be edging closer to sth:
secretaire d’état américain
US secretary of state
fournir qqc à qqn
To provide sb with sth:
Abundant
əˈbʌndənt] = plentiful
une décennie
ˈdekeɪd]: a decade
The OECD
established in 1948, the Organisation for Economic
Cooperation and Development is a forum in which member countries
compare policy experiences and commit to democracy and market economy
to take a test, an exam data (N.pl.) [ˈdɑːtə] ou [ˈdeɪtə]
To sit a test
PISA
The Programme for International Student Assessment (= evaluation)
être en baisse
To trend down
chuter
closure
ˈkləʊʒə
MIT, UPenn and Harvard
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
the University of Pennsylvania and Harvard are elite colleges (the latter
two being members of the Ivy League)
Capitol Hill
neighbourhood of Washington D.C. used as a metonym for
the United States Congress (US legislature, composed of the House of
Representatives and the Senate).
des législateurs
lawmakers
les
présidents d’universités ont été interrogés sur la montée de
l’antisémitisme.
the presidents were grilled over a spike of antisemtism
un foyer
a hotbed
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators calling for intifada on campus:
Pro-Palestinian students advocated for rebellion and uprising on university
grounds.
against the code of conduct
against official rules
adopter un
engagement envers la liberté d’expression
to embrace a commitment to free expression
lorsque des propos
deviennent des actes
when a speech crosses into conduct
to be criticised
to face ‘criticism
un groupe de travail
– a task force:
The Fridays for Future (FFF)
or the School Strike for Climate began in 2018. It is an international
movement of students who skip Friday classes to participate in demonstrations in order to demand climate action
from world leaders.
la bande de Gaza
The Gaza Strip
des abris
shelters
extreme hunger
starvation
des spécialistes, des experts
to look the other way
to ignore something bad
to advocate for sth
eɪ] = to defend sth
une lutte pour
a struggle for:
a viewpoint
a stance
être en deuil
to grieve[iː] = to mourn:
to be shocked by sth
to be appalled by sth
to seek help from sb
to call upon sb
qui est en train de se dérouler
unfolding
noxious, damaging
harmful
