Nib 9 Flashcards
un homicide involontaire
ø in‘voluntary [ɒ] ‘manslaughter [ɔː]:
un procès qui a duré deux semaines
a two-week trial [aɪə] : ▲ Notez le
singulier et le trait d’union de two-week (position adjectivale).
être inculpé p
be charged [ɑː]:
plaider coupable
to plead [iː] guilty:
: condamner
(quelqu’un) à la prison à vie sans libération conditionnelle
to ‘sentence (someone) to life without pa‘role /pəˈrəʊl/
être à l’avant-guarde de
to be at the ‘forefront of [ɔː]:
(here) to adopt
to em‘brace =
examiner / évaluer à nouveau
to rea‘ssess :
tenir (quelqu’un) pour
responsable p
to hold (someone) a‘ccountable [aʊ] for :
NORTHERN IRELAND
is a part of the United Kingdom and shares an open border with the Republic of Ireland, which gained its independence in 1922. In
the late 1960s, unrest between Catholic nationalists (in favour of Northern Ireland’s sovereignty and selfdetermination)
and Protestant unionists (supporters of
the union of Northern Ireland and Great Britain) sparked the Troubles, a thirty-year conflict involving republican and loyalist paramilitaries and state forces. The conflict came to an end in 1998 with the Good Friday agreements. The DUP (the Democratic Unionist Party) and Sinn
Féin /ʃɪnˈfeɪn/ (the nationalist party) are the two main parties representing
people at Stormont, the seat of the Northern Ireland Assembly, the
devolved legislature for the region set up after the agreement was signed.
l’aube
dawn [ɔː]:
po‘litical pa‘ralysis refers to the DUP 24-month boycott of the
Northern Ireland’s Assembly as a sign of protest against the initial version
of post-Brexit trade rules which were reassessed on 31 January 2024.
nationalist or re‘publican : that is in favour of a reunited Ireland.
IRA stands for the Irish Republican Army, a paramilitary
organization seeking the end of British rule in Northern Ireland and the
reunification of Ireland
promettre
to pledge
(ici) bloquer
to co‘llapse
un complot mené par les loyalistes (en faveur de
l’union avec la Grande Bretagne)
a ‘loyalist plot :
agir pour
to de‘liver :
on doit remettre nos hôpitaux en
état de fonctionner
our hospitals need (to be) fixed : ▲ Notez la structure need + to be participe passé ou
need + participe présent (need fixing
trouver qqe difficile à accepter
find something hard to bear :
courber l’échine devant
to bend the knee [ˈniː] to someone:
une interruption
a hiatus /haɪˈeɪtəs/ :
a cure for everthing
a panacea /ˌpænəˈsiːə/ =
une position d’égal à égal
to be of ‘equal ‘standing :
(in this context) incredible
uni‘maginable
exiger
to de‘mand :
encore moins
let alone :
the Chuckle Brothers was a TV comedy show
Ian Paisley (DUP) and Martin McGuinness (Sinn Féin) were two politicians serving together as
respectively the First Minister and the Deputy First Minister in 2007
superior
‘senior (adj) =
crises
co‘llapses =
unoccupied p
‘vacant [eɪ]
ø devo‘lution
means that the United Kingdom government has transferred a wide range of powers to the Northern Ireland Assembly since 1998. This means that local politicians, instead of MPs in
Westminster in London, make key decisions in several areas including health, education, welfare, justice and the environment, among others.
be morally burdened by / weighed down by
be en‘cumbered by =
troublesome
‘fractious [æ] =
to come to terms with / to manage
to sort out =
une trahison p
a ‘betrayal [eɪə]:
tourmenté
dogged /dɒgd/ :
Mary Lou McDonald
is an Irish politician from the Sinn Féin party
un tremplin
a ‘steppingstone :
a border poll =
a referendum about the exact location of a border or
whether there should be a particular border at all
plonger dans p
to delve into [e] :
à hauteur de the
to the tune [ju:] of :
l’hémorragie/les attaques contre
bleeding [iː] :
due to / owing to / because of
brought about by =
à vous de jouer
over to you :
