Olympic Games Flashcards by Marie Petitalot | Brainscape

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Se consoler

A

To take solace

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Recevoir (événement)

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To hold an event

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Correspondre à/égaler

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To match

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Avec très peu de moyens

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On a shoestring budget

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Renforcé

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Beefed-up

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Sans pitié

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Ruthless

Pitiless

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Répartition des ressources

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Allocation of resources

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Installations

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Facilities

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Impitoyable, implacable

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Unforgiving

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La part du lion

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The lion’s share

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Gazon, pelouse

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Turf (sport) / grass

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Au milieu de..

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In the middle of..

Amid

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Une épidémie

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An epidemic

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S’émerveiller de

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To marvel at

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Propulser vers le haut

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To propel up

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Financement

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Funding

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Complètement, entièrement

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Altogether

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Dans la dernière ligne droite

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In the run-up to

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Alloué à

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Allocated to

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Être récompensé avec..

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To be rewarded with

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Saluer, être reconnaissant

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To acknowledge

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Instance dirigeante

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Governing body
Board of directors
Executive board

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Soutenir

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To support

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Local

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Grassroots

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Qui s’étiole

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Withering

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Quartiers défavorisés

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Inner cities

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S’exécuter, faire ce qu’on attend de soi

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To deliver

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Une embardée

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A lurch

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Mitigé

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Mixed

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Œuvrer pour

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To strive for

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Ultramoderne

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State-of-the-art

Ultramodern

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Etre au même niveau

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To be on a par with

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Présumer –> une présomption

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To assume
To presume
–> a presumption = an assumption

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C’est une question de jours

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It’s a matter of days

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En avoir après quelqu’un

A

To be after sby

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champagne millésimé

A

vintage champagne

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envoyer qqun balader/sur les roses

A

to send sby packing

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dormir à la belle étoile

A

to sleep in the open

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promoteur immobilier

A

land developer

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ce qu’il faut retenir

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the bottom line

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moment charnière

A

Turning point / pivotal period

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une politique de non-intervention

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a hands-off policy

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s’éclaircir la gorge

A

to clear one’s throat

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lire un livre d’un bout à l’autre

A

to read a book cover to cover

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un arrière-goût

A

an after-taste

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Quelque chose ne va pas

A

all is not well

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avoir de l’eau jusqu’aux genoux

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to have water from one’s knees down

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un rédacteur anonyme

A

a ghost writer

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un raz de marée électoral

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an electoral landslide

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dans un avenir proche

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in a foreseeable future

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une société divisée, à deux niveaux

A

a two tier society

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le congrès américain

A

Capitol Hill

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promouvoir/encourager/entretenir

A

to foster

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une motivation/incitation

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an incentive

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un écossais

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a Scotsman

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un danois

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a Dane

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un polonais

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a Pole

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un espagnol

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a Spaniard

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un néerlandais

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a Dutchman

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un Irlandais

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an Irishman

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un Libanais

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a Lebanese

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un Portugais

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a Portuguese

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Pakistanais

A

a Pakistani

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Israélien

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Israeli

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un Suisse

A

a Swiss man

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falsifier

A

to falsify

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jeter l’argent par les fenêtres

A

to pour money down the drain

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sciemment

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deliberately

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préconiser

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to advise

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termes et conditions

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small print

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geler le compte de qqun

A

to freeze sby’s assets

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subventionner

A

to subsidize

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habitudes de longue date

A

long-standing habits

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une crise paralysante

A

a crippling economic crisis

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ancré/enraciné

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ingrained

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au lendemain de

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in the wake of

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un récit

A

a narrative

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passer de la misère à la richesse

A

to go from rags to riches

to go from impotence to importance

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les riches

A

the rich/the wealthy/the well-off/the affluent

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l’ascension sociale

A

social upward mobility