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Une caractiristique

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A hallmark

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Une lacune, une faille

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A loophole

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Un modele

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A pattern

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Un point de repere

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A landmark

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Un effet de levier

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A leverage

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Les echelons

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Rungs

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Les interrogationd

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Concerns

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Mr tout le monde

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The man in the street

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Un avion a reaction

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A jet plane

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Les ancetres (3)

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Ancestors
Forefathers
Forebears

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Le patrimoine

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Heritage

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L’heritage (parents-enfants)

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Inheritance

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Une peuvre d’art

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A work of art

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14
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Se tomper

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To be mistaken

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Petit

Peu peu, legerement

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Slight

Shlighty

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Un seuil

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A threshold

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Peu judicieux

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Misguided

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Realisable

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Workable

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Complet, general, total

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Comprehensive

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Dur, rugueux

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Rough

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21
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Categorique

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Admant

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Imminent

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Indending

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Fait au hasard

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Haphazard

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Paradoxal

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Conter-intuitive

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Regulié, programme

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Scheduled

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Tres attendu

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Eagerly awaited

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27
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Amortir

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To deaden

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Evaluer, estimer

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To assess

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29
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L’emporter sur

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To outweigh

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30
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Avoir le droit de

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To entitle to

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31
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Faire une demande de

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To apply FOR

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32
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Apparaitre

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To turn up

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33
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Se pencher

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To lean

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34
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Retourner (3)

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To revert
To go back
To return

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35
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Etre rouillé

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To be rusty

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36
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Ranger

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To put sth away

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37
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Occuper

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To take up

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38
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Avoir lieu

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To stage

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39
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Eviter

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To shun

To avoid doing sth

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40
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Avoir son mot a dire

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To have a say IN sth

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41
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Evincer

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To crowd out

42
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Augmenter fortement

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To soar

To skyrocket

43
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Tromper

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To trick

To decive sby into doing sth

44
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Presque, de justesse

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Narrow

45
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Par rapport

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Relative to

46
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Surtout

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Above all

47
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Pas moins

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Not less than

48
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Le tout

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The all thing

All (of) this

49
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Car

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For

50
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Excepté

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Bar

51
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Soit disant

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Supposedly

52
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Apparement

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Obstensibly

53
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Chercher a taton

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To grope for

54
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Entraver

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To prevent
To hinder
To hamper
To impede

55
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Mettre en danger

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To jeoperdize

56
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S’adresser à (sens négatif)

S’adresse à (sens positif)

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To carter TO

To carter FOR

57
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Se multiplier

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To multiply

58
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Aller qq part

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To make for

59
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Convaincre

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To get sb to do sth

60
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Etre supposé à

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To be likely to

61
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Inciter

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To incentivize

62
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Arreter sa voiture, se garer

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To draw up

63
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Exagérer

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To play sth up

64
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Tonner, grinder

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To thunder

65
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Rendre compte

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To give account for

66
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Abriter

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To shelter
To house
To be home to

67
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Des centaines de

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Hundreds OF

68
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Au nom de…

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On behalf of…

69
Q

Une pancarte

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A placard

70
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Un placard

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A cupboard

71
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Une brique

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A carton

72
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Un carton

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A cardbord

73
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De simple / simplement

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Mere / merely

74
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Vendre

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To sell

75
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L’échelle (sens propre et figuré)

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A ladder

76
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Ca en dit long sur

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It is a sad indictment of

77
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Un peu plus tard

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A bit later on

Shortly afterwards

78
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L’humanité

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Mankind

79
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S’élever à, équivaloir

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To amount to

80
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Opposer de la résistance

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To put up a fight

81
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Soutenir

Débattre

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To argue

82
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un tournant décisif

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A watershed

83
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Un tremblement

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A temor

84
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Une racine

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A root

85
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Une réaction violente

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A backlash

86
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Prévisionnel /// bulletin météo

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Forecast

87
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Homologues

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Conterparts

88
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Un pari

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A bet

89
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Léger

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Slight

90
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Etre frappe par

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To be plagued with sth

91
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Un seuil

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A threshold

92
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Un aperçu

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An insight

93
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Publier

Émettre

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To issue

94
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Se voir délivrer (un visa)

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To be issued (with a visa)

95
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Se mêler

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To migle

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Un bout

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A butt

97
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Ne pas hésiter à faire quelque chose

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To make no bone about doing sth

98
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Aller contre

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To buck a trend

99
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Alarmismes

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Scaremongers

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Oser

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To dare