Other Flashcards

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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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10
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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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18
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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
Scheduled
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Tres attendu
Eagerly awaited
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Amortir
To deaden
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Evaluer, estimer
To assess
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L'emporter sur
To outweigh
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Avoir le droit de
To entitle to
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Faire une demande de
To apply FOR
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Apparaitre
To turn up
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Se pencher
To lean
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Retourner (3)
To revert To go back To return
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Etre rouillé
To be rusty
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Ranger
To put sth away
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Occuper
To take up
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Avoir lieu
To stage
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Eviter
To shun | To avoid doing sth
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Avoir son mot a dire
To have a say IN sth
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Evincer
To crowd out
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Augmenter fortement
To soar | To skyrocket
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Tromper
To trick | To decive sby into doing sth
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Presque, de justesse
Narrow
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Par rapport
Relative to
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Surtout
Above all
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Pas moins
Not less than
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Le tout
The all thing | All (of) this
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Car
For
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Excepté
Bar
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Soit disant
Supposedly
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Apparement
Obstensibly
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Chercher a taton
To grope for
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Entraver
To prevent To hinder To hamper To impede
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Mettre en danger
To jeoperdize
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S'adresser à (sens négatif) | S'adresse à (sens positif)
To carter TO | To carter FOR
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Se multiplier
To multiply
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Aller qq part
To make for
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Convaincre
To get sb to do sth
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Etre supposé à
To be likely to
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Inciter
To incentivize
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Arreter sa voiture, se garer
To draw up
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Exagérer
To play sth up
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Tonner, grinder
To thunder
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Rendre compte
To give account for
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Abriter
To shelter To house To be home to
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Des centaines de
Hundreds OF
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Au nom de...
On behalf of...
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Une pancarte
A placard
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Un placard
A cupboard
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Une brique
A carton
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Un carton
A cardbord
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De simple / simplement
Mere / merely
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Vendre
To sell
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L'échelle (sens propre et figuré)
A ladder
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Ca en dit long sur
It is a sad indictment of
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Un peu plus tard
A bit later on | Shortly afterwards
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L'humanité
Mankind
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S'élever à, équivaloir
To amount to
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Opposer de la résistance
To put up a fight
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Soutenir | Débattre
To argue
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un tournant décisif
A watershed
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Un tremblement
A temor
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Une racine
A root
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Une réaction violente
A backlash
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Prévisionnel /// bulletin météo
Forecast
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Homologues
Conterparts
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Un pari
A bet
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Léger
Slight
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Etre frappe par
To be plagued with sth
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Un seuil
A threshold
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Un aperçu
An insight
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Publier | Émettre
To issue
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Se voir délivrer (un visa)
To be issued (with a visa)
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Se mêler
To migle
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Un bout
A butt
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Ne pas hésiter à faire quelque chose
To make no bone about doing sth
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Aller contre
To buck a trend
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Alarmismes
Scaremongers
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Oser
To dare