Pauvrete Flashcards by Valentin Briand

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Une sous classe

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An underclass

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Une société a deux vitesses

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A two-tier society

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Les défavorisés

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The dispossessed

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Les opprimés

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The downtrodden

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Les rejetés de la société

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The throwaways

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Les déchets de la société

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The human dross the offals

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Un taudis

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A slum

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Frappe par la pauvreté

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Poverty-stricken

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Accablé par la pauvreté

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Poverty-ridden

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Seuil de pauvreté

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Poverty line

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Misère noire

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Grinding poverty

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Pauvreté chronique

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Entrenched poverty

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Joindre les deux bouts

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To make both ends meet

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Salaire de misère

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Starvation wage

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Être fauché

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To be hard up

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Ne plus avoir un sou

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To be penniless

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Être sur la paille

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To be strapped

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Grappiller

A

To scrimp and save

Q

Être à la rue

A

To be street-people

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Faire la manche

A

To panhandle

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Mendier

A

To beg

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Faire les poubelles

A

To forage in trash

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Dormir sous les ponts

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To sleep rough

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Refuge

A

Shelter

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Expulser

A

To evict

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Armée du salut

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Salvation army

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Crasseux

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Nasty

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Sale , sordide

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Squalid

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Mourir de froid

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To freeze to death