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Peace and War Flashcards

1
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La coexistence pacifique

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Peaceful coexistence

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En temps de paix

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In peace time

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Maintenir la paix entre

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To keep peace btw

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Les force de maintien de la paix

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The peacekeeping force

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La détente

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The detente

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Les casques bleus

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The UN peacekeeping force

The Blue Helmets

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Une force de dissuasion nuccléaire

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A nuclear deterrent

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L’entre-deux-guerre

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The interwar period

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L’après-guerre

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The postwar period

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Un traité de paix

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A peace treaty

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Déclarer un cessez le feu

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To declare a ceasefire

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Une trève

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A truce

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Négocier un accord

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To negociate an agreement

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Engager des négociations

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To enter into negociations

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Servir d’intermédiaire entre

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To mediate between

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16
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Le désarmement

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The disarmament

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17
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Un objecteur de conscience

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A conscientious objector

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18
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Le mvt pour le désarmement militaure

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CND (The Campaign for Nuclear Disarmement)

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19
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Payer des réparations à qqun

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To make reparation to sb

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Déclarer la guerre à qqun

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To declare war on

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21
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Aller à la guerre

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To go to war

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22
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Eclater

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To breakout

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23
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Le début des hostilités

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The outbreak of hostilities

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24
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Faire la guerre à quelqu’un

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To wage war with

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Être en guerre avec qqun

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To be at war with sb

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26
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La lutte contre/pour

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The struggle against/for

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27
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En temps de guerre

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In war time

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28
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Béliqueux

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Warlike

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29
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La tactique

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Tactics

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30
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Tactique

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Tactical

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31
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La guérilla

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The guerrilla warefare

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32
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Un guérillo

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A guerrilla

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Une arme à feu

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A firearm

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Un pistolet

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A pistol

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35
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Un fusil à canon scié

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A sawn-off shotgun

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36
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Une arme automatique

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An automatic

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Une grenade

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A hand grenade

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38
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Une balle perdue

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A stray bullet

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Une cartouche

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A cartridge / a round of ammunition

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40
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Tirer en l’air

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To fire shots in the sky

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41
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Viser qqun

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To aim at sb

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42
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La mire

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The sight

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43
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Atteindre l’objectif

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To hit the target

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44
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Une mitrailleuse

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A machine gun

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Une mitraillette

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A submachine gun

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Une chenille

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A caterpillar

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47
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Un mortier

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A mortar

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Un obus

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A shell

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49
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Bombarder

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To bomb

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50
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Un champs de mine

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A minefield

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51
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Une torpille

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A torpedo

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52
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Lancer une fusée

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To launch a rocket

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53
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La D.C.A

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Anti-aircraft defence

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54
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Le napalm

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Napalm

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55
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Un missile sol-air / air-air

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A ground-to-air / air-to-air missile

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Un missile de moyenne portée

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A intermediate missile

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57
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Un missile de croisière

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A cruise missile

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58
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L’ogive nucléaire

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The nuclear warhead

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59
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Un lance-missiles

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A missile launcher

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60
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Le gaz asphyxiant

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Poison gas

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61
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Être gaser

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To be gassed

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62
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Un gaz lacrymogène

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Tear gas

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63
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Le gaz neurotoxique

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Nerve gas

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64
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La guerre bactériologique

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Germ/biological warfare

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65
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Les armes biologiques/chimiques

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Biological/chemical weapons

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66
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Un militaire

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A serviceman

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être militaire/dans l’armée

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to be in the Service / forces / military

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Un militaire / officier de carrière

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A regular soldier/officer

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Un simple soldat

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A private

An enlisted man

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Une recrue

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A recruit

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Un appelé / conscrit

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A conscript / a draftee

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S’engager / s’enrôler

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To sign on / to join (up) / to enlist

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Être mobiliser

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To be called up

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74
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Être démobiliser

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To be demobilized

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75
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La conscription

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The draft

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76
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Bon pour le service

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Fit for service

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77
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Être réformé

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To be declared unfit

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78
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La solde

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Army pay

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79
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La tenue de cérémonie

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In dress uniform

80
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La tenue de combat

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In battle dress

81
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Un calot

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A forage cap

82
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Une casquette

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A peaked cap

83
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Le barda

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Kit

84
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Un galon

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A stripe

85
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Un chevron

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A chevron

86
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Être de service

Être en permission

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To be on duty

To be off duty

87
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La garnison

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A garrison

88
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La quartier général

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Headquarters

89
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Le QG

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HG

90
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La caserne

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The barracks

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La cantine

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The mess

92
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Une sentinelle, un factionnaire

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A sentry

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Être de faction

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To be on sentry duty

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Être de corvée

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To be on fatigue (duty)

95
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Le réveil

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reveille

96
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Consigné

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Confined to barracks
confined to quarters
confined to base

97
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Partir en permission

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To go on leave

98
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Un sous-officier

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A non-comissioned officer

A NCO

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Le commandant

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The commanding officer

The CO

100
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être nommé officier

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to get one’s commission

101
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Commander

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To be in command

102
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Un ancien combattant

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a ex-serviceman
a veteran
a vet

103
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saluer qqun

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to salute sb

104
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être / se mettre au garde à vous

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to stand / to come to attention

105
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Présentez armes

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Present arms

106
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Garde à vous

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Attention

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être au repos

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To stand at ease

108
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repos

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at ease

109
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marcher au pas

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to march

110
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marquer le pas

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to mark time

111
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en avant, marche

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quick march

112
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demi-tour

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about turn

113
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Halte! Qui va là

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Halt§ Who goes there!

114
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Extinction des feux

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Lights out

115
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S’entraîner pour

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To train for

116
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former qqun

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to train sb

117
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l’instruction

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training

118
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faire faire l’exercice aux soldats

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to drill soldiers

119
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être en manoeuvres

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to be on manoeuvres

120
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le parcours du combattant

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the assault course

121
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une parade, une revue

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a parade

122
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une revue

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a review

123
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le terrain de manoeuvre

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the parade ground

124
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déflier devant qqun

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to parade before sb

125
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défiler

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to march past

126
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Le génie

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the engineers

127
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l’artillerie

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the artillery

128
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Les transmissions

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the Signals corps

129
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Un corps de l’armée

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An army corps

130
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Un bataillon

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A battalion

131
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Un section, un peloton

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A platoon

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Un fantassin

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A infateryman

133
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Un artilleur

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A gunner

134
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Les troupes

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The troops

135
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Un détachement

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A detachement

136
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Un planton

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An orderly

137
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kaki

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khaki

olive drab

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aéroporté

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airborne

airmobile

139
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un parachutiste

les troupes aéroportées

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a paratrooper

paratroops

140
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la marine britannique

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the royal navy

141
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la flotte

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the fleet

142
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une flotille

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a fotilla

143
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un convoi

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a convoy

144
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le port d’attache

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the home port

the home base

145
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un arsenal maritime

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a naval dockyard

146
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réarmer un navire

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to refit a ship

147
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un navire de guerre

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a warship

148
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un cuirassé

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a battleship

149
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un porte avion

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a aircraft carrier

150
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un croiseur

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a cruiser

151
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un contre torpilleur

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a destroyer

152
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une frégate

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a frigate

153
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une vedette

un lance torpille

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a torpedo boat

154
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un transport de troupes

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a troop carrier

155
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une cannonière

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a gunboat

156
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une vedette

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a launch

157
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une péniche de débarquement

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a landing craft

158
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Les fusiliers marins

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the marines

159
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un enseigne de vaisseau

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a lieutenant

160
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un amiral

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an admiral

161
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un capitaine de frégate

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a commander

162
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un aspirant

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a midshipman

163
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un marin

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a sailor

a seaman

164
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un matelot

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a rating

a recruit

165
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le vaisseau amiral

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the flagship

166
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un combat naval

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a naval engagement

167
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escorter

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to escort

168
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en ordre serré

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in close formation

169
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couler, sombrer

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to sink, to go down

170
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saborder un navire

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to scuttle a ship

171
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à vos postes de combat

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actions stations

172
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tous les hommes sur le pont

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all hands on deck

173
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un dragueur de mine

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a minesweeper

174
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un mouilleur de mine

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a minelayer

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L’armée de l’air USA

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The US Air Force

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un avion

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an aircraft
a plane
an airplane

177
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un chasseur

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a fighter

178
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un bombardier

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a bomber

179
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un avion de décollage vertical

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a vertical take-off plane

180
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un moteur à réaction

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a jet engine

181
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une escadre aérienne

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a wing

182
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une esquadrille

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a glider

183
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un soldat de l’armée de l’air

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an airman

184
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un navigateur

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a navigator

185
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Une base aérienne

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an air base

186
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un terrain d’atterissage

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a landing field

187
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un raid aérien

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an air raid

a bombing raid

188
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lacher une bomber sur qqch

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to drop a bomb on stg

189
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abattre qqch

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a shoot stg down

to bring stg down

190
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atterrir en catastrophe

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to crash-land

191
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sauter en catastrophe

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to bale out

192
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un siège éjectable

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an ejector seat

193
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un abri antiaérien

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an air-raid shelter

194
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un abri antinucléaire

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a fallout shelter

195
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un défilé aérien

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a fly-past

a flyover

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