Richesse et pauvreté Flashcards

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Aisé

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Well-off

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Affligé

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Distressed

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Améliorer

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To improve

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Analphabète, illettré

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Illiterate

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Appauvrir

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To impoverish

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L’augmentation

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Increase (in number)

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Avoir les moyens de

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To afford to

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Le/la bénévole

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Volunteer

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Les biens, marchandises

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Goods

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La carence

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Deficiency

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La chaleur

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Warmth, heat

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Le chômage

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Unemployment

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Le commerce

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Trade, business

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Consacrer

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To devote (time)

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La crise économique, la récession

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Recession

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La croissance

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Growth

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Dans le denuément

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Destitute

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Le déclin

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Decline

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Démuni

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Deprived

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Désespéré

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Desperate

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La dette

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Debt

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Devoir

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To owe

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Diminuer

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To decrease, fall

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La diminution

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Decrease, fall

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L’écart

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Gap

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L’endettement

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Debt

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Enrichir

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To make rich

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L’espoir

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Hope

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Être en baisse/hausse

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To be on the decline/increase

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Être endetté

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To be in debt

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La famine, la faim

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Famine, hunger

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L’impôt sur le revenu

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Income tax

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Inégal

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Unequal

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L’inégalité des chances

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Inequality of opportunity

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Le manque

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Lack

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Manquer

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To lack, be short of

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La misère

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Poverty

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Les nantis et les démunis

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The haves and have-nots

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Le niveau de vie

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Standard of living

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Se nourrir de

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To live on

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L’organisation caritative

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Charity, charitable organisation

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Le pays en voie de développment

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Developing country

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Le planning familial

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Family planning

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La pluie

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Rain

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Le pouvoir d’achat

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Spending power

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La précarité

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Lack of job security

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La privation

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Hardship

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Priver de

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To deprive of

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Le récolte

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Crop, harvest

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Répandu

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Widespread

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S’améliorer

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To get better

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Sans domicile fixe (SDF)

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Homeless

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Le/la sans abri

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Homeless person

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La sécheresse

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Drought

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Le smic

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Minimum salary

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Le smicard

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A person receiving the minimum wage

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Souffir

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To suffer

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Soutenir

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To support

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Le soutien

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Support

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La subvention

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Subsidy

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Le faux d’intérêt

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Interest rate

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Taxer

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To tax

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Tendre à

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To tend to

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Le travail bénévole

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Voluntary work

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Partisan

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Supporter

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Le seuil de pauvrété

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Poverty threshold

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Le tiers-monde

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Third world

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Le tremblement de terre

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Earthquake

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Résoudre

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To solve

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Affronter

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To confront

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Favoriser la scolarisation

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To encourage schooling

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Le commerce équitable

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Fair trade

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Le coton bio

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Organic cotton

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La judge rémunération

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Fair pay

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Les petits prêts

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Small loans

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La bonne volonté

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Goodwill

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Les droits fondamentaux

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Basic rights

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Verser une somme d’argent

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To pay a sum of money