Schools-education Flashcards

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1
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School attendance

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La fréquentation scolaire

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Compulsory

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Obligatoire

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To attend school

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Fréquenter l’école

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Kindergarten

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L’école maternelle

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Primary school

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L’école primaire

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High school

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Le lycée

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Tuition fees

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Les frais de scolarité

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A schoolboy/a schoolgirl

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Un écolier/une écolière

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Coeducational

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Mixte

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The pupils

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Les élèves

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The staff

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Le corps enseignant

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A schoolmaster/a schoolmistress

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Un instituteur/une institutrice

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The headmaster/the headmistress

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Le directeur/la directrice

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A teacher

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Un professeur

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A gown

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Une toge

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A boarding school

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Un internat

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A boarder

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Un interne

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A day-pupil

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Un externe

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Alumnus

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Un ancien élève

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A schoolfellow

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Un camarade de classe

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A class

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Une classe

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The desk

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Le bureau

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A form

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Un banc

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The blackboard

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Le tableau noir

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Chalk

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La craie

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To wipe

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Essuyer

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A duster

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Un chiffon

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A sponge

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Une éponge

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A slide projector

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Un projecteur à diapositives

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A map

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Une carte

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A textbook

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Un manuel

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A bookcase

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Une bibliothèque (meuble)

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A pen

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Un stylo

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An inkpot

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Un encrier

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A blot of ink

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Une tâche d’encre

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To blot

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Sécher

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Blotting-paper

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Du buvard

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A fountain pen

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Un stylo

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A ball-point pen

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Un stylo bille

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A biro

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Un bic

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A felt-tip

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Un feutre

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A pencil

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Un crayon

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Paper

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Du papier

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The cover

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La couverture

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Cardboard

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Du carton

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A page

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Une page

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A glue

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De la colle

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A sheet

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Une feuille

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To paste

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Coller

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A copybook

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Un cahier d’écriture

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An exercise book

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Un cahier d’exercice

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A notebook

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Un carnet

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To look up a word un the dictionary

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Chercher un mot dans le dictionnaire

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54
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To jot down something

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Prendre en note quelque chose

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A ruler

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Une règle

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A pair of compasses

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Un compas

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A rubber

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Une gomme

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To erase

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Effacer

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A case

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Une trousse

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A satchel

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Un cartable

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A peg

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Une patère

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The cloakroom

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Le vestiaire

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A period

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Une heure de cours

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The break

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La récréation

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The refectory

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Le réfectoire

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The playground

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La cour de récréation

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The playing field

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Le terrain de sport

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A gymnasium

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Un gymnase

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A laboratory

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Un laboratoire

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A term

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Un trimestre

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71
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Half-term

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Un congé de mi trimestre

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72
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School breaks up

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Les classes se terminent

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73
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The summer holidays

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Les grandes vacances

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74
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Curriculum

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Le programme

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75
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The timetable

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L’emploi du temps

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To teach a subject

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Enseigner une matière

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Reading

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La lecture

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Writing

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L’écriture

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Arithmetic

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Le calcul

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To explain something

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Expliquer quelque chose

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81
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To mean

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Signifier

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82
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Meaning

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Le sens

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83
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To question someone

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Interroger quelqu’un

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84
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To ask someone

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Poser une question à quelqu’un

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85
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To answer something

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Répondre à quelque chose

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86
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To learn by heart

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Apprendre par cœur

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To copy something

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Copier quelque chose

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To repeat something

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Répéter quelque chose

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To recite a lesson

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Réciter une leçon

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To spell a word

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Épeler un mot

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Spelling

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L’orthographe

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A dictation

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Une dictée

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A mistake

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Une erreur

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Grammar

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La grammaire

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A tense

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Un temps

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To count

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Compter

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A number

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Un nombre

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A figure

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Un chiffre

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Odd

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Impair

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Even

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Pair

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Cardinal

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Cardinal

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Ordinal

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Ordinal

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To add up

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Additionner

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To substract

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Soustraire

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To multiply

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Multiplier

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To divide

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Diviser

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The four sums

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Les quatre opérations

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A pocket calculator

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Une calculatrice

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Easy

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Facile

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Difficult

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Difficile

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Tough

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Pénible

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Right

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Juste

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Wrong

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Faux

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Religious instruction

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L’instruction religieuse

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Physical education

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L’éducation physique

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Mathematics

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Les mathématiques

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History

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L’histoire

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Geography

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La géographie

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Science

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Les sciences

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Art

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Les arts

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Music

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La musique

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Handicraft

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Les travaux manuels

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Modern languages

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Les langues vivantes

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Classical languages

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Les langues mortes

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Latin

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Le latin

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Greek

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Le grec

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Homework

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Les devoirs

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To set someone a paper

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Donner un devoir à quelqu’un

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A test

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Un contrôle

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Gifted

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Doué

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Memory

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La mémoire

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To remember

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Se rappeler

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To forget

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Oublier

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Clever

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Intelligent

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To understand

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Comprendre

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Sharp

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Vif

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Bright

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Brillant

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Proficient un something

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Fort en quelque chose

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Good at something

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Bon en quelque chose

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A fool

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Un sot

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A blockhead

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Un imbécile

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Silly

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Stupide

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Ridiculous

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Ridicule

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Preposterous

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Absurde

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To talk nonsense

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Dire des bêtises

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A dunce

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Un cancre

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Retarded

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Arriéré

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Painstaking

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Travailleur

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To take pains

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Se donner du mal

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Lazy

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Paresseux

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Idle

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Fainéant

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Laziness

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La paresse

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Idleness

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L’oisiveté

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Thoughtless

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Irréfléchi

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Absent-minded

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Distrait

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Care

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Le soin

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Careless

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Négligent

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Carelessness

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La négligence

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Quiet

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Silencieux

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Still

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Calme

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Restless

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Remuant

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To make a noise

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Faire du bruit

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To punish

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Punir

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To cheat

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Tricher

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To be late

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Être en retard

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Absentéisme

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Abstenteisme

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To play truant

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Faire l’école buissonnière

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To bully

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Brutaliser

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A detention

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Une retenue

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To be kept on detention

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Être gardé en retenue

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To be reported to the head

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Être signalé au directeur

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To cane

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Corriger avec une cane

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To thrash

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Donner une correction

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To maintain discipline

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Maintenir la discipline

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A prefect

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Un élève chargé de la discipline

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To expel a pupil

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Mettre un étudiant à la porte

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To drop out of school

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Renoncer à ses études

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A grade

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Une note

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Bad

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Mauvais

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Poor

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Médiocre

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Tolerable

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Passable

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Fair

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Assez bien

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Good

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Bien

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Excellent

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Parfait

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The average

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La moyenne

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A report

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Un bulletin

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Behaviour

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La conduite

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Proficiency

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Le niveau

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Progress

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Le progrès

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To get on un something

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Faire des progrès en quelque chose

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To congratulate someone

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Féliciter quelqu’un

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To reward someone

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Récompenser quelqu’un

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A prize

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Un prix

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To go to university

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Aller à l’université

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To obtain a scholarship

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Obtenir une bourse

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To be educated at

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Faire ses études à

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A student

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Un étudiant

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A lecture

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Un cours

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A lecturer

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Un maître de conférence

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A tutor

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Un directeur d’études

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An undergraduate

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Un étudiant

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To read a subject

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Étudier une matière

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To read languages

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Faire des études de langues

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To major un something

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Se spécialiser en quelque chose

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A degree

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Un diplôme

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To take an exam

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Passer un examen

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To pass

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Être reçu

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To fail

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Échouer

209
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A graduate

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Un diplômé

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A master’s degree

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Une maîtrise

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A doctor of philosophy

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Un docteur

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A Ph. D

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Une thèse

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A polytechnic

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Un IUT

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A scholar

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Un chercheur

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Learned

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Instruit

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To do research in

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Faire de la recherche sur

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R and D

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La recherche et le développement