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Fondre

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To melt

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Trier

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To sort out

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Mettre en danger

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To endanger

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Une cheminée d’usine

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A chimey stack

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Déchets

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Rubbish
Waste
Garbage
Litter

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Faune et flore

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Wildlife

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Nucléaire

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Nuclear

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La grande barriere de corail

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The great reef barrier

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Forêts équatoriales

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Rainforests

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Les énergies renouvelables

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Renewable energy

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Re-traiter

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To reprocess

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Re-utiliser

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To reuse

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Décharge

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Garbage dump

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Économiser

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To save

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Pénurie

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Shortage

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Érosion du sol

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Soil erosion

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Sommet

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Sunmit

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Dégeler

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To thaw

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Raz de marée

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Tidal wave

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Typhon

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Typhoon

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21
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Les ressources

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Supplies

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Les prévisions météo

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Weather forecast

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Réserves naturelle

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Wildlife park

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24
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Ne pas avoir le temps

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Could’nt afford the time

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Avoir un budget serré

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To have a thigh budget

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Ne pas faire quelque chose

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To failed to do something

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Échec

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Failure

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Différent / cannot match

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Odd

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29
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Les alentours

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The surrendings

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30
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Un écart

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A disorespancies

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Un filet de sécurité

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A backstop

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Parmi

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Among

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Abortion

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Prolife

Prochoice

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34
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Investiture

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Inauguration

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35
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La liberté de de culte

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The freedom of worshin

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36
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Au dessus de la mêlée

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Above the fray

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Ennuyeux

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Tedious

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Être las de

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To be weary of

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Épuisant

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Wearsome

Exhausting

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40
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A contre coeur

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Relactantly

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41
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Il manque de…

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It run out of…

To lack of…

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42
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Rare / la rareté

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Scarse / a scarcity

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43
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Éduqué

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Promote

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44
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Éclaté

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Break out

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La détérioration de l’environnement

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Habitat destruction

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Vague de chaleur / canicule

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Heat wave

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Déchets menagers

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Household wastes

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Ouragan

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Hurricane

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49
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La calotte glacière

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The ace cap

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50
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Surveiller la pollution

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To monitor pollution

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51
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ONG

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NGO

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52
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Les fonds marins

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Ocean bed

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53
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Nappe de pétrole

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Oil slick

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54
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Marée noire

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Oil spill

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55
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Agriculture biologique

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Organic farming

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56
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Nuage toxique

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Poison cloud

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57
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Baril

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Barrel

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58
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Biocarburant

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Bio-fuel

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59
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Empreinte carbone

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Carbon footstep

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Pesticides sur culture

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Crop-spraying

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Produits chimiques

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Chemicals

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Charbon

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Coal

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Caanicule

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Dog days

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Sécheresse

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Drought

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Tremblement de terre

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Earthquake

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Désastre écologique

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Ecological disaster

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Espèces en voie de disparition

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Endangered species

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Politique environnementale

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Environmental policy

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Couche d’ozone

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Ozone layer

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Etude

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Survey

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Engrais

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Fertilizers

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Énergie fossile

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Fossil energy

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Gaz à effet de serre

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Greenhouse gas

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Réchauffement climatique

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Globlal warming

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Irrespirable

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Unbreathable

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Durable

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Sustainable

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Illégal

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Unlawful

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Prendre la décision soi-même

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Homerule

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Chauvisme / patriotisme

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Jungoistic

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Vain

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Void

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Même si

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Unlike

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En dépit de

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Despite of / although

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Prendre les chose pour argent comptant

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To take thing for granted

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Société de classes hiérarchisées

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A class-ridden society

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Les occupations essentielles de tout les jours

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Bread and butter issues

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Celui qui met le feux aux pistes

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A trailblaser

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Mettre le feu à quelque chose

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To set smtg ablase

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Souffrir

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To ache

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Médicaments

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Drugs / medecines

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Seul

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All by himself

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Forte pauvreté

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Dire piverty

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Ce n’est pas seulement un arrangement

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This is not a mire agreements (mirly)

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A travers qq chose il evoque une autre chose

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Throught smtg he conjures up an other thing

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Minutieusement

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Painstakingly

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Complètement

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Throuroughly

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Insipide

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Dull

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Un manoir

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A mansion

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La frontière

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The border

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Les tribulations

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The ups and downs

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Les britanniques inscrits

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The registered britain

101
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Tony Blair est un homme politique de la troisième voie

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The third way

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Féliciter qqun de qqch

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To congratulate som on smthg

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Récemment

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Lately

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Vivre par procuration

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Live by proxit

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La sécurité sociale

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The NHS (nationale health service)

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Une défaite piquante

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A stinging defeat

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Subir une…

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To suffer a…

108
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Il s’en fiche il est climatosceptique

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Donald Trump don’t mind Greta Thunberg saying because he is change denier (climate-skeptical)

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Dans un monde où, ….

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In a world where scientist where ablet to raise people awarness, evironnemental issues may have turned better

110
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Ériger un mur

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To erect a wall / a partition

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Le cadre du travail

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The work frame

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Mettre la planète en danger

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To jeopardise the planet

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Revient à / est égal à

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Amount to

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Une insécurité psychologique

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To feel insecure

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Faux

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Alternative true

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Vérité trafiquée

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A dultered truth

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Une arnaque

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A swindle / hoax

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Surmonter

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To overcome

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Insensible

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Imperious

120
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DT est obsédé par…

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DT is very mad to the impeachement procedure being lead by the democrats

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Ne pas apprécier

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To resents

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Pas a l’ordre du jour

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Not on the agenda

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Rejetée

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Rebruffed

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Séparer

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To set appart

125
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Une réaction impulsive

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A knee jerk reaction

A gut reaction

126
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Plus on essaye de changer les choses plus on se rend compte de la catastrophe

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The more we tries to change thing, the more we understand…

127
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Impolitesse

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Rudeness

128
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C’est à dire

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I.e

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La situation qui est tendue

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That situation that is fraught with tension

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Un fossé infranchissable

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A yawning/unbridgeable gap

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S’accrocher

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Sticking

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Abiding

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Obéissant

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Un citoyen désobéissant aux loix

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A law abiding citizens

134
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Soit…soit

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Either…or

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Être abasourdi

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To takes aback

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Obéir a

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To comply with

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Mettre qqch a distance

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To sub smthg at bay

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Rappeler qqun a l’ordre

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To reminding sb of the rules

139
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Piégé

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Caught out

140
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S’efforce

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To strive

141
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Dominer

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To have an upper hand

142
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Coupé au vif

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Cut to the quick

143
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Recadrer

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Rebriffing

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Dévaloriser

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To belittling

145
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Postuler

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To attend

146
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Le mal du siècle

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