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la pauvreté

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poverty

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le malheur

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misery

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malheureux

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miserable

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des épreuves / privations

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hardships

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persécuter

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to persecute

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persécution

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persecution

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opprimer

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to oppress

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l’oppression

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oppression

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une situation critique

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a plight

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s’enfuir d’un pays

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to flee a country

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échapper à

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to escape

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exiler

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to exile

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un exilé

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an exile

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recueillir

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to shelter

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l’asile

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asylum

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allécher

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to entice

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séduisant / tentant

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enticing

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l’attrait

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the enticement

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leurrer

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to lure

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désirer ardemment

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to yearn / to long for

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un désir ardent

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yearning / longing

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aspirer à

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to aspire to

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ambitieux

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aspirational

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émigrer

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to emigrate

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immigrer

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to immigrate

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un pionnier

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a pointer / a trailblazer

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un nouvel arrivant

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a newcomer

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un ressortissant étranger

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an alien

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un expatrié

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an expatriate

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apatride

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stateless

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déraciner

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to uproot

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affluer

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to flock to

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submerger

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to flood

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un ressortissant

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a national

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un clandestin

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an illegal

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naturaliser

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to naturalize

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légaliser / régulariser

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to legalize

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ghettoiser

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to ghettoize

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acculturer

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to acculturate

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xénophobe

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xenophobic

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xénophobie

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xenophobia

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qui a des préjugés

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biaised / prejudiced

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séparer

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to segregate

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mal accepter

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to resent

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un fardeau

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a burden

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serré

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tight

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renforcer

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to tighten

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mettre un frein à

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to curb

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un frein

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a curb

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contenir

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to staunch

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laisser entrer

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to let in

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empêcher d’entrer

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to keep out

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renvoyer

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to send / turn back

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reconduire à la frontière

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to escort back

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restreindre

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to restrikt

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accueillir

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to welcome

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faire fuir

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to drive away

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s’exiler

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to go into exile

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dans la misère

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in dire poverty / straits

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en-dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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below the poverty line

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traverser des épreuves

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to endure hardships

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des circonstances désespérées

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a dreadful plight

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un demandeur d’asile

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an asylum seeker

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des perspectives prometteuses

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rosy prospects

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le pays d’accueil

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the host country

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des perspectives sombres

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bleak prospects

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l’ascension sociale

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upward mobility

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subvenir aux besoins de

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to provide for

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s’enrichir

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to strike it rich

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faire fortune

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to make a fortune

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l’histoire d’une réussite

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a succes story

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l’histoire d’une réussite spectaculaire

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a rags-to-riches story

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un travailleur sans papiers

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an undocumented worker

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le statut de réfugié

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refugee status

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un permis de travail

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a work permit

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aisé / fortuné

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affluent

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la richesse / l’abondance

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affluence

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nanti / très à l’aise

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well-heeled

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acquérir

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to acquire

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le fric

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dough

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fabuleux

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fabulous

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gigantesque

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tremendous

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un milliardaire

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a billionaire / a multimillionaire

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un gars qui jète l’argent par les fenêtres

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a spendthrift

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dépensier

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extravagant

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sans compter

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extravagantly

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gaspiller

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to squander

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sans le sou, sans ressources

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penniless

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fauché

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broke / skint

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endetté

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indebted

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l’endettement

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indebtedness

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nécessiteux

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needy

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précaire

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precarious

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la précarité

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precariousness

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priver

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to deprive

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misérable

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wretched

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les prestations sociales

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welfare

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allouer

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to allow

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une allocation

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an allowance

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aider qn

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to assist sb

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un donateur

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a donator

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faire un don

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to donate

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un don

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a donation

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la solidarité

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solidarity

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secourir / venir en aide

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to relieve

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le secours / l’aide

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the relief / aid

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une association caritative

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a charity

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la charité

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charity

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vivre aux crochets de

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to scrounge on sb

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un bidonville

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a shantytown

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sur le pavé / dans la dèche

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down-and)out

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sans abri

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homeless

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squatter

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to squat

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la misère noire

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squalor

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épouvantable

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dreadful

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effroyable

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appalling

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affreux

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awful

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impitoyable

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ruthless

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implacable

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merciless

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un paria

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an outcast

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les nantis

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the moneyed class

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la société d’abondance

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the affluent society

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rouler sur l’or

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to be rolling in money

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les signes extérieurs de richesse

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the trappings of wealth

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creuser ≠ réduire l’écart

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to widen / close the gap

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des inégalités criantes

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gross / stark inequalities

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vivre au-dessus de ses moyens

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to live beyond one’s means

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ê a court d’argent

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to be strapped for cash / short of money

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avoir juste de quoi vivre

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to eke out a living / to live at subsistence lever

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vivre au jour le jour

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to live a hand to mouth existence

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le strict nécessaire

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the bare necessities

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réduire la fracture social

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to bridge the social divide

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fournir une aide financière

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to provide financial support

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réduire la pauvreté infantile

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to tackle child poverty

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éradiquer le fléau de la pauvreté

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to eradicate the scourge of poverty

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un centre d’accueil pour les sans-abris

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a homeless shelter

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faire la manche

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to pass the hat round

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vivre à la dure

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to rough it

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toucher le fond

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to hit rock bottom

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vivre de la charité des autres

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to live on hands-out

Vocabulaire Anglais (9 decks)

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