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Remonter à

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Date back

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Considérer que

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Regard as

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Méprisable

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Despicable

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Créé un tabou

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Put a taboo on

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Sin

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Péché

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To doom

A doom

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Condamner à

Destin tragique

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Errer

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Wander

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Néfaste

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Detrimental

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Le nerf de la guerre

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The sinew of the war

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Roues

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Wheels

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Smoothly

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Sans pb

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Etre à la traîne

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To lag Behind

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Aller de paire

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Go hand in hand

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To wary

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Se méfier de

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Bien éloignés

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A far cry

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Enlever l’interdiction

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Scrap the ban

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Se développer

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Thrive

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Faire resurgir

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Crop up

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Éviter

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Ward off

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Préférence

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Bias

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Toile de fond

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Backdrop

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Je ne sais pas je suis desolee

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I don’t, I’m afraid

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Arbitre

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Referee / umpire

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One finds, with sore dismay, that one goes to more funerals than parties

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On constate avec un desarroi douloureux qu’on se rend plus souvent aux enterrements qu’on ne va dans des soirées

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To be lucky

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Avoir de la chance

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nativism

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xénophobie

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far from unique

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être loin d’être un cas isolé

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in midst

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au milieu de

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by no means

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pas du tout

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alas

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hélas

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ire

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colère

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advocate

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préconiser

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harbour

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cacher /entretenir

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liaise

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coopérer

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worst of all

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le pire de tout

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to balk

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rechigner à

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in the wake of

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en raison de

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unease

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malaise

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harscrabble

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misérable

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shtick

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truc

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make a huge stride

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réaliser de grands progrès

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fulfill

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réaliser

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longstanding

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de longue date

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patently

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clairement

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outnumber

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surpasser en nombre

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marriage (reconnu par l’état)

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mariage

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menial

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domestique

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to go to the polls

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aller voter

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uphold

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faire respecter

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no longer

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ne … plus

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do away

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se débarrasser

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long shot

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avoir peu de chance de gagner

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fairground

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fête forraine

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in bewilderment

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avec perplexité

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at a rally

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lors d’un rassemblement

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scapegoat

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bouc-émissaire

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puppet

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marionnette

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in some ways

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d’une certaine manière

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just over

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tout juste

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petit boulot

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dirty jobs

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living conditions

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conditions de vie

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to be a host country for

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être un pays d’accueil pour

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se souvenir de

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to recall = to recollect = to arouse

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réduire à néant

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to strip down to the bone

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crude

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brut/ grossier = in a row state = unrefined

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phony

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bidon, faux = mountebank = charlatan

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chelou

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sketchy

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to drive down

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faire baisser = to shrink = to lower = to crash = to squeeze

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the kernel = the core = the heart

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le coeur d’un débat, le fond de la vérité

fundamentals, basics

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an intricate debate

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un complexe débat = an elaborate = involved = tricky

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se répandre

une répandu d’immigrants

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to flow = to stream = to leakage =

a wave of immigrants, a flow, a influx

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to get the shaft

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to be cheated = to be mistreated = être abusé

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to shaft

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entuber

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to distort

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déformer les mots = to misrepresent = to garble = to mangle

to be manipulated by/ to bend/ to divert

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cleanly

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nettement = neat = spotless

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inherently

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fondamentalement, par essence, en soi (per se), par nature

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to corrode

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corrompre, pervertir

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sur la plupart des pbs

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on most issues

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to run amok

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devenir fou furieux

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se déchaîner

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to rage, to lose control

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class

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social background

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wasp

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guêpe

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WASP

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White Anglo-Saxon Protestant : blanc protestant

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opposant

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a opponent, a rival, a contender, a critic, a detractor, a challenger

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s’opposer à

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to oppose STMG / to be opposed to

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inventer

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invent, to make up

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to embody = incarner, représenter, être le parfait exemple de

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to symbolize, to epitomize, to be emblematic, to be representative of

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advisers

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spin doctor/aide

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les aides, les assistances

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the aid

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to be mature

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to be fully-fledged (qui a atteint l’âge de la maturité)

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the tropes

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the rhetoric, the arguments, the patterns

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in the grips of (syn)

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under the control of, yoke of, swary of, influence of; to be manipulated by

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politique entre-soi, si je te donne ça, tu me donnes ça

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cronyism

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rich oligarchy

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cronyism, a caste, a clique

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a benefit

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a gain, an upside

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to the benefit of

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au profit de

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to benefit from stg =être bénéficiaire du système

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to profit from = profiter du système

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to benefit sbdy

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bénéficier à –> le travail des bénévoles bénéficie à…

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c’est bien

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it’s beneficial

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to besiege

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to invade = to beset

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représenter un risque pour (pas de représenter)

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to pose a threat to, to put sbdy at risk, in danger

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représenter 30%, la moitié de, 30.000 unités

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to account for, to make up (pas de representer)

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to have influence

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a sway, a clout, a might, a weight, a power

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wrong

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false, erroneous

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to seek to do = chercher à faire

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to aim to do, to attempt to, to plan to, to be willing, to be determined

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to harm

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to do harm, to do/cause damage to, to undermine, to attack, to corrode

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qq qui joue avec la peur

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fearmonger

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semer

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sew (sewed/sewed ou sown);

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the chaos

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the discord/ the havoc/ turmoil/ mayhem

–> to wreak-havoc : semer le chaos

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faire des recherches

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to do research

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une augmentation d’immigration

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a surge in = a rise in = a increase in

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peu probable

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unlikely

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without a school degree

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to be low-skilled, to be low-educated

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ceux qui sont comme eux : counterpart

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fellows, mates

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ceux qui viennent d’arriver

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the new-comers

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effects

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impact, repercussions, reverberation, consequences, fallout

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salaire

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pay, salary, income, earnings

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unemployment

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joblessness

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exiger

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to demand

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the rich

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the wealthy = the well-off

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the poor

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the deprived = the needy = the destitues = humble families = the low-income families = the under-privileged

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la richesse

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the wealth, affluence, abundance, prosperity

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a vast majority (toujours comme ça)

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une grande majorité

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suffer stg

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endurer la dureté de la crise par ex

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suffer stg

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endurer la dureté de la crise par ex

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to make considerable progress

a large number of

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un progrès considérable

un grand nombre de

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une étude de

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a study by

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to produce jobs

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to generate

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consumer society

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consumerism

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companies

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firms, businesses

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créateur

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founder, creator

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to work hard

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to toil

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production

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output

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labor

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work power

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supply

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reserves

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to distort

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to twist

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manichéen

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Manichean (toujours majuscule) = simplistic = binary

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to divide stg INTO

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to be separated INTO, to tear INTO, to rip INTO

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faire peur à qq

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to scare

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to fuel : alimenter

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to boost, to spur, to nurture, to nourish, to feed, to breed

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un mélange

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a blend

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risquer de faire

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to risk + ing

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pourrir de l’intérieur

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to rot

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