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la dentelle

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lace

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couper (une boisson)
agrémenter
pimenter X de Y

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to lace X with Y

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un contexte

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a backdrop

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un tambour

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a drum

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des exhortations (= des incitations)
des appels continus
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drumbeat

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une légère augmentation

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an uptick

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1) un porte-feuille

2) un éventail, une gamme

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a portfolio

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chercher à faire qch

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to seek to do sth (sought/sought)

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renoncer à qch

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to forgo sth

se conjugue exactement comme “go” à tous les temps, avec “for” en préfixe

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les exportations

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exports

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les importations

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imports

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s’abstenir de qch

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to abstain from sth

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un accord

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an agreement

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faire entrer qch
marquer le début de qch
(+ pour inaugurer qch ?)

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to usher sth in

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un allié

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an ally

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une charge

un fardeau

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a burden

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être en-deçà de qch

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to fall short of sth

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une indication

une recommandation

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a guideline

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tordre

essorer

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to wring (wrung/wrung)

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l’inquiétude

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hand-wringing

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OTAN

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NATO

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un sommet

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a summit

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ostensiblement

= d’une manière que l’on veut apparente

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pointedly

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une clause

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a provision

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faire machine arrière
to backtrack
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s'employer à qch
to go about sth
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l'engagement
commitment
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s'engager à qch
to commit oneself to sth
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apaiser qqn
to placate sb
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un basculement (géopolitique)
a pivot
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en décalage avec qch en désaccord avec qch en contradiction avec qch
at odds with sth
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méditer | réfléchir (de manière lâche)
to muse
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inverser un processus
to reverse a process
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1) (se) congeler | 2) (se) figer, (s') immobiliser
to freeze
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appuyer | renforcer qch
to back sth up
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un bombardier
a bomber
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maintenir
to sustain sth
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pérenne | résistant
sustainable
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un porte-avion
an aircraft carrier
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démolir | étriller qqn
to lambast sb
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1) à bout de bras 2) à distance respectable de manière distante
at arm's length
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des indices | des preuves
evidence
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une croisière
a cruise
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un missile téléguidé
a cruise missile
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la primauté
primacy
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libéral (au sens politique et moral)
liberal
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libéral (au sens économique)
free-market
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en soi | intrinsèquement
in its/his/her/their | own right
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appâter qqn
to lure sb
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1) porter qch (vêtement) | 2) user (physiquement ou mentalement)
to wear sth
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familier | bien connu
well-worn
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usé jusqu'à la corde
worn-out
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un bouc émissaire
a scapegoat
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déstabilisant | perturbateur
disruptive
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confiant
confident
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(se) retirer
to withdraw
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flétrir
to wither
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la vigne
vine
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pourrir sur pied
to wither on the vine
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affirmer | prétendre que...
to contend that...
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contrôler évaluer qch (dans le jargon politique)
to audit sth
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appliquer | mettre en œuvre qch
to enforce sth
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souligner | signaler qch
to point sth out
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jeter qch par dessus bord | se débarrasser de qch
to jettison sth
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qch mis à part
aside from sth
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épars
stray
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errer
to stray
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un chat errant
a stray cat
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pas du tout
not one whit (informel)
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parfaire qch
to perfect sth
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une matraque
a bludgeon
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faire l'éloge de qqn / qch
to praise sb / sth
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frôler | s'approcher dangereusement de qch
to skate close to sth
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pur et simple
outright
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l'intolérance
bigotry

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