The end of the european dream - The English text book Flashcards

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Des citoyens prospères

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Prosperous citizens

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Présager, annoncer

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To foreshadow

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Un rêve qui devient un cauchemar

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A dream tunrning into a nightmare

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L’effondrement, la chute

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The collapse

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Un exploit, accomplissement, une réalisation, réussite

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An achievement

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Mettre en péril

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To imperil

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Masquer, dissimuler

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To Mask

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Des vulnérabilités

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Vulnerabilities

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Supporter l’impacte de

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To bear the impact of

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Etre à l’origine de

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To lie at the root of

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A contre cœur

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Reluctance = unwilligness

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Mettre en péril

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Jéopardize [tchépeudize]

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Un cercle vicieux

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A vicious circle

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Une difficulté grandissante à intégrer les communautés importantes d’immigrants a nourrit un contrecoup empli de xénophobie au sein de l’idéologie populiste qui veut renvoyer ou réduire le nombre d’étrangers.

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A growing difficulty of integrating large immigrant communities has fueled a xenophobic backlash among populist ideologues who want to expel or reduce the number of foreigners

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Un contre-coup

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A backlash

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Le revers de la médaille, le mauvais côté

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Flipside

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Renflouer

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To bail out

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Provenir de

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To stem from

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Etroit d’esprit, sectaire

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Parochial = narrow-minded

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Le siècle des lumières

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The age of enlightenment [enlighteu-ment]

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Puissance, pouvoir (of nation, army)

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Might

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Fragilité, faiblesse

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Frailty

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Qui plus est

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What is more

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Rétrécir, réduire

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Shrink (shrank, shrunk)

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Provoquer, entraîner

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To bring about

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L’esprit d’entreprise

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The entrepreneurial spirit

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Diagnostiquer, déceler, discerner

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To diagnose

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Engrainé (=widespread)

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Ingrained

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Un marginal, un inadapté

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A misfit

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Survivre en temps de crise, tenir le coup

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To weather the storm

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Porter le fardeau

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To bear the burden

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Origine

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Inception

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Excepté, sauf / exclure

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Bar / to bar

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Improbable, tiré par les cheveux

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Far-fetched

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Etre en déclin

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To be on the wane

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slogan de l’UE

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Eu’s official motto : « unity in diversity »

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D’abord parce que… ensuite…

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For one thing,… for another

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Une aubaine/bénédiction ou un fléau

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Immigration as a boon or a bane

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Transmettre

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To convey

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Des valeurs humanistes

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Humanistic values

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critère de convergence

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convergence criteria