Theme Flashcards

1
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Universitaires

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Acadamics

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Un tsunami annonciateur de temps chaotique

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A tsunami Heralding chaotic events

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Ceinture de rouille

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Rustbelt

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Il convient donc de s’interroger

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So one can wonder

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Expliquent la survenue d’un tel phénomène

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How such a phenomenom can be accounted for

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De plus en plus

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Increasingly

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Dérive

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Drift

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8
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Les républicains

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The GOP (Grand old Party)

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Un Magnat

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A tycoon

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Immobilier

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Real estate

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Hors-systèmes

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Mavericks

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Un homologue

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A counterpart

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Calmes, réfléchi

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Sanguine

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14
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Place with all the lobbies

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K-street

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15
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Cercle politique de washington

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Washington Beltway

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16
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Tenue pour acquise

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Taken for granted

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Remis en cause et contestée

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Questioned and contested

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Ce Scrutin

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This ballot

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Divisés

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Divided

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Référendum

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Referendum

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21
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Passas vite en revue

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To glance at it

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Regarde en essayer d’identifier

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To peer

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Dévisager

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To stare

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24
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Arrête de marmonner mâcher tes mots

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Stop mumbling

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Il disparue en un clin d’œil

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He disappeared in the twinkling of an eye

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Prendre le relais

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Took over

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Figure vigoureuse

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Lusty figure

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28
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Personnifie

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Embodies

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29
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Le dynamisme

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The stamina

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30
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Se résume à

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Is nothing more

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31
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Vautrée

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Loafing / lying

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32
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Dégager qqch

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To radiate

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33
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Myope

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Short-sighted

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34
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Ils parlent de nanas

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The m’y discuss cheeks

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35
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Reluquer

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To checking up

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36
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On s’entendait à merveille

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We got along fine

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37
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Emménager

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To settle down

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38
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L’importance de ce lieu stratégique

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How crucial this stragical place could be

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39
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Cela ne date pas d’hier

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Its not new

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40
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Indépendance

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Independence

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41
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La monnaie unique

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The single currency

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42
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La concurrence

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Competition

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43
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La compétitivité

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Competitiveness

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44
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Décentraliser le pouvoir

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Dévolution

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45
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Refuse de bouger/

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Refused to budge

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46
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Au cours des deux siècles précédents

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During the previous two century

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47
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Prospérité

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The wealth

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48
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Dans le sillage

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In the wake of

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Le sort

50
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Émettre

51
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Un sablier

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An hour glass

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Cornemuse

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Homme de terrain, de réalité

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Matter of facts

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Riche

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Deep - pocketed

55
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Mixer les économies

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To mangle national economies

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A endeavour

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A project an attempt

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Armoir

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La goutiere

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The gutter

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Les draps

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The sheets

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Un risque

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Un bourbier

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A quagmire

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Excentrique

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Téméraire

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Foolhardy, reckless , bold

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Raisonnable

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Reasonable

65
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Morne

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Bleak / gloomy / Morne

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Vertu

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Vice

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La prestesse

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What presence

69
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Rentre ses griffes

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To dig his claws

70
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Abimes

71
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Le brouillard QUI EN VEUT au soleil

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Its the fog that resents/envies the sun

72
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Terrifiant

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Dreadful / terrifying

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Mis en scene

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Mourir de faim

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Starve to death

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Les consequences

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The Aftermath.

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Reclus

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Un obstacle

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A hindrance

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puisque

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mémoire d’immobilité

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memory of stillness

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se resorber (disparaitre)

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to fade out, to vanish , to retract

81
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Faire un sondage

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To make a poll

82
Q

What is wrong

Les Anglais
Un britannique

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English People
A briton

83
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S’en prendre a

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To rail against

84
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Scintiller

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To glitter

85
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les classes populaires
la classe moyennes
la bourgeoisie

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the lower classes
the middle/upper class

86
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des croyances

87
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Je creve d’inquietude

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I am worried sick

88
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Je creve d’inquietude

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I am worried sick

89
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Il a bu , il avait bu

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He drank , he had drunk

90
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Ne pese pas beaucoup

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Hardly matters mais jamais weight

91
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il croit au croyances occidentales

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He believes in western beliefs

92
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tous les deux jours/semaine

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every other day / week

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un ancien, précédent

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rarement

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hardly ever

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24h/24h

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day in day out

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formidable

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tremendous , marvelous, terrific

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satirique,

98
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la censure

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censorship

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fébrile

100
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Faire sortir de ses gonds

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to fly off the handle

101
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Prêt immobilier

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a mortgage

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renverser le gouvernement

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to overthrow the governement

103
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faire de la tôle

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to do bird

104
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faire débat / faire coulée…

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to cause a lot of ink to flow

105
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une maman dévouée / poule

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a soccer mom

106
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des banlieursards qui travaille dans le centre ville

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Commuters (downtown)

107
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Declarer

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To state to report

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Une attaque

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An assault

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Conspiration

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Conspirancy

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Incitation

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fleurir

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locataire

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école public

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state school

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jolie

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mon petit plaisir

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un phénomène

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a phenomenom

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diffamer

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to slander

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Bailler

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Somnoler