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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3
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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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5
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Expliquent la survenue d’un tel phénomène

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How such a phenomene can be accounted for

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6
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De plus en plus

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Increasingly

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7
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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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12
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Un homologue

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A counterpart

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13
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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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17
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Remis en cause et contestée

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Questioned and contested

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18
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Ce Scrutin

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This ballot

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19
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Divisés

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Divided

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20
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Référendum

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Referendum

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21
Q

Passas vite en revue

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To glance at it

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22
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Regarde en essayer d’identifier

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To peer

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23
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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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26
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Prendre le relais

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Took over

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27
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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

36
Q

On s’entendait à merveille

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We got along fine

37
Q

Emménager

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To settle down

38
Q

L’importance de ce lieu stratégique

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How crucial this stragical place could be

39
Q

Cela ne date pas d’hier

A

Its not new

40
Q

Indépendance

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Independence

41
Q

La monnaie unique

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The single currency

42
Q

La concurrence

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Competition

43
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La compétitivité

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Competitiveness

44
Q

Décentraliser le pouvoir

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Dévolution

45
Q

Refuse de bouger/

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Refused to budge

46
Q

Au cours des deux siècles précédents

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During the previous two century

47
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Prospérité

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The wealth

48
Q

Dans le sillage

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In the wake of

49
Q

Le sort

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The fate

50
Q

Émettre

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To issue

51
Q

Un sablier

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An hour glass

52
Q

Cornemuse

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Bagpipe

53
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Homme de terrain, de réalité

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Matter of facts

54
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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

56
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A endeavour

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A project an attempt

57
Q

Armoir

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Wardrobe

58
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La goutiere

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The gutter

59
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Les draps

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The sheets

60
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Un risque

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A Hazard

61
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Un bourbier

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A quagmire

62
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Excentrique

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Eccentric

63
Q

Téméraire

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Foolhardy, reckless , bold

64
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Raisonnable

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Reasonable

65
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Morne

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Bleak / gloomy / Morne

66
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Vertu

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Virtue

67
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Vice

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Vice

68
Q

La prestesse

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What presence

69
Q

Rentre ses griffes

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To dig his claws

70
Q

Abimes

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Abyss

71
Q

Le brouillard QUI EN VEUT au soleil

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Its the fog that resents/envies the sun

72
Q

Terrifiant

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Dreadful / terrifying

73
Q

Mis en scene

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Directed

74
Q

Mourir de faim

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Starve to death

75
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Les consequences

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The Aftermath.

76
Q

Reclus

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Secluded

77
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Un obstacle

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A hindrance

78
Q

puisque

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since

79
Q

mémoire d’immobilité

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memory of stillness

80
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se resorber (disparaitre)

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to fade out, to vanish , to retract

81
Q

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
Q

S’en prendre a

A

To rail against

84
Q

Scintiller

A

To glitter

85
Q

les classes populaires
la classe moyennes
la bourgeoisie

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the lower classes
the middle/upper class

86
Q

des croyances

A

beliefs