Theme Grammatical Flashcards

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1
Q

À peine

A

Juste

Hardly

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Assister

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Attend

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Ambassade

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Embassy

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Denier en date

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Latest

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Être frappé par

Entre en proie à

A

To be plagued With

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Faire des morts

A

Claim lives

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Épidémies

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Epidemics

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8
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Entre … et …

A

What with

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9
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Se paaser

A

Occur

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10
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Ceux ahi croient au changement climatique

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Climate believers

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11
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Ceux qui réfutent

A

Climate deniers, sceptics

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12
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Éoliennes

A

Offshore wind turbines

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13
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D’autant plus difficile que

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It is all the more difficult AS

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14
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Dépenses

A

Expenditure
Costs
Spending

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Être voué à

A

To be bound to

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16
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Augmentera

A

Increase

Soar

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17
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En raison de

A

Due to

Owing to

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18
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Être condamné à

A

Doomed to

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19
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Allongement de la durée de vie

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Higher life expectancy

Rising life expectancy

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20
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Amélioration

A

Improvement in

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21
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Surpopuation carcérale

A

Prison overcrowding

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Doivent être (prévu)

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To be to

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23
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Juger

A

Deem

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24
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Faire semblant de smibteresser a qqchose

A

To pay lip service to

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Tromper

A

Fool

Deceive

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26
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Positions

A

Stands

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27
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Faire mieux que

A

Outdo

Outperform

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28
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Mur invisible

A

The glass ceiling

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29
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Kmegwlite des chances

A

Equality of opportunities

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30
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Achever (droits)

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Achieve

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31
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Combler

A

Bridge

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32
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Won’t + verb + unless(until)

A

Qu’une fois que

= will + verb + only when

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33
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Être susceptible de

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To be likely to

To be liable to

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34
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Question d’actualité

A

Topical issues

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35
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Pourtant

A

Yet

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36
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Messe

A

Mass

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37
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Se dérouler se tenir (événement)

A

To hold

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38
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Une messe qui se déroule ../ qui se tient

A

To say/celebrate mass

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39
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Cérémonie en memeoikre de quelqu’un. (Religion), un office

A

À memorial service

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40
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Monument au mort

A

Memorial war

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41
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Assister à un service funebre

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To attend à memorial service

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42
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This

A

Proche

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43
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That

A

Passe

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44
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Éviter

A

Avoid

Shun

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45
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Aller cherche quelqun

A

Go and get someone
Go and brink somebody back
To fetch smdy

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46
Q

Difficulté à

A

Difficulty IN doing /doing

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47
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Savoir où quelqu’un se trouve

A

To know sbdys whereabouts

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48
Q

Fournir à qqun

A

Provide someone with

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49
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Alentours

A

The vicinity

The surroundings

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50
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Passer devant

A

Walk past smthg

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51
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Il faut que (prévision)

A

To be to

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52
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Quitter des yeux

A

To take ones eyes off it

To stars at

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53
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Ne pas S’empêcher de

A

Could not help

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54
Q

Serrer

A

Clasp
Clutch (main)
Press

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55
Q

Avoir des ses nouvelles

A

Hear from her

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56
Q

Employer

A

Clerk

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57
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Employé de guichet

A

Counter clerk

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58
Q

Bureau de poste

A

Postoffice

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59
Q

Toile

A

Canvas

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60
Q

Vitrine

A

Window

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61
Q

Dormir sous la tente

A

Sleep under canvas

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62
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Démarcher
Faire du porte à porte
Sonder

A

To canvass

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63
Q

Devant

A

Outside

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64
Q

Faire du lèche vitrine

A

To go Window shopping

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65
Q

Jeter un coup d’œil

A

To browse

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66
Q

Retomber radioactive

A

Nuclear fallout

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67
Q

Longue portée

A

Long-range

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68
Q

Affrontements

A

Warfare

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69
Q

Infrastructure

A

Facility

70
Q

User de représailles

A

To retaliate against

71
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Imposer à

A

Impose on

72
Q

Nucelar weapon

A

Nuke*

73
Q

Débarrassé qqchose

A

To rid the world of

74
Q

Prix Nobel de la paix

A

Nobel Peace prize

75
Q

Capuche

A

Hood

76
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Cagoule

A

Hood

77
Q

Petit chaperon rouge

A

Little red riding hood

78
Q

A hood(lum)

A

Inner city

Quartier sensible

79
Q

Se précipiter

A

To rush

To dash

80
Q

Se frayer un chemin à travers la foule

A

Push one’s way through the crowd

81
Q

Pousser les gens en se frayant un chemin dans la foule

A

To elbow ones way through the crowd

82
Q

About

Around

A

Sans but

83
Q

Petite rue

Rue adjacente

A

Side street

84
Q

Réduire à néant

A

To dash smdys hope

Dash= anéantir

85
Q

As

A

Tout en (simultanéité des action)

86
Q

Crasse

A

Grime

87
Q

Très sale crasseux

A

Filthy

Grimy

88
Q

Etre exténué

A

To be worn out

89
Q

Avoir beau

A

Might

90
Q

Cinglé

A

Nutty

91
Q

Devenir fou

A

To go nuts

92
Q

Etre complètent cingle

A

To be as nutty as a fruit cake

93
Q

Sharp

A

Tranchant
Pointu
Aigu (noise)
Affûté

Perçant 
Intelligent 
Net 
Méchant (remarques)
Malhonnête 
Pile (heure)
94
Q

Harceler quelqu’un
Etre sur le dos
Faire des réflexions

Tourmenter

A

To nagg at

95
Q

Nagging

A

Persistant
Tenace

Qui ronge

96
Q

J’en ai l’eau à la bouche

A

It makes my mouth water

97
Q

Deli

Delicatessen

A

Traiterie
Épicerie fine

Produits de qualité

98
Q

Le gai

A

Lookout

99
Q

Tiens Bon

A

Hold on

100
Q

Ca ne tient pas la route

A

Doesn’t hold Water

101
Q

Épicerie

A

Grocery

102
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Patientez

A

Hold on

103
Q

Hipe

A

Faire du battage médiatique

104
Q

En vivre

A

To earn a living from

105
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Vivre de

A

Live on

106
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Adoré

A

Beloved

Cherished

107
Q

Entre temps

A

Meanwhile

108
Q

Might

A

Il se pourrait que

109
Q

Survoler

A

Fly over

110
Q

Avec égard

A

Respectfully

With consideration

111
Q

Parler à quelqu’un

A

Adress sbdy

112
Q

Noter

A

Write down

To note down

113
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Décontracté

Désinvolte

A

Casually

114
Q

Avoir envie de

A

To feel like doing

115
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Enfin

A

Côme on

116
Q

Lancer un PRODUIT

A

Launch a product (book)

117
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Organiser une soirée

A

To throw a party

118
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Rédacteur en chef

A

The editor

119
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Éditeur

A

Publisher

120
Q

LANCEMENT d’un PRODUIT

A

…launch

121
Q

Bouquet de fleurs

A

Bunch of flowers

122
Q

Prendre

A

Take

Pick up

123
Q

Trousseau de clés

A

Bunch of Kees

124
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Groupe de personnes

A

Bunch of people

125
Q

Pleuvoir des cordes

A

To pour with rain

126
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Campagne

A

Country

127
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Paysage de campagne

A

Countryside

128
Q

Être fâché avec

A

To be cross with smdy

129
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Chez qui il vivait

A

At whose place he was living

130
Q

Se disputer

A

To have a row
To have an argument

To querelle
To argue

131
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Conflit social

A

Dispute

132
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Hystérique

A

Hysterically

133
Q

Briser

A

To shutter

134
Q

Carrelages

A

Floor tiled

135
Q

L’une apres l’autre

A

One by one

One after the other

136
Q

Précipiter (qqun qqchose)

A

Dash

137
Q

Jeter
Lancer
Projeter

A

To hurl sthg

To hurl abuse at sthg

138
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Sur

A

Onto

139
Q

Continuer à (dialogues)

A

Go on

140
Q

Epave

A

Wreck

141
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Ruiner la vie de qqun

A

To screw up someones life

142
Q

Se diriger vers (petite distance)

A

To walk to

To head for

143
Q

Cheminée (le dessus)

A

The mantelpliece

144
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Les décorations

A

Trinkets

145
Q

Pauvre type

A

Creep

146
Q

Force à

A

Make someone

147
Q

Se débattre

A

To struggle

148
Q

Lache moi

A

Get off me

Let go of me

149
Q

Pour ôamour du ciel

A

For god’s sake !

150
Q

Attraper par les épaules

A

Grabb

Grasp by someones shoulder

151
Q

mouchoir

A

handkerchief

tissue

152
Q

blotti entasssé recroquevillé

A

huddled

153
Q

brpuler
roussir
brûlure

A

scorch

154
Q

exploiter quelque chose

extraire

A

quarry something

155
Q

gravières

A

quarries

156
Q

sur le bord de la route

A

atthe edge of the road

157
Q

grain de beauté

A

mole

158
Q

dodu rond

A

plump

159
Q

eclaboussement

A

splashes

160
Q

être àl’agonie

A

to be dying
to be at death’s door
to be in one’s death throes

161
Q

courrier du coeur

A

an agony column

162
Q

ceux qui s’en occupent (courrier du coeur)

A

an agony aunt, uncle

163
Q

prometteur

A

promising

164
Q

éteindre

A

estinguish

put out

165
Q

camaraderie

compagnie

A

companionship

166
Q

se donner la peine à faire qqchose

A

to bother to do smthg

167
Q

j’ai pas envie de me fatiguer

A

I can’t be bothered*

168
Q

acquiser de la tête

hocher

A

to nod

169
Q

calvaire

A

long agony

170
Q

ils sont partis chacun de leur côté

A

they went their separate ways