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Apparemment, en apparence, vraisemblablement

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Seemingly

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Les fermetures des locaux

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The locks of the office

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complet, minutieux, exhaustif, approfondi

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Thorough

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Réaliser

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to carry out, to implement, to achieve

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C’est inutile

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There is no point in

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Forte diminution, chute crucial

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Sharp fall

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Déplorer

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To lament, to bemoan

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Avoir l’intention de

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To intend

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Couverture santé

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Health insurance

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Donner un conseil

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To give a piece of advice

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Les emprunteurs

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The borrowers

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Méfiant

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Cautious, suspicious

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Courir le risque de

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To be Running the risk of

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Que cela te plaise ou non

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Whatever you like it or not

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Ranger

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To put away, to organize

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Expert contable

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Chartered accountant

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Pays du Nord

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Northern countries

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Prix cassés

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Sold off cheaply

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La dinde

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Turkey

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OGM

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Genetically modified food

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Accrochages

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Skirmishes

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Donner lieu à

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To provoke

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Se battre bec et ongles

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To fight tooth and nail for

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Défendre, soutenir

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To champion

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Freiner des 4 fers ( image pour dire s’opposer par tout les moyens, faire le maximum contre)

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To strongly resist / to jam on the brakes

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Vague de froid

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Cold smell

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Simple, pur

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Mere , sheer

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Dissuader, prévenir quelqu’un

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To deter

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Poursuivre les recherches

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Getting on with research

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Être en droit

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To be entitled

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Soulever des objections

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Raise objections

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Une invention révolutionnaire

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A breakthrough innovation

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La faillite / faire faillite

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A bankruptcy / go bankrupt

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Éviter, parer, repousser qqchose

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To fend off

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Venir en masse, affluer

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To flock on

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Fiable

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Reliable, trustworthy, sound

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Si j’étais toi

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If I were you

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38
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Soldat de l’armée américaine

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U.S Army private

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Une conférence

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A conference (au congrès), a lecture (contexte universitaire), speech (cadre public), a address (declaration officielle), meeting, talk

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S’écrouler

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To collapse, fall down

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Chiffre d’affaire

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A turnover

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42
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La situation est d’autant plus critique que

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The situation is all the more critical as

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Le personnel

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The staff

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44
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Au début des années 90

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In the early 90’s

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Quel dommage

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What a pity

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Taux

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Rates, level, ration

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Abaisser

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To Decrease, lower

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48
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Ils devront accepter ( contraignant mais sans autre choix)

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They will have to lump it

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Une prime

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A bonus

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Cultures, récoltes

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Crop

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Causer, avoir pour résultat

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To cause, to make for

Ex : à high unemployment rate makes for social unrest

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Unrest

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Troubles agitations, instabilité, malaise

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Un syndicat

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A union/ trade union

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Nombre de membre

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Membership

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Bien que

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Although

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Suggérer qqchose

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To float an idea

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57
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Des propositions

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Proposals

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58
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Envisager

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Consider/ envisage

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59
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Renoncer

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To renounce

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60
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Cadres supérieurs

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Senior executives, senior managers

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Tenir compte de

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Take account of

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62
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Le directeur général

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The Managing director

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63
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Défaut de paiement

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Default of payment

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Prêter

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To lent

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65
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Environ 30% de moins par rapport à 2002

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Nearly 30% down on 2002

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Pétrolier

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Oil tanker

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67
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Marée noire

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Oil spill off

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Déverser, renverser

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To spill

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69
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Louer

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To rent

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70
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En avoir les moyens/ ne pas en avoir les moyens

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He can / can’t afford ( se permettre)

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La banlieue

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The suburb

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A qui as tu emprunter ces deux livres

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Who did you borrow these books from?

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Présage rien de bon, être de mauvais augure pour

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To augur ill, to bode ill

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74
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Blocage des salaires

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A Wage freeze

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75
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Envisager qqchose

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To consider, contemplate, envisage

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76
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La concurrence

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The competition

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77
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Les industries traditionnelles, lourdes (charbon etc…)

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Smokestack industries

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Ne plus pouvoir faire face à la concurrence

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Can no longer compete/ contend/ face with the competition from

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79
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Une grasse matinée

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A lie-in

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80
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En entrant dans le centre commercial

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On/ upon entering the mall

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81
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Beaucoup trop tard

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Much too late

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82
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Plus la situation économique s’améliore, plus les désastres climatiques s’accumulent

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The better the economic situation is, the more climate disasters there are

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83
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Les emplois peu qualifiés disparaissent en foule /en grand nombre

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Low-skilled jobs disappeared IN DROVES

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Tels que, comme

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Such as

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85
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Pour connaître, pour découvrir

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To find out

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86
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A la fois

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Both

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87
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Les dépenses

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Expenses / expenditures

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88
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A qui est cette voiture ?

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Whose car is it?

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89
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Aller voter

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Going to the polls

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Une facture

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A bill

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Une annonce

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An advertisement

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92
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Un service ( marketing)

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(Marketing) Department

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Un jeune diplômé d’une Grande École de Commerce

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A young graduate from a prestigious Post Graduate Business School

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A shift / to shift

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Un mouvement, déplacement, virage, transformation / modifier qqch, évoluer

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95
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Galerie commerciale

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Shopping mall (USA), shopping arcade

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Un distributeur automatique de billets

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An automatic/ automated teller machines (ATM), a cash dispenser (UK)

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Un bon rapport qualité prix

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A good value for money

98
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La stratégie a toujours consisté à…

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The company’s strategy has always been to

99
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Des personnes formées, former des travailleurs

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Trained persons, to train workers

100
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Je suis assez pessimiste

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I’m RATHER pessimistic

101
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Ces firmes recevront de moins en moins de subventions

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These firms will be granted fewer and fewer subsidies

102
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Ils devront s’habituer à ne compter que sur eux-mêmes

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They will have to get into the habit of relying only on themselves

103
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Ce bâtiment est en construction depuis plus de deux ans

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This building has been under construction for more than 2 years

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Déverser

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To pour out, to spill sth

105
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Contraindre

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To press on, to put pressure on , to force, to compel

106
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Il y a en hiver deux fois d’ouvriers absents qu’en été

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In winter, absentees are twice as many as in summer

107
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Tenir en compte

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To take into account/ to be taken into account

108
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La dureté du climat

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Harsh weather / the harshness of the climate

109
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Recourir à qq chose

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To resort to :

These firm resort to unfair practices

110
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Pratiques commerciales malhonnêtes

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Unfair/ dishonest commercial practices

111
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Intervenir

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To intervene, step in

112
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Ces industriels

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These industrialists

113
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La hausse des prix

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Prices hikes

114
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Un porte parole

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A spokesmen /spokepersons

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Faire la queue

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To queue/line up / waiting in line to

116
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S jamais vous vouliez me voir avant la date proposée

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If you ever wish/ Should you need to see me before the arranged date

117
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Mon voisin

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My neighbour

118
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Travailler à mi-temps

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To work part-time

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Logements sociaux

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Council houses

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Haste

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Hâte, précipitation, empressement

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Jolt

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Secousse, choc, cachots, sursaut

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To fall (fell, fell) / to feel (felt, felt)

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Tomber/ sentir

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To nod

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Hocher la tête, acquiescer, faire oui de la tête

124
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S’asseoir

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Sit (sat, sat) down

125
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Une femme / des femmes

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A woman / women

126
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Un tablier

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An apron

127
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Sous entendre

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To unnderline

128
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Soit l’un soit l’autre

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Either A or B

129
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Ni l’un ni l’autre

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Neither A nor B

130
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Prime d’assurance

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Premiums

131
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Assister à une réunion

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To attend a meeting

132
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Dans le cadre de

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In the frame of

133
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Programme scolaire, cursus scolaire

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A study syllabus

134
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Petite et moyenne entreprises

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Small and medium-sized firms/companies

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Être au bord de la faillite

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To be on the verge of bankruptcy / are about to go bankrupt / are on the brink of going bust

136
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Le chiffre d’affaire à baissé de plus de 5% par rapport à l’année dernière

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The turnover is over 5% down on last year’s

137
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Le patronat et syndicats

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The management and unions

138
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Être à couteaux tirés

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To be at loggerhead

139
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200 ouvriers environ

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Two hundred - odd workers

140
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Se retrouver au chômage temporaire

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To be idled

141
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to wane

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diminuer ( The 21th century will see oil’s influence wane)

142
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promener quelqu’un

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to take somebody out for a walk

143
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ne pas quitter quelqu’un du regard

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to not take my eyes off you

144
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Avoir beau (ex : Nous avions beau ma mère et moi afficher un calme désarmant)

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However hard my mother and I tried to look disarmingly calm

145
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désarmant (qui interdit toute réplique par sa simplicité)

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disarmingly

146
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se sentir délaissé, désarmé, impuissant, désemparé, assiégé

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to feel helpless

147
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le répondeur téléphonique

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the answerphone

148
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lean (adj) / to lean / to lean over

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mince / s’adosser, se pencher, s’appuyer contre / se pencher sur

149
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Lâcheur !

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You dropped us

150
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Tourner en rond

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to go round in circles

151
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to breathe a sign of relief

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pousser un soupir de soulagement

152
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Qu’est ce qui se passe ? Qu’est-ce qu’il y a ?

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What’s the matter ?

153
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escalader

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to climb

154
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Tu parles d’un scandale/ gueule de bois !

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Talk about a scandal / hangover !

155
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Je suis à Paris depuis 11 jours déjà

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I have been in Paris for eleven days already

156
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Je n’ai aucune joie

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I feel no joy whatsoever (aucune)

157
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Mais j’espérais quand même

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But all the same (tout de même) I had not given hope

158
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Décapiter

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To Decapitate

159
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Ils ne se rendaient pas compte de ce que cela me faisait

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They had no idea of how it made me feel

160
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Un cercueil

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A coffin

161
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Être sur le point de

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To be on the verge of (tears, barkrupcy…)

162
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Des tas d’amis

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A loads of friends

163
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A Wrangling

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Une querelle, une dispute

164
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Protestors fill the streets

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Les manifestants affluent dans les rues

165
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to fall short of expectations

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Être en dessous des attentes / pas être à la hauteurs des espérances

166
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To phase out (fossil fuels)

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Cesser /éliminer/ supprimer progressivement

167
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Une étape significative /importante

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A major milestone

168
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Thereby

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Ainsi, donc

169
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To ramp up (their pledges)

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Intensifier, accroître, redoubler d’efforts, assumer les promesses

170
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To pitch in

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Participer financièrement

171
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To cope with the impacts

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Résister, gérer, supporter les impacts

172
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To pump seed money into promising ideas

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Injecter de l’argent jent dans des idées promettantes

173
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To shun

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Éviter, fuir, ignorer

174
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Adversely

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Défavorable, négatif, nefastes

175
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The evidence for anthropogenic climate change is harder than ever to ignore

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L’évidence d’un changement climatique à cause de l’homme est plus que jamais difficile à ignorer

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All the ocean’s coral might be wiped out in a two-degree world

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Wipe out = effacer, anéantie, détruit

177
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Rythme effréné

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A breakneck pace

178
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A l’époque

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At that time

179
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Reprendre des activités

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To resume activities

180
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Appartenir

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Belong to

181
Q

Le regard/ regarder

A

A gaze / to gaze

182
Q

faded color

A

couleur décoloré/ / défraichie

183
Q

a leather frame

A

un cadre en cuire

184
Q

riding / a riding helmet

A

l’équitation / un casque, bombe d’équitation

185
Q

a smatttering of freckles

A

des tâches de rousseur

186
Q

a thrill/ to thrill./ thrilling / a thrilling smile

A

un frisson, l’émotion / vibrer, électriser, frissoner/ palpitant, passionnant, captivant, sensationnel / un sourire charmeur

187
Q

to refine / refinement

A

affiner, améliorer, raffiner, ajuster / raffinement, amélioration

188
Q

a sweep of the hand

A

d’un revers de la main

189
Q

a love seat

A

une causeuse

190
Q

traverser

A

to cross

191
Q

C’est une question d’habitude

A

It’s just a question of habit/ you get used to it

192
Q

Prendre quelques collègues au passage

A

To pick up a fiew colleagues on the way

193
Q

La Manche

A

The Chunnel

194
Q

affirmer

A

to affirme, claim, assert

195
Q

l’éclatement de la bulle financière

A

the bursting of the housing bubble

196
Q

autoroute

A

motorway/ highway

197
Q

Chemin de fer

A

railway/ railroad

198
Q

La frénésie

A

the frenzy

199
Q

Les années de boom économique

A

Economic boom years

200
Q

éleveurs de bétail

A

cattle breeder

201
Q

se reconvertir dans

A

to retrain in / turned to

202
Q

se retrouver au chômage

A

to find himself unemployed

203
Q

Renouer avec la croissance

A

To enjoy with growth again

204
Q

Une personne sur quatre est sans emploi

A

one in four people is jobless

205
Q

renommé

A

renowed, well-known, famous

206
Q

To dial a number

A

Composer un numéro

207
Q

To hand up / hold the line / I will put you through to X / the answering machine

A

Raccrocher le tel / restez en ligne / je vais vous passer / le répondeur

208
Q

Soulager

A

To ease

209
Q

Un enjeu

A

A stake

210
Q

Une décision

A

A ruling

211
Q

Une pénurie

A

A shortage

212
Q

Effrayer quelqu’un

A

To frighten

213
Q

To resume

A

Reprendre une activité

214
Q

Un candidat populaire

A

A grass-roots candidate

215
Q

Recourir à qqchose

A

To resort to sthg

216
Q

Une légère baisse

A

A slight drop

217
Q

Les frais de scolarité

A

Tuition fees

218
Q

Mépriser qq un

A

To scorn sb

219
Q

Un procès

A

A trial

220
Q

Les droits des enfants sont encore bafoués de nos jours

A

Children’s rights are still flouted nowadays

221
Q

Le juge

A

A judge

222
Q

Après quelqu’un chose, à la suite de

A

In the wake of sthg / following

223
Q

Cela fait des années depuis …

A

It is (has been) ages since

224
Q

La famille vit avec 1400€ par mois

A

The family lives on 1400€ a month

225
Q

Remplir

A

to fill, complete

226
Q

Ce qu’on utilise vienne d’un rayon de 200 kilometres

A

that we use should come within 150 miles

227
Q

En vacance

A

On vacation

228
Q

Pour l’instant

A

For the time being

229
Q

Quitter la ville pour la campagne

A

to move to the countryside

230
Q

That way

A

Ainsi, de cette façon

231
Q

Fuir

A

To flee

232
Q

Chercher qq’un

A

to look for

233
Q

Conventional wisdom

A

Sagesse populaire, idées reçus, préjugés

234
Q

Préoccupations

A

Concerns

235
Q

Ami ou ennemi ?

A

Friend or foe?

236
Q

GMO is often deemed to be unethical

A

OGM est souvent considéré / estimé comme immoral

237
Q

Se pencher sur son passé

A

To look back on our past

238
Q

Loger

A

To House

239
Q

Une inauguration très attendue

A

A eagerly-awaited inauguration

240
Q

Une entrée (d’un concert, musée etc )

A

An admission

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