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1
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le boucher

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a butcher

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le quartier pauvre, la cité (péjoratif) / le centre-ville (1)

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an inner city

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la banlieue (classe moyenne, quartier résidentiel)

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a suburb

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le voisinage / le voisin

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the neighbourhood / a neighbour

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un pâté de maison

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a block

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partir, s’en aller (faire qc)

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to go away (to do sth)

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rester en bons termes

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to remain in good terms

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rester (physique, dans un lieu) ≠ rester (psychologique, dans un état)

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to stay ≠ to remain

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rendre visite à qn, passer voir qn (3)

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to pay sb a visit / to visit sb / to call on sb (+ formel)

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maladroit / gênant, embarrassant/ gêné (1)

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awkward

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une gêne

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Ø awkwardness

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l’inconfort

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Ø discomfort

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l’embarras

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Ø embarassment

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l’aise / être mal à l’aise

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Ø ease / to be ill at ease

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facile, aisé ≠ difficile

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easy ≠ uneasy

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une maladie (2)

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a disease / an illness (état d’être malade)

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dur, difficile / dur, sévère

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hard / harsh

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colérique, qui s’emporte facilement / caractériel, lunatique

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quick-tempererd / temperemental

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sentimental

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sentimental

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pas du tout

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not at all

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contrairement à

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unlike

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un accès, une crise, une poussée → un accès de colère

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a fit → a fit of anger

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faire attention avec qc

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to take care WITH

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prendre soin de qc/qn, s’occuper de qn (2)

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to take care OF sth/sb / to look after sb

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se méfier, se défier de (2)

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to mistrust / to distrust sth/sb

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faire confiance à, se fier à

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to trust sth/sb

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suspicieux / avoir des soupçons / un soupçon

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suspicious / to be suspicious / a suspicion

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jusqu’à (ce que)

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until…

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au fait, à propos

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by the way

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pas avant (que)

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not until…

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rentrer chez soi (déplacement) ≠ rentrer (on y est) (2)

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to go home ≠ to come home / to get home

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une poêle à frire

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a frying pan

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une coutume, une habitude, une pratique (2)

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a custom / a habit / a current practice

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une arme

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a weapon

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être de bonne/mauvaise (2) qualité

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to be high / poor/law quality

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chez qn

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at sb’s house

37
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une merveille, un miracle

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a wonder

38
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pleurer (2)

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to weep / to cry

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cogner, heurter

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to knock

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ruiner, détruire, endommager (2)

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to ruin, to destroy

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tordre, arracher, déchirer

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to wrench

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souffler / s’envoler (1)

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to blow* (blew, blown)

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être balayé

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to be blown

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éloigné, à distance

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apart

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la capacité

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the ability

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le pouvoir d’achat

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the purchasing power

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emprunter

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to borrow

48
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la dette

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the debt

49
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le pétrole

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oil

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résoudre

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to solve

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les Trente Glorieuses (période d’après-guerre, consensus entre riches et pauvres) (3)

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≈ the post-war consensus / the “glorious thirty” / the glorious years

52
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l’achat/l’opération à effet de levier

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the LBO (leverage buy out)

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parler, discuter (2)

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to speak (idée de parole) ≠ to talk (idée d’échange)

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joyeux, enjoué, gai (2)

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cheerful (idée de plein d’entrain) / joyful

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acclamer, applaudir, encourager (manifester son entrain)

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to cheer

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huer

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to boo

57
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la pensée / un pensée / réfléchi / de façon réfléchie / irréfléchi / sans réfléchir, de façon irréfléchie

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Ø thought / a thought / thoughtful / thoughtfully / thoughtless / thoughtlessly

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mener sa vie

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to lead one’s life

59
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forcer, obliger qn à faire qc

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to force sb to do sth

60
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pousser qn à faire qc (3)

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to push sb to do sth / to urge sb to do sth / to encourage sb to do sth

61
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aller faire qc (futur proche), ex: Je vais manger

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be going to +V, ex: I’m going to eat

62
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qui n’a pas de sens, insensé, absurde (3)

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meaningless / senseless / absurd

63
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obtenir (2)

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to obtain / to get* (got, got) (mais pas de sens déterminé car s’emploie avec une préposition, get = idée de déplcement)

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avancer, vieillir (continuité)

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to get on

65
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se réveiller, se lever

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to get up

66
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entrer

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to get in

67
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sortir

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to get out

68
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se baisser

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to get down

69
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acheter un cadeau pour qn

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to get a present for sb

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réussir, parvenir à faire qc

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to manage to do sth

71
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apparemment

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apparently

72
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évidemment

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obviously

73
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être joignable, avoir un téléphone

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to be on the phone

74
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ou bien

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or else

75
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ou peut-être

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or maybe

76
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un Antillais / les Antilles

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a West Indian / West Indies

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en relief

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in relief

78
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une cicatrice

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a scar

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raccompagner qn (pour sortir) (2)

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to show sb out / to see sb out

80
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laisser passer qn (dans la maison)

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to let sb in

81
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gonfler

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to swell* (swoll, swollen)

82
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les traits du visage

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features

83
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sale ≠ propre

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dirty ≠ clean

84
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avoir du mal à faire qc (2)

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to have difficulty / trouble doing sth

85
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près de

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nearly

86
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parler de tout et de rien, bavarder ≈ discuter de choses et d’autres (2)

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to make small talk ≈ to talk / chat about this and that

87
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une longueur d’onde (physique ou figuratif) / être sur la même longueur d’onde

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a wavelength / to be on the same wavelength

Anglais VOC (18 decks)

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