Time to engage

Question 1

mélanger, mêler, marrier

Answer 1

to blend

Question 2

un défaut

Answer 2

a flaw

Question 3

un carnage, bain de sang

Answer 3

a bloodshed

Question 4

évaluation des coûts

Answer 4

weighing of costs

Question 5

tendre la main x2

Answer 5

to extend open hands / to reach out to

Question 6

montrer de l’indifférence, snober

Answer 6

to offer a cold shoulder to

Question 7

à l’aube

Answer 7

at the first dawning

Question 8

ambition démesurée

Answer 8

vaulting ambition

Question 9

anéantir

Answer 9

to dash

Question 10

marque de fabrique

Answer 10

hallmark

Question 11

catalyseur

Answer 11

catalyst

Question 12

points sensibles, chauds

Answer 12

hotspots

Question 13

des complications

Answer 13

entanglement

Question 14

déchaîné

Answer 14

unleashed

Question 15

dirigeants

Answer 15

rulers

Question 16

dégager

Answer 16

to take out

Question 17

une issue, l’issue

Answer 17

an outcome

Question 18

pacifistes du gouvernement

Answer 18

administration doves

Question 19

belliciste

Answer 19

hawkish

Question 20

luttes sectaires

Answer 20

sectarian killings

Question 21

venir s’ajouter à cette triste liste

Answer 21

to add to that sad roll-call

Question 22

bousiller

Answer 22

to bungle

Question 23

trop important pour être esquivé

Answer 23

too important to be shunned

Question 24

résultant de

Answer 24

stemming from

Question 25

esquiver, se dérober à

Answer 25

to shirk

Question 26

démanteler les stocks nucléaires

Answer 26

to slash nuclear stockpiles

Question 27

briller par son absence

Answer 27

to be glaringly absent

Question 28

prévoir de

Answer 28

to slate to