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mal se comporter

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to act up

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revenir à (total / nombre)

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to amount to

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avoir pour objectif de faire

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to aim at

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permettre

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to allow for

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se conformer à

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to adhere to (Alan Sugar adhered to his basic rules of business life)

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avoir pour résultat cumulé

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to add up

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en faire davantage, remplacer temporairement un supérieur

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to act up

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prendre des mesures utiles

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to act on (The time to act on has now arrived)

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expliquer, rendre compte

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to account for

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respecter, se soumettre à qqch

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to abide by

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représenter qqch (pour un nombre)

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to account for

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prendre en considération

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to allow for (Project officer said the alcohol screening scheme allowed for earlier intervention to tackle potential problems)

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revenir à équivaloir à

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to amount to

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disparaitre

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to die away, to die out

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se calmer, s’atténuer

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to die down

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supprimer

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to do away with

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être voué à

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to be doomed to

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tirer vers le bas

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to drag down

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19
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s’éterniser

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to drag on

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imaginer

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to dream up

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s’éloigner (de l’eau coule sous les ponts)

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to drift apart (Japan and SK have drifted apart in recent months, with tempers flaring in a dispute over how Japan should put its history to rest)

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faire baisser

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to drive down

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faire partir

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to drive out

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24
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se laisser distancier

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to drop behind

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25
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abandonner ses études

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to drop out of (school)

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donner des détails sur

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to elaborate on, to expand on

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entreprendre, se lancer dans

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to embark on/upon (they embark upon what has historically been a very slippery slope)

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empiéter sur

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to encroach on/upon, to impinge on/upon (The agressive antiterrorism programs championed by the Bush administration are encroaching on civil liberties)

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29
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disparaître progressivement

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to fade out/ to fade away

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abandonner

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to move away from (IRA moving away from violence)

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avoir des prédispositions pour

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to be cut out for (are men cut out for the job market?)

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évoquer

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to conjure up (The movie conjures up the excitement of being a teenager in 1960s London)

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s’opposer avec force à

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to cry out against (not the only voice crying against the war)

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34
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toucher sans distinction

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to cut across (cutting across all social classes)

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isolé de

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cut off from (cut off from everyday life)

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36
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faire un peu de

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to dabble in/with (He was a businessman who dabbled in politics)

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fouiller dans

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to delve into (delving into his private life)

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38
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rompre avec

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to depart from (But Penguin books is about to depart from convention)

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Priver de

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to deprive OF (He will deprive them of something to loathe)

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le tempérament, le mauvais caractère

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temper f

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aplanir, équilibrer

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to even out (which aim to even out differences between rich and poor regions in the EU)

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42
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faire face à, accepter la réalité de

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to face up to (Beijing refuses to face up to its own aggressions and employs revisionist history to rationalize its assertive claims and ambitions)

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43
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rabâcher

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to harp on sth

44
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se lier d’amitié avec, se ranger du pdv de

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to fall in with (After falling with the wrong crowd and struggling to get to grips with education, he reveals how he now has a brighter future ahead)

45
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baisser, diminuer, décroître

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to fall off (Chinese arms sales fell off significantly last year)

46
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Incomber à

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to fall to (it fell to him to end this experiment and the system that lay behind it)

47
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concorder avec

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to fit in with, to tie in with (the study fits in with previous work that has shown the illicit substance adversely affects male fertility)

48
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imposer à

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to foist on (Global warming, he says, was a setup from the beginning, a wrongheaded theory foisted upon the public by unscrupulous scientists)

49
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Contourner

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to get around (there are other ways to get around the problem)

50
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dissimuler

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to gloss over (Japanese history books glossed over the truth about Imperial Japan’s behavior abroad)

51
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divulger

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to give away (the area they are about to enter will give away secrets)

52
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céder à

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to give in to (It is essential that governments never give in to blackmail from terrorists or criminals, if security is ever to be maintained)

53
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revenir inlassablement sur

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to hammer away at (various administrations hammered away at America’s debt, reducing the burden from the wartime level of more than …)

54
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être réticent à

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to hand back from (The governors of both parties are handing back from making endorsements)

55
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se prémunir contre

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to hedge against / to safeguard against (Buying commodities is an alternative way of hedging against inflation, but there is the danger of being sucked in at the top of the market)

56
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ralentir

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to hold back (Weakness in private consumption appeared to be the main factor holding back growth).

57
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traquer

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to hunt down (Barack Obama said that he would send troops into Pakistan to hunt down terrorists even without local permission if warranted)

58
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avoir un impact sur

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to impact on (the report will impact on the renewal of the BBC’s Charter)

59
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restreindre

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to keep down (to keep down costs)

60
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mettre de côté

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to lay aside, to sweep aside (such restrictions would be swept aside under the government’s plan)

61
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vivre aux dépens de

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to live off (people live off the welfare state)

62
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être à la hauteur

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to live up to (lived up to expectations) / To measure up to

63
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revenir sur, évoquer

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to look back on (Republican members looked back on the election that catapulted their party into majority)

64
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regarder de haut, mépriser

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to look down on (Many Europeans are looking down on Americans)

65
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Avoir hâte de travailler

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to look forward to working

66
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Attendre avec impatience

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to look forward to

67
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être perdant

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to lose out on (companies must not risk losing out on profits altogether)

68
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rassembler

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to muster up (New york Magazine has finally mustered up the courage to state the blindingly obvious: London is the capital of the world)

69
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Contribuer à / Renoncer à

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to opt in / out (The German government opted out of a multimillion-euro research effort to build a European search engine that would compete with Google)

70
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participer à, prendre part

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to partake in/of

71
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Contenir (pour des qualités, dans le sens de évoquer), prendre une part, un morceau (pour de la nourriture ou du vin)

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to partage of (The film also partakes of some of the best pulp fiction clichés)

72
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introduire

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to phase in

73
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redémarrer

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to pick up (as job growth picked up, wages surged in the second half of last year before falling back this year)

74
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Supprimer progressivement

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to phase out (the government decided to phase out nuclear power by 2020)

75
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minimiser

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to play down (to be sure, several institutions have played down their exposure to the subprime market)

76
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devancer

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to play ahead of (only China, India and Ireland have pulled ahead of the competition faster)

77
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se retirer de

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To pull out of (His only credible challenger for nomination pulled out of the campaign)

78
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faire adopter

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to push through (Tony Blair pushed through the reform of Clause Four, the Labour Party’s commitment to socialism, against union opposition)

79
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Faire passer une idée, un message

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to put across (Universities haven’t succeeded in putting across the message of this greater diversity)

80
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incarcérer

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to put away

81
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mettre sur le compte de

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to put down to (That a husband and wife tend to have the same body mass index can be put down to the phenomenon of assertive mating)

82
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supporter

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to put up with (He was no longer prepared to put up with the situation in West London)

83
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compter avec

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to reckon with (China is indeed a force to be reckoned with)

84
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recourir à

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to resort to (Countries in the region had all gone through difficult times, but had not resorted to violence)

85
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être fondé sur

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rest on/upon (The new policy rests upon a perception that early intervention in mental illness is crucial)

86
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en revenir à

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to revert to (The Tories reverted to their traditional color, when M.Hague gave a presentation on the iniquities of the EU treaty)

87
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Exclure

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to rule out (The gov ruled out introducing a privacy law last night, despite calls from MPs for greater protection for the public from media intrusion)

88
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se heurter à

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to run up against (A coalition of organizations has run up against resistance among policymakers)

89
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mener à terme

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to see through (Brooks says he has made a personal commitment to the organisers to see the project through)

90
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s’occuper de, veiller à

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to see to (We will see to it that it does not happen again)

91
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s’atteler à une tâche

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to set about (I will set about the tasks of reforming of NHS)

92
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refuser de

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to be set against (The government is set against any fundamental reform of the exams)

93
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déclencher

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to set off, to trigger off (He hoped it would set off a train of events that would benefit the Cuban people)

94
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rendre plus attrayant, donner du piquant

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to sex up (He has vehemently denied “sexing up” evidence in an important dossier about Iraq’s alleged weapons of mass destruction)

95
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se distinguer de

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to stand out against (The brand-new brightly painted hospital stands out against the background of an urban wasteland)

96
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prendre du recul par rapport à

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to step back from (Both sides need to step back from the brink for the sake of democracy)

97
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être sur le point de faire qqc h

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to be on the brink of doing sth

98
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Déconcerter

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to take aback (The prime minister seems taken aback by the suggestion)

99
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être dupé, trompé

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to be taken in (Taken in by the dangerous allure of spy dramas)

100
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présenter de manière positive

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to talk up (two developers are talking up plans to to build 55.000 homes in this sand-scoured landscape)

101
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atténuer, édulcorer

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to water/ tone down

102
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friser/ frôler

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to verge on/upon (An urge to legislate verging on mania)

103
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rivaliser pour

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to vie for (India and Pakistan are vying for the support of China, and over the past months the foreign ministers of both countries have visited Beijing).

104
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S’amenuiser

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to wear off (Every new leader gets a honeymoon: Mr Cameron’s is wearing off, just as Mr.Brown’s)

105
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comparer, mettre en balance

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to weight against (the risks should be weighted against the need for research)

Anglais Vocabulaire E.C (79 decks)

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