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UNIT 8 Flashcards

1
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On dit que les Japonais boivent beaucoup de whisky

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Japanese people / The Japanese are said to drink a lot of whisky

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Les Français ont mis au point leur première bombe atomique dans les années 60.

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The French developed their first atomic bomb in the 60s

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Les jeunes, les aveugles, les Français

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The young, the blind, the French

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Je veux être vétérinaire quand je serai grand.

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I want to be a vet when I grow up

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On ne peut pas aller là-bas sans voiture.

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You cannot get there without a car.

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Quel voyage !

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What a journey !

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Quelle chance !

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What a piece of luck !

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8
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casser

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tp break / broke / broken

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choisir

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to choose / chose / chosen

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parler

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to speak / spoke / spoken

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tisser

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to weave / wove / woven

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commencer

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to begin / began / begun

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13
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boire

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to drink / drank / drunk

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nager

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to sweam / swam / swum

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15
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chanter

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to sing / sang / sung

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sonner

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to ring / rang / rung

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17
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geler

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to freeze / froze / frozen

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18
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voler

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to steal / stole / stolen

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19
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s’éveiller

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to wake / woke / waken

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20
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bondir

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to spring / sprang / sprung

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21
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rétrécir

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to shrink / shrank / shrunk

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22
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couler

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to sink / sank / sunk

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23
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sentir mauvais

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to stink / stank / stunk

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24
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impressionnant

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impressive

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manipulateur

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manipulative

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obsessionnel

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obsessive

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indépendant

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independent

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28
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rentable

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profitable

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29
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discutable

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questionable

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30
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responsable

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responsible

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séparé

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separate

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32
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subtil

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subtle

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33
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utopique

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utopian

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34
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Il faudra que tu t’y habitues.

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You will have to get used to it

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35
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Il suffit que je pense à le rappeler.

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I only need to remember to call him back.

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36
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Il se peut qu’il soit fâché contre toi.

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He may be cross with you.

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37
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Il se trouve que j’ai vu ce film.

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I happen to have seen that film.

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38
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Il s’avéra qu’elle était futée.

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She turned out / proved to be smart.

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39
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Il paraît qu’il y a eu un accident.

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I’ve heard there’s been an accident.

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40
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Il arrive que je fume une cigarette.

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I sometimes / occasionally smoke a cigarette.

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41
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Il nous reste un peu de cidre.

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We’ve got a little cider left.

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42
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Il manque toujours 20 euros.

A

There’s still €20 missing / €20 are still missing.

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43
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Il m’est venu une drôle d’idée.

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A funny idea occurred to me.

44
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Il est venu une dame de Lyon.

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A lady from Lyon came round.

45
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Il n’existe pas de solution à ce problème.

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There is no solution to this problem.

46
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chercher du travail.

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to seek work / to look for work.

47
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chercher refuge

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seek refuge

48
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Ne cherche pas à comprendre…

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Don’t try to understand…

49
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L’auteur cherche à nous persuader que…

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The writer seeks to persuade us that…

50
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Chercher un mot dans un dictionnaire.

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to look up a word.

51
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“Rira bien qui rira le dernier.”

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“He who laughs last laughs best.”

52
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Discuter, examiner.

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to discuss sth

53
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décrire, qualifier

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to describe sth

54
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préconiser, prôner

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to advocate sth

55
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être pour quelque chose dans qch

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to have sth to do with sth

56
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provoquer

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to bring sth about

57
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donner lieu à, provoquer qch

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to give rise to sth

58
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se traduire par…

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to result in sth

59
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remettre qch en cause

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to call sth into question

60
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contester

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to dispute, to question sth

61
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contredire

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to contradict

62
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ne pas tenir compte de qch

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to ignore sth

63
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l’anglais, la langue anglaise

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English, the English language

64
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une langue maternelle

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a mother-tongue

65
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un pays anglophone

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an English-speaking country

66
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la langue soignée, soutenue

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formal language

67
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la langue familière

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informal, colloquial language

68
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l’argot

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slang

69
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l’anglais parlé / écrit

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spoken / written English

70
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une formule, un slogan

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a catch phrase

71
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un mot à la mode

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a buzz word

72
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une expression figée, toute faite

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a set phrase

73
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un cliché

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a cliché

74
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un néologisme

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a neologism

75
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inventer un mot

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to coin a word

76
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une pléonasme

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a pleonasm

77
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l’orthographe

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spelling

78
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une litote

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an undestatement

79
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un euphémisme

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a euphemism

80
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dénué de sens

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meaningless

81
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en d’autres termes

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in other words

82
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c’est-à-dire

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that is to say

83
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Comment dirais-je ?

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How can I put it ?

84
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traduire un texte en arabe

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to translate a text into Arabic

85
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traduire un texte du japonais

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to translate a texte from Japanese

86
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mal traduire qch

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to mistranslate sth

87
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parler bien l’espagnol

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to speak Spanisk well, to speak good Spanish

88
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parler le portugais couramment

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to speak Portuguese fluently, to speak fluent Portuguese

89
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l’aisance de qn à s’exprimer en suédois

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sb’s fluency in Swedish

90
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compétence en anglais

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proficiency in English

91
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un test de compétence

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a proficiency test

92
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le TOEFL

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TOEFL (Test of English as a Foreign Language)

93
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parler un mauvais hollandais

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to speak poor Dutch

94
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parler mal le chinois

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to speak broken Chinese

95
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s’exprimer

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to express oneselg

96
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se faire comprendre

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to make oneself understood

97
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rafraîchir son allemand

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to brush up one’s German

98
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anglais de cuisine, mauvais anglais, sabir

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pidgin English

99
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un dialecte

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a dialect

100
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le charabia

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gibberish

101
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l’anglais approximatif parlé par les non-anglophones

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globish

102
Q

Il s’avéra que l’inondation avait été provoquée par une fuite.

A

It turned out the flood had been brought about by a leak.

103
Q

Il se peut que l’humanité disparaisse d’ici quelques siècles.

A

Mankind / Humanity may disappear within a few centuries / in the next few centuries.

104
Q

Il se trouve que le général Tomlinson était en Irak la semaine dernière.

A

General Tomlinson happened to be in Iraq last week.

105
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Il paraît que le ministre n’a pas tenu compte des conseils de son homologue allemand.

A

I’ve heard the minister ignored his German counterpart’s advice / didn’t take his German counterpart’s advice into account.

106
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Il y avait des souris partout et il a fallu qu’elle cherche refuge ailleurs.

A

There were mice everywhere and she had to seek refuge / shelter elsewhere / somewhere else.

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