Virginie: La Belgique des regions Flashcards
1
Q
entérinée
A
approved/validated
2
Q
la demission
A
resignation/abdication
3
Q
combler +
- le vide
- les blancs
- son retard
- une lacune
A
- fill the void/emptiness
- fill the blanks
- make up for lost time
- fill a gap/address a shortcoming
4
Q
être le dindon de la farce (2)
A
- to be the butt of the joke
- end up a laughing stock
5
Q
un entretien
A
interview
6
Q
un voeu
A
a vow
7
Q
l’impasse (f)
A
deadlock/stalemate
8
Q
riposter
A
respond/retaliate
9
Q
un épouvantail
A
scarecrow
10
Q
inedite
A
new/previously unseen
11
Q
apporter sa pierre a l’edifice
A
play one’s part in [sth], make one’s contribution to [sth], do one’s bit towards [sth]
12
Q
mettre entre parentheses
A
put in brackets/parentheses
put in the middle/to the side
13
Q
get stuck (i.e. unable to proceed)
A
se retrouver bloque/coincer
14
Q
prégnant
2 synonymes
A
significant/important
dominant, marquant
15
Q
vivre en marge de la société
A
live on the fringes of society (i.e. be marginalized)
