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1
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Lancer un d?bat

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To spark off a debate

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Les actes, la mani?re d’agir, ce qu’on choisit d’?tre

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Performance

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Une branche

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A chapter

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Prendre en compte

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To reckon with / to take into account

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Brandir

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To brandish = to wield

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Petits changements

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Marginal tweaks = slight changes

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Sur le point de

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On the verge = about to

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Se d?p?cher

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To hasten = to be quick

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Affirmer/revendiquer

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To assert = to claim

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Brut, basique

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Raw = basic = crude

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Sinister, terrible

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Grim = sinister = terrible

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Emp?cher (avant)

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To foreclose

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Saisir

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To foreclose on

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Inflexible

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Lockstep (= close-minded)

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Renforcer

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Reinforce = beef up = tighten = strengthen

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Sur un terrain glissant

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On a slippery slope = on a shaky ground = skating on thin ice

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Se lancer dans, se risquer ?

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To venture into

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Tirer du r?confort de

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To take some solace from

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Facilement dissimul?es

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Easily concealed

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Etre contre

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To oppose something

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Un proc?s intent? par ? contre?

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A lawsuit filed by someone against someone

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Tenir quelqu’un pour responsable de

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To hold someone liable for something

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Clause de confidentialit?

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Nondisclosure agreements

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march? du travail

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A workplace

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Charge de travail

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workloads

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Coll?gue

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Co-workers

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Vente (au d?tail)

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Retail

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Responsable marketing

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Marketer

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Programmeur / D?veloppeur de logiciel

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Software engineers

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DRH

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Human resources executives (HRE)

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Un environnement de travail exigeant

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Demanding work environments

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Principes de management

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Leadership principles

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Le succ?s en bourse de la soci?t?

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The company’s success in the marketplace

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Les retomb?es secr?tes

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Secret feedback

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35
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Des tests sur des milliers de statistiques

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Quizzes on thousands of metrics

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Une entreprise tentaculaire/florissante

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A sprawling business

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Des ing?nieurs tr?s recherch?s/demand?s

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Sought-after engineers

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Les chasseurs de t?te

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Recruiters

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39
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Les avocats de l’emploi

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Employment lawyers

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Les analystes financiers

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Financial analysts

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Expert en gestion

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Management experts

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Les concurrents

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Competitors

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43
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Le capital-risque

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The venture capitalist

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44
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Surcharg? de travail

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Overwork

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45
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Les pratiques choquantes tellement elles sont impitoyables

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Shockingly callous management practices

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Classer et virer

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To “rank and yank” = To “burn and churn” ? terrorism

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To get rid of something

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To yank

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48
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La passoir

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A sieve

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49
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Depuis la nuit des temps

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From time immemorial

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50
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?tre exigeant

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To be fussy = picky = choosy

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51
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Avoir des difficult?s ?

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To have difficulties IN

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52
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Parlent beaucoup mais agissent pas

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All bank and no bite

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53
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Ramener ?a sur le tapis

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To bring something up again

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54
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Elle ne ferait pas de mal ? une mouche

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She couldn’t hurt a fly

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Etre condamn? ? (destin)

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To be bound to

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56
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Le cours (des actions)

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The share-price

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57
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Eventail

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Array

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58
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D?s?quilibre

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Imbalance

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59
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La pression

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The strain = the pressure

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Avoir la chance de

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To have a chance OF +ing

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Avoir des difficult?s pour

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To have difficulty IN +ing

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R?ussir ?, avoir du succ?s dans ?

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To succed IN +ing

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Pendant ces derni?re ann?es

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OVER the past few year

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Commencer d’en bas, en bas de l’?chelle

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To start from scratch

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65
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Une exception plut?t que la r?gle

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An exception rather than a rule

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66
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Prosp?rer

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To thrive

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67
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?tre tr?s loin de ?

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To be far removed from

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68
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R?ussir quelque chose / r?ussir dans quelque chose

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To achieve SOMETHING (a position, success) ? manage to DO SOMETHING

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69
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Rencontrer des difficult?s / qqun

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To encounter a problem ? to meet a person

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Reculer (crisp?, d?go?t) devant qqch

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To recoil

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71
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? l’aise / mal ? l’aise

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At ease ? ill-at-ease

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72
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Grimper l’?chelle sociale, vers le succ?s

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To climb the ladder of success

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Charg? de (travail)

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Charged with

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74
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Les buissons

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Bushes

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75
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?tre dans la confidence

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To be in a know

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Se contenter de

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To be satisfied with

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Perplexe/confus

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Perplexed

78
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Les chances de ?

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One’s prospect of?

79
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Jalouser

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To envy

80
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S’agacer, s’irriter

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To chafe

81
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La pression pour se marrier que lui met quelqu’un

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The pressure to wed from someone

82
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Bonne volont?

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Willingness

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Bienveillance

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Goodwill

84
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Une diff?rence (n?gatif)

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A discrepancy

85
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Quelque chose qui existe depuis longtemps

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A long-standing

86
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Provoquer (faire arriver)

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To cause

87
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Les croyances

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The beliefs

88
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La mis?re (pauvret? ++)

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Destitution/poverty

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Etre tr?s triste (=?motion)

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To live in misery

90
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Prendre de l’ampleur

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Gain ground = gain momentum

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Prendre racine dans

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To be rooted in

92
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Mettre fin ?

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To put an end to (=stop)

93
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Remplir ce qu’on a ? faire, sa mission

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To meet demands

94
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Augmenter, prendre de l’importance

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To plus up

95
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Bavard, loquace

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verbose

96
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Passer en revue

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To peruse

97
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S’impr?gner

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To soak up

98
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bi?re

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An ale

99
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artisan

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craftsmen

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transmettre

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To convey

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Octroyer / donner

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To bestow

102
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Les experts expliquent aux firmes

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Pundits tell firms

103
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Vendre (marchands des foires)

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To peddle

104
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Reculant / fluctuant (mvt des mar?es)

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Ebbing

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S’efforcer de

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To strive to

106
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D?sirer par-dessus tout

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To yearn to

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Fauteuils

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Armchairs

108
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un sacr? ?crivain

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Hell of a writer

109
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En perdre nos moyens tellement on est ?

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To be ? out of our wit

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Essayer de faire pareil que les Dupont

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Trying to keep up with the Joneses

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Important

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Steep

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Pr?parer le terrain

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Laying the groundwork

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Marque un moment butoir

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By ?

114
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Remettre en question

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To call into question

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Surveiller de pr?s

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To monitor something closely

116
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The first to do something, and to pave the way for the others

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Standard-bearer

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Un gadget

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Gimmicks

118
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Shop that really exists

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A brick-and-mortal retailers ? virtual retailer

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Douteux

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Unsavory

120
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ce qui nous attire, nous donne envie de faire quelque chose

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A ploy

121
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Un r?pit

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A reprieve

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Lutte avec les bras

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Arm wrestling

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Attirer dans

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To draw into

124
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Faire des soldes

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To hold a sale

125
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?tre dans une impasse

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To come to a dead end

126
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Prendre le dessus

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To take precedence over

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Appeler un chat un chat

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To call a spade a spade

128
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Aller dans le sens de

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To fit in with

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Sous couvert de

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Under the cover of

130
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Suivre les chantiers battus

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To follow the lines that have been laid out

131
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Les d?rives

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Excesses / abuses

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Encourager

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To foster

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Bien se marier

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to go hand in hand with / to go well together

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L’hypocrisie / hypocrite

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Hypocrisy / hypocritical

135
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Les sportifs de haut niveau

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Top performers in sport

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Ternir

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To tarnish

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Eolienne

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Windmill = wind turbine

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Panneau solaire

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Solar panels

139
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Energie des mar?es

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Tidal energy

140
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Barrage

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Hydraulic energy: dam(s)

141
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Gaz ? effet de serre

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Greenhouse gases

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D?chet nucl?aire

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Radioactive waste

143
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La chaleur

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The heat

144
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subventions

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Subsidies

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Co?t de revient

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Cost price

146
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Devenir adulte

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To come of age

147
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Juste apr?s / au lendemain

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In the aftermath

148
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Tender la main, aller vers

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To reach out to

149
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Prendre un coup / tenter sa chance

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To take a stab

150
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Dresser un constat

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To acknowledge a fact

151
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Un film est diffus?, montr? ? l’?cran

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Film to be shown/released

152
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Un brevet (intellectuel)

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A patent

153
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Astucieux

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Shrewd = astute

154
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Les droits d’auteur

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Copyright was invented at the end (1777, Beaumarch?)

155
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Transmettre, conf?rer

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To impart = to bestow

156
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Miteux

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Scruffy

157
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S’avouer vaincu, reconnaitre sa d?faite

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To concede

158
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Sondage de sortie des urnes

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Exit polls

159
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Devenir president de la r?publique (aux EU)

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To take up the residence in the White House

160
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Note de bas de page dans l’histoire

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A footnote in history

161
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Une vie enti?re

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A lifetime

162
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Avec regret**

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Ruefully

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Une compagnie florissante

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A thriving company

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Strat?gie de dumping

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A search pricing

165
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Les concurrents

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Competitors

166
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Porter un coup

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To deal a blow

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Tactique / man?uvre

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A gambit

168
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Parier/miser sur le fait que

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To put the odds that

169
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Uniform?ment

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Evenly

170
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Les rives

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The shores

171
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Sur le court term

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In the short term

172
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Sur le long term

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In the long run

173
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Mettre en peril

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Imperil

174
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Renoncer ?

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To forgo

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Une motivation / recompense (carotte)

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An incentive

176
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Sans entrave

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Unfettered

177
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Fantaisiste

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Fanciful

178
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Part de l’UE pour le RU / part du RU pour l’UE (export)

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The EU takes almost half Britain’s export, whereas Britain takes less than 10% of the EU’s exports

179
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Le pound a d?gringol? contre l’Euro

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The pound tumbled against the Euro

180
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Maire de Londres

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Boris Johnson

181
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Difficult?s ?conomiques

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Economic woes

182
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Tardivement

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Belatedly

183
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Article 50 of Lisbon treaty

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Provides that the EU will negotiate a new agreement with the withdrawing country over two years

184
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Un gros deficit budg?taire

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A large current-account deficit

185
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Rus?, malin, d?clicat, difficile, ?pineux, scabreux, retors

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Tricky

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