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Candidat à la présidentielle

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A presidential candidate

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Un diplôme universitaire

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A degree

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Un demandeur d’emploi

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A job-seeker

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L’égalité des chances

Discrimination positive

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Equal opportunities

Affirmative action

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Un avocat

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A barrister

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Un juriste

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A lawyer

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Distrait

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Absent-minded

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Un roman policier

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A detective story

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To be fond of

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Aimer

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To be keen on

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Aimer

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Avoir soif

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To be thirsty

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J’ai enfin fini de

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I have finished my work at last

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Il a finit par

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He finally Got a job

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Immédiatement

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At once/ straight away

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Une information

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A piece of information

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Des informations

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Some information SANS S

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À peine

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Barely/hardly/scarcely

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Un projet de loi

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A bill

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Un groupe de pression

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A lobby

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Un fonctionnaire

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A civil servant

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Une dictature

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A dictatorship

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De gauche

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Left-wing

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De droite

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Right-wing

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Gouverner

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To rule

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Au moment présent\c’est à ce moment la

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Presently

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L’après midi touchée à sa fin

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The afternoon wore up

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Épouvantable, redoutable

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Dreadful

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Craindre redouter

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To dread

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La chaleur

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Heat

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Humide

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Damp

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Tituber

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To stagger

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Jaillir

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To spring

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Éclatante, brillant mais aussi inteligent

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Bright

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Tranquille

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Still

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Frénètique

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Frantic

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Un tas

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A heap

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Frapper d’un coup de couteau

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To stab

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38
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Vers le bas

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Downward

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Direction

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Ward

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Une clairière

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A clearing

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Dur

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Tough

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Réussir

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To succeed

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Se retirer

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To withdraw, withdrew withdrawn

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44
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C’est révoltant

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It s appalling

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45
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Un ruisseau

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A brook

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46
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Un fleuve

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A river

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47
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Reprendre

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To resume

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48
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Un cobaye

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A guinea pig

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Le baptême de son neveu

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His nephew’s baptism.

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50
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Les brittaniques

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The British the Britons

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51
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Paysage

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Landscape

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52
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Se marier avec quelqu’un

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To get married to someone

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53
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Un marriage

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A wedding

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54
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Un soupir de soulagement

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A sigh of relief

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55
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Enfin

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At last

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56
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Épiloguer

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Holding forth

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57
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Ambitieux

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Bold

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58
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Compenser

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To offset

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59
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Historique

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Momentous

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60
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Un point de réfèrence

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A baseline

61
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Europhile

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Europhile

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un europhile convaincu

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A commited Europhile

63
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étanche fidèle loyal

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staunch

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un arondissement

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A borough

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une construction mentale

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a construct

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notre monde pré globalisé

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pre globalisided world

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village global

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Global village

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la guerre froide est terminée

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The cold war is over

69
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évoluer avec le temps

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to move with the times

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le siècle des lumières

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“The Enlightenment”

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se résumer à qq choses

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To come down to sthg

72
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Une confrontation

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A showdown

73
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nationalisme synonymes

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nationalism/chauvinism/jingoism

74
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synonymes nationalistes

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Little Englanders/short-sighted/nationalists

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être allongé

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lie

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allogé

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Lay

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Elle était perdue dans ses pensées

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She was deep in her thoughts.

78
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Les cheveux ébouriffés, ..

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The hair tousled

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Un éclair

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A flash of lightening

80
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Le tonnerre

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The thunder

81
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Se précipiter

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To dash ( XINNNNNN)

82
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Décrocher le téléphone

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To pick up the telephone

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Raccrocher (au nez)

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To hang up the phone (on smbdy)

84
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Une sonnerie sridente

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A shrill ringing

85
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Trébucher

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To stumble

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Se cogner un orteil au pieds d’une armoire

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To bang a toe on the leg of a cupboard

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S’efforcer

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To strove

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Se frotter ( les yeux)

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To rub eyes

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calmer

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soothe

90
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Un afflux

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A rush

91
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Est ce qu’il m’a laissé un mot ?

A

Did he leave a note for me?

92
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une fois .. un fauteuil, un canapé

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Once, an armchair, a sofa

93
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le salon

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The living room

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Un appartement en désordre

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A messy flat

95
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Il faut que je me reprenne

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I have to pull myself together

96
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La baignoire. Un robinet. Une goutte

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The bathtub. A tap. A drop

97
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A regarder l’eau couler sur son ONGLE arraché, ..

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Staring at the water flow down on heir smashed TOENAIL.

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Rapace

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Hawks

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stable

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steady

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Glappir

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To yelp

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Faire un clin d’oeil à qq

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To wink at somebody

102
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Être sage

une sage décision

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To be wise

A wise decision

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Bégayer

En bégayant

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To stammer

Stammering

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hurler
Pousser un cri strident
Crissement

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To screech

Screeching

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Tousser

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To cough

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Composer un numéro

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To dial a number

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S’évanouir

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To faint

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Un faible bruit

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A low noise

109
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Prendre le risque, lancer les dés

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To roll the dice

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Une vésicule, une vessie

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A bladder

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Geek, naze, binoclards

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Nerds

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Être chiant (fam), de mauvais poil

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To be pissy

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Il s’avère, il se trouve, il semblerait

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It Turns out

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Un grognement, grogner

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A grunt

To grunt

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Ils sont érintés

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They are bushed

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Affreusement, terriblement

Affreux, terrible

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Awfully

Awful

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Une malédiction

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A curse

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glousser

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to chuckle

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gênant

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awkward

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c’est réglé

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that settles it

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Reçu

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roger that

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revigorer, redresser

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to perk up

can anything perk up europe ?

123
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un aperçu

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a glimpse

124
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meurtrier, mortel ..

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deadly

125
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en pleurant, en sanglotant

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sobbing

126
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libérer

la liberté

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to free freed freed

la liberté: freedom

127
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je suis heureux

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i am glad

128
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tais toi

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keep it down

129
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faire moins de bruits

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to keep it down

130
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une mante religieuse

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praying mantis

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sers toi

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help yourself

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se noyer

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to drown

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imprévisible

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unforeseeable

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la douleur

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pain, sting

135
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au dessus, dessous

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underneath

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un chef d’orchestre

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a conductor

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à distance, de loin

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from afar

138
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parait-il

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apparently

139
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quoi qu’il en soit

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anyway

140
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quoi qu’il en soit

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be that as it may

141
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être le plius discrète possible

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to be as low a profile as possible

142
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être bien sage

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to be a good boy/girl

143
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surtout ne pas déranger

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avoid disturbing anyone

144
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être enrhumé

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to have a cold

145
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avoir la grippe

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to have the flu

146
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se réfugier

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to take shelter

147
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i miss you

A

tu me manques

148
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il me manquait

A

i missed him

149
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espérer

A

to look forward