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1
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Allumer une cigarette

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To light a cigarette

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Un briquet

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A lighter

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Doré

Plaqué or

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Golden/ gilded/gilt

Gold plated

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Le siècle des lumières

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The Enlightenment

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En avoir assez de

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To be done with sthg
To be fed up with sthg
To be sick and tired of sthg

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Un commerçant

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A shopkeeper

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Les ragots

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Gossip (il n’y a pas de S)

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Une sale gueule

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An ugly mug

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De la cendre

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An ash

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Un plateau

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A tray

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Un cendrier

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A ashtray

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Écraser

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To crush

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Avoir le béguin pour sb

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To have a crush on sb

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Avoir un accident de voiture

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To crash one’s car

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Le crack boursier de 1929

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The 1929 Stock Exchange slump/crash

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Se gratter

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To scratch

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Une clope

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A cig / ciggie

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Une bouffée

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A puff

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Débarrasser la table

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To clear the table

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Mettre la table

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To lay/set the table

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Servir qqch à qqn

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To pour sb sthg

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Il pleut des sots

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It is pouring with rain

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A contre-jour

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Backlit / against the light

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Un scarabée

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A bEEtle

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Les hippies

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The Beat Generation

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On aurait dit que

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It looked as if

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Une rangée

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A row

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Ramer

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To row a boat

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La Côte d’Azur

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The French Riviera

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Remuer

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To stir/ to mix

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Provoquer des conflits

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To stir up trouble

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Faire bouger les choses

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To shake things up

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Un morceau de sucre

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A lump of sugar

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Avoir une boule dans la gorge

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To have a lump in one’s throat

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35
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Légèrement

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Slightly

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36
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Réfléchir

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To think

To ponder

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37
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Une allumette

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A match

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38
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Vapoter

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To vape ecigarettes

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39
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Un berger

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A sheperd

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40
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Une prairie

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A pasture

A meadow

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Une ambassade

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An embassy

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42
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Plusieurs centaines

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Several hundred

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43
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Situation désespérée / difficile

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The plight

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Mettre un point d’honneur à

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To make a point of doing sthg

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45
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Refuser clairement de faire qqch

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To be bent on sthg

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46
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Traiter une candidature

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To process an application

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47
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Être dans le flou/ dans l’incertitude

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Be in limbo

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48
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Dans l’attente de

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Pending + un nom

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49
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Être insensible

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To be callous

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50
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Être de connivence

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To collude with sb

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Être borné

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To be stubborn/ obdurate

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52
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Dépenses de santé

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Health spending / costs

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53
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Surpopulation carcérale

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Prison overcrowding

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54
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Les préjugés ont la vie dure

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Old prejudices die-hard

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55
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Ecoles d’ingénieurs

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Engineering schools

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56
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Être susceptible de

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To be likely to

To be liable to

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57
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Lavage de cerveau

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Brain wash

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58
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Être solidaire

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To show solidarity

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59
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Rapetisser

Rétrécir

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To shrink

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60
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Un psy

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A shrink

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61
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Choisir de ne pas faire qqch

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To opt out

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62
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Être informé de

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To keep abreast of (the news par ex)

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63
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Apporter sa pierre à l’édifice

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to do one’s bit

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Une organisation caritative

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A charity

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Médecins sans frontières

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Docters without borders

66
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La Croix Rouge

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The Red Cross

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Un indépendantiste

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A separatist

68
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Rester solidaire

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To stand united

69
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Cela va sans dire

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It goes without saying

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La fracture entre le Nord et le Sud

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The North/South divide

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A tel point que…

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So much so that…

72
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Un SDF

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A homeless person

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Chiites VS Sunnites

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Shiites VS Sunni

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A l’inverse,…

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Conversely,…

75
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Intervenir

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To step in

76
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La messe

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The Mass/mass c’est très relier à la religion catholique

77
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Un monument aux morts

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A war memorial

78
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Aller chercher qqn

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To go and get her/him

To fetch sb

79
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Savoir où qqn se trouve

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To know sb’s whereabouts

80
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Avoir des nouvelles de qqn

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To hear from

81
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Entendre parler de qqn

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To hear of sb

82
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Un employé de bureau

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The office clerk

83
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Faire du lèche vitrine

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To go window shopping

To shop window

84
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Quand on va dans un magasin et qu’on regarde juste

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To browse

85
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Des retombées radioactives

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Nuclear fallout

86
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La dissuasion nucléaire

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The nuclear deterrent

Nuclear deterrence

87
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C’est l’enfer sur Terre

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It is hell on earth

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Là est le problème

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There lies the rub

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Une idée irréaliste/utopiste

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A quixotic idea

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C’est de la pure folie

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It is sheer madness

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Une capuche

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A hood

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Le jeune avec une capuche

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A hoody

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Un délinquant

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A hoodlum

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Un quartier sensible / banlieue

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An inner city

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Le capot d’une voiture

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A hood

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La hôte (dans la cuisine)

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A hood

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Le petit chaperon rouge

Robin des Bois

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The Little Red Riding Hood

Robin Hood

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Travailleurs dans les bureaux

Ouvriers

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White collar workers

Blue collar workers

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Avoir l’embarras du choix

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To be spoilt for choice

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Aménager ( une chambre)

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To do up a room

To refurbish a room

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Lingots d’or

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Gold bullion

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Épurations sociales

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Social cleansing

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Jeter

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To cast

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Saisir fortement

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To grab

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Gifler

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To slap

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Un signe de la main

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A wave

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Le virage

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The bend

108
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Arracher qqch à qqn

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To snatch sthg from sb

109
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Le vol a l’arraché

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Bag snatching

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Distribuer

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To hand out sthg

111
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Un surveillant d’examen

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The invigilator

112
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Donner un coup de coude

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To nudge sb

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Essorer

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To wring

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Serviette

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A napkin

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Caresser

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To pet

To stroke

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Hausser les épaules

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To shrug

117
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Raccrocher (un téléphone)

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To ring off

118
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Tenir fermement, s’agripper

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To clutch

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Agresser

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To mug sb

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Fouiller (dans un tiroir dans un sac)

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To rummage

121
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Fouiller qqn

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To search sb

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Une pincée de sel

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A pinch of salt

123
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Avancer à tâtons

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To grope one’s way

124
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Claquer la porte

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To slam the door

125
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Renverser

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To knock over (my glass)

126
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Pousser/ tirer

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Push it/pull it

127
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Plier

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To fold

128
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Une chaise pliante

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A folding chair

129
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Donner une fessée

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To smack

To spank

130
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Elle n’a pas pu s’empêcher de

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She couldn’t help +verbe en ing

131
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Se précipiter

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To dash

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Errer, flâner

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To wander

133
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Marcher à grand pas

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To stride

134
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Défiler

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To march

135
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Faire ses premiers pas

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To toddle

136
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Un enfant qui marche à peine 
Un bambin (1 an environ)
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A toddler

137
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Tituber

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To stagger

138
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Marcher sur la pointe des pieds

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To tiptoe

139
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Ramper

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To crawl

140
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Marcher à 4 pattes

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To walk on all fours

141
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Se faufiler

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To sneak

142
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Un dortoir

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Dormitory

143
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Un internat

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A boarding school

144
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Un interne

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A boarder

145
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Bondir

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To leap

146
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Trébucher

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To stumble

147
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Glisser

Faire des glissades

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To slide

148
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Déraper

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To skid

149
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Un ressort

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A spring

150
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Boiter

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To hobble

To limp

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Roder

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To prowl

152
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Piétiner

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To trample

153
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Sautiller

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To skip

154
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Traîner des pieds

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To shuffle

155
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Un rôdeur

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A prowler

Vocabulaire anglais Vochelle (6 decks)

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