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1
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Avoir honte

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Feel ashamed

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Une (bonne) fois pour toutes

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Once and for all

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Supposer

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To assume

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Assumer la responsabilité

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To take on responsability for sth

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Puisque

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Since

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Croiser le chemin de qqn

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To cross path with sb

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C’est l’intention qui compte

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It’s the thought that counts

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Il y a peu de chances qu’il vienne

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The odds are against him coming

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le grand favori

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The odds-on favorite

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Entrer dans

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To walk into

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Un box / espace avec des banquettes

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A booth

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Une cabine téléphonique

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A phone booth

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Une cabine de vote

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A polling booth

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Sombre

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Dingy

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Un trou paumé

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A Hole

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Un client régulier

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A patron

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Ivrogne

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A drunkard

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Sortir / traîner

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To Hangout

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S’avérer

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To turn out to be

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Comment se fait-il que… ?

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How does it happen that … ?

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Est ce par hasard vous auriez un crayon ?

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Do you happen to have a …. ?

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Un rouge Uni

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A solid red

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Annuler

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To Call off

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Continuer / poursuivre

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To Carry on

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Découvrir

Se renseigner / en savoir plus

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To find out

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Surmonter

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To get over

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Rendre

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To give back

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Continuer qqc

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To keep on with sth

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Au dessus de

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Above

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Ensuite / après

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Afterwards

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En fait

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Actually

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Finalement

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Eventually

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Ainsi

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Thus

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Rarement / difficilement

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Hardly

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Dominer un marché

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To capture/corner a market

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Un nouveau concept / une révolution conceptuel

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A paradigm shift

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Renoncer / abandonner

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To forgo / relinquish

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Clientèle

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Customer base

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Passer l’aspirateur

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To hoover a room/ carpet

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Chercher des infos sur qqn

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To google sb

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Un Pionnier

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A Trailblazer

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Connaître une croissance “inévitable”

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To be bound to grow

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Avoir un avantage compétitif sur qqn

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To have an edge over sb

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Avoir une longueur d’avance sur qqn

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To have a head start over sb

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Faire du co-voiturage

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To carpool

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Se diversifier (économiquement)

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To diversify / branch out into new services

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Fusionner (2 entreprises)

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To merge

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48
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Une réaction intense

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A backlash

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49
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Contourner la loi

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To circumvent the law

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Naviguer dans des eaux dangereuses (image)

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To sail into uncharted waters/territory

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Répondre de ses activités/ actes

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To be accountable to sb for sth

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52
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Tirer profit de qqc

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To capitalize on

To make the most of

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53
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En dépit de

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For all

Despite

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54
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Être libre comme l’air

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To be footloose and fancy-free

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Impliquer

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To entail

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56
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Se profiler / etre imminent

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To loom

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Stimuler

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To spur

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58
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Beaucoup/ de manière significative

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Dramatically

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59
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Etre à la base de

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To underpin

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60
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Un néologisme

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A coined word

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… par lequel

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Whereby

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62
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Un petit boulot

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An odd job

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Un coursier

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A courier

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64
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Des prix extrêmement bas

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Rock-bottom prices

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65
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Un tremplin

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A stepping-stone

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Des mastodontes (firmes)

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Behemoths

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67
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Ils n’ont pas droit à

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They are not entitled to

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S’épanouir / se réaliser

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To fulfill oneself

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69
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Joindre les deux bouts

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To make both ends meets

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70
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Le cran

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The Guts / pluck

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71
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Colis

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Package

Parcel

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Un paquet de cigarettes

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A paquet of cigarest

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Mon médecin généraliste

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My GP (General Practioner)

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Un cabinet médical

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A medical practice

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Être élu

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To be returned

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Souffrir d’une maladie

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To suffer from a disease

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Contracter un prêt

Rembourser

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To take out a loan

To pay back

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Crouler sur les dettes

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To be burdened with debt

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Un niveau record

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A record high

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Dépenses

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Expenses

Expenditure

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Revenu

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Income

82
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Une charge

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A load

83
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Globalement

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Overall

84
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La barre des ….

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The … mark

85
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Des polluants

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Pollutant

86
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Trier les déchets

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To sort out waste

87
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Un micro onde

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A microwave oven

88
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Une bouilloire

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A kettle

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Une décharge

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A dump

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Mieux Isolée (une maison)

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More Insulated

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La nourriture bio

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Organic food

92
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Limiter qqc

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To curb sth

93
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Se débarrasser de qqc

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To dispose of sth

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Campagne

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Countryside

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Campagne

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Countryside

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Douceur

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Gentleness

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Pivoter / se retourner

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To swivell

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Authentique

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Genuine

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A peine

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Hardly

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Naïf

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Gullible

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Stupide

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Foolish

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Duper qqn

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To fool sb

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Gourmandise

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Greed (greediness)

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Un chasseur

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A shooting man

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Un chausseur de tête

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A head hunter

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Pour moi

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For my sake

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Manger pour le plaisir de manger

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To heat for the sake of eating

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L’art pour l’art

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Art for art sake

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Surélevant

Agrandissant

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Adding on

Adding up

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Changer ///

Faire la différence entre …

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Make a difference ///

To distinguish….

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Germer / fleurir

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To sprout

112
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Choux de Bruxelles

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Brussels sprouts

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Mes beaux-parents

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My parents-in-law

My in-laws

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Grenier

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Attic
Loft
Garret

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Mon beau-père (celui qui vit avec ta mère)

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My Step-father

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Metro

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Underground

Subway

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Inonder

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Flood

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Le déluge

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The Flood

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Pénurie

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Shortage

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Essence

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Gas

Petrol

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Embouteillage

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A traffic jam

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Suite au passage de

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In the wake of

In the aftermath of

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Bus Perturbé

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Disrupted bus

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C’est assez surprenant

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Surprisingly enough

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Cela ne te convient pas

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It is not suitable for you

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Éventuellement

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Might
Possibly
Perhaps

127
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Tirer une leçon de qqc

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To draw a lesson of sth

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Au passage

Au fait

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By the way

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D’ailleurs

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Actually
In fact
Indeed

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Subir qqc

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Suffer / undergo

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Fiable

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Reliable

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Se révéler être

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To turn out to be

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Faire avec / se contenter

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To make do with

134
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Etre disponible

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To be available

135
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Metro londonien

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The tube

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Annuler / supprimer une politique

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To reverse / undo a policy

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Contourner

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To bypass

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Etre la pierre angulaire de qqc

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To be the cornerstone of sth

139
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Charbon

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Coal

140
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Liberté / carte blanche

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Leeway

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Q

Être destiné à qqn

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To be targeted / aimed to sb

142
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… ont eu lieu

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Have been staged

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Bouc émissaire

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Scapegoat

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Déraciné

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Uprooted

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Conservative

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Republicans

146
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Un canular

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A hoax

147
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Le réseau public

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The grid

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Verser

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To pour

149
Q

Une phrase importante tirée d’une interview

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A soundbite

150
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Subventionner qqc

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To subsidize sth

151
Q

Un fermier qui produit du lait…

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A dairy farmer

152
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Des hivers “agréables”

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Mild winters

153
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Garder la tête hors de l’eau

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To stay afloat

154
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Gaz de schiste

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Shale gas

155
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Doubler la mise

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To double down on sth

156
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Engagé de manière virulante / inébranlable / dévoué

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Staunch

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Etre une solution miracle

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To be a cure-all

To be a silver bullet

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Concilier qqc avec qqc

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To reconcile sth with sth

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Renvoyer de nombreuses personnes / virer en nombre

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To axe / shed jobs

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Le lendemain

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The following day
The day after
The next day

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Faire des courses

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To do shopping

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Près de là

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Nearby

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Etre impatient de (projection dans le futur)

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To long / yearn / crave to do sth

164
Q

Lui faire découvrir qqc

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To let her know

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Un Etat membre

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A member State

166
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Un dossier

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A file

A record

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Servilement

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Slavishly

Submissevely

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Une place (dans une ville)

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A square

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Maussade

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Gloomy

Moody

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Hausser les épaules

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To shrug

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Surveiller

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To watch

To monitor

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Les choses semblaient reprendre leur cours

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Things seemed to be going back to normal

It seemed to be business as usual

173
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Hésiter

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To hesitate

To waver

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Concevoir / inventer/ mettre au point

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To divise sth

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Se serrer les coudes

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To stand shoulder-to-shoulder

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Se tenir côte-a-côte

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To stand side by side

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Prévoir

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To forecast

178
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…. qui aurait fait quarts morts

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… which is believed/said to have claimed 4 lives

179
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Qui aurait fait une 40aine de blessés

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Which is said to have left around forty people injured

180
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Tout en appelant les britanniques à

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While urging Britons to

181
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Tenter de faire qqc

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To try / attempt to do sth

182
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Se réunir

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To gather

183
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Au milieu de la douleur et de la peine

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In the midst the pain and sorrow

184
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Répandre la peur

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To spread fear

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