Vocabulaire 03/12/2018 Flashcards

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1
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To soar

A

Augmenter en flèche

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2
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A census

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Un recensement

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3
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To take a census

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Effectuer un recensement

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4
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The fertility rate

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Le taux de fécondité

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5
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Elderly

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Agé (dit de manière poli)

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Destitution

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Misère

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The destitute

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Les miséreux

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To live a hand to mouth existence

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Vivre au jour le jour

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9
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Precariousness

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Précarité

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10
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To make ends meet

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Joindre les deux bouts

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To reach rock bottom

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Toucher le fond

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To live at the subsistence level

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Avoir juste de quoi vivre

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To sink into poverty

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Sombrer, basculer dans la pauvreté

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14
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The haves and the have-nots

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Les riches et les pauvres

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Hunger, starvation

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La faim, la famine

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Undernourishment

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Malnutrition

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Malnourished, undernourished, underfed

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sous alimenté

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To be short of

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Manquer de

19
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Widespread

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Vaste, répandu

20
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To scavenge

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faire les poubelles (pour se nourrir, to … for food), fouiller, récupérer

21
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To strut

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Se pavaner, déambuler

22
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Foodstuff

A

danrées alimentaires

23
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Deficiency

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Carence, lacune, déficience

24
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Scarcely

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A peine (the tree … moved despite the storm)

25
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To stir

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Mélanger ( … the butter ), Attiser (the strange painting …ed the visitor’s curiosity)

26
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A tramp (GB), a hobo (US)

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Un clochard

27
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To be reduced to destitution

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Se clochardiser

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A sweatshop

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Un atelier clandestin

29
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Stoweway

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Passager clandestin

30
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A smuggler

A

Un passeur

31
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A bomb scare

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Une alerte à la bombe