Vocabulaire Anglais 2015-2016 Flashcards

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Échantillon d’ADN

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DNA sample

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Ingénierie génétique

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Genetic engineering/manipulation

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Tapis roulant

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Conveyor belt

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Benne à ordures

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US: dumpster
GB: skip

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Musclé

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Muscular/ Well-built

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Grande échelle

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Large scale

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Jeter

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  • Throw away

- reject

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Défaut

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Flaw

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Défectueux

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Faulty

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Dangereux

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  • Harzardous

- risky

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Améliorer

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Improve

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Trier

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Sort out

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Sort out

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Trier

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Réaliser (une expérience)

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Carry out (an experiment)

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Déshumaniser

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Dehumanize

/dizyoumenaïze/

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De moins en moins (pluriel)

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Fewer and fewer

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De plus en plus (pluriel)

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More and more

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De moins en moins (singulier)

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Less and Less

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Contrôle prénatal

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Prenatal screening

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Maladies (qui durent dans le temps)

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Disease

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Être en proie à…

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To be prone to

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Cauchemardesque

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Nightmarish

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Se débarrasser

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To get rid of something

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Le progrès

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Progress

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Une amélioration

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An improvement

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Une avancée (dans le sens de une innovation)

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  • a breakthrough

- an advance

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Une technique

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A technic

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Une expérience

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An experiment

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Un changement

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A change

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Un pas en avant

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A Step forward

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Le rendement

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The output

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L’augmentation

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  • growth

- increase

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Une réussite

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An achievement

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L’humanité

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Mankind

/mankaind/

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Des effets secondaires

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Side effets

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Les bénéfices

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The gains

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Un appareil, un outil

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A device

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Innover

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To innovate

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Évoluer

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To evolve

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Régresser, empirer

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  • To regress

- To get worse

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Améliorer quelque chose

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To make something better

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Avoir tendance à…

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To trend to

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Parvenir à

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To achieve

/echeeve/

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Réussir à

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To manage

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Permettre à quelqu’un de…

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To enable somebody to

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Ne pas prendre en compte

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To disregard

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Être susceptible de

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To be likely to

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Être censé

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  • to be meant to

- supposed to

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Empêcher

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To prevent

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Autoriser

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To allow

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Réduire

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To reduce

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Interdire

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To ban

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Évoluer positivement

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To move ahead

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Nuire à

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To be harmful to

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Notoire

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Significant

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Extraordinaire

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Extraordinary

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Efficace

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Efficient

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D’une importance capitale

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Momentous

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Controversé

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  • Controversial

- Debated

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Rapide

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  • fast

- quick

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Pratique

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  • useful

- handy

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Puissant

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Powerful

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Précis

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Accurate

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Sûr

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Safe

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Juste

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Fair

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Fiable

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Reliable

/relaible/

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Rentable

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Cost-effective

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Ardu

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Painstaking

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Qui prend du temps

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Time-consuming

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Qui fait gagner du temps

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Time-saving

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Inquiétant

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Worrying

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Vers l’avant

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Forward

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Dangereusement

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Dangerously

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Plus loin

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Further

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Rapidement

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  • Quickly

- Rapidly

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Au-delà

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Beyond

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Sans cesse

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Endlessly

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De manière significative

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Significantly

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Gagner du terrain

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To gain ground

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Exprimer ses craintes au sujet de

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To voice one’s concerns about

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Porter ses fruits

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To bear fruits

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De plus en plus rapide

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Quicker and quicker

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N’avoir aucun effet

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To be of no avail

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Sélection de l’espèce

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Selective breeding

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Étique

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Ethics

/efiks/

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La perte

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Loss

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Disparition

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Disappaearance

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Comme si

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  • as if

- as though

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Comme par

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As through

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Is about (synonyme en anglais)

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Deal with

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Produire

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Manufacture

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Avoir les cheveux blonds (adj)

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Blond-haired

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Petit (autre que little)

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Tiny

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Représenter, incarner

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Embody

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Modèle, archétype

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Archetypal

/arkétipol/

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Mignonne, belle

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  • pretty
  • gorgeous
  • handsome
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Contrairement à

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Whereas

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Large d’épaules = baraqué

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Broad-shouldered

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Bronzé

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Sun-tanned

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On ne les distingue pas les uns des autres (expression)

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Can’t stand out from the crowd

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Échouer

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Fail to

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Par exemple (autre que for example)

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For instance

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Une ombre

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Shadow

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Une hirondelle

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Swallow