Vocabulaire CCIP Flashcards

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Une contusion / un bleu

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A bruise

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Être a il un doigt de la morte

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To be “ an inch from death “

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Enflé / gonflé

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Swollen

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Une victoire écrasante

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Landslide

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Pénible / douloureux

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Harrowing

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Rayonnage/ étagère

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Shelf

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Trouble / glauque / obscures (raisons)

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Murky

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Témoin / spectateur

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Bystander

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Figé / enraciné / ancré

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Rooted

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Sinistre / sombre

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Grim

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Système d’application de la loi

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Law enforcement system

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Véhicule blindé

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Armored car

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La colonne vertébrale

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The backbone

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Présentant des défauts / imparfait

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Flawed

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Le changement

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The shift

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Aléatoire / au hasard

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Random

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Une personne en liberté conditionnelle

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A parolee

A person freed on parole

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Une bagarre

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A fight

A scuffle

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Des menottes

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Handcuffs

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Le ressentiment (= rancune , hostilité )

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Resentment

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Pourrir , s’envenimer (une situation)

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Fester

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Has jumped by a whopping

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A fait un bond énorme

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En dessous du seuil de pauvreté

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Below the poverty line

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Bien que

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Although

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Les quartiers déshérités

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The inner - cities

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Se mettre à l’eau / se lancer

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To launch

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Empoigner/ agripper

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To grasp

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Traquer / rechercher

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Prowl

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Déchaîner / déclencher

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Unleash

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Immeuble (en copropriété )

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A condo

A condominium

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Lugubre

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Dismal

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Un nœud

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A knot

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Une messe

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Mass ( + verbe celebrated)

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Fuir

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Flee (fled / fled)

+ from

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Aller chercher

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Get back

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Une adresse

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An aDDress

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En souriant bizarrement

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With an odd / strange smile

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Les alentours

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The surroundings

The neighbourhood

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Passer devant

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Go past it

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Sonner

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Ring (rang/ rung) the bell

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Je n’arrivais pas à le croire

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I could not believe my eyes

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Je ne pouvais pas le quitter des yeux

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I could not take my eyes off it

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Elle l’avait serrée plus fort contre elle

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She clasped it tighter to her

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Des nouvelles de

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News from

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Le guichetier de la poste

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The man behind the counter of the post office

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Les toiles dans la vitrine

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The paintings in the window

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Lever la tête pour voir

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Looked up to see

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Soudainement

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Suddenly

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Fébrile / agité

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Restless

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Entreprendre

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Undertake

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Une journée maussade

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Dreary day

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Cloîtrée

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Closed in

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Chargement / cargaison

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Load

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Poids / fardeau

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Burden

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Inviter à entrer

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To ask in

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Descendre

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Go down

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Escaliers

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Stairs

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Un couloir

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A hall

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Hôtelier / aubergiste

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Hotelier

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Mitraillette

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Sub-machine gun

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Remplir (un rôle)

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To fulfill

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Réquisitionner

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To requisition

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La nuit tombe

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The night falls

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La campagne

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The countryside

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Se terrer / se planquer

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To hole up

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In the small hours

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Au petit matin

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The hush

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Le silence

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Un camion de marchandises

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A goods truck

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Un nid de poule

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A pothole

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24 heures sur 24

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Around the clock

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En direction de l’est

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Eastward

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Un sanglot

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A sob

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Bondir / surgir

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Leap out

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Bien que / quoique

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Though

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L’aube

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Dawn

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Promener

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Take out for a walk

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Sans quitter des yeux

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Without taking her eyes of

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Nous avions beau

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However hard we tried

78
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Tomber sur le répondeur

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Get the answerphone

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Se pencher sur

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To lean over

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Rentrer

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Get in

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Je respirai (un soulagement)

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I breathed a sigh of relief