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Sonner à la porte

A

To ring The bell

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Les traits du visage

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Facial features

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Parler de choses et d’autres

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To talk about this, that and the other(s)

To make small talk

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La meme longueur d’onde

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The same wavelength

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Mener sa vie

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To lead one’s life

To have one’s life

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Aux antipodes de (2)

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Light years from

To be poles apart from each other

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Le contraste frappant

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The sharp contrast

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Courant principal, pas marginal

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Mainstream

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Compatriote

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Fellow citizen

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Des fantasmes vehicules par

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Fantaisies conveyed by

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Le quotidien

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The daily life

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Une position (politique)

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Stance

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Faire une remarque

Remarquer

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To remark

To notice

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Puisque

Ou bien

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Since

Or else

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Signaler

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To point out sth

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Gagner de l’influence

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To gain ground

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Un discours (devant une assemblee)
Un discours, une idee, une pensée
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A speech

A rhetoric

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L’argument mis en avant

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The argument which is put forward

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L’accent est mis sur

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The focus is on

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Au premier plan (sens figure)

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In the forefront of

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Etre alimenté par

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To be fuelled by

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Par dessus le marché

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Into the bargain

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Hors de sa porté

Au dela

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Beyond his grasp

Beyond

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Extenuant

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Grueling

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Deposer qqchose

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To drop of

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Mauvaise qualite

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Low quality

Poor quality

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Casser sur

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To break over sth

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Dans tous les cas (2)

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In any case

Anyway

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Un enfant gate

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A spoiled brat

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Habitude (3)

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Current practice
Habit
Custom

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Passer au feu rouge
Round poind
Carrefour
Les feux

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Ro jump the lights
A roundabout
Crossroads
the traffic lights

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Pieton
Passage pieton
Trottoir
Bord du trottoir

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Pedestrian
A zebra crossing
Pavement (uk) / sidewalk (usa)
A kerb

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Scandaleux

Scandalisé

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Outrageous

Outraged

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Presupposer

Un presupposé

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To assume

An assumption

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Fondé

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Grounded

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Emmener qqun en voiture

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To give sb a lift

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Ministere des affaires etrangeres
Le ministre (usa)
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The state department

The secretary of state

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Comprendre le sens de sqchose par raisonnement

Faire de l’exercice physique

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To work out

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Etre en deuil

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To be mourny

To mourn

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Etre a la hauteur de qqch

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To be up to sth

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Enterrement

Obseques

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Burial
The Funeral (singulier)
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Se mefier (3)

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To be wary of
To be suspicious
To distrust (des personnes)

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D’une certaine maniere

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Somehow

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Dur (4)

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Harsh
Tough
Unfeeling
Forbidding

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Rendre visite

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Courtoisie : to pay a visit / to call on sb

Sinon : to visit sb

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Gène (le sentiment) (3)

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Awkwardness
Embarrassment
Discomfort

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Candidature

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Application

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Mal a l’aise(2)

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Ill-at-ease

Uneasy

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L’aisance

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Ease

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Un obstacle

Faire obstacle

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Hindrance

To hinder

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S’immiscer

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To find one’s way into

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Un sur trois

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One in three

One out of three

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Prevision

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Forecast

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Empoisonner la vie (2)

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To pest sb

To make live a misery

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Quartiers defavorises du centre ville

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The inner cities

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Monter la note

Baisser la note

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To upgrade

Downgrade

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Suffir

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To be sufficient

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Une etude (2)

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A survey

A study

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A l’infini

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In definitely

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S’agiter

S’inquieter

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To fret

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Blocages

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Gridlock

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Aller trop loin

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To overreach

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Mal conçu

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Ill-drafed

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Un reglage

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A tweak

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Considerer

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Deem

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Contrecarrer

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Thwart

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Complet, global

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Comprehensive

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Qui respectent la loi

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Law-abidind

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Etendue, portee

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Scope

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Reperer

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To spot

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Provisoire

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Provisional

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Avancer des arguments en faveur de

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To make a case for

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Puissant

Contraindre

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Compelling

To compell

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Tentative

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Attempt

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Credule

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Gullible

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Serment

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Oath

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Lier

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Bind

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Diffamer

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To smear

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Faire de la politique

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Being in politics

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Se faire a l’idee que

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To come to terms with

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Rendre public

A

To be made public

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Prevoir :
Un fait
Une action

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Foresee

Anticipate

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Les annes d’apres guerre

A

Post-war-years

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Nominations

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Appointments

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Debattre

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To discuss

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Assister a

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To attend sth

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Agassant

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Annoying

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A cette epoque la

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Back then

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Avoir des nouvelles de qqun

Entendre parler de

A

To hear from sb

To hear of sth

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Il parait (2)

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Reportedly

Allegedly

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Contester

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To question

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Super, genial (2)

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Tremendous

Splendid

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Crise du logement

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Housing crisis

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L’emprunt immobilier

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Mortgage

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Retraite

Les retraités

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Retirement

Pensioners

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Un filet de securite

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A net

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A tord ou a raison

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Rightly or wrongly

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Prendre pour une evidence

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To take for granted that

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Confirmer

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To bear out

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Les trente glorieuses

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Post war boom years

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Sujet d’actualité

A

Topical question/issue

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Restructurer, remanier

A

To overall sth

102
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Presente comme

A

Billed as

103
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Le soutien de

A

The backing of

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Un public

A

An audience

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Une grande quantite de

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A host of

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Les entreprises de l’agro alimentaire

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Retail group

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L’evasion fiscale

Services fiscaux

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Tax avoidance
Usa : internal revenue system IRS
Uk : HMRC

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Etre tres clair

Dire ouvertement

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To be outspoken

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Un dementi

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A denial

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Une serie de, un enchainement

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A string of

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Chiffre d’affaire (2)

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Turnover

Revenue

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Groupe de reflexion

A

A thinktank

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A cause de

Etre redevable

A

Owing to

To owe sb sth

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Etrenle plus touché

Etre en premiere ligne

A

To bear the brunt of

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Une faille

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Loophole

Tax loophole : une niche fiscale

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Concevoir
Une machine (souvent domaine electronique)
Une maniere d’agir

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To devise

A device

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Faire echouer

Avorter un plan

A

To derail

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Projets

A

Plans

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Repandu

Monnaie courante

A

Widespread

Commonplace

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Les effets

A

Impacts

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Le genre humain

L’humanite (concept,sentiment)

A

Mankind

Humanity

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Meme si :
Hypothese
Concession (bien que)

A

Even if

Even though

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Envahir

A

To invade

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Pour dire les choses brievement

A

To make a long strory short

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Grande ville

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Large city

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Il n’y a rien entre

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There is nothing in between

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Se retirer

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To pull out

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Mecontenter

A

To discontent

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Etre content de

A

To be happy with

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Compromis

A

Compromises

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Tirer/dessiner

Rediger une loi

A

To draw
A drawer = un tiroir
To draw up a law

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Faire pression sur

A

To put pression on

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Concilier

A

To reconcile

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La gauche (politique)

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Left-wing

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Compenser (2)

A

To compensate for sth

To offset sth

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Les xhoses pour lesquelles on se propose de faire

A

Agenda

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Impliquer

S’impliquer

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To imply

To get involve

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Etre dependent de

Independent de

A

To be dependent on

To be independent from

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Connaitre (sens figuré, experimenter)

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To go throught

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Diviser en

A

To divide into

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Retour de baton

A

A backlash

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Syndicats (2)

A

Trade union = uk

Labor union = usa

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Propositions

A

Proposals

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D’ici deux ans (période/quantite )

D’ici l’année prochaine (point)

A

Within two years

By next year

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Pertinent

A

Relevante

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Cultured (agriculture)

A

Crops

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Se confronter à, s’attaquer, faire face

Activement

A

To take on

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Loisirs

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Leisure

Attention jamais de “s” derrière, jamais de “a” devant

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Cv

A

Resume

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Universitaire, chercheurs

A

Scholars

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Manifeste, délibéré, conscient

A

Overt

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Offre d’emploi

A

Help-wanted ads

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Travailleur indépendant

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Independent worker
Free lancers
Self-employed worker

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Chiffre impair

Pair

A

A odd number
An even number

Note : odd peut vouloir dire étrange, bizarre

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Élément fondateur

La première pierre

A

The building block

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Les conventions collectives

Négociation des salaires par les syndicats

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Collective bargaining

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Le modèle fordiste

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Fordism

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Mettre fin à qqch

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To bring sth To a end

To brought To extinction

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S’insinuer

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To seep

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Ancienneté

A

Seniority

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Le monde de l'entreprise
Les entreprises (concept)
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Work place

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La précarité

A

Job insecurity

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Ouvrir les possibilités

Rendre possible

A

To pave The way for

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S’amenuir, s’amincir

A

To shrink
To Thin out
To recede

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L’amertume

Etre amer

A

Bitterness

To be bitter

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Un bureau dans la maison

A

A study

A den

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En avance sur

En retard sur

A

Ahead of sth

Behind sth

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A la suprême court
Quand il disent que c’est constitutionnel
Quand c’est juge non-constitutionnel

A

To uphold The décision

To strike down

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Un bail

Paiements mensuels

A

A lease
Monthly payements
Leasing payements

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Manquer de
Etre a cour
Ne plus avoir

A

To run out of

Ex : To run out of ideas/of money

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Je pense bien que
Je crois bien que
Il me semble que

A

I daresay

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Hocher la tête

A

To nod

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Se frotter le menton

A

To rub one’s chin

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Se pencher

S’incliner

A

To lean

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Couvre feu

A

Curfew

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Infraction

Délinquant

A

Offence

Offender

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Pillage

A

Looting

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Susciter

A

Arouse

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Tromperie
Tromper
Trompeur

A

Deception
To deceive
Deceitful

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Déception

A

Disappointment

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La grande distribution

A

The retail industry

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Un principe

Une doctrine

A

A tenet

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Croyance

A

Creed

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Doté de

A

Endowed with

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Qui nécessite bcp de main d’œuvre

A

Labor-intensive

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Épouvantable

A

Appalling

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Lancer qqch

Être bombardé de

A

To pelt

To be pelted with

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Plongée sous-marine

A

Scuba diving

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fait sur mesure

A

tailor-made

custom-made

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les années folles (20)

A

the Roaring Twenties

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