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1
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Un ferrailleur

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a junk dealer

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Envoûté

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Entranced

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récupérer (qqch avec de la valeur)

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to salvage

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être animé par, être provoqué par

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to be prompted by

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une fontaine à café

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a coffee urn

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Saluer l’auditoire

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To take a bow

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une fibre

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a strand

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extérieur

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outer

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les plaquettes

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Platelets

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coaguler

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to clot

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filandreux

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stringy

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Le système respiratoire

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The respiratory tract

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Un tapis roulant

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A conveyor Belt

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14
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Un cil vibratil

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a cilia

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Acrimonieux, aigre

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Acrimonious

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Un électeur

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A constituent

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Le territoire, le gazon, la pelouse

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the turf

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Déchirant

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Wrenching

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Tordu, déformé, gondolé (pour du bois)

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warped

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Imprégner, remplir qqch de

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To imbue sth with sth

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découpé (pour une montagne), dentelée, denté

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Jagged

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Une étendue de

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an expanse of, a tract of

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23
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Des étendues de terrain

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Tracts of Land

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Coller qqch à qqch

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to affix sth to sth

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25
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le magot, la réserve

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the hoard

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la dot

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dowry

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27
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le lingot

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ingot

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un appel d’offres

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a public tender

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29
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changer de tactique

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to change tack

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30
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enclavé

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landlocked

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se gaver de

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to gorge on

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32
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un palet de hockey

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a hockey puck

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pencher pour (informel)

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to plump for

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34
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le pot de vin

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graft, bribe

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35
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être freiné, être retardé (pour la croissance)

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to be stunted

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rabougri, chétif, avoir un retard de xssance

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stunted

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37
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se marier

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to get hitched

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38
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ironique (Rappel)

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Ironic

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39
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3421

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Three Thousand (pas de s), Four hundred (Pas de s), twenty one

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Le mariage (ancienne forme)

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wedlock

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41
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Jadis

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yore (La tournure est assez ancienne toutefois)

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42
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en parallèle

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in lock-step

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43
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empêtré dans

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to be mired in

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44
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rébarbatif, rebutant

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off-putting

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45
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présenter, mettre en valeur

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to showcase

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46
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insensible, imperméable( pour une personne ou un matériel)

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impervious

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47
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symbolique, pour la forme (adj)

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token

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48
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être frappé par, être assailli par

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to be beset by

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49
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pouponner, dorloter

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to dote on

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50
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couche-culotte

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diaper (US), Nappy (UK)

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51
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faisant preuve d’insensibilité

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tone-deaf

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52
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un renseignement, une information valuable

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a nugget of insight

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53
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lamentable, dramatique, affligeant

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woeful

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54
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un signe avant-coureur

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a harbinger

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55
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en dépôt fiduciaire

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in escrow

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56
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Dernièrement (en 2 mots)

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of late

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57
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être honoré, être célébré, être fêté

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to be feted

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58
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Dégager, tirer (pour des profits), moissonner

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to reap

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59
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s’en tirer, s’en sortir

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to fare

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60
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patauger, être en difficulté

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to flounder

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61
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être en compétition pour

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to be jockeying for

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62
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Qui dure 2 ans

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biennial

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Naissant

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nascent

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Un ancêtre

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a forebear

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varié, différent, divers

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variant

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66
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insipide

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unsavoury

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67
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Assigner, affecter, réserver pour

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to earmark (for)

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68
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La semoule

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semolina

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69
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rater, foirer

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to foul up

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70
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Une boisson alcoolisée (informel)

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a tipple

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71
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minutieux, délicat

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fiddly, meticulous

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72
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contrarié, fâché (UK)

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to be miffed

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73
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Étouffer, réprouver

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to muffle

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74
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Critiquer fortement, blâmer

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to animadvert upon sth

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75
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mièvre

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mawkish

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76
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lourd, indigeste, écoeurant

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stodgy

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77
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ravager, harceler (continuellement)

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to harry

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hautain, dédaigneux

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supercilious, lordly, disdainful, lofty

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Une personne irritante, une nuisance, un taon

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a gadfly (informal)

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Affirmer, déclarer (formel)

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to aver

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81
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Contenir, limiter, modérer (sa force)

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to bate

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82
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En retenant son souffle

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with bated breath

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83
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Un maitre d’équipage

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a boatswain, a bosun

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84
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Casuistique, sophisme (argumentation longue et douteuse)

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casuistry

85
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La vanité

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Vanity, Vainness, Conceit

86
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Apercevoir, distinguer

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to descry sth (Littéraire)

87
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débauché, vivant dans la débauche

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dissipated

88
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Une bouffée de fumée

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a draught of smoke

89
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Un courant d’air

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a draught

90
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La pression (pour la bière)

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draught

91
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Une description complète (d’une oeuvre d’art)

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an ekphrasis

92
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Un moyen efficace, ingénieux, utile

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an expedient

93
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Qui disparait facilement, fugace

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fugacious, fleeting

94
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Vociférer contre, Vitupérer contre

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to inveigh against

95
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Une récompense bien méritée

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a meed

96
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Une personne impartiale, neutre (en politique surtout)

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a mugwump

97
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voué à l’échec, raté, hors course

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nonstarter

98
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Les chances qu’a la performance d’obtenir un Oscar sont nulles

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Chances of the performance winning an Oscar are a nonstarter.

99
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ennuyeux, barbant, lourd

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stodgy, ponderous

100
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Une estimation, Un calcul

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a reckoning

101
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très optimiste, joyeux

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Sanguine

102
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Prudent, guindé, sage

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staid

103
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rebelle (pour une mèche), dispersé, en désordre

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straggling

104
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Les éléments caractéristiques, Les attributs (pour un pouvoir par exemple)

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trappings of

105
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corrompre, vicier, abolir, remettre en cause

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to vitiate, to mar

106
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Le catalogue, le stock (E.g de mesures, de possibilités)

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an Armoury

107
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cruellement, excessivement, de manière tentante

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tantalisingly

108
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Enterrer une tentative

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to shelve an attempt

109
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systématiquement, régulièrement

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routinely

110
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emmener sur-le-champ, emmener rapidement qque part

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to whisk someone to

111
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Battre les oeufs

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to whisk

112
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sevrer

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to wean

113
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Sevrer quelqu’un de qqch

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to wean sby off sth

114
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Un éclat (verre, lumière), une tranche

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a sliver of

115
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idéaliste (adj)

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quixotic, idealistic

116
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Une aubaine, un fruit tombé, une rentrée d’argent imprévue

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a windfall

117
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s’approcher tout doucement de qqn

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to creep up on sth/sby

118
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Elle a fait peur à sa soeur en s’approchant tout doucement d’elle et en criant “Bouh!”

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She startled her sister by creeping up on her and shouthing “Boo!”.

119
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Se laisser surprendre par qqch

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To creep up on sb

120
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Tu ferais mieux de t’y mettre maintenant: ne te laisse pas surprendre par la date limite

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You had better start working now; don’t let de the deadline creep up on you.

121
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prescient, divinatoire, annonciateur

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prescient

122
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équivaloir à, être équivalent à

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to be tantamount to

123
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équivalent, qui équivaut à

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tantamount

124
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Résister à, Supporter

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to weather STH (No to)

125
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Notre bateau a été capable de résister à la tempête

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Our boat was able to weather the storm.

126
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miné par (les conflits)

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wracked (by conflit)

127
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Se dégrader, devenir hostile à

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to go sour (on something)

128
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le pavot

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poppy

129
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Nerveux, ayant les nerfs en pelote

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wound up (slang)

130
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ambitieux, noble, presque hautain (pour des idées, moral)

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lofty

131
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l’étalon

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steed, stallion

132
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Remplir, recharger (un forfait)

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to top sth up (Informel)

133
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Une excentricité, un aspect unique (un peu bizarre du coup)

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a quirk

134
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lésiner sur, se priver de

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to stint on

135
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Une période, un séjour

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a stint

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Il a été dans l’armée pour une période de 2 ans

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He did a two-year stint in the army

137
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léguer

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to bequeath, to transfer, to devise sth to someone

138
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Concevoir, inventer, manigancer

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to devise

139
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Le détenu échafauda un plan pour s’échapper de prison

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The prisoner devised an escape plan.

140
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les voies respiratoires

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airways

141
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résister à une tendance, aller à contre-courant

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to buck the trend

142
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le cheval pur-sang, bien élevé

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(a) thoroughbred

143
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étayer, soutenir

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to shore up, to underpin

144
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le pique-assiette, le profiteur, le parasite

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a sponger

145
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Les perspectives ne sont pas aussi sombres

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The outlook is not all grim, however

146
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être issu de, découler de

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to originate IN (stems from sinon)

147
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Loin de chez soi

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afield

148
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volontiers

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fain (adv)

149
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la lande, la bruyère

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Heath

150
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exercer son métier

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to ply your trade

151
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À trois épaisseurs

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three-ply

152
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exercer, utiliser consciencieusement

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to ply

153
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Boucle d’or

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Goldilocks

154
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Idéal

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Goldilocks

155
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dessiner les plans

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to blueprint

156
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le plan, le projet, le design

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the blueprint

157
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Enfreindre

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to contravene, to transgress

158
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vif, fringant, joueur (pour un animal)

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frisky

159
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le point de transition, d’inflexion

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a cusp

160
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Sur le point de faire quelque chose, à l’aune de

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on the cusp of sth

161
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glaner, récolter

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to glean

162
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se lamenter, se plaindre

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to bemoan (the fact)

163
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taquiner

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to chaff

164
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osé, coquin, insolent

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saucy

165
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abriter clandestinement, nourrir (des sentiments, rêves etc)

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to harbour

166
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L’affection, la maladie (synonyme de Illness)

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ailment

167
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la levure

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yeast

168
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l’ornière, la routine

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ruts

169
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enlisé dans la routine

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in a rut

170
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le recours à, l’utilisation de

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the uptake of

171
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Les détritus, la litière

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litter, refuse

172
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étouffer (qqn, un feu), asphyxier (qqch)

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to smother

173
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Couvrir de (baisers, amour etc.)

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to smother with

174
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dans les airs

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aloft

175
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Siffler (pour un véhicule)

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to whiz(z)

176
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passer à toute vitesse, à toute allure

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to whizz by

177
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Un oiseau d’eau

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a waterfowl

178
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attirer la colère, énerver

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to draw ire

179
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un polluant, un produit polluant

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a pollutant

180
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tremper (quelque chose dans)

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to sop

181
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Une concession pour amadouer, un petit cadeau pour accélérer un process

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a sop

182
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La chaume

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stubble

183
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être redevable à

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to be beholden to

184
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rendre qqch qqch

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to render sth sth

185
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écarter, éliminer

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to rule out

186
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stérile, controversé, discutable

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moot

187
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un débat stérile, un point discutable

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a moot point

188
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la matière première (non transformée)

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raw material

189
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la matière première (avec de premières transformations)

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feedstocks

190
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Se tarir, diminuer, s’éteindre (en crépitant)

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to fizzle out (informal)

191
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joncher

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to litter

192
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une boulette, une pastille

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a pellet

193
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L’huile de colza

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canola (US), rapeseed (oil)

194
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le colza

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canola

195
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le tuyau d’arrosage

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hosepipe

196
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la mutinerie, la révolte

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mutiny

197
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la fauvette (petit oiseau trop mignon)

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warbler

198
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Le gobe-mouche noir (un autre oiseau trop chou)

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pied flycatcher

199
Q

le goglu des prés (un oiseau punk, canadien/US, au chant original)

A

bobolink

200
Q

Les Cieux

A

Skies, Heavens, Climes, Ether

201
Q

Les charlatans

A

Quacks, fraud, Charlatans

202
Q

à point nommé

A

as if on cue

203
Q

le signal

A

cue

204
Q

le signal pour que qqn fasse quelque chose

A

the cue for someone to do sth

205
Q

Quand l’hôtesse baille, c’est le signe pour ses invités qu’ils doivent partir.

A

When the hostess yawns, that is the cue for her guests to leave.

206
Q

la langouste

A

spiny lobster, lobster

207
Q

le rossignol

A

nightingale

208
Q

le tourbillon

A

gyre

Anglais Vocabulaire E.C (79 decks)

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