Vocabulary 10 Flashcards by Chloé 357

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Superficiel

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Skin-deep

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10 ans de prison

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10 years IN prison

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S’effondrer

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To crumble, to come crushing down

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Refuser de voir, nier (#ignorer!)

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To ignore

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Affluer, aller en masse

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To flock

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Le président (d’un groupe)

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The chairman

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Les atouts

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Assets

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Le couloir de la mort

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The death row

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Descendre dans la rue

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To take to the streets

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Hors de l’utérus (ventre de la mère)

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Outside the womb

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Faire plus de mal que de bien

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To do more harms than good

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Manquer de qqc

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To lack smg

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Le manque de

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The lack of

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Une manifestation

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A demonstration

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Une gaffe

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A blender

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Un lapsus

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A slip of the tongue

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Effaré

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Bewildered, bemused

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Redorer (son image)

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To spruce up/to refurbish; to give one’s image a face-lift

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Dénoncer (orth)

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To denonce

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Pour enfoncer le clou

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To ram the point

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Un assault, une attaque

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An onslaught on

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Presque 1 an jour pour jour

A

Almost a year to the day

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Déconcertant

A

Confounding

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Il n’y a plus une seule once d’espoir

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There is not a single speck of hope left

La disparition

The disappearance of

Ne plus en pouvoir de

To seeth over

A travers (orth)

Across

Gronder de mécontentement

To seeth with unrest

Le périphérique

The ring road

Un rond point

A round-about

Un barrage, blocus

A blockade

Être en colère contre qqun

To be angry WITH sb

Mis en garde à vue

Taken into custody

Mijoter

To simmer

Faire allusion a

To drop a hint at

La souche (aristocratique)

The linage

Un parisien de Paris (expr)

Born and raised in Paris, born and bred

Fervent

Staunch

S’obscurcir, montrer un trouble (regard)

To cloud over

Être dans les nuages

To be day dreaming

Une poignée de

A scattering of

Réciter

To roll off

Un sale gosse

A little brat

Une acalmie

A lull

Une dizaine

A dozen

Un tabouret

A stool

Franchir

To bridge

Infranchissable

Unbridgeable

Provenir de

To stem from

Gonflé d’orgueil

Bursting/ Puffed up with pride

Aussitôt

Almost at once, right away