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Bloquer la circulation

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To snarl the traffic

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Le mécontentement gronde dans le pays

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The country is seething with unrest

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Couver, gronder (violence)

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To seeth

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Mijoter

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To simmer

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Prendre qqun au dépourvu

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To caught sb unprepared

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Faire la sourde oreille à

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To turn a deaf ear to sb

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Fermer les yeux sur qqc

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To turn a blind eye on smg

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Un détournement de fonds

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Embezzlement

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Un escroc

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An embezzler, a crook, a swindler

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La perspicacité

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Insight

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Tendre l’oreille

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To prick up

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12
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Supprimer, abolir

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To scrap

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13
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Entendre sans le vouloir

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To overhear

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Tendre l’oreille/écouter aux portes

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To eavesdrop

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15
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Des négociateurs acharnés

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Though negotiators

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16
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Préparer le chemin

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To pave the way for

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17
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Un accord alibi

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A token agreement

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18
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Mettre en place

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To implement

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19
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Quand on pense à la taille de

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Given the size of

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20
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Pour le dire directement

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To put in bluntly

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21
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Ils persistent et signent

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They are back with more of the same

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22
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Des marteaux

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Hammers

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23
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Des pelles

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Shovels, spades

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24
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Appelons un chat un chat

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Let’s call a spade a spade

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Des haches
Axes
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Des boulons
Bolts
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Un tronc d’arbre
A tree trunk
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A trunk
Un coffre de voiture, une trompe d’éléphant, une malle, un tronc, un boxer (au pluriel)
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Un clôture, une barrière
A fence
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Lancer violemment
To hurl smg at, to fling
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Les casseurs
Rioting demonstrators, hooligans, thugs
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Un interlocuteur
A discussion partner
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Être dépassé par les événements
To be overtaken by events
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C’est du jamais vu
This is unheard-of
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Piller
To loot, to plunder
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Renverser
To overturn
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Des passants
Passers-by, onlookers
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L’arc de triomphe a été souillé
The Arc de Triomphe was soiled/vandalized
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A bas l’état
Down with the state
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Vive le vandalisme
Long live vandalism
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Avoir du mal à joindre les 2 bouts
To find it hard to make ends meet
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Une frange (politique)
A fringe
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Chercher une aiguille dans une botte de foin
Looking for a needle in a haystack
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Des problèmes de longue date
Long-standing problems
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Changer de forme
To have shape-shifted
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Être assis face à face
To be sitting across from each other
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Être face à un problème
To be faced with a pb
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Le désarroi
Dismay, distress, disarray,
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Être dans un désarroi profond
To be utterly dismayed, to be in utter confusion
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La pierre tombale
The tombstone
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La tombe
The grave
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Fouiller qqc (une malle)
To rummage through
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Fouiller (fureter les affaires de qqun d’autres)
To snoop
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Au bord des larmes
On the verge of
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Hurler
To yell
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Le courroux
Wrath
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Avaler goulûment/ gober
To gobble up
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Vous avez une piste ?
Do you have a lead ?
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Une société a 2 vitesses
A two-tier society
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Un pneu
A tyre
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Des contrôles raconien
Stringent controls
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Sérieux, consciencieux
Thorough
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Une enquête
Investigation, inquiry, inquest
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Soyez en certain
You may rest assured
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Les victimes/sinistrés (d’un accident)
The casualties
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Un nain
A dwarf, a midget
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Rondouillard
Portly, shabby, tubby
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Miner qqun
To undermine sb
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Être déstabilisé
To be unsettled
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Attraper un criminel (par le collet)
To collar a criminal
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Faire un trou, percer
To drill, to bore into
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Un marteau piqueur
A pneumatic drill
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Errer, vagabonder
To wander around/about
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Le regard
The gaze
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Regarder méchamment
To glare at
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Regarder loguement
To gaze at
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Regarder rapidement
To glance at
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Roder ac une mauvaise intention
To roam
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Un endroit perdu
A godforsaken place
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Attirer qqun qqpart (malhonnêtement)
To lure
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Mal intentionné
Ill-intentioned
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Éloigne, lointain
Far-off, far-away, remote
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Une connaissance
An acquaintance
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Interpeler
To arrest for questioning
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Voir souvent
To be acquainted with
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Faire un interrogatoire à qqun (police)
To cross examine sb
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A regard farouche/féroce
A fierce glare
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Blesser qqun
To hurt sb’s feelings
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Un Timide
A coy
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Un grenier
An attic
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Un quartier mal famé
A red-light district
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Diriger une entreprise
To run a company
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Un casier judiciaire vierge
A clean police record, a clean criminal record
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Un casier (intégrale)
A locker
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Avoir des charges contre qqun
To indict sb with, to have a leverage on sb
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Lâcher qqc d’un ton sec
To snap
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Perdre+Prouver (orth)
To lose, to prove (1 seul o)

ECS2-Anglais (17 decks)

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