Vocabulary 5 Flashcards

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Le bilan des morts

A

The death toll

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2
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Subvenir aux besoins de

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To provide for

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3
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Une accusation

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An allegation

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4
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Quoiqu’il en soit

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Be it as it may

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5
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Une pierre angulaire

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A milestone

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6
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La censure

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Censorship

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7
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Sperm

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Semen

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8
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Une occidentale

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A western girl

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9
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Osciller

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To sway

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10
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Vaciller

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To teeter

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11
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Déjouer, contrecarrer

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To foil, to thwarted

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12
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Des tremblements de terre dévastateurs

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Shattering quakes

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13
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S’effondrer

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To crash down down, to crumble down ; to collapse

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14
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La Guerre des gangs

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Gang warfare

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15
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Un règlement de compte

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A gangland killing

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16
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Un gamin des rues

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A street urchin

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17
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Fichés (S)

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On file

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18
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Du chantage

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Black mail

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19
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La faune

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Wildlife

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20
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1 année sur 2

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Every other year ; every two years

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21
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Développé (orth)

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Developed (1 seul p)

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22
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Un roi déchu (expression)

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A fallen angel/king

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23
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Un (vrai) roi déchu

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A deposed/dethroned king

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24
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Une brebis

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An ewe

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Un bouc
A billy goat
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Goûter (eau)
To trickle down
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Freiner
To brake
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Des crochets []
Brackets
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Un crochet (Capitaine crochet)
A hook
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Remporter un ras-de-marée électoral
To win by landslide
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Une tentative pour camoufler une affaire
A cover-up
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Des crues subites
Flash floods
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A contre coeur
Grundgingly
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Un robinet
A tap
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Branlant, peu solide
Shaky
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Tenir à
To make it a point to (inform you of)
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Un rêve bienheureux, agréable
A blissful dream
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Mettre la table
To lay the table
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En aucunes manières
By no means
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Un futur (emploi)
A prospective (job)
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Un quart d’heure
A quarter of an hour
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Être connue par elle
To be known TO her
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Ce dernier
The latter
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Intimer l’ordre de
To bid
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Une OPA
A take-over bid
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Déguerpissez !
Hop it !
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A grasshopper
Une sauterelle
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To hop
Faire des petits bonds
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Un saut en avant (lorsque grande décision)
A leap in the dark
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En danger
In jeopardy (prononcer « jopardy »)
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Abasourdi
Taken back, flabbergasted, dumbfounded
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Prendre à témoin
To call sb to witness
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Un habitué
A patron
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Sur les lieux
On the premises
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Quelconque
Whatsoever
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Déposer une plainte
To take legal action, to lodge a complaint
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Assumer (ses responsabilités)
To fulfill
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La mufflerie
Boorishness
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Un délit
An offence
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Grossièreté
Coarseness
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Virilité
Manliness
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L’avant dernier
The last-but one
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L’affirmation de soi même
Self-assertion
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Si peu compatible avec
So much at variance with that of
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Imaginer
To devise
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Une tentative
An endeavour
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Qui ne vaut rien
Picayune
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Illicite
Extra-legal
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Évaluer, jauger
To gauge
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Minimiser les enjeux
To play down the stakes
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Les éleveurs
Stockbreeders, cattle breeders
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Ne pas vouloir de mal à qqun
To mean sb no ill