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1
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Le bilan des morts

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The death toll

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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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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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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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Vaciller

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To teeter

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Déjouer, contrecarrer

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To foil, to thwarted

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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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Un (vrai) roi déchu

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A deposed/dethroned king

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Une brebis

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An ewe

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Un bouc

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A billy goat

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Goûter (eau)

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To trickle down

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27
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Freiner

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To brake

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28
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Des crochets []

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Brackets

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Un crochet (Capitaine crochet)

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A hook

30
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Remporter un ras-de-marée électoral

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To win by landslide

31
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Une tentative pour camoufler une affaire

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A cover-up

32
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Des crues subites

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Flash floods

33
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A contre coeur

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Grundgingly

34
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Un robinet

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A tap

35
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Branlant, peu solide

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Shaky

36
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Tenir à

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To make it a point to (inform you of)

37
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Un rêve bienheureux, agréable

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A blissful dream

38
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Mettre la table

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To lay the table

39
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En aucunes manières

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By no means

40
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Un futur (emploi)

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A prospective (job)

41
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Un quart d’heure

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A quarter of an hour

42
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Être connue par elle

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To be known TO her

43
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Ce dernier

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The latter

44
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Intimer l’ordre de

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To bid

45
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Une OPA

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A take-over bid

46
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Déguerpissez !

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Hop it !

47
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A grasshopper

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Une sauterelle

48
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To hop

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Faire des petits bonds

49
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Un saut en avant (lorsque grande décision)

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A leap in the dark

50
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En danger

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In jeopardy (prononcer «jopardy»)

51
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Abasourdi

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Taken back, flabbergasted, dumbfounded

52
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Prendre à témoin

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To call sb to witness

53
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Un habitué

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A patron

54
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Sur les lieux

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On the premises

55
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Quelconque

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Whatsoever

56
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Déposer une plainte

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To take legal action, to lodge a complaint

57
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Assumer (ses responsabilités)

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To fulfill

58
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La mufflerie

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Boorishness

59
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Un délit

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An offence

60
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Grossièreté

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Coarseness

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Virilité

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Manliness

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L’avant dernier

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The last-but one

63
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L’affirmation de soi même

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Self-assertion

64
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Si peu compatible avec

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So much at variance with that of

65
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Imaginer

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To devise

66
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Une tentative

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An endeavour

67
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Qui ne vaut rien

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Picayune

68
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Illicite

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Extra-legal

69
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Évaluer, jauger

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To gauge

70
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Minimiser les enjeux

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To play down the stakes

71
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Les éleveurs

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Stockbreeders, cattle breeders

72
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Ne pas vouloir de mal à qqun

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To mean sb no ill

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