Vocabulary 6 Flashcards by Chloé 357

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Un quart-arrière (sport)

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A quarterback

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Hors jeu/accès interdit

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Out of bounds

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Les spectateurs, les curieux, les badauts

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The onlookers

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Inexact, erroné

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Inaccurate

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Provenir de

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To spring from

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Un lieu

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A venue

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Un programme politique

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A political plateform

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Une vente aux enchères

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An auction

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Déchiqueter, mettre en lambeaux

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To shred

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Jusqu’à ce que mort s’ensuive

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To the bitter end

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Retarder

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To hamper, to put off

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Entraver

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To impede

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Remporter les élections

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To snatch/carry/sweep the elections

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Sortir vainqueur

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To come/finish first

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Avec brio

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With flying colours

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Les doigts dans le nez

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Hands-down

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Une part importante de

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An important share of

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Le second tour

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The second ballot

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Prendre une raclée

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To take a licking/a drubbing

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Être derrière les barreaux

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To be behind bars

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Être poussé par un sentiment de désespoir

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To be spurred by a sense of desperation

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Sentir l’attrait

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To feel the appeal

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Être au dessus de la mêlée

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To be above the fray

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Sortir de ses gonds

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To fly into a rage/temper

Déclencher, provoquer

To trigger, to set off, to spark

Faire une révérence

To bow

Baisser la tête

To bow one’s head

Athlétisme

Track and field

Diffamer

To vilify

Tressaillir, frissonner

To thrill

Il est prof comme moi

He is a fellow teacher

Un médaillé

A medalist

Un festin

A feast

Un exploit

A feat

Faire corps avec qqun

To stand solidly with someone

Fallacieux

Spurious

L’inconscient collectif

The national consciousness

Enflammer les esprits

To inflame the passions of

Une couturière

A seamstress

Interdire

To rule out

Un créneau, une croyance

A creed

Imposer, faire valoir

To enforce

Un jeton/totem

A token

Un regain de

An upsurge of

Affirmer

To assert

Qui faut les gros titres

Headline-grabbing

Un pas, une foulée

A stride

Des lunettes de soleil

Shades

Un defaut

A flaw

Se chamailler au sujet de qqc

To bicker about smg

Une fusillade

A shoot-out

Priver qqun de qqc

To deprive sb of smg

S’allier à

To side with