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Une économie des petits boulots

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A gig economy

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Être limogé, renvoyé

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To get the boot

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Soutenir, étayer

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To underpin

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Mécontent, renfrogné

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Disgruntled

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Une culture

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A crop

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Écrasante, énorme

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Overwhelming

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Un spectacle lamentable

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A disgrading circus

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L’esprit

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Wit

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Supposé, présumé

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Alledged

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Déplorer

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To lament

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Des dysfonctionnements

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Worm-holes

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Un échappatoire

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A loop-hole

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Un éventail

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A fan

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Un examen blanc

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A mock exam

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Un post haut placé

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A high office

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Railler, se moquer

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To sneer at, to snigger at

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Clairement, de toute évidence

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Plainly, (debut de phrase)

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Grandir dans l’exercice de ses fonctions

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To grow on the job

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Les plus belles qualités

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The sterling qualities

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Mettre le doigt sur les faiblesses

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To nail inadequacies

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21
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Descendre dans les rues

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To take to the streets

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Bâclé

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To batch up

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Une enquête a huis-clos

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A closed-door investigation

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Avec grand fracas médiatique

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In a blast of publicity

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Méchant/minable/radin
Mean
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Le moyen orient
Middle East
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Des esquisses, dessins
Blueprints
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A cheval
On horseback
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De manière intéressée
In a self-serving way
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Façonner
To tailor
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Tourner le dos à qqun
To turn on someone
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Un procédé hasardeux
A chancy process
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Être choqué
To be taken aback
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Des raisons extérieures
Extraneous reasons
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Lugubre, sinistre
Dismal
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Incombé
Allotted
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Gouverner, diriger
To steer
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Une épreuve décisive, un test décisif
A litmus test
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Des crédits budgétaires
Appropriation
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Le fanatisme religieux
Zealotry
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Le contexte historique
The backcloth
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Édifiant, incroyable
Uplifting
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Un mastodonte, un poids lourd
A juggernaut
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Trompeur, mensonger, fallacieux
Deceptive
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Une querelle, un différent
A dispute
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Débaucher, voler
To poach
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Un tournant décisif (expr)
A watershed moment
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Les lignes directrices
The guidelines
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Une poignée de
A scattering of, a handful of
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Bosser dur, trimer
To toil over smg
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S’en prendre à qqc
To take on smg
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Faire respecter
To uphold
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Obéir, se soumettre, faire avec
To comply with smg
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Intervenir
To step in
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Se déchaîner, tout casser (manifestation)
To go on the rampage
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Suivre des cours
To attend classes
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Prendre position
To take a stand
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La timidité
Self-consciousness, shyness
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Un bourgeon
A bud
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Étouffé dans l’œuf
To nip in the bud
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Un élancement
A twinge of pain, a sharp pain, a stabbing pain
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Trainasser
To slouch
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Pousser un soupir
To heave a sigh
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Se moquer de
To scoff at
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Écœurer
To sicken
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Être empêtrée
To be bogged down, stuck in the web of
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Des langues de vipères
Spiteful tongues
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Marmonner
To mumble
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Murmurer
To mutter, to whisper
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Malheureux (faux ami)
Miserable
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Misérable, miteux, pauvre
Shabby
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Émacié
Bony
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Petit et maigre
Scrawny
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Maigre comme un clou
As thin as a rake (râteau)
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Chétif, maigrichon
Puny, spindly
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Être doté de, conférer
To be endowed with, to endow with
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Une tige
A stem
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Être survolté
To be a real wire
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Un fil (électrique)
A wire
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Dû à
Owing to, due to
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Bossu
Hunchback
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La nuque
The nape
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En ce qui me concerne
As for me
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Maigreur
Leanness
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Minceur
Slenderness
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Des tendons
Sinews
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Articulations
Joint

ECS2-Anglais (17 decks)

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