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1
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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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14
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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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17
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Clairement, de toute évidence

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Plainly, (debut de phrase)

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18
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Grandir dans l’exercice de ses fonctions

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To grow on the job

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19
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Les plus belles qualités

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The sterling qualities

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20
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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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23
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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

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Mean

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26
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Le moyen orient

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Middle East

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27
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Des esquisses, dessins

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Blueprints

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28
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A cheval

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On horseback

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29
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De manière intéressée

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In a self-serving way

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30
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Façonner

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To tailor

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31
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Tourner le dos à qqun

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To turn on someone

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32
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Un procédé hasardeux

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A chancy process

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33
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Être choqué

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To be taken aback

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34
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Des raisons extérieures

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Extraneous reasons

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Lugubre, sinistre

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Dismal

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Incombé

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Allotted

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Gouverner, diriger

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To steer

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Une épreuve décisive, un test décisif

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A litmus test

39
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Des crédits budgétaires

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Appropriation

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Le fanatisme religieux

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Zealotry

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Le contexte historique

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The backcloth

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Édifiant, incroyable

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Uplifting

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Un mastodonte, un poids lourd

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A juggernaut

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Trompeur, mensonger, fallacieux

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Deceptive

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Une querelle, un différent

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A dispute

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Débaucher, voler

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To poach

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Un tournant décisif (expr)

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A watershed moment

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Les lignes directrices

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The guidelines

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Une poignée de

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A scattering of, a handful of

50
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Bosser dur, trimer

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To toil over smg

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S’en prendre à qqc

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To take on smg

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Faire respecter

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To uphold

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Obéir, se soumettre, faire avec

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To comply with smg

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Intervenir

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To step in

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Se déchaîner, tout casser (manifestation)

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To go on the rampage

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Suivre des cours

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To attend classes

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Prendre position

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To take a stand

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La timidité

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Self-consciousness, shyness

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Un bourgeon

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A bud

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Étouffé dans l’œuf

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To nip in the bud

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Un élancement

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A twinge of pain, a sharp pain, a stabbing pain

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Trainasser

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To slouch

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Pousser un soupir

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To heave a sigh

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Se moquer de

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To scoff at

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Écœurer

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To sicken

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Être empêtrée

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To be bogged down, stuck in the web of

67
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Des langues de vipères

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Spiteful tongues

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Marmonner

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To mumble

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Murmurer

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To mutter, to whisper

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Malheureux (faux ami)

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Miserable

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Misérable, miteux, pauvre

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Shabby

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Émacié

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Bony

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Petit et maigre

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Scrawny

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Maigre comme un clou

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As thin as a rake (râteau)

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Chétif, maigrichon

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Puny, spindly

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Être doté de, conférer

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To be endowed with, to endow with

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Une tige

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A stem

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Être survolté

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To be a real wire

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Un fil (électrique)

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A wire

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Dû à

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Owing to, due to

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Bossu

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Hunchback

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La nuque

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The nape

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En ce qui me concerne

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As for me

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Maigreur

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Leanness

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Minceur

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Slenderness

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Des tendons

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Sinews

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Articulations

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Joint

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