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Pauvreté

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Poverty

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Reporter, remettre à plus tard, différer

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To postpone

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Situation difficile, fâcheuse

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Predicament

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Précédent

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Previous

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Orgueil, fierté

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Pride

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Examiner, explorer

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To probe

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Faire traîner les choses

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To procrastinate

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Pousser doucement, inciter qqn a faire qqc

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To prod

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Produire

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To prouduce

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Inciter à une action ponctuelle

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To prompt

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Mener à bien, faire accepter, voter (lois)

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To push through

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Poursuivre, rechercher

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To pursue

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Remettre à plus tard

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To put off

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Revoir ses ambitions à la baisse

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To scale back his ambitions

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Être mis en vigueur

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To be put into effect

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Poursuivre en justice

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To prosecute

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Fournir

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To provide

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Acheter

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To purchase

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But, objet, raison

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Purpose

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Complètement au hasard

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Shot in the dark

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Faire pression sur

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To pressure,

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Écarter, pousser à l’écart

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To push aside

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S’en sortir avec difficultés

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To pull through

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Être enclin à

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To be prone to

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Mettre… entre parenthèses

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To put… on the back burner

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De sitôt

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Any time soon

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La prime à la casse

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The Cash for Clunkers programme

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Les primo-accédants à la propriété

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First time homebuyers

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Il s’agit avant tout de

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The priority is to

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Accusent… d’avoir aggravé la crise du crédit

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Blame… for exarcerbing the credit crunch

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PIB

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GDP

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Un seule critère pour évaluer

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Only one yardstick by which to measure

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Accepte de changer radicalement de mode vie

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Agree to a dramatic change in their lifestyle

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La dégringolade de la livre sterling

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Sterling’s sudden plunge

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Est menacé par

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Is under threat from

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A encore de beaux jours devant lui

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There are still good times ahead

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Ont l’habitude de s’en prendre à

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Have a habit of blaming

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Impacter une reprise mondiale

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Impact a global recovery

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Employer la manière forte

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To use strong-arm tactics

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S’estimer heureux

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Count his blessings

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4x4

Une voiture peu gourmande en carburant

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A SUV

A fuel-efficient car

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Ont recours à l’auto-partage

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Car-share

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Désespère

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Drives..sb.. to despair

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S’insurgent contre

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Are up in arms against

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Coûtent deux fois plus cher

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Cost twice what they did

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Elle a pris les choses en main

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She has taken matters into her own hands

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À cause de son manque d’expérience

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Because she lacks experience

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Sur la soixantaine d’emplois pour lesquels il a postulé

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The 60 or so jobs he has applied for

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S’envoient des textos

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Text each other

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Jouer aux apprentis sorciers

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Play God

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L’instant de vérité

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The day of reckoning

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Le prix Nobel de la paix 2009

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The 2009 Nobel Peace Price

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Mais elle essaie de ne pas le montrer

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But she tries to put a brave face on it

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De grosses voitures qui consomment beaucoup

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Large gas guzzlers

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Se contenter de son sort

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To be content with his lot

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Il y a tant de diplômés qui inondent le marché du travail que

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With so many graduates flooding the job market

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Sort pas à pas de la récession

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Is crawling out of recession

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Relancer l’économie

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To kickstart the economy

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La frénésie des soldes

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The sales frenzy

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Supporter

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To put up with

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Essayer d’obtenir

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To push for

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Un quart

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A quarter

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Lâcher, abandonner

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To quit

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Interroger, questionner

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To quiz

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Citer

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To quote

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Course, compétition

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Race

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Élever (un enfant)

Soulever (un pb) (to bring up)

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To raise

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Au hasard

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At random

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Gamme, série, éventail

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Range

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Classer

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Rank

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Violer

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Rape

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Éruption

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Rash ( outbreak)

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Taux, allure

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Rate

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Cru, brut

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Raw

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Atteindre, arriver à

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To reach

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Remboursement, rabais (discount)

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Rebate

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Faire face à

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To reckon with ( to face up to, to cope with)

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Estimer, croire

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To reckon (to expect, to consider)

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Enregistrer, noter

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To record

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Récupérer, se rétablir

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To recover

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Licenciement économique

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Redundancy (layoff, cutback)

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Sans prendre en considération, indépendamment

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Regardless of

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1) libére, relâcher

2) faire paraître, mettre en vente

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To release

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Pertinent, ayant rapport

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Relevant

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Soulager, aider

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To relieve

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Être peu disposé à, hésiter à faire qqch

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To be reluctant to do sth (hesitant)

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Compter sur

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To rely on (to count on)

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Rester, demeurer

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To remain

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Rapporter, rendre compte, faire un reportage

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To report

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Représentant, représentatif

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Representative

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Demander qch à qn

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To request

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Nécessiter, exiger

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To require

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Hausses de températures dans le monde

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Rising global temperatures

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Ne… pas dévoiler le projet

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To keep the project under wraps

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En a surpris plus d’un

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Caused a few raised eyebrows

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On pense généralement

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… is believed to

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Preuve tangible

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A smoking gun

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Les associations écologistes

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Environmental groups

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Mettre la charrue avant les bœufs

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To put the cart be fore the horses

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Ont pris le train de l’écologie en marche

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Have jumped on the environmental bandwagon

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Ils n’étaient jamais d’accord

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They never saw eye to eye

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Compétente

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On the ball

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Dans le sillage de

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In the wake of

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Accueillir

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To play host to

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Mettent la main à pâte

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Pitch in

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Dans la meilleure des hypothèses

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Under the best-case scenario

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Les dépenses publiques

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Public spending

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Au cours des deux dernières années

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Over the last two years

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Révisent à la hausse

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Revising up

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Rentrer dans leurs frais

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To break even

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Ils arrivent à s’en sortir

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The get by

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Rester les bras croisés

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To sit tight

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Des montagnes de nourriture gaspillée

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Mountains of food waste

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Maîtriser les dépenses publiques

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To rein in public expenditure

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Il ne pratique pas la langue de bois

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He is a plain speaker

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Secourir

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To rescue

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Recherches

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Research

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Passer au scanner corporel

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To go through the body scanner

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Sortir de l’impasse

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Break the deadlock

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Un accord qui les encourage

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A binding agreement

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Concilier vie de famille et vie professionnelle

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Combining family life and word

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La géo localisation par téléphone portable

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Cellphone positinning

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Beuveries

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Drinking binges

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Dénicher les bonnes affaires

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To seek out bargains

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Les ampoules basse consommation

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Low-energy lightbulbs

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Les salaires des femmes

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Female wages

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Respectueuses de l’environnement

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Eco-friendly

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Il leur en reste encore beaucoup à faire

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But there’s still a long way to go