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Tant que… restera

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So long as… Stays

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Remanier

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To reshuffle

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Demeurer

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Remain

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Donner sa démission

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To resign

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Prendre sa retraite

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To retire

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Dateraient de

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Are believed to date back to

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Inégalement répartie

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Unevenly distributed

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Vengeance

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Revenge

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Récompenser

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To reward

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Débarrasser

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To rid, to get rid of

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Énigme, mystère, devinette

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Riddle

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Ont pratiqué environ 4 millions d’expériences sur

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Performed about 4m experiments on

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Bien s’en sortir

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To be coping well

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Enfin

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At long last

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Division, désaccord, cassure

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Rift

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Manifester avec violence

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To riot

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Augmenter

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Rise (to increase, to go up)

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Effets, répercussion à la chaîne

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Ripple, ripple effect

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Se démarque fortement de

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Is in sharp contrast to

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La sécurité sociale britannique

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The NHS

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Rouler en arrière, inverser un processus

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To roll back

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Se disputer, s’engueuler

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To row

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Décombres

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Rubble

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Gouverner

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To rule

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Écarter, exclure (une possibilité)

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To rule out

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1) courir

2) fonctionner, faire fonctionner

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To run

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Être fatigué, surmené, en mauvais état

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To be run down

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Manquer de, être sur le point de manquer de

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To run short of

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Se précipiter

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To rush

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Cruel, impitoyable

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Ruthless

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70% de plus de risque de

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A 70% higher risk of vb+ing

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Il n’est pas du tout sûr que cela suffira à

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Wether that will be enough to … is doubtful

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A dû lui plaire énormément

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Must have been music to her ears

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Ce qui n’est pas une bonne nouvelle

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Which is bad news

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S’essouffler

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To run out of steam

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Auront du mal à trouver du travail

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Will be struggling to find work

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Le pire est peut-être à venir

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The worst mat lie ahead

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Est enrayé

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Is kept in Check

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Sûr, sans danger, en sécurité

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Safe

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Pour, par égard à, pour l’amour de

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For the sake of

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Échantillon

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Sample

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Sauver

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To save

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1) Échelle

2) Industrie à grande échelle

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Scale

Large-scale industry

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Bouc émissaire

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Scapegoat

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Peu abondant, peu nombreux

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Scarce

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Programmer, prévoir

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To schedule

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Projet, procédé, plan

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Scheme

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Savant, scientifique

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Scientist

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Faire part de ses véritables intentions

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Come clean about what he really intends to do

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La table des négociations

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The negotiating table

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Un fardeau pour

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A burden on

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Système de santé

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Health system

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Marché immobilier, financier

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Housing market, financial market

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Être désavantagé

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To achieve wage equality for men and women

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Dans l’état actuel des choses

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As thing stands

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Le pays qui produit le plus de gaz à effet de serre dans le monde

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The world’s biggest emitter of greenhouse gases

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De sacs en plastique jetables

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Throwaway plastic bags

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Séquestration des patrons

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Bossnapping

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Il est vital

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It is vital to

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Pour compenser l’empreinte carbone

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To offset the carbon footprint

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Le président de la chambre des communes

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The Commons Speaker

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Voir le bout du tunnel

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To see the light at the end of the tunnel

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Ont essuyé de vives critiques

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Came under fire

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À un carrefour

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At a crossroads

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Ils sont dos au mur

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They are back to the wall

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Tirer parti de, profit de

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To capitalize on something

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De l’argent placé en lieu sûr

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Money stashed away

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L’espérance de vie

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Life expectancy

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Avoir trouver le bon filon

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He is on to a good thing

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7 millions de personnes

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7 million people

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Boire ou conduire, il faut choisir

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Don’t drink and drive

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Meurent prématurément à force de trop boire

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Drink themselves to an early death

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Se reposer sur ses lauriers

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Rest on his laurels

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Aux prochaines élections législatives

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At the next general election

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Qui s’étaient habitués à acheter à crédit

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Who had grown used to buying on credit

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L’âge d’or

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Heyday

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Pour que les stocks se reconstituent

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To replenish stocks

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Contrairement à celle de sb

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Unlike sb’s

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L’auto-stop

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Hitchhiking

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Prospérer

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Be thriving

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Une mesure bouche-trou

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A stop-gap measure

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À son actif

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Under his belt

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A ruiné la vie de

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Has wrecked the lives

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Représente 11,6%

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Accounts for 11,6%

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Faire disparaître

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To drive… To extinction

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Mépriser, dédaigner

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To scorn (to disdain, to look down on)

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Fléau

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A scourge

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Sélectionner, filtrer

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To screen

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Fouiller

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To search

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Chercher, rechercher

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To seek (to look for)

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Vendre

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To sell

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Raisonnable

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Sencé

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Condamner à une peine

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To sentence

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Une série

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A serie

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Mettre, régler, fixer

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To set

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Retarder

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To set back

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Poser les structures

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To set up

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Régler, résoudre (conflits, problèmes)

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To settle

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S’installer, se fixer (lieu)

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To settle down

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Secouer, ébranler, se débarrasser de

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To shake