WS : GUN ISSUE IN THE US

Question 1

Un bain de sang

Answer 1

A bloodshed

Question 2

Le plan qu’il a exposer

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The plan he laid out

Question 3

Des règlementations contraignantes

Answer 3

Binding régulations

Question 4

Un financement important

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Hefty funding

Question 5

Le congrès dominé par les Républicains

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A Republican-led Congress

Question 6

La vérification des antécédents

Answer 6

Background checks

Question 7

Éliminer, éradiquer les acheteurs interdits

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To weed out prohibited buyers

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Jauger

Answer 8

To gauge

Question 9

Inculpé

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Charged

Question 10

Exprimer son énervement à propos de

Answer 10

To voice irritation over

Question 11

Les partisans

Answer 11

Advocates

Question 12

To shelve

Answer 12

Repousser, abandonner

Question 13

Durcir

Answer 13

To toughen

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Attiser

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To stoke

Question 15

Qui a agiter le congrès

Answer 15

That has roiled Congress

Question 16

Déborder sur (un débat, une affaire)

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To spill over into

Question 17

Tenir sa promesse

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To make good on one’s promise

Question 18

Les victimes des armes

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Gun victims

Question 19

La violence due aux armes

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Gun violence

Question 20

Dépasser, aller au delà (fonction, autorité)

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To overstep

Question 21

Définir un seuil

Answer 21

To define a threshold

Question 22

Etre attentif à, avoir conscience de

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To be mindful of

Question 23

Encourager, soutenir quelque chose

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To push for sth

Question 24

Un ultime appel à

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A last-ditch call for

Question 25

Une faille

Answer 25

A loophole, a breakdown

Question 26

Saper

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To undermine

Question 27

Appeler quelqu’un à faire qqchose

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To call on sb To do sth

Question 28

Un tournant dans…

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A landmark step in

Question 29

Respecter les mêmes lois

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To abide by the same rules

Question 30

Sauter /ommettre des détails

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To skip détails

Question 31

Etre a la traîne dans les sondages

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To be lagging far behind the polls

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Sincère

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Heartfelt

Question 33

Une impasse politique

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A political stalemate

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Résister à

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To stand up To

Question 35

Bloquer le passage de qqun fasse qqchose

Empêcher de faire qqchose

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Stand in someone’s way to

Question 36

Vérifier, contrôlée un acheteur

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Vet a buyers

Question 37

Faire marcher droit qqun

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To keep someone in line

Question 38

Dicter sa loi

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To lay down the law

Question 39

Tenir les rênes

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To hold the reins

Question 40

Faire la loi

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To rule the roost

Question 41

Tirer les ficelles

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To pull the strings

Question 42

Imposer sa volonté

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To have it all one’s way

To have everything one’s way

Question 43

Faire ce que l’ont veut de quelqu’un

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To wrap someone round one’s little finger

Question 44

Jurer de

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Vow To