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Ils ne fondent pas leurs espoirs sur

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They are not pinning their hopes

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Vif, intense, pénétrant

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Keen

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Réaction en chaîne

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Knock-on effect

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Avoir relégué.. au second plan

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To have relegated… to a position of secondary importance

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Travail, main d’œuvre

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Labo(u)r

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Continuer à faire qqchse

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To keep on

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Manquer de qqchse

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To lack sth

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Rester en arrière

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To lag (behind)

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Bric-à-brac, truc, camelote

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Junk

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Grand monument ou autre point de repère dans le paysage

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Landmark

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Glissement de terrain

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Landslide

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Durer

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To last

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Il a été transporté d’urgence à l’hôpital

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He was rushed to hospital

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Mettre, poser, déposer

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To lay

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Licencie, mettre au chômage

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To lay off

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Connaissance, savoir

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Knowledge

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Une personne sur six

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One in every six people

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Majeur, important, de premier plan

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Leading

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La loi

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Law

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Risquer de faire qqchse

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To be liable

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Probabilité

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Likelihood

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Une réaction brutale

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A backlash

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Plafonner

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To cap

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Se fait de plus en plus sentir sur

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Is tightening its grip on

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Au plus bas

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At their lowest

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En raison de

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As a result of

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N’est pas pour demain

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Is still a long way off

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Est loin d’être évident

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Is an uphill battle

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Personne ne sait

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Is anybody’s guess

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Déphasée par rapport à

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Out of step with

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Le moteur de l’économie européenne

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The powerhouse of European economy

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A réaffirmé son hostilité à

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Has reinforced its hostility

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Vous faites le jeu des

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You play into the hands of

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On devrait rendre aux terroristes la monnaie de leur pièce

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Terrorists should be given a taste of their own medecine

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Le dépistage du cancer du sein

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Screening for breast cancer

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Montés en flèche / ont dégringolé

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Rocketing / plummeted

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Lancer

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To launch

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Font… partie du personnel

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On the pay roll

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Réduire

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To cut back on

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En chute libre

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In freefall

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Doit être achevée

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Is due for completion

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A portée de main

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Within reach

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fusionner, s’unir

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to merge

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Rien qu’en mars

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In March alone

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Nous ne sommes pas encore sortis de l’auberge

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We are not out of the woods yet

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Dépasser

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To outstrip

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induire en erreur

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to mislead

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Un taux de natalité qui augmente régulièrement

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A steadily rising birthrate

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Vivre simplement

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To live frugally

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faire pression

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to lobby

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La place est libre à la tête du parti

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The leadership of the party is up for grabs

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attendre avec impatience

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to look forward to

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apparaitre indistinctement à l’horizon, menacer

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to loom

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1) importer
2) a) question, sujet, problème b) la matière
3) matière scolaire

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to matter

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Charger

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to load

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Entretenir

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To keep up

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gérer, diriger

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to manage

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Diminuer, réduire, atténuer

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To lessen

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baisser

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to lower

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fabriquer (usine)

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to manufacture

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ils auront comme priorité

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they will prioritise

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1) vouloir dire
2) avoir l’intention de
3) impliquer, nécessiter

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to mean

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elles sont enlevées pour devenir des esclaves sexuelles

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they are abducted into sexual slavery

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fondre, s’attendrir

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to melt

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borne kilométrique, jalon, évènement marquant

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milestone

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le marché

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market

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principal, le plus important

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main

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la base de données ADN

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the DNA database

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durement touché

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hard hit

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un nombre de spermatozoïdes anormalement bas

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an abnormally low sperm count

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un mécontentement croissant

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growing discontent

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il y a tout lieu de penser

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there is every reason to believe

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est revenu sur

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went back on

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ils ont donné le poste à quelqu’un d’autre

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he was passed over for the job

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le battage médiatique

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the hype

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jouer les trouble-fête

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to rock the boat

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1) les moyens

2) un moyen

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the means, a means

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se contenter de

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to make do with

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le comité d’observation de la santé

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the health watchdog

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était mené par

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were trailing by

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ils ont fermé les yeux sur

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they turned a blind eye to

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il devrait réfléchir davantage

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he ought to know better

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une percée importante sur

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significant inroads to

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ressentir la pression

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to feel the heat

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il s’est ravisé

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he thought better of it

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sur les douze derniers mois

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from a year ago

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avoir du retard par rapport à

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are lagging behind

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les ventes de voitures

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car sales

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reléguant … à la deuxième place

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knocking … into second place

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pour attirer les clients

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to encourage people into their stores

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aura disparu

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will have disappeared

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doute, appréhension

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misgivings

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essentiel pour renforcer

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key to strenghtening

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Deux précautions en valent mieux qu’une. (dicton))

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Better be safe than sorry (saying)

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les réformes vont nous ramener 30 ans en arrière

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reforms will set back the clock 30 years

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une société fondée sur le savoir

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a knowledge-based society

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être supprimés

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to be axed

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des disciplines qu’elle ne maîtrise pas vraiment

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subjects that she has no real grasp of

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compenser

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to offset

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les pertes de mémoire

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memory loss

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importations

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imports

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influence (perdre de l’influence)

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clout

losing clout

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1) désordre, pagaille, fouillis
2) traîner, faire l’idiot
3) gâcher qqch, se planter

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1) to mess
2) to mess around
3) to mess up

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il en va de même de

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the same goes for

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Deux des maladies mortelles les plus répandues

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Two of the most widespread killer deseases

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gâcher

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to mar

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échappatoire, point faible

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loophole

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Lier, relier

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To link

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le centre d’un courant

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mainstream

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1) égaler

2) être assorti / aller bien avec

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to match

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Faire de même

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To follow suit

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Rester fidèle à

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To keep to

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