22/04/'13 Flashcards

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les actualités

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current affairs, the news

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un témoignage

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  1. DROIT [action de témoigner] testimony, evidence
  2. [preuve] gesture, expression
  3. (eyewitness) account
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à la une

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at the page one, on the front page

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Le canard enchaîné

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Le journal à droit,

‘Violent et très critiqué du gouvernement

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enchaîner

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to chain, to link

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rhinocéros [rinoceros]

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rhinoceros, rhino

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une pièce de théâtre

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theatre piece, play

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un fait-divers

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[événement] news story, news item

[rubrique] news in brief

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Ils parlent d’un fait-divers.

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They talk about a news story.

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une rubrique

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[dans la presse] column

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La rubrique scientifique

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The science column

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La rubrique nécrologique

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The obituaries

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écraser

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to crush, to mash, to run over

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un espoir

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hope

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un témoin

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witness

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témoigner

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to testify, to give evidence

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les nouvelles

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f. pl.

news

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pertinent

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pertinent, relevant

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rabâcher

tu n’arrêtes pas de rabâcher la même chose.

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to keep (on) repeating

toujours répéter qqch

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une opinion

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un avis, (opinion, view point)

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s’informer

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informer

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Je me suis informé auprès de mon avocat.

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I asked my lawyer.

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un mépris

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contempt, disdain, scorn

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fouler
[ecraser-raisin] to press | [marcher sur] to tread ou walk on
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Il s'agit de- je voudrais te parler. - de quoi s'agit-il? De quel pachyderme s'agit-il?
I'd like to talk to you. - What about? Of which pachyderm is it?
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sceptique
sceptical
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pédant
pedantic (marked by a narrow focus on or display of learning especially its trivial aspects)
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pointilleux
fussy, fastidious (difficult to please, giving careful attention to detail)
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un pachyderm
hippo, rhino or elephant
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autoritaire
authoritarian
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un / une imbécile
idiot
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naïf (naïve)
innocent
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disparu
disparaître , mort | dead
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blessé
injured
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submergé
submerged, flooded
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enlever Il a été enlevé à son domicile.
kidnapper He was kidnapped from his home.
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Interroger
to question, to interrogate
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un soupçon
suspicion
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soupçonner
to suspect
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un menteur, une menteuse
lier
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un rédacteur, une rédactrice le rédacteur de la rubrique des chats écrasés
writer the writer of the column on the cats crushed
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en l'occurrence un rhinocéros en l'occurrence
in this case (dans ce cas précis) A rhinoceros in this case!
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Il s'agit tout simplement d'un chat écrasé par un pachyderme.
It's simply about a cat crushed by a pachyderm.
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Les Méridionaux
Southerner ( du Sud de la France)
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Venez à 19 h pour l'apéritif.
Come around at 7 pm for aperitif (drinks)