24/10/12 - Health Flashcards

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La pauvreté, le besoin

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Want

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Qui sévit

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Rampant

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L’insalubrité

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Squalor

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Exhaustif

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Comprehensive

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Les personnes âgées

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The elderly

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Les avantages sociaux

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Benefits
Unemployement
Sickness

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De grande envergure

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Wide-ranging

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Du berceau jusqu’à la tombe

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From the cradle to the grave

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Les pensions de retraite

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Pensions

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Les nécessiteux

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The needy

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Un médecin généraliste

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A GP

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Entraîner

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To bring about

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Des frais

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Charges

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Une ordonnance

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Prescription

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Une démission

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A resignation

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Être cohérent, compatible avec

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To be consistent with

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Rationaliser

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To streamline

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Autonome

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Self-governing

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Rentable

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Profitable

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Sous-traiter

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To sub-contract

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Rivaliser avec quelqu’un

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To vie with somebody

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Une subvention

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A subsidy

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Nuancer

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To qualify

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Renoncer à, laisser tomber

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To scrap

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Réorganiser
To revamp
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Un acheteur
A purchaseur
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L'espérance de vie
Life expectancy
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Réduire les effectifs de
To downsize
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Limiter
To cap
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Ne pas être envisageable
To be off the table
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Le vieillissement de la population
The greying of the population
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Incontesté
Unchallenged
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Connaître un retour en force
To resurface with a vengeance
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Le bénéficiaire d'une prestation
The recipient
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Vivre au crochet de
To live off sb / sth
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Un raisonnement
A rationale
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Une allocation chômage conditionnée à la recherche d'un emploi
A jobseeker's allowance
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Ne pas inciter à travailler
To be a disincentive to work
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Le revenu minimum
Income support
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La pierre angulaire de, l'élément central de
The cornerstone of
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Retirer quelque chose progressivement
To phase out something
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Un filet de sécurité
A safety net
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Monoparents
Lone parents
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Un crédit d'impôts
A tax credit
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Louable
Laudable
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Être obsédé par le statut social
To be class-ridden
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Le capitalisme débridé
Unfettered capitalism
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Renforcer
To enhance
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À court terme
In the short run
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Étouffer la croissance
To stiffle growth
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Un profiteur, un parasite
A scrounger
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Entretenir, nourrir un phénomène
To foster
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Excessivement
Unduly
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Connaître les affres de
To be in the throes of
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Attribué en fonction des revenus
Means-tested
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Une dérive vers
A drift towards
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Être parfaitement en droit de
To have every right to do sth
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Irresponsable
Reckless
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Un contribuable
A taxpayer
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Se mêler de ce qui ne vous regarde pas
To meddle
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Charge, fardeau, poids
Burden
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Diminuer l'influence de
To roll back something
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Être livré sur un plateau
To be handed on a plate
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Surveiller qqn pour le protéger
To watch over
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Être sur le point de rompre
To be near breaking point
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Appliquer
To enforce