#4 Communication Flashcards by Guillaume Jounel

Aborder, s’attaquer à un problème

To tackle a problem

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Charger # décharger - une charge - une surcharge

To load # unload - a load - an overload

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Prendre un mauvais chemin, aller mal

To go amiss

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Faire face à l’avenir, confronter un problème

To face the future, a problem

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Faire une expérience (scientifique)

To make / do / carry out an experiment

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Connaître une expérience (de vie)

To have an experience

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Un rapport, des relations - avoir des relations avec qq (= avoir une liaison avec quelqu’un)

A relationship - to have a relationship with sb

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Désordonné - une pagaille, un gâchis - être en désordre

Messy - a mess - to be in a mess

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Exiger (de faire qqch) (qqch à qq)

To demand (to do sth) (sth from sb)

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Exigeant

demanding

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se cacher de qq

To hide (hid, hidden) from sb

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S’avérer que

To turn out (that)

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Grandir (enfant)

To grow (grew, grown) up

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Pousser, augmenter, grandir (vb intransitif)

To grow

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Permettre à qq de faire qqch

To let sb do sth = to allow sb to do sth

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Privé - vie privée, intimité

Private - privacy

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Intime - intimité

Intimate - intimacy

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Un dispositif, un appareil

A device

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Une caisse (de supermarché)

A check-out

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Je ne supporte pas de faire qqch

I can’t stand doing / to do sth = I can’t beat doing / to do…

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Arriver à un endroit, atteindre un but

To reach a place, a goal

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Tendre le bras pour prendre qqch

To reach for an object

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Être occupé à faire qqch

To be busy doing sth

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Importer, compter (les choses qui comptent)

To matter (the things that matter)

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Qu'est-ce qu'il y a ? Qu'est-ce qui ne va pas ?

What's the matter ?

"Avant ce n'était que le courriel"

"It used to be just email" (rupture avec présent)

Vérifier, jeter un oeil à qqch

To check sth

Doux - douceur

Gentle - gentleness

Vouloir que qq fasse qqch

To want sb to do sth

Impliquer qq dans qq

To involve sb (in sth)/(with sb)

Être impliqué dans qqch - engagement, participation

To be involved (in sth)/(with sb) - involvement

Être enthousiasmé par

To be smitten with sth

Saisir - une prise - prendre qqch en main

To grip - a grip - to get a grip on sth

Fonctionner

To work (machine)

Se plaindre de

To complain about

Une plainte

A complaint

Faire une réclamation

To make a complaint / a claim (against someone)

Faire pression sur

To put pressure on

être stressé (personne)

To be stressed

être stressant (situation)

To be stressful

Faire attention à

To be careful about

Mener une enquête sur

To conduct an investigation (into)/to investigate

Devenir méchant - la méchanceté

To turn (get) nasty - nastiness

Une critique, des critiques

Criticism (countable or uncountable)

Critiquer qq pour avoir fait qqch

To criticize sb for doing sth

célèbre - la célébrité, renommée, gloire

Famous - fame

Final - finalement

Final - Finally

Des excuses

An apology (or apologies)

S'excuser de

To apologize for

un remboursement

a refund

Rembourser qq

To refund/ to pay someone back

rappeler un produit, retirer un produit de la vente

To recall a product

un fabriquant - fabriquer

A manufacturer - to manufacture

une usine

a factory, a plant

une pile

a battery

environ

around / about

un consommateur - consommer

a consumer - to consume

la société de consommation

the consumer society

commenter (qqch)

to comment on something/ to make a comment on

un produit - produire

a product - to produce

fructueux, productif # improductif

productive # unproductive

un client

a customer

un ordinateur portable

a laptop

défectueux - un défaut

faulty - a fault / a defect

arriver (l'ingénieur est arrivé à l'heure)

To turn up (the engineer turned up on time)

ne subir aucune conséquence du fait de...

to get away with (something/ ... + ing)

S'en sortir avec un mensonge, un meurtre

To get away with a lie, a murder

partager - une part (aussi une action en bourse)

To share - a share

une préoccupation, un souci

a concern

Regardez-le ! Depuis combien de temps est-il assis ici ? Depuis combien de temps le connaissez-vous ?

Look at him ! How long has he been sitting here ? How long have you known him ?

Ecoutez-le ! Il a déjà raconté trois blagues pour faire rire ses collègues.

Listen to him ! He has already told 3 jokes in order to make his colleagues laugh.

Il bavardait quand son patron est entré dans le bureau

He was chatting when his boss (entered)(came into)(walked into) the office

Il bavardait depuis quelques minutes quand son patron est entré dans le bureau

He had been chatting for a few minutes when his boss entered the office.