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Guns In America Flashcards

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1
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Milices/mousquets

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Muskets

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Caricature

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Fat cat

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Activités de loisirs

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Leisure activities

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Qui n’ont pas fait d’étude

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With a high school graduation only

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Soulever (questions)

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To stirre up

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Diffuser en direct

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Broadcaster live

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Pour réprimer les

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To crackdown on

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Vaciller

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To waver

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Reconnaissance

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Spate

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Point d’inflexion

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Tipping point

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Promulguer des lois

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To enact laws

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Tentatives à freiner les ventes

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Bids to curb sales

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Une année record

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A banner year

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The result the amount, the total

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A tally

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Tailler, équarrir

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To hew

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Les armes les plus mortelles

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The deadliest weapons

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Réfléchie à une loi

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To ponder a law

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Plonger

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To plunge

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The part of a gun where bullets are held

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A magazine

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Opprimé

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Downtrodden

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L’impulsion du moment

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The spur of the moment

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Avoir la gâchette facile

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To be trigger happy

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Être pris d’un accès de folie meurtriere

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To go on a killing spree

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Effusion de sang

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A bloodshed

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Auto défense

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Self-defence (UK) self-defense (US)

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Un activiste du port des armes

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A gun-rights activist

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Dossier chaud, sensible

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A hot-button issue

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Avoir un casier judiciaire

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To have criminal record

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Interdire les armes

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To outlaw guns

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Se faire justice

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To take the law into one’s hands

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Agir en état de légitime défense

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To act in self-defence

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Un fabricant d’armes

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A gun maker

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Coûter la vie

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To claim the lives

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Soit-disant

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So-called

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Empiéter/Porter atteinte à

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To infringe on

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Dénaturer/mal représenter

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To misrepresent

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L’escalade/la progressivité

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Escalation

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Un arrangement spécial, particulier

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A rule tweak

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Se dépêcher

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To hasten

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Abolir

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To overturn

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Système délabré

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Ramshackle system / derelict / broken-down

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Sans peur

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Out of fear

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Méfiance

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Mistrust

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Vérification des antécédents

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Background checks

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Être strict

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To be tough, To be strict, Stern, adamant

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Accepter

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To concur, To agree

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Gourmandise

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Gluttony, greed, overeating

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Agir similairement, faire la même chose

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To follow suit

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Un accomplissement

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An achievement, an accomplishement

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Cancérigène

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Carcinogenic

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Un frère ou une sœur

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A sibling

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Viande transformée

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Processed meat

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Prospérer

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To bloom, To thrive, To prosper, To swell, To soar

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Réduire

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To cut, To scale back, To reduce

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Être forcé à démissionner

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To be hounded out

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Conflit au niveau politique

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Political bickering

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Féliciter, interpeller

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To hail, To congratulate

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Mentalité

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Mindset

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Être du sérail

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To be from the establishement

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Commettre une fusillade

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To commit a shooting

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Libertarisme

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Libertariarism

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Contrôler les criminels

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To keep criminals in check

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Cela alimente la peur

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It stokes fear

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Façon de penser

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Frame of mind

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Ils sont pour les libertés individuelles (en faveur de)

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To stick, To Cling to

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Niveau d’université

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To be college-educated

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Borné

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Narrow-minded

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Thaïlandais

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Thai

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Une véritable erreur

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A bad news

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Se vanter

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To boast living

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Dans selle mesure

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In this respect

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Le tourisme est un exemple puisque

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Tourism is a case in point as

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A l’opposé

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Conversely

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Symboliser

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To embody

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Ne pas respecter

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Disregarding

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Le pays est considéré

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The country is held

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