6/11/13 Flashcards

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Baillonner

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To gag

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En termes très véhéments

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In no uncertain terms

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En perspective

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In the offing

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Contourner

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To bypass

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Être intimement liés

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To be intertwined

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La folie s’est installée en elle

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She lost her sanity

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Faire un petit saut

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To skip

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La porte du wagon

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The carriage door

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Un gros morceau

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A lump

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Saisir qqch

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To grasp

Intellect

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Le front

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The forehead

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Un bord

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An edge

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Virgule

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Comma

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Un chapeau melon

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A bowler

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Des témoins occulaires

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Eyewitenesses

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Détaler

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Éparpillé

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Une girouette

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A weather-wane

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Être pris dans le sillage de

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To be caught in someone’s slipstream

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Avoir de la marge de manoeuvre

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To have some leeway

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Des violences religieuses

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Sectarian violences

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Se sentir lésé

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To feel wronged

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Retirer qqch de la circulation

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To put something “beyond use”

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A shipward

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Un chantier naval

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Revendiquer son identité
To build up one's identity
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Un gouvernement qui comprend des membres issus de plusieurs partis
A cross-party cabinet
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La mise hors service des armes
The decommissioning of weapons
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Reprendre une activité
To resume sth
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L'emporter dans une élection
To top the polls
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Ouvrir la voie à
To pave the way for
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Autorité conjointe
Joint rule
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Se rendre aux urnes
To go to the polls
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Une entreprise
A business
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À une écrasante majorité
Overwhelmingly
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Sur le point de, au bord de
On the verge of
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Député que Thatcher a laissé mourir
Bobby Sands
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