Adjectif et noms (Essai) Flashcards

(74 cards)

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une idée fausse

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a misconception

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la mobilité sociale

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upward mobility

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un cheval de batail

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a hobbyhorse

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la cote de popularité

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approval rating

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la diffusion

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the spread

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une affirmation

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statement

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un manifestant

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a protester

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une manifestation

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a demonstration

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buté

entété

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wrong-headed

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criant

qui saute aux yeux

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blatant

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11
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des perpectives

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outlooks

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un obstacle

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hurdle

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un revirement

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a U-turn

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une situation sans issue

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a catch-22 situation

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un atout

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a asset

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répercussions

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knock-on effects

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un tournant

une étape importante

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a milestone

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une impasse

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a stalemate

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un enlisement

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deadlock

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20
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prendre le contrôle de

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to take a grip on

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21
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le recensement

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the census

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l’urbanisme

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urban planning

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the gentry

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the middle class

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à la mode

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trendy

fashionable

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l'informatique | 2
to work in IT | computing
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une barbe
a beard
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average people
mainstream society
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un style de vie
a lifestyle
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an insult
an abuse
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ne pas être bien accueilli
to be unwelcome
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un objet de moquerie
a laughing stock
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un loyer
a rent
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un promoteur immobilier
a developper
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influent
influential
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pauvre | 3
poor badly off poverty-stricken
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un citadin
a city dweller
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une ruse (2)
a deception | a trickery
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pénible agacant 2
upsetting | annoying
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déception
disappointment
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la demande
supply
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une marée noire | 2
an oil spill / slick
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une organisation d'aide humanitaire
a relief agency
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underdeveloped
backward
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dans tout le pays
countrywide
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une faible contribution
a scant contribution
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qui menace de manière imminente | 2
looming | impending
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un mandat
a warrent
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le surplus
the leftover
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une escroquerie | 2
a shell game | a swindle
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une tentative
an attempt
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subvention | bourse
a subsidy | a grant
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le port d'arme
gun ownership
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marge de manoeuvre
leeway | to have leeway in
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bénéfique pour
beneficial to
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un acte
a deed
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bonne action
good deed
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qui regarde vers le grand large
outward-looking
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une période d'adaptation
a phasing-in period
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les énergies renouvelables
renewables
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gaz de schiste
shale gas
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un climatosceptique
a climate denier | a climate sceptic
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un puit de pétrole
oilwell
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charbon
coal
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un labyrinthe
a maze
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un délai
a deadline
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la démagogie
grandstanding
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fausses promesses
hollow promesses
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un ressortissant
a national
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Le Brexit
Brexit
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un centre financier
a financial hub
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le retrait du RU de...
the UK's withdrawal from...
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la livre sterling
the pound
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les privilégiés
the happy few | the overdog
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les VIP
ø A list people