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to adjust, organize, manage

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améneger

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sponsor, patron, supporter

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mécène

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to stamp, crash into

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emboutir

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adj. open, franck, sincere

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débouché

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an opening

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une ouverture, entrée, amorce

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a market

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un débouché

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to unblock, uncork,

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déboucher

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racing car, large meteor

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un bolide

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as far as, that

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autant que (je sache, etc)

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as far as, as much as

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autant

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to link, join

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relier

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adj. vague, imprecis, blurry

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moutonné (adj)

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adj misty foggy

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brumeaux, brumeuse

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soft, tender, light

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flou, mou (adj)

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a display, poster, presentation

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un affichage

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“an awakening, arousal”

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un éveil

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“to get over, to overcome, to cross, to jump over”

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franchir

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adj. cowardly, heartless, unmanly

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lâche

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“n. an explosion, bursting; break up, fervency, fervor; flame, flash”

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un éclatement (m)

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“cunning, smart”

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calé

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“to enchant, satisfy, to delight”

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combler

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broken

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brisé

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v. to clean, peel; pare, skin

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éplucher

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“n. soar, flight, development, soaring”

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essor (m)

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"flat, punctured"
crevé
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tire
un pneu
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make dirty
salir
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"v. hinder, jam; get stuck, catch; trap, corner"
coincer
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"v. overstimulate, annoy, irritate,"
énerver
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adv. so such
tant
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"to care, être concerné par, se préoccuper,"
se soucier
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v. to take off, fly off, take down, to unstick
décoller
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to v. devote, vow
vouer
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n. stock, stump; stub, counterfoil; founder; root (Linguistics)
une souche (f)
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n. trunk, stem, stock
un tronc (m)
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"adj. new, novel; unpublished"
inédit
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"whatever, no matter"
quel que soit
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"n. distance, gap; difference, space;"
un écart (m)
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v. to straighten out, unravel, untangle
débrouiller
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"prep. past, beyond"
au-delà de
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"n. five year period, quinquennium"
un quinquennat (m)
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"n. contempt, disdain; disregard; scorn"
mépris (m)
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v. to bring back to life, revive, rekindle, reanimate
ranimer
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"n. bereavement, mourning, black"
deuil (m)
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"n. tanker, petrol tanker, oil tanker"
un camion-citerne (m)
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"n. tank, cistern, tub, vat, wood"
une cuve (f)
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"n.fresh outbreak, rupsurge, ecrudescence, "
une recrudescence (f)
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n. boatman, smuggler
passeur (m)
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Lightnening, grande colère, vifs reproches
foudres (nom féminin pluriel)
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n. a trap, snare; fix; pitfall, plight
un piège (m)
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Dying of hunger/heat etc.
crever; Crever de joie, de chaleur, de soif.
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"n. thousand, numbering 1000"
un millier (m)
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"Placer quelque chose dans une position verticale ou proche de la verticale, le mettre debout :
dresser; Dresser un mât."
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adj. discarded;remote, isolated; apart
écarté
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v. to ferment, work, cause to ferment, agitate
cuver
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"to prop, to wedge, to cut out"
caler
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"n. denigration, disparagement, depreciation, detraction, dispraise, mud slinging"
dénigrement (m)
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"n. eve, vigil; watchfulness, waking"
la veille (f)
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"n. postponement, deferment, transfer"
un report (m)
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"v. double up, bend, double, collapse"
se plier
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adv. at the time of
lors
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from now until the end of month
soit d'ici la fin du mois.
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"to seize something, to grab something"
se saisir
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"v. sketch, outline; draft, trace; adumbrate"
esquisser
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"conj. as far as, that"
autant que
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"conj. however, yet"
cependant
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" to linger over, to dwell on ex.to linger over details"
s'attarder sur [s'intéresser à]s'attarder sur des détails
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"v. be extended; spread out, stretch out, open out; expand, extend; roll, put out"
étendre
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n. device, apparatus
un dispositif (m)
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"n. pelvis; basin; pool, pond; pan"
bassin (m)
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n. burying
un enfouissement (m)
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"v. procrastinate, dodge; elude, equivocate,"
tergiverser
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"n. alveolus, socket"
alvéole (f)
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"v. bury, put in the ground and cover with dirt"
enfouir
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"v. dig, bore; excavate, hollow"
creuser
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"n. respect, consideration"
égard (m)
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despite
En dépit de
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"v. to reach, result in"
aboutir à
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to plummet
degringoler
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n. pack ice, floe
la banquise (f)
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"v. to jam, block; stamp down, stay away;"
enrayer
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v. to collapse, give way; cave in, fall in, crash, break down; crack, fall, slump, wash away; tumble-down, flop, founder
s'effondrer
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"v. monopolize; corner, cover"
accaparer
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"n. aplomb, balance; assurance"
aplomb (m)
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"adv. upright, steady (Slang)"
d'aplomb
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"v. to dodge, evade; sidestep, skirt, avoid; stall"
esquiver
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"n. negotiation, talks, parley"
les pourparlers (m)
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n. a chase, pursuit; prosecution; quest, tracking
une poursuite (f)
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"action plan, program (governmetal etc)"
feuille de route
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v. to reach, result in
aboutir à
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"adj. fruitful, productive; successful, profitable"
fructueux
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v. to knot, tie, establish, set, fasten
nouer
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"n. preference, favor, liking"
une guise (f)
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n. a rail, railing
un garde-fou (m)
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"n. specificity, quality of being specific; condition of being unique to a particular organism or group of organisms"
spécificité (f)
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"v. submit, pander to, humour, humor, hew"
se plier à
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no matter what you do
on a beau faire
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"v. compromise, settle a disagreement by making mutual concessions"
transiger
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"n. eradication, uprooting"
le déracinement (m)
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adv. for good, for all time,
à jamais
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"prep. with regard to, with reference to, regarding, as to, as for, as of, as regards, with respect to, respecting"
quant à
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"to get worse, to worsen"
s'aggraver 
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there's no way out of this impasse
c'est une situation sans issue
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n. a speed, pace, walk, gait; bearing, sit, going; rate, look, style, appearance; smartness, pizzazz
une allure (f)
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", no matter what you say"
"On a beau dire, "
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shortly after(wards)/
peu (de temps) après
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v. to start; broach, institute, lead; set, take in; launch, embark
entamer
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"adj. previous, preliminary, prior"
préalable
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v. to foresee, forecast; predict, augur; anticipate, provide, envisage; see, gauge
prévoir
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"adj. disturbing, unsettling, perturbing; uncanny, thrilling"
troublant
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"n. problem, question; trouble, issue, difficulty"
un problème (m)
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"n. solution, settlement, answer, resolutuion"
la solution (f)
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"v. solve, settle, clear up; remove, annul; resolve, figure out"
résoudre
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well matched
assorti (féminin assortie) [as?rti] adjectif
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the situation is getting worse
la situation s'aggrave
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"v. go to the bad, deteriorate, worsen, break down, crumble, suffer, tumble, decay, drop, perish, slip; go to pot"
se détériorer
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to come to a decision, understanding
arriver à
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the talks have reached an impasse
les pourparlers sont dans une impasse
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"n. region, district, county; area, country"
la région (f)
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"v. shift, transfer"
muter
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shortly before
peu (de temps) avant
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prep. from
dès
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tension"
une tension
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restart negociations
reprendre des négociations
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entirely
entièrement
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to insist on
insiste également sur
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to match, to go together well"
s'harmoniser
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"(soutenu) in search ou pursuit of, searching for, questing for (littéraire)"
en quête de locution prépositionnelle
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"to break, to shatter"
briser
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the two colours match (up) ou blend (in) perfectly
les deux couleurs sont très bien assorties
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"n. people, nation; populace, collectivity; folk"
le peuple (m)
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to anger
mettre en colère
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quantity
quantité féminin
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supplies
"n. fournitures; équipement; vivres, provisions"
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n. l'arrêt, the interruption
la cessation
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they want something concrete
Ils veulent du concret
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"n. demand, claim, claiming"
revendication (f)
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eager to do
désireux de faire
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sales
ventes (d'armes) (f.)
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"n. associate, ally"
un allié (m)
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"to have an influence on, to influence, to affect"
influer sur (verbe plus préposition)
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"n. (Politics) reshuffle, rearrangement, modification, revision, alteration"
un remaniement (m)
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"v. intervene, interfere, meddle; intermediate, speak in; push in, step in; interpose; have hand in something; have a finger in the pie"
intervenir
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"adv. beyond, past, further than"
au-delà
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n. rally, gathering
un ralliement (m)
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"v. carry on, chase, pursue; go after, follow; continue on; prosecute; proceed"
poursuivre
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"n. nephew, son of one's brother or sister"
neveu (m)
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v. curl, huddle up
recroqueviller
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"n. exegesis, interpretation; Biblical commentary"
exégèse (f)
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"v. linger, linger on, loiter, tarry"
s'attarder
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"conj. as, compared to -, to the extent of -"
ainsi
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"v. incarnate, embody, personify; epitomize, incorporate"
incarner
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conj. In so much as
d'autant que
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"v. take collection, collect the money"
quêter
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"[à partir de maintenant] from now on, henceforth"
désormais
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"prep. with regard to, with reference to, regarding, as to, as for, as of, as regards, with respect to, respecting"
quant à
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v. to reset, return, remit; set back, hold over, hand over; deliver, consign
remettre
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n. a sketch, draft, outline
une esquisse (f)
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"adv. so, thus, in this way, thereby"
ainsi
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"adj. new, novel; unpublished"
inédit
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"adj. umpteenth, pertaining to one in a succession of very many (Informal)"
énième
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"v. refute, deny, contradict, belie, confound, demolish, disclaim, gainsay, lie down, scotch"
démentir
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"to want, to intend"
entendre
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do as you wish or please
fais comme tu l'entends
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I intend to ou I mean to ou I will be obeyed
j'entends qu'on m'obéisse
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he's determined to go tomorrow
il entend bien partir demain
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"n. post, mail; job, office, appointment, position; station, place; situation; program"
une poste (f)
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"adj. diverse, varied; several, various; variant, manifold; miscellaneous, sundry; varicolored"
divers
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a well-matched couple
un couple bien assorti
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to get something going again
remettre quelque chose en marche
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to close one's mind to something
fermer son esprit à quelque chose
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she said firmly
"dit-elle d'une voix ferme ...,"
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to repair something
remettre quelque chose en état
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office holders
titulaires de poste
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"n. position, location, placing; place; standing, bearing, status; stand, attitude; posture, alignment"
position (f)
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"[pour la protection sociale] contributionsn. membership fee, subscription, contribution "
la cotisation
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cash
"espèces, argent comptant; liquidités, argent en espèces;"
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"v. benefit, profit; enjoy"
bénéficier
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to enjoy ideal conditions/welfare benefits
bénéficier de conditions idéales/d'avantages sociaux
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social security benefits
prestations sociales (f.)
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she is starting to feel the benefits of the treatment
elle commence à ressentir les bienfaits du traitement
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the holiday wasn't of much benefit to him
les vacances ne lui ont pas fait tellement de bien
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"to show ; [ - difficulté, risque] to "
presenter
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illegal workers
travailleurs san papiers (m)
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you would benefit from a stay in the country
un séjour à la campagne vous ferait du bien
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"n. problem, question; trouble, issue, difficulty"
le problème (m)
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willing
"adj. agréable, disposé, prêt; serviable, de bonne volonté; consentant; enthousiaste"
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for the most part phrasal adverb
dans l'ensemble
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work irregularly
] faire des petits travaux or boulots
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"n. journey, route, course; trip, way, hitch; career, record"
un parcours (m)
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"adj. riparian, riverside, waterside, riverine"
une riverain
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[effets nocifs] effects
atteintes nom féminin pluriel
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"v. reach, arrive, attain; contact; achieve; affect, catch; compass"
atteindre
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"2. (familier) [consommer - bière, bouteille] to knock back (separable), to down ; [ - gâteau] to wolf down"
s'envoyer (verbe pronominal transitif)
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"to present (soutenu), to have ; [ - symptômes, traces, signes] "
presenter
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"n. collection, quest, search"
quête (f)
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for the most part we get along pretty well
"dans l'ensemble, nous nous entendons assez bien"
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sorry to have kept you waiting
désolé de m'être fait attendre
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"adv. next, then; after, later, afterwards"
ensuite
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"conj. now, so; but, however"
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