Environnement Spé Flashcards

(122 cards)

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To climate-proof

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Protéger des phénomènes climatiques

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Greenhouse effect

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Effet de serre

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Une photo

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A photograph/ a snapshot

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Provoquer qqc

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To induce smthg

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Être déterminer à

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To be intent on

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Gaz de schiste

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Shale gaz

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Rechercher qqc

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To look for smthg - to seek

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Analyser/ étudier

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To look into smthg

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To look at smthg

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To review smthg

Examiner

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Avoir envie de qqc

J’ai envie d’aller à la plage

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To fancy doing smthg

I fancy going to the beach

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La position

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The stance

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Laisser la place à

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To give way to smthg

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Condamner qqc à qqc

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To doom smthg to smthg

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To had better do smthg

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Faire mieux de faire qqc

= to ought to

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Trouver/ inventer qqc

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To come up with smthg

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Jeter les déchets

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To throw/pitch/chuck rubbish

ou (garbage/Trash) si pas comptable

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Dairy

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Les produits laitiers

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Livestock

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Le bétail

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Le bétail

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Livestock

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An incentive

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Un avantage/ une motivation

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The hinge

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La charnière

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Crops

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Les cultures / récoltes

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Livelihood

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Le gagne-pain

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To pledge that

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Promettre que

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Aux yeux de
In the eyes of
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To enquire
Demander
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To compel sbdy to do smthg
Contraindre qqn à faire qqc
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Bien que
Even if/ even though + subj
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A landmark
Un point de repère
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To rid smthg of smthg
Débarrasser qqc de qqc
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Groundbreaking
Révolutionnaire / novateur
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Faire appel à
To call on smthg
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En retard
Overdue
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Sale
Filthy
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an exhaust
Un pot d’échappement
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Les poumons
Lungs
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To vow to do smthg
Jurer de faire qqc
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Rigoureux
Stringent
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Concevoir qqc
To devise smthg
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Les partisans
Proponents
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To stoke
Raviver
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To shelve smthg
Abandonner qqc
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Smthg ongoing
Qqc en cause
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Un seuil
A threshold
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To contend with smthg
Lutter // affronter qqc / to struggle against
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To wreak havoc
Faire des ravages
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A chunk
Un gros morceau
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Cattle
Livestock
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To deter smn
Dissuader qqn
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If + negation = | If we don’t
Unless+ affirmation | Unless we do
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To compound
Combiner (différents choses) to make a mix
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To worsen
Empirer/ se détériorer : to get worse
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évoquer qqc
to mention smthg / to bring smthg up
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sans cesse
continuously/ unremittingly
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to dwell
demeurer/ résider
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s'attarder sur qqc
to dwell upon/on smthg
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nombreux
plentiful
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proposer de faire qqc
to suggest doing smthg
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To prop smthg up
Soutenir qqc
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To scavenge
Faire les poubelles
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To coax into doing smthg
Amadouer qqn pour qu’il fasse qqc
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to dry up
s'assécher/ se tarir
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to enact (a law)
adopter/ promulguer une loi
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to be shut down
être arrêté/ stoppé
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pernicious
néfaste
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néfaste
pernicious/ noxious
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to dent smthg (my confidence)
entamer qqn (le moral/ ma confiance)
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the forefront
l'avant garde (dans le sens précurseur)
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la majeure partie
the lion's share
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the lion's share
la majeure partie (la part du lion)
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to summon
rassembler/ convoquer
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Keen to do smthg
Désireux de faire qqc
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the paucity
the shortage/ the scarcity/ the lack (la pénurie / le manque)
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to be endowed
être doté
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to be poised to
to be on the verge of + bvb ing
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to fix smthg
to solve smthg
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To comply with
Respecter / se conformer à qqc
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To lift out poverty
Sortir de la pauvreté
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To implement
Mettre en œuvre to set smthg up
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To take a toll on smthg
Nuire / avoir de graves répercussions sur
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To hinder / to hamper / to impede
Entraver qqc/ gêner/ empêcher qqc
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Entraver
To hinder / to hamper / to impede
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The gist of an argument
Le cœur/l’essentiel d’un argument
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Our forebears
Nos ancêtres
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Smthg equate with smthg
Qqc assimilé à/ équivalent à qqc
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Weariness
La lassitude/ la fatigue
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From (2020) onwards, ...
A partir de (2020),...
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Smthg onward
Qqc en avant
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Participer à
To participate IN smthg
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An endeavour
Un effort
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To be entitled to do smthg
Avoir le droit de faire qqc
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The rationale
La justification
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The odds
Les chances/ probabilities
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Smthg left in its wake
Qqc laissé dans son sillage
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A surge
Une hausse/ an increase
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Les nouvelles/journaux sont bons
The news IS good
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To underpin
Soutenir qqc | To prop smthg up
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The core
The heart, the center
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Foreseeable
Prévisible
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A breakthrough
Une avancée une rupture
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To ditch smthg
To give up smthg
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To relinquish smthg
Renoncer à qqc
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To wean oneself from smthg
Se sevrer de qqc/ réduire sa consommation de qqc
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To be driven by
Être animé par
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Smthg uplifting
Qqc d’encourageant/ motivant
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To fancy doing smthg
To be eager to do smthg / avoir envie de faire qqc
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Être en guerre
To bet AT war
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Des chiffres peu connus
Little known figures
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To look at the big picture
Regarder la situation dans son ensemble
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Examiner
To review | To look at smthg
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To owe smbdy smthg
Devoir qqc a qqn
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Devoir qqc à qqn
To owe sbdy smthg
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Les chiffres
Figures
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Figures
Les chiffres
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Baisser (to collapse) | La température baisse
To drop | Temperature is dropping
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Mettre en lumière qqc, clarifier qqc
To shed light on smthg
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Donner l’allure, le ton
To set the pace
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D’autant plus | C’est d’autant plus vrai
All the more | That is all the more true
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To be ahead of schedule
Être en avance
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Rendre compte de qqc
To report ON smthg
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To report on smthg
Rendre compte de qqc
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To tumble
To fall to collapse