Essay corrigés

Question 1

Éveiller l’intérêt de, interpeler

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To engage

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Relater

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To document

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Suffisant, indifférent

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Complacent

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Avantage

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Benefit

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Prise de conscience, connaissance

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Awareness

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Susciter, inciter à, initier

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To prompt

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Fini le temps où

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Gone are the days…

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Façonner, influencer

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To shape

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Publier

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To release

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Communiqué de presse

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News release

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Au grand damne de

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Much to the upset of

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Se préoccuper de, s’interresser à

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To care about

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Élaborer un plan

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To hatch

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poursuivre (en justice), engager des poursuites contre

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to prosecute

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foule, cohue, bande

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a mob

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agresser (sexuellement)

importuner..

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to molest

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porter plainte

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to file complaint

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subir des attouchements

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to be groped

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to rob

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voler

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davantage

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further

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acceptation, consentement

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acceptance

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tensions qui attisent, exacerbent

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inflaming tension

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Le Premier ministre britannique David Cameron….

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David Cameron, Britain’s Prime minister

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à propos de quitter ou pas l’UE

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on whether to leave the EU

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avoir, tenir une position (politique)

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hold a position

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un remaniement ministériel

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a reshuffle

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un discours émouvant

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a stirring speech

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fusillade de masse

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mass shouting

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passer outre

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to bypass

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une forte/virulente opposition/résistance

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a stiff resistance

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{ le + gros lobby des armes à feu }

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the National Rifle Association

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monter en fléche

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to soar

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curieux, qui laisse perplexe (remarque, comportement)

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puzzling

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incompréhensible (symbole, machine)

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puzzling

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de 1ère importance (adj)

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prime

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se lier avec (diplomatie)

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to make links with (the whole world)

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à toute épreuve (adj)

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unabating | unabating self-confidence

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habile

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deft | deft diplomacy

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surpasser OR surclasser tous les autres

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to stand out above all the rest

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l'audace

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boldness

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se reposer sur

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to rely on

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incessant

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unrelenting | unrelenting dynamism

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parier

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to gamble

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Quoi de mieux pour illustrer cela que ...?

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What better illustration of that than...?

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encourir, s'exposer à

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to incur

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régner sur les océans

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to rule the waves (Britania)

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parvenir à avoir un pouvoir sur le monde

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to manage to get a grip on the world

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acquérir

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to acquire | Britain's newly acquired soft power

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on ne peut pas nier que

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it cannot be denied that

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mener le jeu

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to rule the roost

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conquérir le public du monde entier

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to conquer wordlwide audiences

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porter haut

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to uphold (British traditional values)

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provenir de

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to stem from

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des clichés culturel

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cultural clichés

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on peut imputer ce succés à

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success can be put down to

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se montrer capable de

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to prove oneself able to

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exactement au même moment

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at the very same time

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perdre de sa force

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to loose one's clout

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battre son plein

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to be in full swing

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le prestige de la Grande Bretagne à l'étranger

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Britain's prestige abroad

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des difficultés politiques et sociales

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political and social hardships

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un atout

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a trump card

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sur la scène internationale

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on the world's stage