Feuille 5 Flashcards by Agathe Nivelet

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Le vainqueur

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The victor

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Barbare

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Barbarian

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Le hit parade

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Charts

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Pleurer quelqu’un

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To mourn

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Un fossoyeur

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A grave-digger

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Un parolier

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A lyricist

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En état d’ébriété

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Inebriated

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Quelqu’un qui arrête l’école

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A drop-out

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Excitation

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Excitment

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Celui en tête

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Frontrunner

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À part

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Apart from

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Mettre les pauvres en dehors de sa vue

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To put the poor out of sight

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Terrible

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Appalling

Awful

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Les grands de ce monde

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People in power

People in high places

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Les plus démunis

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The worst-off

The destitute

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Tirer le diable par la queue

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To keep the Wolf out of the door

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Survivre

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To make a living

To eke out a living

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Croquer la vie à pleine dents

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To live one’s Life To the fool

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Toutes dents dehors

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With a beaming smile
Flashing all your teeth
With monthful of teeth

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Illettrés

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Illiterate

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Inculte

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Uncultivated

Ill-read

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À juste titre

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Legitimately

Rightfully

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Donner l’image d’un monarque coupé du peuple

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To earn the image of a monarch cut off from the people

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Pauvres

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The have-nots
The dispossed
Underpriviledge

Entassé

Cramped Crowded in together Piled in

Se serrer la ceinture

To tighten one's belt

Vivre en dessous du seuil de pauvreté

To live below the poverty line

Vivre au jour le jour

To live from hand to mouth

Né avec une cuillère en argent dans la bouche

Silver spoon beginnings

Avoir du sang noble

Blue bloodline

Les enfants qui viennent d'un lieu défavorisé

Chapter one children

Élites

Happy few

Mauvais goût

Bad taste Poor taste Doubtful taste

Le gratin

The upper crust | Everybody who's anybody

Être sévère avec

To be hard on | To be scath about