Olympic Games

Question 1

Se consoler

Answer 1

To take solace

Question 2

Recevoir (événement)

Answer 2

To hold an event

Question 3

Correspondre à/égaler

Answer 3

To match

Question 4

Avec très peu de moyens

Answer 4

On a shoestring budget

Question 5

Renforcé

Answer 5

Beefed-up

Question 6

Sans pitié

Answer 6

Ruthless

Pitiless

Question 7

Répartition des ressources

Answer 7

Allocation of resources

Question 8

Installations

Answer 8

Facilities

Question 9

Impitoyable, implacable

Answer 9

Unforgiving

Question 10

La part du lion

Answer 10

The lion’s share

Question 11

Gazon, pelouse

Answer 11

Turf (sport) / grass

Question 12

Au milieu de..

Answer 12

In the middle of..

Amid

Question 13

Une épidémie

Answer 13

An epidemic

Question 14

S’émerveiller de

Answer 14

To marvel at

Question 15

Propulser vers le haut

Answer 15

To propel up

Question 16

Financement

Answer 16

Funding

Question 17

Complètement, entièrement

Answer 17

Altogether

Question 18

Dans la dernière ligne droite

Answer 18

In the run-up to

Question 19

Alloué à

Answer 19

Allocated to

Question 20

Être récompensé avec..

Answer 20

To be rewarded with

Question 21

Saluer, être reconnaissant

Answer 21

To acknowledge

Question 22

Instance dirigeante

Answer 22

Governing body
Board of directors
Executive board

Question 23

Soutenir

Answer 23

To support

Question 24

Local

Answer 24

Grassroots

Question 25

Qui s'étiole

Answer 25

Withering

Question 26

Quartiers défavorisés

Answer 26

Inner cities

Question 27

S'exécuter, faire ce qu'on attend de soi

Answer 27

To deliver

Question 28

Une embardée

Answer 28

A lurch

Question 29

Mitigé

Answer 29

Mixed

Question 30

Œuvrer pour

Answer 30

To strive for

Question 31

Ultramoderne

Answer 31

State-of-the-art | Ultramodern

Question 32

Etre au même niveau

Answer 32

To be on a par with

Question 33

Présumer --> une présomption

Answer 33

To assume To presume --> a presumption = an assumption

Question 34

C'est une question de jours

Answer 34

It's a matter of days

Question 35

En avoir après quelqu'un

Answer 35

To be after sby

Question 36

champagne millésimé

Answer 36

vintage champagne

Question 37

envoyer qqun balader/sur les roses

Answer 37

to send sby packing

Question 38

dormir à la belle étoile

Answer 38

to sleep in the open

Question 39

promoteur immobilier

Answer 39

land developer

Question 40

ce qu'il faut retenir

Answer 40

the bottom line

Question 41

moment charnière

Answer 41

Turning point / pivotal period

Question 42

une politique de non-intervention

Answer 42

a hands-off policy

Question 43

s'éclaircir la gorge

Answer 43

to clear one's throat

Question 44

lire un livre d'un bout à l'autre

Answer 44

to read a book cover to cover

Question 45

un arrière-goût

Answer 45

an after-taste

Question 46

Quelque chose ne va pas

Answer 46

all is not well

Question 47

avoir de l'eau jusqu'aux genoux

Answer 47

to have water from one's knees down

Question 48

un rédacteur anonyme

Answer 48

a ghost writer

Question 49

un raz de marée électoral

Answer 49

an electoral landslide

Question 50

dans un avenir proche

Answer 50

in a foreseeable future

Question 51

une société divisée, à deux niveaux

Answer 51

a two tier society

Question 52

le congrès américain

Answer 52

Capitol Hill

Question 53

promouvoir/encourager/entretenir

Answer 53

to foster

Question 54

une motivation/incitation

Answer 54

an incentive

Question 55

un écossais

Answer 55

a Scotsman

Question 56

un danois

Answer 56

a Dane

Question 57

un polonais

Answer 57

a Pole

Question 58

un espagnol

Answer 58

a Spaniard

Question 59

un néerlandais

Answer 59

a Dutchman

Question 60

un Irlandais

Answer 60

an Irishman

Question 61

un Libanais

Answer 61

a Lebanese

Question 62

un Portugais

Answer 62

a Portuguese

Question 63

Pakistanais

Answer 63

a Pakistani

Question 64

Israélien

Answer 64

Israeli

Question 65

un Suisse

Answer 65

a Swiss man

Question 66

falsifier

Answer 66

to falsify

Question 67

jeter l'argent par les fenêtres

Answer 67

to pour money down the drain

Question 68

sciemment

Answer 68

deliberately

Question 69

préconiser

Answer 69

to advise

Question 70

termes et conditions

Answer 70

small print

Question 71

geler le compte de qqun

Answer 71

to freeze sby's assets

Question 72

subventionner

Answer 72

to subsidize

Question 73

habitudes de longue date

Answer 73

long-standing habits

Question 74

une crise paralysante

Answer 74

a crippling economic crisis

Question 75

ancré/enraciné

Answer 75

ingrained

Question 76

au lendemain de

Answer 76

in the wake of

Question 77

un récit

Answer 77

a narrative

Question 78

passer de la misère à la richesse

Answer 78

to go from rags to riches | to go from impotence to importance

Question 79

les riches

Answer 79

the rich/the wealthy/the well-off/the affluent

Question 80

l'ascension sociale

Answer 80

social upward mobility