pop1 Flashcards by agathe mellian

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a greying population

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pop vieillissante

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the better-off = the well-off

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les riches

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the post district

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les quartiers chics

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the consumer society

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la société de conso

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to spend lavishly

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dépenser sans compter

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a status symbol

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un symbole de reussite

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an income bracket

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une tranche de revenu

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the working poor

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les nv pauvres

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the poverty line

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le seuil de pauvreté

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the outcasts

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les marginaux/exclus

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the downtrodden

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les opprimés

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the destitute

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les miséreux

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a two-tier society

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une société a deux vitesses

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poverty-ridden

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ravagé par la pauvreté

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a hardship

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une épreuve/privation

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a plight = a predicament

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une situation difficile

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the bare necessities of life

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le minimum vital

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to be down on one’s luck

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jouer de malchange

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a beggar

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un mendiant

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a peddler

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un petit revendeur

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to panhandle

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faire la manche

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a shanty town

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un bidonville

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a slum

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un taudis

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squalid

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sordide

to be down on one's luck

soupe populaire

a meal ticket

un ticket restaurant

the Salvation Army

l'armée du Salut

relief (U)

l'aide/l'assistance

a culture of dependency

une mentalité d'assisté

a recipient

un bénéficiaire

a recipient

venir en aide

self-reliance

l'indépendance/l'autonomie fc

to be on the welfare rolls

beneficier de l'aide sociale

an allowance

une allocation

a handout

une aumone

a starvation wage

un salaire de misère

an entitlment programme

un programme d'aide sociale

to shirk one's duties

fuir ses obligations

fuir ses obligations

avoir droit a

housing benefit

allocation logement

foreclosure

cessation de paiement