step_41 Flashcards

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s’attarder

traîner

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to linger

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un souvenir persistant

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a lingering memory

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des doutes persistants

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ligering doubts

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un faible espoir

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a lingering hope

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un test décisif

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a litmus test

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un prêt

un emprunt

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a loan

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détester

avoir en horreur

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to loathe

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traîner

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to loiter
to loaf
to idle

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une faille
une lacune
un défaut

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a loophole

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s’en sortir

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to get through

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piller

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to loot

to plunder

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un pillage

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a looting

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un pilleur

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a looter

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un loubard

un voyou

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a lout

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un voyou qui se saoule à la bière

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a lager lout

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ridicule

risible

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ludicrous

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un gros morceau

une masse

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a lump

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avoir la gorge serrée

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to have a lump in one’s throat

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un morceau de sucre

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a lump of sugar

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fou
dément
aliéné

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lunatic

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un asile d’aliéné

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a lunatic asylum

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attirer (par la ruse)

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to lure

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l’attrait de la gloire

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the lure of fame

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attirer dans un piège

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to lure into a trap

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la voyage inaugural (pour un bateau)
the maiden-voyage
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de fortune
makeshift
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un centre commercial
a mall
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fumier
manure
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manipuler | truquer des chiffres
to massage figures
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un chef-d'oeuvre
a masterpiece
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un dissident | un non-conformiste
a maverick
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pagaille | désordre
mayhem
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la miséricorde
mercy
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clément | impitoyable
merciful | merciless
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hypnotiser | fasciner
to mesmerize
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sans valeur (adj)
mickey mouse
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doux
mild
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un mélange hétéroclite | un pêle-mêle
a miscellany | a medley
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des gens variés
miscellanious people
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hétéroclite
a miscellanious collection
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un tant soit peu
a modicum
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agresser physiquement (voire sexuellement)
to molest
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travailler au noir
to moonlight
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hypothéquer
to mortgage
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une hypothèque
a mortgage
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hétéroclite disparate (péj)
motley
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quelle belle équipe! (iron.)
what a motley crew!
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banal | terre-à-terre (faux-ami)
mundane
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trouble | sombre
murky
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les musulmans
Muslims | Moslems
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rassembler
to muster
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zéro
naught
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échouer
to come to naught
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il fait peu cas de
he cares naught for
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angoissant
nerve-racking (movie)
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un surnom
a nickname
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persistant | qui vous ronge
niggling (feelings, doubts)
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tuer dans l'oeuf | faire avorter
to nip (sth) in the bud
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faire un signe affirmatif de la tête | aquiescer
to nod
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où tous les coups sont permis
no-holds-barred
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un noeud coulant
a noose
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se jeter dans la gueule du loup
to put one's head in the noose
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resserer l'étau (fig.)
to tighten the noose
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marquer une victoire
to notch up a victory
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une encoche | une entaille
a notch
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notoire
notorious
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odieux | détestable
obnoxious
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les heures creuses
off-peak hours
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les heures de pointe
the rush hours
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une plate-forme offshore
an offshore platform
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des investissements extra-territoriaux
offshore investments
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la progéniture
offspring
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un médiateur
an ombudsman
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présage | augure
an omen
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de bon augure
of good omen
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de mauvais augure
ominous
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la responsabilité
the onus
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se montrer plus rusé que
to outsmart to outfox to outwit
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un paquet
a pack
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une bande (péj)
a pack of (ppl)
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un tissu de mensonges
a pack of lies
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une meute de loups
a pack of wolves