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Remonter à

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Date back

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Considérer que

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Regard as

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Méprisable

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Despicable

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Créé un tabou

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Put a taboo on

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Sin

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Péché

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To doom

A doom

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Condamner à

Destin tragique

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Errer

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Wander

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Néfaste

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Detrimental

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Le nerf de la guerre

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The sinew of the war

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Roues

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Wheels

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Smoothly

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Sans pb

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Etre à la traîne

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To lag Behind

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Aller de paire

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Go hand in hand

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To wary

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Se méfier de

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Bien éloignés

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A far cry

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Enlever l’interdiction

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Scrap the ban

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Se développer

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Thrive

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Faire resurgir

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Crop up

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Éviter

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Ward off

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Préférence

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Bias

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Toile de fond

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Backdrop

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Je ne sais pas je suis desolee

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I don’t, I’m afraid

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Arbitre

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Referee / umpire

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One finds, with sore dismay, that one goes to more funerals than parties

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On constate avec un desarroi douloureux qu’on se rend plus souvent aux enterrements qu’on ne va dans des soirées

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To be lucky
Avoir de la chance
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nativism
xénophobie
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far from unique
être loin d'être un cas isolé
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in midst
au milieu de
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by no means
pas du tout
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alas
hélas
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ire
colère
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advocate
préconiser
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harbour
cacher /entretenir
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liaise
coopérer
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worst of all
le pire de tout
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to balk
rechigner à
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in the wake of
en raison de
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unease
malaise
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harscrabble
misérable
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shtick
truc
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make a huge stride
réaliser de grands progrès
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fulfill
réaliser
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longstanding
de longue date
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patently
clairement
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outnumber
surpasser en nombre
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marriage (reconnu par l'état)
mariage
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menial
domestique
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to go to the polls
aller voter
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uphold
faire respecter
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no longer
ne ... plus
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do away
se débarrasser
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long shot
avoir peu de chance de gagner
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fairground
fête forraine
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in bewilderment
avec perplexité
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at a rally
lors d'un rassemblement
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scapegoat
bouc-émissaire
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puppet
marionnette
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in some ways
d'une certaine manière
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just over
tout juste
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petit boulot
dirty jobs
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living conditions
conditions de vie
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to be a host country for
être un pays d'accueil pour
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se souvenir de
to recall = to recollect = to arouse
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réduire à néant
to strip down to the bone
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crude
brut/ grossier = in a row state = unrefined
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phony
bidon, faux = mountebank = charlatan
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chelou
sketchy
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to drive down
faire baisser = to shrink = to lower = to crash = to squeeze
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the kernel = the core = the heart
le coeur d'un débat, le fond de la vérité | fundamentals, basics
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an intricate debate
un complexe débat = an elaborate = involved = tricky
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se répandre | une répandu d'immigrants
to flow = to stream = to leakage = | a wave of immigrants, a flow, a influx
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to get the shaft
to be cheated = to be mistreated = être abusé
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to shaft
entuber
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to distort
déformer les mots = to misrepresent = to garble = to mangle | to be manipulated by/ to bend/ to divert
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cleanly
nettement = neat = spotless
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inherently
fondamentalement, par essence, en soi (per se), par nature
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to corrode
corrompre, pervertir
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sur la plupart des pbs
on most issues
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to run amok
devenir fou furieux
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se déchaîner
to rage, to lose control
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class
social background
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wasp
guêpe
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WASP
White Anglo-Saxon Protestant : blanc protestant
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opposant
a opponent, a rival, a contender, a critic, a detractor, a challenger
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s'opposer à
to oppose STMG / to be opposed to
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inventer
invent, to make up
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to embody = incarner, représenter, être le parfait exemple de
to symbolize, to epitomize, to be emblematic, to be representative of
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advisers
spin doctor/aide
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les aides, les assistances
the aid
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to be mature
to be fully-fledged (qui a atteint l'âge de la maturité)
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the tropes
the rhetoric, the arguments, the patterns
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in the grips of (syn)
under the control of, yoke of, swary of, influence of; to be manipulated by
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politique entre-soi, si je te donne ça, tu me donnes ça
cronyism
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rich oligarchy
cronyism, a caste, a clique
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a benefit
a gain, an upside
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to the benefit of
au profit de
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to benefit from stg =être bénéficiaire du système
to profit from = profiter du système
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to benefit sbdy
bénéficier à --> le travail des bénévoles bénéficie à...
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c'est bien
it's beneficial
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to besiege
to invade = to beset
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représenter un risque pour (pas de représenter)
to pose a threat to, to put sbdy at risk, in danger
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représenter 30%, la moitié de, 30.000 unités
to account for, to make up (pas de representer)
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to have influence
a sway, a clout, a might, a weight, a power
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wrong
false, erroneous
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to seek to do = chercher à faire
to aim to do, to attempt to, to plan to, to be willing, to be determined
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to harm
to do harm, to do/cause damage to, to undermine, to attack, to corrode
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qq qui joue avec la peur
fearmonger
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semer
sew (sewed/sewed ou sown);
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the chaos
the discord/ the havoc/ turmoil/ mayhem | --> to wreak-havoc : semer le chaos
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faire des recherches
to do research
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une augmentation d'immigration
a surge in = a rise in = a increase in
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peu probable
unlikely
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without a school degree
to be low-skilled, to be low-educated
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ceux qui sont comme eux : counterpart
fellows, mates
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ceux qui viennent d'arriver
the new-comers
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effects
impact, repercussions, reverberation, consequences, fallout
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salaire
pay, salary, income, earnings
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unemployment
joblessness
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exiger
to demand
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the rich
the wealthy = the well-off
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the poor
the deprived = the needy = the destitues = humble families = the low-income families = the under-privileged
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la richesse
the wealth, affluence, abundance, prosperity
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a vast majority (toujours comme ça)
une grande majorité
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suffer stg
endurer la dureté de la crise par ex
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suffer stg
endurer la dureté de la crise par ex
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to make considerable progress | a large number of
un progrès considérable | un grand nombre de
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une étude de
a study by
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to produce jobs
to generate
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consumer society
consumerism
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companies
firms, businesses
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créateur
founder, creator
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to work hard
to toil
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production
output
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labor
work power
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supply
reserves
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to distort
to twist
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manichéen
Manichean (toujours majuscule) = simplistic = binary
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to divide stg INTO
to be separated INTO, to tear INTO, to rip INTO
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faire peur à qq
to scare
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to fuel : alimenter
to boost, to spur, to nurture, to nourish, to feed, to breed
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un mélange
a blend
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risquer de faire
to risk + ing
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pourrir de l'intérieur
to rot