Theme Flashcards

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Universitaires

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Acadamics

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Un tsunami annonciateur de temps chaotique

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A tsunami Heralding chaotic events

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Ceinture de rouille

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Rustbelt

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Il convient donc de s’interroger

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So one can wonder

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Expliquent la survenue d’un tel phénomène

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How such a phenomenom can be accounted for

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De plus en plus

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Increasingly

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Dérive

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Drift

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Les républicains

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The GOP (Grand old Party)

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Un Magnat

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A tycoon

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Immobilier

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Real estate

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Hors-systèmes

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Mavericks

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Un homologue

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A counterpart

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Calmes, réfléchi

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Sanguine

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Place with all the lobbies

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K-street

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Cercle politique de washington

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Washington Beltway

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Tenue pour acquise

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Taken for granted

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Remis en cause et contestée

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Questioned and contested

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Ce Scrutin

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This ballot

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Divisés

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Divided

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Référendum

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Referendum

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Passas vite en revue

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To glance at it

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Regarde en essayer d’identifier

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To peer

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Dévisager

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To stare

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Arrête de marmonner mâcher tes mots

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Stop mumbling

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Il disparue en un clin d’œil
He disappeared in the twinkling of an eye
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Prendre le relais
Took over
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Figure vigoureuse
Lusty figure
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Personnifie
Embodies
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Le dynamisme
The stamina
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Se résume à
Is nothing more
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Vautrée
Loafing / lying
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Dégager qqch
To radiate
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Myope
Short-sighted
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Ils parlent de nanas
The m’y discuss cheeks
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Reluquer
To checking up
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On s’entendait à merveille
We got along fine
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Emménager
To settle down
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L’importance de ce lieu stratégique
How crucial this stragical place could be
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Cela ne date pas d’hier
Its not new
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Indépendance
Independence
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La monnaie unique
The single currency
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La concurrence
Competition
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La compétitivité
Competitiveness
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Décentraliser le pouvoir
Dévolution
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Refuse de bouger/
Refused to budge
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Au cours des deux siècles précédents
During the previous two century
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Prospérité
The wealth
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Dans le sillage
In the wake of
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Le sort
The fate
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Émettre
To issue
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Un sablier
An hour glass
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Cornemuse
Bagpipe
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Homme de terrain, de réalité
Matter of facts
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Riche
Deep - pocketed
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Mixer les économies
To mangle national economies
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A endeavour
A project an attempt
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Armoir
Wardrobe
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La goutiere
The gutter
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Les draps
The sheets
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Un risque
A Hazard
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Un bourbier
A quagmire
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Excentrique
Excentric
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Téméraire
Foolhardy, reckless , bold
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Raisonnable
Reasonable
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Morne
Bleak / gloomy / Morne
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Vertu
Virtue
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Vice
Vice
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La prestesse
What presence
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Rentre ses griffes
To dig his claws
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Abimes
Abyss
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Le brouillard QUI EN VEUT au soleil
Its the fog that resents/envies the sun
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Terrifiant
Dreadful / terrifying
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Mis en scene
Directed
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Mourir de faim
Starve to death
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Les consequences
The Aftermath.
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Reclus
Secluded
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Un obstacle
A hindrance
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puisque
since
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mémoire d'immobilité
memory of stillness
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se resorber (disparaitre)
to fade out, to vanish , to retract
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Faire un sondage
To make a poll
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# What is wrong Les Anglais Un britannique
English People A briton
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S'en prendre a
To rail against
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Scintiller
To glitter
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les classes populaires la classe moyennes la bourgeoisie
the lower classes the middle/upper class
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des croyances
beliefs
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Je creve d'inquietude
I am worried sick
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Je creve d'inquietude
I am worried sick
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Il a bu , il avait bu
He drank , he had drunk
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Ne pese pas beaucoup
Hardly matters mais jamais weight
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il croit au croyances occidentales
He believes in western beliefs
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tous les deux jours/semaine
every other day / week
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un ancien, précédent
a former
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rarement
hardly ever
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24h/24h
day in day out
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formidable
tremendous , marvelous, terrific
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satirique,
satircal
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la censure
censorship
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fébrile
fidgety
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Faire sortir de ses gonds
to fly off the handle
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Prêt immobilier
a mortgage
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renverser le gouvernement
to overthrow the governement
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faire de la tôle
to do bird
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faire débat / faire coulée...
to cause a lot of ink to flow
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une maman dévouée / poule
a soccer mom
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des banlieursards qui travaille dans le centre ville
Commuters (downtown)
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Declarer
To state to report
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Une attaque
An assault
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Conspiration
Conspirancy
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Incitation
Promotion
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fleurir
to bloom
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locataire
tenant
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école public
state school
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jolie
fancy
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mon petit plaisir
fancy
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un phénomène
a phenomenom
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diffamer
to slander
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Bailler
To yawn
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Somnoler
To doze
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Envisager
To consider
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Le port du foulard / le voile
Wearing a headscard / the veil
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Préjugés
Prejudice
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Etouffer le debat
To sitfle
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Survivre à une tempête
To weather a storm
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Etre paradoxal
To be paradoxical
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sans scrupule
without qualms
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une place
a square ( ou circus)
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marchands de journaux
newsagents
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transparent
see-through
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s'en laisser
to got weary
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studio
one room flat
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encombrant
cumbersome
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une santé fragile
her health was poor
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une bourse
a scholarship