Theme Grammatical Flashcards

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À peine

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Juste

Hardly

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Assister

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Attend

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Ambassade

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Embassy

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Denier en date

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Latest

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Être frappé par

Entre en proie à

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To be plagued With

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Faire des morts

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Claim lives

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Épidémies

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Epidemics

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Entre … et …

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What with

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Se paaser

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Occur

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Ceux ahi croient au changement climatique

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Climate believers

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Ceux qui réfutent

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Climate deniers, sceptics

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Éoliennes

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Offshore wind turbines

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D’autant plus difficile que

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It is all the more difficult AS

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Dépenses

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Expenditure
Costs
Spending

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Être voué à

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To be bound to

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Augmentera

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Increase

Soar

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En raison de

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Due to

Owing to

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Être condamné à

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Doomed to

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Allongement de la durée de vie

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Higher life expectancy

Rising life expectancy

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Amélioration

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Improvement in

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Surpopuation carcérale

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Prison overcrowding

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Doivent être (prévu)

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To be to

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23
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Juger

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Deem

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Faire semblant de smibteresser a qqchose

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To pay lip service to

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Tromper
Fool | Deceive
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Positions
Stands
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Faire mieux que
Outdo | Outperform
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Mur invisible
The glass ceiling
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Kmegwlite des chances
Equality of opportunities
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Achever (droits)
Achieve
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Combler
Bridge
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Won't + verb + unless(until)
Qu'une fois que | = will + verb + only when
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Être susceptible de
To be likely to | To be liable to
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Question d'actualité
Topical issues
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Pourtant
Yet
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Messe
Mass
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Se dérouler se tenir (événement)
To hold
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Une messe qui se déroule ../ qui se tient
To say/celebrate mass
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Cérémonie en memeoikre de quelqu'un. (Religion), un office
À memorial service
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Monument au mort
Memorial war
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Assister à un service funebre
To attend à memorial service
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This
Proche
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That
Passe
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Éviter
Avoid | Shun
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Aller cherche quelqun
Go and get someone Go and brink somebody back To fetch smdy
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Difficulté à
Difficulty IN doing /doing
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Savoir où quelqu'un se trouve
To know sbdys whereabouts
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Fournir à qqun
Provide someone with
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Alentours
The vicinity | The surroundings
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Passer devant
Walk past smthg
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Il faut que (prévision)
To be to
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Quitter des yeux
To take ones eyes off it | To stars at
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Ne pas S'empêcher de
Could not help
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Serrer
Clasp Clutch (main) Press
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Avoir des ses nouvelles
Hear from her
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Employer
Clerk
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Employé de guichet
Counter clerk
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Bureau de poste
Postoffice
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Toile
Canvas
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Vitrine
Window
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Dormir sous la tente
Sleep under canvas
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Démarcher Faire du porte à porte Sonder
To canvass
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Devant
Outside
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Faire du lèche vitrine
To go Window shopping
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Jeter un coup d'œil
To browse
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Retomber radioactive
Nuclear fallout
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Longue portée
Long-range
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Affrontements
Warfare
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Infrastructure
Facility
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User de représailles
To retaliate against
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Imposer à
Impose on
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Nucelar weapon
Nuke*
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Débarrassé qqchose
To rid the world of
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Prix Nobel de la paix
Nobel Peace prize
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Capuche
Hood
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Cagoule
Hood
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Petit chaperon rouge
Little red riding hood
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A hood(lum)
Inner city | Quartier sensible
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Se précipiter
To rush | To dash
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Se frayer un chemin à travers la foule
Push one's way through the crowd
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Pousser les gens en se frayant un chemin dans la foule
To elbow ones way through the crowd
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About | Around
Sans but
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Petite rue | Rue adjacente
Side street
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Réduire à néant
To dash smdys hope Dash= anéantir
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As
Tout en (simultanéité des action)
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Crasse
Grime
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Très sale crasseux
Filthy | Grimy
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Etre exténué
To be worn out
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Avoir beau
Might
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Cinglé
Nutty
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Devenir fou
To go nuts
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Etre complètent cingle
To be as nutty as a fruit cake
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Sharp
Tranchant Pointu Aigu (noise) Affûté ``` Perçant Intelligent Net Méchant (remarques) Malhonnête Pile (heure) ```
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Harceler quelqu'un Etre sur le dos Faire des réflexions Tourmenter
To nagg at
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Nagging
Persistant Tenace Qui ronge
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J'en ai l'eau à la bouche
It makes my mouth water
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Deli | Delicatessen
Traiterie Épicerie fine Produits de qualité
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Le gai
Lookout
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Tiens Bon
Hold on
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Ca ne tient pas la route
Doesn't hold Water
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Épicerie
Grocery
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Patientez
Hold on
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Hipe
Faire du battage médiatique
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En vivre
To earn a living from
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Vivre de
Live on
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Adoré
Beloved | Cherished
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Entre temps
Meanwhile
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Might
Il se pourrait que
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Survoler
Fly over
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Avec égard
Respectfully | With consideration
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Parler à quelqu'un
Adress sbdy
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Noter
Write down | To note down
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Décontracté | Désinvolte
Casually
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Avoir envie de
To feel like doing
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Enfin
Côme on
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Lancer un PRODUIT
Launch a product (book)
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Organiser une soirée
To throw a party
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Rédacteur en chef
The editor
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Éditeur
Publisher
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LANCEMENT d'un PRODUIT
...launch
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Bouquet de fleurs
Bunch of flowers
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Prendre
Take | Pick up
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Trousseau de clés
Bunch of Kees
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Groupe de personnes
Bunch of people
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Pleuvoir des cordes
To pour with rain
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Campagne
Country
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Paysage de campagne
Countryside
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Être fâché avec
To be cross with smdy
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Chez qui il vivait
At whose place he was living
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Se disputer
To have a row To have an argument To querelle To argue
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Conflit social
Dispute
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Hystérique
Hysterically
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Briser
To shutter
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Carrelages
Floor tiled
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L'une apres l'autre
One by one | One after the other
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Précipiter (qqun qqchose)
Dash
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Jeter Lancer Projeter
To hurl sthg | To hurl abuse at sthg
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Sur
Onto
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Continuer à (dialogues)
Go on
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Epave
Wreck
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Ruiner la vie de qqun
To screw up someones life
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Se diriger vers (petite distance)
To walk to | To head for
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Cheminée (le dessus)
The mantelpliece
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Les décorations
Trinkets
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Pauvre type
Creep
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Force à
Make someone
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Se débattre
To struggle
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Lache moi
Get off me | Let go of me
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Pour ôamour du ciel
For god's sake !
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Attraper par les épaules
Grabb | Grasp by someones shoulder
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mouchoir
handkerchief | tissue
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blotti entasssé recroquevillé
huddled
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brpuler roussir brûlure
scorch
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exploiter quelque chose | extraire
quarry something
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gravières
quarries
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sur le bord de la route
atthe edge of the road
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grain de beauté
mole
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dodu rond
plump
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eclaboussement
splashes
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être àl'agonie
to be dying to be at death's door to be in one's death throes
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courrier du coeur
an agony column
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ceux qui s'en occupent (courrier du coeur)
an agony aunt, uncle
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prometteur
promising
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éteindre
estinguish | put out
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camaraderie | compagnie
companionship
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se donner la peine à faire qqchose
to bother to do smthg
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j'ai pas envie de me fatiguer
I can't be bothered*
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acquiser de la tête | hocher
to nod
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calvaire
long agony
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ils sont partis chacun de leur côté
they went their separate ways