Vocabulaire Diverse Flashcards

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Sonner à la porte

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To ring The bell

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Les traits du visage

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Facial features

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Parler de choses et d’autres

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To talk about this, that and the other(s)

To make small talk

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La meme longueur d’onde

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The same wavelength

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Mener sa vie

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To lead one’s life

To have one’s life

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Aux antipodes de (2)

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Light years from

To be poles apart from each other

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Le contraste frappant

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The sharp contrast

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Courant principal, pas marginal

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Mainstream

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Compatriote

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Fellow citizen

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Des fantasmes vehicules par

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Fantaisies conveyed by

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Le quotidien

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The daily life

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Une position (politique)

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Stance

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Faire une remarque

Remarquer

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To remark

To notice

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Puisque

Ou bien

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Since

Or else

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Signaler

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To point out sth

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Gagner de l’influence

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To gain ground

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Un discours (devant une assemblee)
Un discours, une idee, une pensée
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A speech

A rhetoric

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L’argument mis en avant

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The argument which is put forward

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L’accent est mis sur

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The focus is on

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Au premier plan (sens figure)

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In the forefront of

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Etre alimenté par

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To be fuelled by

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Par dessus le marché

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Into the bargain

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Hors de sa porté

Au dela

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Beyond his grasp

Beyond

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Extenuant

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Grueling

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Deposer qqchose
To drop of
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Mauvaise qualite
Low quality | Poor quality
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Casser sur
To break over sth
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Dans tous les cas (2)
In any case | Anyway
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Un enfant gate
A spoiled brat
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Habitude (3)
Current practice Habit Custom
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Passer au feu rouge Round poind Carrefour Les feux
Ro jump the lights A roundabout Crossroads the traffic lights
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Pieton Passage pieton Trottoir Bord du trottoir
Pedestrian A zebra crossing Pavement (uk) / sidewalk (usa) A kerb
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Scandaleux | Scandalisé
Outrageous | Outraged
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Presupposer | Un presupposé
To assume | An assumption
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Fondé
Grounded
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Emmener qqun en voiture
To give sb a lift
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``` Ministere des affaires etrangeres Le ministre (usa) ```
The state department | The secretary of state
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Comprendre le sens de sqchose par raisonnement | Faire de l'exercice physique
To work out
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Etre en deuil
To be mourny | To mourn
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Etre a la hauteur de qqch
To be up to sth
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Enterrement | Obseques
``` Burial The Funeral (singulier) ```
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Se mefier (3)
To be wary of To be suspicious To distrust (des personnes)
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D'une certaine maniere
Somehow
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Dur (4)
Harsh Tough Unfeeling Forbidding
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Rendre visite
Courtoisie : to pay a visit / to call on sb | Sinon : to visit sb
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Gène (le sentiment) (3)
Awkwardness Embarrassment Discomfort
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Candidature
Application
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Mal a l'aise(2)
Ill-at-ease | Uneasy
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L'aisance
Ease
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Un obstacle | Faire obstacle
Hindrance | To hinder
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S'immiscer
To find one's way into
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Un sur trois
One in three | One out of three
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Prevision
Forecast
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Empoisonner la vie (2)
To pest sb | To make live a misery
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Quartiers defavorises du centre ville
The inner cities
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Monter la note | Baisser la note
To upgrade | Downgrade
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Suffir
To be sufficient
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Une etude (2)
A survey | A study
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A l'infini
In definitely
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S'agiter | S'inquieter
To fret
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Blocages
Gridlock
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Aller trop loin
To overreach
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Mal conçu
Ill-drafed
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Un reglage
A tweak
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Considerer
Deem
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Contrecarrer
Thwart
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Complet, global
Comprehensive
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Qui respectent la loi
Law-abidind
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Etendue, portee
Scope
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Reperer
To spot
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Provisoire
Provisional
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Avancer des arguments en faveur de
To make a case for
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Puissant | Contraindre
Compelling | To compell
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Tentative
Attempt
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Credule
Gullible
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Serment
Oath
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Lier
Bind
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Diffamer
To smear
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Faire de la politique
Being in politics
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Se faire a l'idee que
To come to terms with
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Rendre public
To be made public
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Prevoir : Un fait Une action
Foresee | Anticipate
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Les annes d'apres guerre
Post-war-years
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Nominations
Appointments
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Debattre
To discuss
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Assister a
To attend sth
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Agassant
Annoying
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A cette epoque la
Back then
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Avoir des nouvelles de qqun | Entendre parler de
To hear from sb | To hear of sth
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Il parait (2)
Reportedly | Allegedly
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Contester
To question
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Super, genial (2)
Tremendous | Splendid
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Crise du logement
Housing crisis
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L'emprunt immobilier
Mortgage
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Retraite | Les retraités
Retirement | Pensioners
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Un filet de securite
A net
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A tord ou a raison
Rightly or wrongly
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Prendre pour une evidence
To take for granted that
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Confirmer
To bear out
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Les trente glorieuses
Post war boom years
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Sujet d'actualité
Topical question/issue
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Restructurer, remanier
To overall sth
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Presente comme
Billed as
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Le soutien de
The backing of
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Un public
An audience
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Une grande quantite de
A host of
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Les entreprises de l'agro alimentaire
Retail group
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L'evasion fiscale | Services fiscaux
Tax avoidance Usa : internal revenue system IRS Uk : HMRC
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Etre tres clair | Dire ouvertement
To be outspoken
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Un dementi
A denial
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Une serie de, un enchainement
A string of
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Chiffre d'affaire (2)
Turnover | Revenue
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Groupe de reflexion
A thinktank
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A cause de | Etre redevable
Owing to | To owe sb sth
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Etrenle plus touché | Etre en premiere ligne
To bear the brunt of
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Une faille
Loophole | Tax loophole : une niche fiscale
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Concevoir Une machine (souvent domaine electronique) Une maniere d'agir
To devise | A device
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Faire echouer | Avorter un plan
To derail
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Projets
Plans
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Repandu | Monnaie courante
Widespread | Commonplace
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Les effets
Impacts
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Le genre humain | L'humanite (concept,sentiment)
Mankind | Humanity
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Meme si : Hypothese Concession (bien que)
Even if | Even though
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Envahir
To invade
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Pour dire les choses brievement
To make a long strory short
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Grande ville
Large city
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Il n'y a rien entre
There is nothing in between
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Se retirer
To pull out
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Mecontenter
To discontent
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Etre content de
To be happy with
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Compromis
Compromises
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Tirer/dessiner | Rediger une loi
To draw A drawer = un tiroir To draw up a law
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Faire pression sur
To put pression on
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Concilier
To reconcile
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La gauche (politique)
Left-wing
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Compenser (2)
To compensate for sth | To offset sth
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Les xhoses pour lesquelles on se propose de faire
Agenda
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Impliquer | S'impliquer
To imply | To get involve
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Etre dependent de | Independent de
To be dependent on | To be independent from
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Connaitre (sens figuré, experimenter)
To go throught
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Diviser en
To divide into
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Retour de baton
A backlash
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Syndicats (2)
Trade union = uk | Labor union = usa
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Propositions
Proposals
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D'ici deux ans (période/quantite ) | D'ici l'année prochaine (point)
Within two years | By next year
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Pertinent
Relevante
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Cultured (agriculture)
Crops
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Se confronter à, s'attaquer, faire face | Activement
To take on
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Loisirs
Leisure | Attention jamais de "s" derrière, jamais de "a" devant
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Cv
Resume
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Universitaire, chercheurs
Scholars
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Manifeste, délibéré, conscient
Overt
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Offre d'emploi
Help-wanted ads
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Travailleur indépendant
Independent worker Free lancers Self-employed worker
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Chiffre impair | Pair
A odd number An even number Note : odd peut vouloir dire étrange, bizarre
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Élément fondateur | La première pierre
The building block
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Les conventions collectives | Négociation des salaires par les syndicats
Collective bargaining
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Le modèle fordiste
Fordism
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Mettre fin à qqch
To bring sth To a end | To brought To extinction
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S'insinuer
To seep
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Ancienneté
Seniority
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``` Le monde de l'entreprise Les entreprises (concept) ```
Work place
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La précarité
Job insecurity
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Ouvrir les possibilités | Rendre possible
To pave The way for
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S'amenuir, s'amincir
To shrink To Thin out To recede
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L'amertume | Etre amer
Bitterness | To be bitter
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Un bureau dans la maison
A study | A den
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En avance sur | En retard sur
Ahead of sth | Behind sth
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A la suprême court Quand il disent que c'est constitutionnel Quand c'est juge non-constitutionnel
To uphold The décision | To strike down
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Un bail | Paiements mensuels
A lease Monthly payements Leasing payements
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Manquer de Etre a cour Ne plus avoir
To run out of Ex : To run out of ideas/of money
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Je pense bien que Je crois bien que Il me semble que
I daresay
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Hocher la tête
To nod
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Se frotter le menton
To rub one's chin
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Se pencher | S'incliner
To lean
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Couvre feu
Curfew
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Infraction | Délinquant
Offence | Offender
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Pillage
Looting
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Susciter
Arouse
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Tromperie Tromper Trompeur
Deception To deceive Deceitful
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Déception
Disappointment
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La grande distribution
The retail industry
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Un principe | Une doctrine
A tenet
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Croyance
Creed
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Doté de
Endowed with
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Qui nécessite bcp de main d'œuvre
Labor-intensive
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Épouvantable
Appalling
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Lancer qqch | Être bombardé de
To pelt | To be pelted with
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Plongée sous-marine
Scuba diving
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fait sur mesure
tailor-made | custom-made
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les années folles (20)
the Roaring Twenties