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décréter que…

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to decree that…

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léser

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to wrong someone

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un lexique

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lexicon, dictionary

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un animateur

une animateuse

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presenter (radio, tv)

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s’impliquer

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to get involved

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exprimer
s’exprimer

exprimer en pourcentage

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to express
to express oneself

to express as a percentage

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une sentinelle

faire la sentinelle

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a sentinel

to stand watch

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un canal

les canaux

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channel

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pâtir de

En revanche, les industries qui dépendent de l’exportation risquent de pâtir.

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to suffer as a result of

On the other hand, the industries which depend on exportation stand to suffer.

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risquer

Ces industries risquent de bien se porter durant la présidence de Trump

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to stand to

These industries stand to do well during Trump’s presidency.

Note: risquer does not necessarily imply a negative environment as it does in English.

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affluer

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flow, pour, pour in

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sanguinaire (adj)

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bloody, bloodthirsty

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égal (adj)

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equal

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traiter

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to treat, to heal

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traite (adj)

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usual

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un lien avec

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a connection with

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rétablir

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to restore

to re-establish

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se rétablir

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to recover

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nouer

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to tie, to knot

to establish

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noyer

se noyer

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to drown something/someone

to drown

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catégoriquement

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categorically

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citer

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to cite

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un compagnon

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a companion

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soi-disant (adj)

soi-disant (adv)

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so called

supposedly

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une déficience
a deficiency
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conserver
to retain, keep
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une séquelle
after-effect
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une série dans la nouvelle série documentaire...
a series in the new documentary series...
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un buveur
a drinker
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assombrir
to darken
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un leader
a leader
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les cendres (f)
ashes
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dévoiler
to unveil | to reveal
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la proximité
closeness
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un facteur
a factor
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un élément
an element, factor
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une étiquette
a label
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un castor
a beaver
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un millénaire millénaire (adj)
a thousand years 1000 yr old age-old
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le dégât
damage
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endommager
to damage
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augmenter
to increase
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nuancer
to nuance (ie, to consider the subtleties of an issue)
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faire état de
to report
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au cas par cas
case by case
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C'est préférable de...
It's preferable to...
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un cabaret
nightclub
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la voltige Certain font de la haute voltige, d'autre...
trick riding, acrobatics A few do trapeze acrobatics, others...
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passionner
to fascinate, enthral
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se passionner pour...
to have a passion for...
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un fondateur une fondatrice un member fondateur les père fondateurs
founder a founding member the founding fathers
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commerçant une rue commerçante une nation très commerçant
commercial a shopping street a great trading country
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un/une commerçant un petit commerçant un grand commerçant
a shopkeeper a small shopkeeper a large retailer
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mince (adj)
thin
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un relève
relieving | a relief team
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reléver
to raise up to record to respond
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se reléver
to pick oneself up
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une chute
a fall (not just a waterfall)
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précipiter L'attaque surprise a précipité les Etat-Unis dans la Deuxième Guerre mondiale.
to push, hasten an event The surprise attack pushed the United States into the Second World war.
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une prononciation non-marquée
perfect pronunciation
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côtoyer
to be in close contact with (eg. as a body guard would be)
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un videur | une videuse
a bouncer | a cleaner
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un tison
a firebrand
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un pan pans d'un manteau un pan de mur
a tail (of a coat, shirt) a depression in the ground a section coat tail a section of wall
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une échelle
``` a ladder a scale (eg. Richter scale, scale of a map) ```
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la manivelle l's pronounced as english l's
crank, handle
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un naufrage
a shipwreck
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fuir
to flee
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allécher avec
to tempt with
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tinter
to ring, chime, tinkle, jingle
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le ramage | le ramage d'oiseau
leaf pattern | bird's song
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se rapporter à...
to compare to...
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le plumage
plumage
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un flatteur | une flatteuse
a flatterer, a sycophant
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confu (adj)
confused | embarrassed
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aux dépens de...
at the expense of
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gnangnan (adj)
namby pamby, soft
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la décennie
decade
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immuablement (adv)
immutably, unceasingly
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longer
to move along
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demeurer
to dwell
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une meute une meute de chiens
a pack, a bundle a pack of dogs
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le rétrécissement
shrinkage narrowing contraction
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relier
to connect, to link
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douillet (adj)
oversensitivity to pain | cozy
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douillettement
cozily
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la maisonnée
household
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greffer
to graft, implant
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le traumatisme
trauma
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réel (adj)
real, true
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le réel
the real (philosophy)
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l'impuissance (f)
helplessness
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impuissant (adj)
helpless, powerless
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extirper de
to draw from
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la didascalie
details an author puts in a theatre script to tell the director how a scene should be set up and interpreted.

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