Week 3 Flashcards by Flore Boituzat

The long term unemployed

Les chômeurs de longue durée

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Les chômeurs de longue durée

The long-term unemployed

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Community service

Travaux d’intérêt général

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Travaux d’intérêt général

Community service

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As weak and divided as ever

Aussi faible et divisé qu’avant

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Aussi faible et divisé qu’avant

As weak and divided as ever

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Football stars

Les stars du ballon rond

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Les stars du ballon rond

Football stars

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You can’t have the cake and eat it

Tu ne peux pas avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre

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Tu ne peux pas avoir le beurre et l’argent du beurre

You can’t have the cake and eat it

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To buy anything

Gober n’importe quoi

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Gober n’importe quoi

To buy anything

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Longs to

Aspirer à

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Aspirer à

Longs to

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Changes in diet

Changer de régime alimentaire

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Changer de régime alimentaire

Changes in diet

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Laissez faire

Libéralisme

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Libéralisme

Laissez faire

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State intervention

L’interventionnisme

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L’interventionnisme

State intervention

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He was inundated with messages of support

Il a reçu d’innombrables messages de soutien

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Il a reçu d’innombrables messages de soutien

He was inundated with messages of support

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A credit card scam

Arnaque de carte bancaire

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Une arnaque de carte bancaire

Credit card scam

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Elderly people

Personnes âgées

Most elderly people

Better off than

S'en sortent mieux

Better off than

Today's consumer society

Société de consommation actuelle

Today's consumer society

To be blamed for

Etre tenu pour responsable de

Etre tenu responsable de

To be blamed for

Have fallen for the charm

Tombes sous le charme

Have fallen for the charm

To fall for

Craquer pour

To fall for

To be involved

Etre implique

To be involved

A tough stance

Une position ferme

Adopter une position ferme

To take a tough stance

Grabbed the headlines

Monopoliser l'actualité | Faire la une des titres

To grab the headlines

A daunting to-do list

Une liste impressionnante de choses à faire

To spirals out of control

Devienne incontrôlable

To spirals out of control

Solve the crisis by waving a magic wand

Résoudre la crise d'un coup de baguette magique

Solve the crisis by waving a magic wand

A lot of weight

Beaucoup de responsabilités | Un lourd fardeau

Talk green politics

Discours de politique écologique

Talk green politics

Coal

Charbon

Coal

Noise pollution

Pollution sonore

Noise pollution

Climate change deniers

Les climatosceptiques

Climate change deniers

The conventional wisdom

Une idée reçue | L'opinion publique

The conventional wisdom

Is obfuscating and prevaricating

Cherche à noyer le poisson et tergiverse

Is obfuscating and prevaricating

Fizzy drinks

Boissons gazeuses

Fizzy drinks

Upward mobility

L'ascenseur social

Upward mobility

Beyond the pale

Inadmissible

Beyond the pale

Be going to the dogs

Aller à vau l'eau

Be going to the dogs

Across the board

A tous les niveaux

Across the board

Across-the-board wages rises

Hausse de salaires générale

Across-the-board wages rises

Are few and far between

Ne courent pas les rues

Are few and far between

High on the agenda

Une priorité

High on the agenda

Using a hand-held mobile phone at the wheel

L'utilisation du téléphone au volant

Using a hand-held mobile phone à the wheel

To have a ground to a halt

Etre au point mort

To have ground to a halt

Destiné à

Earmarked for

Destiné à

Pales into insignifance compared with

Est dérisoire par rapport à

Pales into insignifance compared with

It's a dog eat dog world

Un monde impitoyable

A dog eat dog world

Un monde impitoyable

Week 3 Flashcards

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