Key Terms for translation Flashcards

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En dépit de

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Despite

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Encore

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Still/again

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Enjeu

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What’s at stake/issue

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Entraider

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To help each other

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Environ

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About/roughly/approximately

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Expulser/renvoyer/déporter

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To expel

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Facture d’électricité

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Electricity bill

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Falloir

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Be needed/have to

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Faute de

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Due to a lack of

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Grâce à

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Thanks to

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Guère

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Hardly

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Il n’y aura plus de…

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There will be no more

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Ils auraient dû

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They should have

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Jusqu’il y a peu de temps

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Until (quite) recently/a short time ago/not long ago

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L’appui

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Support

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L’augmentation/la hausse

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The increase

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L’entretien d’embauche

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Job interview

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L’espoir

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Hope

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L’infraction

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Offence/crime

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La délinquance/criminalité juvénile

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Juvenile delinquency

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La lutte

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The struggle/the fight/the battle

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La majorité/la plupart de

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Most

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La mobilisation

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Rallying

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La réinsertion

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Reintegration

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La traversée maritime/de la mer
Sea crossing
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Le plus dur à supporter
The hardest/most difficult (thing) to bear/stand/put up with
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Le pot de vin
Bribe
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Le rebondissement
Unexpected development
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Le sommet
Summit
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A l’échelle mondiale
On a global scale
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À savoir
Namely/that is to say
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Aboutir
To result in
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Aidons-les
Let’s help them
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Atteindre
Reach
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Au fil des (années)
Over/throughout (the years)
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Avec méfiance
Suspiciously/distrustfully/warily/with suspicion
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Avoir du mal à
To have difficulty doing
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Avoir hâte de
Cannot wait to
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Avoir lieu
To take place
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Bras de fer
Power struggle
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Celles-ci
These/the latter
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Ces derniers temps
Lately
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Cesser de
To stop to/to cease to
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Ceux qui
Those who
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Chez cette tranche d’âge
Among/within this age group/age bracket
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D’une part...d’autre part
On one hand...on the other hand
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Demeurer/rester
Remain
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Depuis longtemps
For a long time
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Dès
From
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Détournement
Misappropriation
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Devrions-nous/devrait-on
Should we?
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Dont
Of which/including
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Empirer
To get worse/to worsen
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Emprisonner/incarcérer/écrouer détenir/derrière les barreaux/sous les verrous
To put in prison
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Le taux
Rate
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Le taux de récidive
Rate of reoffending
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Les délits
Crimes/offences
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Les mineurs
Minors
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Les parties d’extrême droite
Extreme right wing parties
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Les pays occidentaux m/de l’Ouest
Western countries
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Les plus démunis
The poorest/most disadvantaged/deprived/the LEAST well-off/those in greatest need/the most unfortunate/the LEAST unfortunate *(least and not less)
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Mal à l’aise
Ill at ease
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Maladies graves
Serious illnesses
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Menacé
Threatened
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Mettre en cause
To charge/to accuse
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Mieux vaut
It would be better
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Milliard
Billion
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Monter d’un cran
To take up a notch
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N’était plus
Was no longer
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Néanmoins
Nonetheless/even so/nevertheless
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Obliger à
To oblige
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Organisation syndicale
Representatives of the trade union
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Organisations patronales
Employers’ organisations
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Oser
To dare
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OTAN
NATO
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pas forcément
Not necessarily
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Pas la peine de
There is no point in/ don’t bother/ it’s pointless, useless, a waste of time/ not (even) worth it
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Personnel formé
Trained staff
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Poser votre candidature pour
Applying
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Poursuivre en justice
To prosecute/ bring before the courts/ take to court/ being before the law
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Pourtant
However/nevertheless
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Présent...depuis
Have been...since
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Prêt à
Ready to
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Quatre coins du monde
Four corners of/all over/every part of the world, globe, planet,earth
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Quoique/bien que
Although
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Relever le défi
To rise to the challenge
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Résoudre
To solve
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S’installer
To settle
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Selon (certains)/d’après (certains)/ selon (quelques-uns)
According (to some)
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Subsister
To survive
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Subvenir à ses besoins
To support/to provide for
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Tenter de
To try to
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Toucher
Touch/affect (also earn a salary)
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Tout en essayant de
While trying to
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Travail au noir
Moonlighting
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Un tiers
A third
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Venir de
Just
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Viser à
To aim to