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157 Cards in this Set
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L'assainisement
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cleaning up
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L'automobiliste
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Driver
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L'azote
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Nitrogen
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Le carburant
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fuel
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le cours d'eau
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watercourse
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le covoiturage
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car-sharing
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le déboisement
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deforestation
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le déversement
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spillage
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déverser
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to spill, release
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l'empreinte carbonique
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carbon footprint
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en voie de disparition
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endangered
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le fleuve
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major river
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la fonte des calottes glaciares
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melting of polar ice caps
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genant(e)
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annoying, inconvenient
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gener
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to be a nuissance
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l'heure d'affluence
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rush hour
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l'impot
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tax
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la maree noire
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oil slick
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le mazout
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oil/tar
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le milieu
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surroundings
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le naufrage
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shipwreck
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nuire a
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to harm
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les ordures menageres
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household waste
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rejeter
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to discharge
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le reseau routier
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road network
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souiller
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to soil/contaminate
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la survie
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survival
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la tempete
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storm
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l'approvisionnement en energie
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energy supply
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le barrage
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dam
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la culture biologique
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organic farming
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dependre de
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to depend on
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epuiser
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to use up
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le fioul
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heating fuel
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le gisement
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deposit
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l'isolation
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insulation
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marémotrice
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tidal (energy)
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les matières premieres
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raw materials
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le Moyen Orient
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Middle East
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les retombées
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fallout
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les calottes glaciares
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polar icecaps
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cultiver
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to grow
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les données
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data
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l'éboueur
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dustman
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nier
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to deny
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ramasser
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to collect, pick up
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le refroidissement
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cooling
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rétécir
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to shrink
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l'asile politique
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political asylum
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l'afflux
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influx
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le bidonville
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shantytown
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le carte de séjour
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residence permit
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chercher asile
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to seek asylum
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le clandestin
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illegal immigrant
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la frontière
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the border
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originaire de
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from
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le patrimoine
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heritage
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appartenir à
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to belong to
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le citoyen
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citizen
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citoyenneté
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citizenship
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l'emploi précaire
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job insecurity
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la formation
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training
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s'installer
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to settle
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la laïcité
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secularism
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la mixité sociale
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social diversity
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le pays natal
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country of birth
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la reconnaissance
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recognition
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la revendication
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demand
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surmonter
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to overcome
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la bande
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gang
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attirer
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to attack
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le comportement
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behaviour
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le foulard
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scarf
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militer contre
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to fight against
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musulman
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muslim
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affligé
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distressed
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aisé
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well off
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l'analphabetisme
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illiteracy
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appauvrir
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to impoverish
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la carence
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deficiency
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consacrer
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to devote (time)
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démuni
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deprived
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l'écart
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gap
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l'endettement
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debt
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l'impôt sur le revenu
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income tax
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se nourrir de
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to live on
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l'organisation caritative
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charity
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le pays en voie de developpement
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developing countries
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la précarité
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lack of job security
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la privation
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hardship
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priver de
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to deprive of
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la récolte
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crop, harvest
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répandu
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widespread
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sans domicile fixé
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homeless
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les sans-abris
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homeless people
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le smic
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minimum salary
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la subvention
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subsidy
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tendre à
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to tend to
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abattre
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to shoot
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l'assasinat
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murder
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la bagarre
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fight
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le cambriolage
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burglary
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le chantage
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blackmail
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le coup de fou
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gunshot
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le détenu
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prisoner
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greffe
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transplant
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lendemain
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the next day
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pierre
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stone
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poignardé
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stabbed
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élucider
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solve
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fusil
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gun
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tirer
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shot
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quand même
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anyway
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suffire
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to be enough
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la gendarmerie
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police force
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file
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queue
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engager le procès contre
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to take action against
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l'enlèvement
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kidnapping
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l'escroquerie
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swindle
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exercer le effet de dissuasion
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to act as a deterrent
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faire appel
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to appeal
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faire la virée
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joyriding
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le filou
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crook
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interpeller
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to arrest
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mortel (le)
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fatal
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la peine de mort
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death penalty
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plaider
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to plead
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poursuivre
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to prosecute
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la punition
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punishment
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le pyromane
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arsonist
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la réclusion à perpétuité
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life imprisonment
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le témoin
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witness
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le témoinage
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evidence
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le viol
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rape
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le vol
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theft
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le vol à main armé
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armed robbery
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le voyou
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thug
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le cellule souche
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stem cell
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combattre
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to fight against
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l'engin spatial
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spacecraft
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se généraliser
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to spread
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guérir
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to cure
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les manipulations génétiques
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genetic engineering
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mettre au point
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to perfect
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la pandémie
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pandemic
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la percée
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breakthrough
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la peste
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plague
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se raviser
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to change one's mind
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le renommée
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fame
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le savant
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scientist
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séropositif
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HIV positive
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la spationaute
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astronaut
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la technologie de pointe
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cutting edge technology
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les voyages interplanétaires
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interplanetary travel
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banlieue
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suburb
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les moeurs
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customs
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le patrimoine
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heritage
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