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chandail
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sweater, jumper
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femme de chambre
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chambermaid (employee)
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vedette
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celebrity
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bouder
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avoid
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cancan
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gossip
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malveillant
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malicious
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complaisance
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wish to please
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franchise
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sincerity
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pudibonderie
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prudishness
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pudibond
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prude
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avoir affaire à
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to be dealing with
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amenuisé
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reduced, lowered
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épanoui
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in full bloom
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garçon manqué
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tomboy
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dépourvu
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devoid of
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gainé
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sheathed
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pierre d'achoppement
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stumbling block
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grivoise
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bawdy, coarse
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flouer
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to cheat
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déboulonner
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to unbolt
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prendre garde que
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take care that/notice that
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encore que
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although
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de même
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similarly
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de même que
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just as
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causer
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to chat/talk
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salutaire
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healthy
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prêter
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lend
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se reprendre
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correct oneself
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métisser
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to cross, cross-breed
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apport
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contribution, input
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aléa
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chance
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tribu
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tribe
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défroquer
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defrock: deprive of (priestly) privileges and functions, to strip of rank, profession, authority.
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None
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serpillière
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floor cloth
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rattacher
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attach again, OR (~ à) link, join to
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attester
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confirm, vouch for
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ultérieur
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subsequent, later
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hameau
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hamlet
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figé
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fixed
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guêpe
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wasp
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groseille
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currant
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hache
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axe
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trêve
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truce, ceasefire OR rest, respite
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hêtre
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beech
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hagard
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haggard
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blafard
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pale
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quille
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keel
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varech
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kelp
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gréer
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rig
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chenapan
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rascal
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l'Autriche
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Austria
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barbouillage
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scribbling
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altermondialisme
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anti-globalisation
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meute
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pack (e.g. of dogs)
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chercheur
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researcher
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bombe
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bomb OR spray
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carburant
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fuel
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interpeller
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interrogate, take in for questioning
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précaire
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fragile, precarious
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cafouiller
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get into a mess
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chaîne hertzienne
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radio network/station
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clope
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(slang) cigarette
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cradingue
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dirty (dégueulasse)
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effluve
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emanation
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faire une grimace
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make a face
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frasque
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escapade
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garer
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shelter, protect
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glaviot
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spit (crachat)
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inculper
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charge
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mégot
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butt (cigarette)
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morigéner
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rebuke
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parcours
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journey, route
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patineur/patineuse
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skater
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ringard
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cheesy
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rixe
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brawl
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sommer
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order (sbdy to do sthg)
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soutien-gorge
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bra
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spot
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short film, televised, often publicity, commercial purposes
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tare
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defect
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vestiaire
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locker room
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None
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voie
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possibility
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bras de fer
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arm wrestling
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limogeage
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dismissal
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inusité
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uncommon
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d'ailleurs
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moreover, besides
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par ailleurs
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in addition
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rosse
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nasty, rotten
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trinquer
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toast glasses, schmooze, OR (fam) be damaged
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renouer
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renew, tie again
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entrer en contact
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come in contact
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garde à vue
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custody (legal)
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ne rougir de rien
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have no shame
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porter sur
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be concerned with
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faire des poches aux genoux
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baggy at the knees
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inexact
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inaccurate
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traiter de
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be about (=s'agir de)
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couru d'avance
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foregone conclusion
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s'inscrire
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register
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échouer
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fail
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au palmarès
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at the top
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le sommeil du juste
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deep sleep
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l'effet de serre
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greenhouse effect
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canicule
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heat wave
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les jeux sont faits
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the die has been cast
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distorsion
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distortion, imbalance
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velleité
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vague impulse
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remédier à
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remedy
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la retombée
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repercussion, consequence
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tirer au but
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shoot a goal
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remettre à plus tard
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postpone
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personnel
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staff
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perdre la notion du temps
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lose track of time
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selon, d'après, à en croire
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according to
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prétendre que
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claim that
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donner un coup de pied
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kick (v)
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incendie criminel
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arson
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engourdir
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to make numb (v)
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cela endort la douleur
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it numbs the pain
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endormir
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to deaden, allay (pain)
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un numéro à cinq chiffres
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a five digit number
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faire la queue
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line up
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atteindre
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reach
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compter
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to number, to have
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s'élever à
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to amount to, come to, stand at
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passer de ... à
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to go from ... to
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fièvre aphteuse
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foot and mouth disease
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s'accroître
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to grow, increase (intransitive)
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augmenter
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to grow, rise, increase
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se développer
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to grow
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progresser de
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to increase, rise (by)
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baisser
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to go down (int), lower (tran)
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diminuer
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to decrease (int), reduce, cut (tran)
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loyer
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rent
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exportations
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exports
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l'accroissement, l'augmentation, la progression
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increase
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être en progression
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to be increasing
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la hausse
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rise
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être en hausse
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to be rising
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la baisse, la chute
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fall (n)
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être en baisse
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to be falling
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la diminution
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decrease, reduction
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le niveau
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level
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le taux de
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the rate of
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supérieur à/inférieur à
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higher/lower than
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contre
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as compared to
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sur (quatre sur dix)
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out of
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en moyenne
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on average
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dont (3,1 millions de chômeurs, dont 1,1 million depuis au moins un an)
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including
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soit (1 321 000 femmes travaillent, soit 15,5%...)
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i.e., that is
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population active
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working population
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avec un enfant à charge
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supporting a child
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natalité
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birth rate
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des milliers de
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thousands of
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million
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million
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milliard
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billion
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avec attention
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attentively
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avec circonspection
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cautiously, guardedly
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avec un peu de chance
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hopefully
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avec intelligence
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intelligently
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avec patience
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patiently
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avec reconnaissance
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thankfully
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avec soin
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carefully
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sans cérémonie
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unceremoniously
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sans cesse
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continuously
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sans distinction
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indiscriminately
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sans intelligence
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unintelligently
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sans interruption
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uninterruptedly
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sans ménagement
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bluntly (of speech), roughly, unceremoniously
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sans hésiter
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unhesitatingly
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sans pouvoir rien faire
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helplessly
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balayer
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sweep aside
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d'un air fâché
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angrily
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d'une façon/manière triste
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sadly
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d'une façon/manière désastreuse
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disastrously
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de façon inattendue
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unexpectedly
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d'un ton bourru
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gruffly
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d'un ton morne
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dully
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d'un ton sec
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drily
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sur un ton solennel
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solemnly
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par hasard
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accidentally
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par manque de générosité
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ungenerously
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parler bas
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to talk quietly
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voir clair
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to see clearly
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parler fort
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to talk loudly
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deviner/viser juste
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to guess/aim correctly
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peser lourd
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to weigh heavily
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à peu près
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almost, nearly; about
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au juste
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exactly
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d'habitude
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usually
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de plus en plus
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increasingly
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en gros
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roughly, broadly
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par la suite
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subsequently
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à bon compte
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cheaply, easily
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s'en tirer à bon compte
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to get off lightly
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à bon escient
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advisedly
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à brûle-pourpoint
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abruptly, point-blank
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à contrecoeur
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reluctantly
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à dessein
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deliberately, intentionally
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à juste titre
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quite rightly
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à la légère
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lightly
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à ma/sa grande surprise
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surprisingly
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à pic
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steeply (rise/fall)
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à tort
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wrongly
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à tue-tête
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very loudly, at the top of one's voice
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de bon gré
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willingly
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de mauvais gré
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reluctantly
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du bout des lèvres
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half-heartedly
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en définitive
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finally
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en flèche
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steeply
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en mon/son for intérieur
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privately, secretly (in one's heart)
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petit à petit
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gradually
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sur-le-champ
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immediately
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avoir la conviction intime que
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to be quietly confident that
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le hareng
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herring
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la hiérarchie
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hierarchy
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une lampe de chevet
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bedside lamp
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le phoque
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seal
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le mammifère
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mammal
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le grand magasin
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department store
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tenaille/tenailles
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pliers
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étau
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vise, clamp
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raboter
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to plane (with tool)
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menuisier
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carpenter
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bien + du/de la/des
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a lot of
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bien des gens
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a lot of people
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énormément (de)
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a tremendous number/amount of
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bon nombre de
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a good many
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un certain nombre de
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a number of, a good many; some
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un très grand nombre de
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a great many, very many
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nombre de
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a number of
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être nombreux (il étaient nombreux)
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there were a great many of them
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de nombreux
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many, numerous
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la plus grosse part de
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most of, the greatest part of
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une bonne partie de
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a good part of
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la majeure/plus grande partie de, la plupart des
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most of
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le plus de
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the most
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presque tout
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most of
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entamer
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eat into; start
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autant de, tant de
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so many
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chacun de
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each of
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une partie de
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some of
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que de... !
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what a lot of ...!
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le reste de
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the rest of
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l'orée (f)
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threshold; edge, outskirt (of town)
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monter en graine
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to go to seed
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germinal
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7th month of French Republican Calendar (planting)
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messidor
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10th month of French Republican Calendar (harvest)
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coup de soc
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plowshare
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charrue (f)
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plow
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à foison
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in abundance
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tranchée
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trench
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sillon
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groove, furrow
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menager
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be easy with
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fossoyeur
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grave digger
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carence (f)
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deficiency
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pugilat (m)
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fight
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exciper
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put in a plea for
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étayer
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back up, support, prop up
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forer
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drill, bore
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frôler
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brush by
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mouler
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mold, cast (v)
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chardon
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thistle
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acariâtre
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cantankerous
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atterrir
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to land
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