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87 Cards in this Set
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Sur les côtes européennes |
on Europe's shores |
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Atteindre la Grèce |
Reach Greece |
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Traverser la Méditerranée
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To cross the Mediterranean |
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La Chancelière allemande |
The German Chancellor |
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La crise des réfugiés |
The refugee crisis |
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Relocaliser / répartir les migrants |
relocate migrants |
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Ouvrir / construire des centres d'accueils d'urgence |
Set up hotspots |
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Deux milliards de livres |
Two billion pounds |
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bouleversé / submergé (x2) |
overwhelmed to be at loss |
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Allocations |
benefits |
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A travers l'Europe, les attitudes se durcissent |
Across Europe attitudes are hardening |
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Mettre à l'épreuve |
To strain |
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Le détruire complètement |
To destroy it altogether |
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Résoudre une crise |
To solve a crisis |
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Avoir envie de (x4) |
To long to do smth To long for Have an urge to Feel like doing something |
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Prendre une douche (x2) |
To go take a shower To go have a shower |
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Quelque part (x2) |
Somewhere At some place |
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La clef de chez Honore |
the key to Honore's home / place |
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Chez Honore (x2) |
Honore's place Honore's home |
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Je l'ai perdu avec mes sacs à l'église |
I lost it with my bag at the church |
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Flottement (x3) |
wavering flutter float |
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J'avais une étrange sensation (x2) |
I had an odd feeling I had a strange feeling |
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La veille |
The day before |
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Il y avait de la boue partout dans les rues |
There was mud everywhere in the street |
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Les averses |
Downpours |
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Le périphérique (x2) |
the ringroad the beltway |
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Marcher péniblement (x3) |
To trudge to plod along to trundle |
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Marcher lentement avec effort |
To trundle |
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Eviter (x2) |
To avoid To avert |
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Les flaques (x2) |
pools puddles |
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Pour ne pas |
So as not to |
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Ma pauvre robe |
My wretched dress |
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Rien de trop chic |
Nothing fancy |
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Pour une raison ou une autre |
For some reason
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Pour ainsi dire |
So to speak
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Tourner la tête (x4) |
Make me feel giddy Make my head spin Make me feel dizzy Went straight to my head |
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J'ai fait quelques centaines de mètres |
I kept walking on for a few hundred feet |
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Je me suis assise sur un banc |
I sad down onto/on a bench |
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Un parking (x2) |
A car park A parking lot |
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Environ (x2) |
Or so about |
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Il y avait une femme assez jeune |
There was a rather young woman |
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Poussette (x2) |
A stroller A push-chair |
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Le coffre (x3) |
The trunk The boot Car-trunk |
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Le bébé était posé par terre |
The baby laid on the ground |
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Siège auto |
Carseat |
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Au milieu (x2) |
Amid In the middle of |
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Un tas d'affaires (x2) |
Quite a few items Quite a fem belongings |
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Un couffin (x2) |
A baby-basket A Moise's basket |
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Epuisé |
exhausted |
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Elle était bouffie du visage |
Her face was puffy |
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Des plaques rouges sous les yeux |
Red marks under her eyes |
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Pousser des cris aigus (x3) |
To shriek to scream to screech |
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J'ai voulu lier la conversation |
I attempted to start a conversation |
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Je n'ai rien pu articuler |
I could not utter a single word |
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Un rassemblement |
A rally |
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Scandaleux |
Outrageous |
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Etre pris au dépourvu |
To be taken aback |
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In investissement judicieux |
A shrewd investment |
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Dédaigner |
To spurn |
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L'éducation comme une fin en soi |
Education for education's sake |
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Pertinent |
Relevant |
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Pressant Urgent Imminent Important |
Pressing (x4) |
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Les dernières estimations |
The last estimates |
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La catastrophe ferroviaire |
The railway catastrophe |
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Aurait fait ça |
Is said to have done that |
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Couter la vie à |
claim the lives of |
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Tant que |
as long as |
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aide social (x2) |
social welfare social benefits |
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Freiner |
To curb |
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efficacement |
effectively |
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Il n'y a aucun moyen |
There is absolutely no way |
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Empêcher quelqu'un de |
To prevent somebody from |
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Quel sens du devoir |
What a sense of duty |
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Les Britanniques (x3) |
British people The British Britons |
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d'autant plus |
all the more |
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Les Ecossais (x3) |
The Scottish Scottish people Scots |
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N'est il pas grand temps |
Isn't it high time |
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divorcer |
breakaway from |
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Emboiter le pas (x2) |
To follow suit To follow in their footsteps |
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Dévoilé (x3) |
Unveil disclose reveal |
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Ferait mieux de |
Had better to |
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Au plus tôt |
As soon as possible |
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Plus tôt ... mieux |
The sooner ... the better |
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Enclave |
enclave |
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Vacanciers (x2) |
Holiday-makers vacationers |
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Leur exactitude |
How accurate it is |
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Cela nuit (x2) |
This tarnishes This harms |
