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321 | to disrupt | perturber, interrompre, troubler | |
322 | dogpile | ||
(def) A disagreement on an Internet message board wherein one person says something wrong or offensive, and a large number of people comment in response to tell the person how wrong and/or horrible they are, and continue to disparage the original commenter beyond any reasonable time limit. (en) The assertion was dogpiled by legal analysts as a gross and wild misreading of the Constitution |
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323 | mould | une moisissure | |
(en) We had briefly spoken a few days before, when he sent me an image of a box of doughnuts covered in mould, sent by one of the big supermarkets – a particularly vivid example, he said, of how low his organisation’s supplies were running, and how useless some of the "help" they received sometimes proved to be. | |||
324 | to buy the farm | passer l'arme à gauche, casser sa pipe | |
(def) to die (en) If you crash at 60 mph, the odds are you'll buy the farm. |
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325 | scabies | la gale | |
(en) Despite these limitations, we know that a range of infections can spread easily in vulnerable populations who live in nursing or residential care, for example norovirus, scabies, influenza, and here, the novel coronavirus | |||
326 | ranting | des vociférations | |
(en) "¡Abajo la inteligencia! ¡Viva la muerte!" Those infamous words – "Down with intelligence! Long live death!" – were pronounced in 1936 by General Millán Astray, a fascist general who was a mentor and friend of Francisco Franco, soon to be Spain’s dictator for over four decades. They were part of a ranting speech Millán delivered at the University of Salamanca celebrating the insurrection against the Spanish Republic that heralded the dark years that were on the horizon. | |||
327 | to rant | fulminer, chahuter | |
328 | a rant | une diatribe | |
329 | to fan out | de déployer, se disperser | |
(en) As the country enjoyed sunny skies and warm temperature over Easter weekend, hundreds of officers fanned out across parks and along riverbanks to ensure that rules were being observed to fight the spread of the coronavirus | |||
330 | from all walks of life | de tous les horizons | |
(en) That night people across the country, from all walks of life, reported having sleepless nights | |||
331 | to be on the mend | être sur la bonne voie, s'améliorer | |
(en) The former Tory MP Anna Soubry said she too was delighted to hear Johnson was on the mend | |||
332 | baleful | funest | |
(en) Trust is the most precious commodity in any walk of life. The baleful fact is that the British government, in the midst of a profound and unprecedented crisis, is led by a man, and the party faction he represents, who cannot be trusted. | |||
333 | rancorous | rancunier | |
334 | foppish | dandy, hautain | |
(en) He's just a foppish dandy. (fr) Ce n'est rien qu'un dandy précieux. |
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335 | sternly | sévèrement, rigoureusement, durement | |
(en) The teacher gave him a stern look (fr) Le professeur lui a jeté un regard sévère |
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336 | spiteful | malveillant, méchant | |
(en) Laurie Garrett, a former senior fellow of the Council on Foreign Relations, said the decision was a "damnable" act by a "spiteful" Trump and would cost lives. | |||
337 | complacent | satisfait, content de soi, satisfait | |
(en) Trump’s turn against the WHO only gathered pace over the past week, as more and more reports emerged of the administration’s own complacent and dysfunctional response. | |||
338 | earmarked | affecté, alloué | |
(en) The UK, for example, has announced £200m in new funding for international efforts to contain and combat the pandemic, of which £65m is earmarked for the WHO. | |||
339 | steadfast | ferme, inébranlable | |
(en) Reid does what all journalists who are facing Donald Trump should do: she demands an answer, she holds him to account, and she remains steadfast and unfazed while he ignores her questions and insults her instead. | |||
340 | to backfire | avoir des ratés, pétarader | |
(def) (of a plan) to have the opposite result from the one you intended (en) |