Vocabulaire anglais
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Anglais/ Vocabulary*Downloading hate
-to advocate= to promote
-a warmonger (somebody who promotes war) −>a hawk −>hawkish/hawkishness
-Hate mongering groups
-Cowardice ≠ bravery /fortitude
-to chicken out: to run away so not to fight
−>a chicken hawk: someone who advocates going to war but who never fought (for instance, George W. Bush who was skilful enough not to go to Vietnam)
-an obnoxious speech: a xenophobic diatribe /homophobic propaganda…
*They are two million £ ≠ they are millions of £
*They are - scores of - dozens of - tens of
*He is such a liar = he is so much of a liar
*He is so little of a mechanic that I wouldn’t let him fix my car = he is such a bad mechanic…
-Bigotry: intolerance. A bigot isn’t religious ≠ someone is not going to convert you at all costs: a Bible Basher.
−>French bashing / Jew bashing / Nigger bashing
-Traditional activism −>mass media −>handing out leaflets −>canvassing (to go from door to door)
-The Redeker Case: a column, a scathing/vitriolic indictment of Islam. What he has said is no gospel! (Ce n’est pas parole d’évangile) The police have decided to wisk him away.
-Neo-Nazi websites made of white supremacists. Don Black is a former Klansman, ie he used to belong to the KKK and ie he once was a Klansman.
*I can’t get used to his calling me by my last name!
↑: to grow, increase, rise soar, skyrocket, go up
≠↓: to be on the wane, dwindle, diminish, decline, collapse, fall, go down, sink, drop, plummet, decrease.
- to be -declining : pour des notions non chiffrées (“influence, popularity”) -waning - on the wane
-to rape ≠ to violate: to break some regulation law.
They would - consider it as a serious violation - regard it as… - view it as… - hold it to be a serious violation.
-Don Black targets/addresses kids.
-a widespread belief: une croyance répandue
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