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This means that the candidates will have a millstone around their necks.
- the ball

Cela veut dire que les candidats auront un boulet au pied.
- le boulet

eighteen hours have passed since
- to pass (referring to time)

dix-huit heures se sont écoulées depuis
- s'écouler

in light of events
a glimmer of hope

à la lueur des événements
une lueur d'espoir

m/when we look with hindsight
alt: when we take a step back

quand on regarde avec le pas de recul

the sand dune

la dune de sable

That will be my first question later.
- later (earlier)

Ça sera ma première question tantôt.
- tantôt

the parachute
the parachuting

le parachute
le parachutisme

the stroke of midnight

le coup de minuit

the miscarriage
to have a miscarriage

la fausse couche
faire une fausse couche

to reoffend
the reoffender

récidiver
le,la récidiviste

to scrutinize

scruter

the can, the jerrycan

le bidon
(in Spanish: el bidón)

Heavy gunfire rang out.
lit: nourished shots
- to ring out

Des tirs nourris ont retenti.
- retentir (intrans)

the dental floss
- the silk

la soie dentaire
- la soie

the cross-examination
- the questioning

le contre-interrogatoire
- (le) interrogatoire

to give you an order of magnitude
- the order of magnitude

pour vous donner un ordre de magnitude
- (le) ordre de magnitude

He managed to edge out his rival.
- to style
- the rival

Il a réussi à coiffer sa rivale.
- coiffer
- le rival, la rivale

the urban sprawl
- the sprawl
- the spreading/staggering of payments

l'étalement urbain
- (le) étalement
- l'étalement des paiements

the man, whose identity must be held back
- to hold back

l'homme, dont on doit taire l'identité
- taire: tais tais tait taisons taisez taisent
j'ai tu

She used a meeting as a pretext.
- to use as a pretext

Elle a prétexté une réunion.
- prétexter

on the pretext of a chance meeting
- fortuitous, chance

en prétextant une rencontre fortuite
- fortuit(e)

the confessions ruled out due to infringement of the right to a lawyer
- the confessions (not "les confessions")
- the infringement

les aveux écartés pour entorse au droit à l'avocat
- les aveux
- (la) entorse

He sprained his ankle.
Hint: not "s'est foulé"
- the sprain (the infringement)

Il s'est fait une entorse à la cheville.
- (la) entorse

to commit perjury

commettre une parjure

the warrant officer (a NCO ranked above sergeant)

(le) adjudant

the thunder

le tonnerre

the lightning (not "l'éclair"), the thunderbolt

la foudre (2)

He disavows the law.
- to disavow (not "désavouer"), to deny

Il renie la loi.
- renier (2)

after renouncing his life of crime
- to renounce (not "renoncer") (to disavow, to deny)

après avoir renié sa vie criminelle
- renier

to lay a wreath

déposer une gerbe

the bagpipe

la cornemuse

the chaplain

(le) aumônier

the legacy
to bequeath

le legs (the 's' is not pronounced)
léguer: lègue lègues lègue léguons léguez lèguent
j'ai légué

coercive
the coercion

coercitif(ve)
la coercition

the time period
Hint: not "la période de temps"

la plage horaire

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