délinquance = delinquency (un délit = an offence, un délinquant = an offender) un complice = an accomplice l’agression = assault, mugging (assailant, mugger), attack, attempt > to
attack, assault, to mug
un voyou = a thug blessure = wound (intentionnelle), injury (involontaire) de sang-froid = cold-blooded cruel, inhumain = barbarous, savage, cruel, brutal a battered wife = femme batue // a wife beater = un mari violent maltraiter, injurier = to abuse, to ill-use, to mistreat le mécontentement social = social dissatisfaction l’agitation sociale = social unrest un défilé = a march une occupation = a sit-in agiter des banderoles = to wave banners une explosion de violence = an outburst of violence > the escalation of violence affrontement = confrontation le pillage = looting. A looter, to loot = to plunder saccager = to wreck, to vandalize, to wreak havoc (on) violations des droits de l’homme = human rights abuse/violation la repression de… = crackdown on (to crack down on) emprisonnement = imprisonment interrogatoire = an interrogation (to interrogate) un bourreau = a torturer, an executioner la souffrance = suffering < agony totalitaire = totalitarian porté disparu = reported missing soumis = submissive angoissé = anguished, tormented, tortured arbitraire (adj) = arbitrary purification ethnique = ethnic cleansing (to cleanse = nettoyer, purifier) la déportation dans un camp = internment (FA : deportation = banissement) le déracinement = rootlessness (>an uprooted person)
More Words : National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People, NAACP (US) The Civil Rights Act, 1965, USA gives the right to vote to all the minorities The Equal Rights Amendment, 1972, USA, same rights without consideration of sex délit d’initiés = inside trading soudoyer = to bribe sb (a bribery =un pot de vin) blanchiment d’argent = money-laundering
népotisme = nepotism langue de bois = doublespeak sortir de ses gonds = to fly off the handle (handle = la manche)
Proverbs/quotes Man is a wolf to man Revenge is sweet
13 THE MEDIA 1 : THE PRESS, THE RADIO AND TELEVISION
presse automobile = motoring press (US car press) un éditorial = a leader la rubrique mondaine = the gossip column le courrier du coeur = the agony column un n° de parution = an issue trimestriel = quarterly chroniqueur = columnist redacteur en chef = editor éditeur = publisher communiqué de presse = a news release (US) to report ON = to cover sth publier en exclu = to scoop capter (radio) = to pick up régler son poste sur une station = to tune in to a station be on the air / be off the air poste de TV = TV set > le petit écran = the telly, the box télécommande = remote control, zapper. / zapper = to zap, to channel-flick to flick = appuyer sur, donner un petit coup à antenne parabolique = a dish aerial, a dish antenna (US) temps d’antenne = air time un feuilleton = a serial, une série = a series une rediffusion = a repeat, a return captiver = to engross. > captiver le public = to hold the audience divertir = entertain en différé = pre-recorded éducatif = educational abêtissant, abrutissant = stultifying un animateur = a compere > animer un spectacle = to host/compere a show un journaliste sportif = a sportcaster présenter les informations = to present the news chasse au scandale = muckraking droit à l’information = the right to know journalisme d’investigation = investigative journalism un sujet vedette = a newsmaker une faute éthique = a breach of ethics (a breach of = un manquement, une
infraction ; to be in breach of = enfreindre ; to step in the breach =