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Trump appelle à l'unité et promet dereconstruire l'Amérique dans son discours devant le Congrès
Le président des États-Unis Donald Trump a donné mardi soir son premier discours au Congrès dans lequel il a promis d'ouvrir « un nouveau chapitre de la grandeur américaine ». Cette allocution de 70 minutes reflétait un certain nombre de ses promesses de campagne, notammentle renforcement de l'armée, le retour sur le sol américain d'emplois à l'étranger, et la construction d'un « grand, grand mur » le long dela frontière avec le Mexique.
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Est-ce que tu as déjà visité le cimetière du Père-Lachaise ?
Charly:
Eh bien, je ne suis pas fan des cimetières mais quitte à en visiter un, c'est là que j'irais. J'ai entendu direà propos de celui du Père-Lachaise qu'il était immense. C'est le cimetière le plus visité à travers le monde, non ?
Catherine:
Oui ! Il compte près de 70 000 tombes dont quelques unes très célèbres.
Charly:
Je sais, mais quitte à faire un long voyage pour aller voir des personnes célèbres, je préfère les voir vivantes ! Il y a tantd'autres endroits à visiter à Paris.
Catherine:
Je comprends ! En tous cas, si tu veux le visiter sans te déplacer, tu peux le faire gratuitement sur internet de manière virtuelle. Mais quant à moi, je trouve que cela n'a rien à voir avec le plaisir de se baladerà travers les allées du Père-Lachaise…
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The Prepositional phrases just like prepositions link words in a sentence. Prepositional phrases are composed of two or more words. The words can be: nouns, adjectives, verbs, adverbs or prepositions. We will discuss the most common prepositional phrases.
In this lesson we will study the following prepositional phrases: près de, quant à, quitte à, vis-à-vis de, à travers, à propos de.
près de
“près de” means “next to”, “toward”, “by”, “close” or “near”. It expresses both time and place. It is always followed with a noun, a noun phrase or a verb in the infinitive.
Catherine, en ce moment, on a du pain sur la planche.
Catherine:
Pourquoi ? Tu as décidé de me faire réviser l’imparfait du subjonctif ?
Charly:
Excellente idée ! Je garde ça en mémoire pour une prochaine discussion. Non, en fait, je pensais à quelque chose de complètement différent. Je me disais qu’en ce moment, on a du pain sur la planche pour sauvegarder l’unité de l’Union Européenne.
Catherine:
Oui, c’est sûr. Mais il faut accepter que les temps changent, Charly !
Charly:
Peut-être, mais je trouve qu’il y a plein de choses très bien qui ont été accomplies en coopérant, et qui ont prouvé que ça peut marcher ! Je pense par exemple à la compagnie Airbus.
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L’expression « Avoir du pain sur la planche » signifie avoir en perspectiveénormément de travail et de tâches fastidieuses à accomplir. Pour bien comprendre l’image de cette expression, il faut rappeler qu’à la fin du 19eme siècle, le pain se conservait très longtemps, ce qui donnait la possibilité d'en avoir plusieurs posés sur les planches de stocks, d’où les mots : pain et planche de l’expression.
Néanmoins, Cette expression avait un sens tout différent. En effet, à cette époque, elle signifiait que l’on avait assez de réserves pour affronterl’avenir et que l’on est assuré que l’on ne manque de rien. A cette époque et jusqu’au début du 20eme siècle, les paysans préparaient de grandes quantités de pain qu’ils conservaient sur une planche de boisfixée au plafond. Par la suite, l’expression a pris le sens « d’avoir de quoi vivre sans devoir travailler ».
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