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1 doubt
doubt [daʊt]1 noun(a) (uncertainty → about fact) doute m, incertitude f;∎ there is now considerable doubt about the convictions on a maintenant de sérieux doutes au sujet des condamnations;∎ beyond all reasonable doubt à n'en pas douter, sans le moindre doute;∎ to raise doubts in sb's mind soulever des doutes dans l'esprit de qn;∎ the whole thing raised doubts about his abilities toute cette affaire a mis ses capacités en question;∎ to cast doubt on sth mettre en doute ou jeter le doute sur qch;∎ the report casts doubt on the police evidence les auteurs du rapport émettent des doutes sur les preuves fournies par la police;∎ her honesty is in doubt or open to doubt (generally) on a des doutes sur son honnêteté, son honnêteté est sujette à caution; (this time) son honnêteté est mise en doute;∎ we are in no doubt as to his competence nous n'avons aucun doute sur ses compétences;∎ the future of the company is in some doubt l'avenir de l'entreprise est incertain;∎ if or when in doubt s'il y a un doute, en cas de doute;∎ when in doubt, do nothing dans le doute, abstiens-toi;∎ there is some doubt as to whether they paid on n'est pas certain qu'ils aient payé;∎ there is no doubt about it cela ne fait pas de doute;∎ there's no doubt (but) that it will be a difficult journey il n'y a pas de doute que le voyage sera pénible;∎ no doubt sans doute;∎ he'll no doubt be late il sera sûrement en retard;∎ there is room for doubt il est permis de douter;∎ without (any) doubt sans aucun ou le moindre doute(b) (feeling of distrust) doute m;∎ I have my doubts about him j'ai des doutes sur lui ou à son sujet;∎ she has her doubts (about) whether it's true elle doute que cela soit vrai;∎ I have no doubt or doubts about it je n'en doute pas∎ I doubt (whether) she'll be there je doute qu'elle soit là;∎ she'll be there - I don't doubt it elle sera là - je n'en doute pas ou j'en suis certain;∎ I doubt it j'en doute;∎ I never once doubted that they would succeed je n'ai pas douté une seule fois qu'ils réussiraient;∎ I doubt if it makes him happy je doute que cela le rende heureux(b) (distrust) douter de;∎ there was no doubting their sincerity on ne pouvait pas mettre en doute leur sincérité;∎ she began to doubt the evidence of her own eyes elle n'en croyait pas ses yeux(have doubts) douter, avoir des doutes -
2 might
might [maɪt]1. modal verba. ( = may)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When might expresses present, future or past possibility, it is often translated by peut-être, with the appropriate tense of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = could)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you might have told me you weren't coming! tu aurais pu me prévenir que tu ne viendrais pas !might I suggest that...? puis-je me permettre de suggérer que... ?c. ( = should) I might have known j'aurais dû m'en douter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. (emphatic) and, I might add, it was entirely his fault et j'ajouterais que c'était entièrement de sa faute• why did he give her his credit card? -- you might well ask! mais pourquoi lui a-t-il donné sa carte de crédit ? -- va savoir !• one might well ask whether... on est en droit de se demander si...• try as he might, he couldn't do it il a eu beau essayer, il n'y est pas arrivé2. noun* * *I [maɪt]1) ( indicating possibility)‘will you come?’ - ‘I might’ — ‘tu viendras?’ - ‘peut-être’
you might have guessed that... — vous aurez peut-être deviné que...
try as I might, I can't do it — j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas
he was thinking about what might have been — il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes
if they had acted quickly he might well be alive — s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie
4) sout ( when making requests)and who, might I ask, are you? —
and who might you be? — ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes?
5) ( when making suggestions)6) (when making statement, argument)one might argue ou it might be argued that — on pourrait dire or faire valoir que
as you ou one might expect — comme de bien entendu
7) (expressing reproach, irritation)I might have known ou guessed! — j'aurais dû m'en douter!
8) ( in concessives)II [maɪt]they might not be fast but they're reliable — ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux; well I 2. 2
1) ( power) puissance f2) ( physical strength) force f
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