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1 adding
adding ['ædɪŋ]addition f►► adding machine calculatrice f, machine f à calculer;adding up addition f -
2 adding machine
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3 adding insult to injury
et pour aggraver encore son cas; comme s'il n'en avait pas déjà assez fait; comme si cela ne suffisait pasEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > adding insult to injury
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4 adding machine
noun machine f à calculer -
5 adding machine
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6 add
add [æd]a. ajouter (to à)• and to add insult to injury... et pour comble...• added to which... ajoutez à cela que...b. [+ figures] additionner ; [+ column of figures] totaliser2. noun[+ figures] additionner► add upa. ( = appear consistent) her statements don't add up ses dépositions se contredisentb. ( = accumulate) even small debts add up même les petites dettes finissent par s'accumuler[+ figures] additionner[figures] s'élever à• what does all this add up to? ( = mean) que signifie tout cela ?* * *[æd]transitive verb1) gen ajouter, rajouter (onto, to à)to add that... — ajouter que...
2) Mathematics (also add together) additionnerto add something to — ajouter quelque chose à [figure, total]
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7 addition
addition [əˈdɪ∫ən]a. ( = sum) addition fb. ( = fact of adding something) ajout mc. ► in addition de plusd. ( = new arrival) there's been an addition to the family la famille s'est agrandie* * *[ə'dɪʃn] 1. 2.in addition adverbial phrase en plus -
8 again
again [əˈgen]a. ( = one more time) encore• it's him again! c'est encore lui !• what's his name again? comment s'appelle-t-il déjà ?• but there again... mais là encore...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note that a specific verb can often be used to translate English verb + again into French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to see sb/sth again revoir qn/qch• never again! c'est bien la dernière fois !• not again! encore !• but then again... mais d'un autre côté...• he had to count them over again il a dû les recompter► as... again* * *[ə'geɪn, ə'gen]Note: When used with a verb, again is often translated by adding the prefix re to the verb in French: to start again = recommencer; to marry again = se remarier; I'd like to read that book again = j'aimerais relire ce livre; she never saw them again = elle ne les a jamais revus. You can check re+ verbs by consulting the French side of the dictionaryFor other uses of again and for idiomatic expressions, see belowadverb encoreagain, you may think that — et là encore, vous pourriez penser que
(and) then again, he may not — mais il se peut aussi qu'il ne le fasse pas
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9 but
but [bʌt]1. conjunction• I would like to do it but I have no money j'aimerais le faire, mais je n'ai pas d'argent• he's not English but Irish il n'est pas anglais, mais irlandais2. adverb• Napoleon, to name but one, stayed here Napoléon, pour n'en citer qu'un, a séjourné ici• you can but try (to sb trying sth) vous pouvez toujours essayer ; (after sth has gone wrong) ça valait quand même la peine d'essayer3. preposition► but for• but for his illness, we'd have gone on holiday s'il n'avait pas été malade, nous serions partis en vacances4. noun• no buts about it! il n'y a pas de mais (qui tienne) !* * *[bʌt, bət] 1.adverb (only, just)2.anything but that — tout, sauf ça
there's nothing for it but to leave — il n'y a plus qu'une solution, c'est de partir
3.and whom should I meet but Steven! — et devine qui j'ai rencontré, Steven!
but for prepositional phrase4.but for you, I would have died — sans toi je serais mort
1) (expressing contrast, contradiction) maisI'll do it, but not yet — je le ferai, mais pas tout de suite
2) ( yet) mais3) (expressing reluctance, protest, surprise)4) ( except that)5) ( in apologies) maisexcuse me, but — excusez-moi, mais
6) ( for emphasis)not twice, but three times — pas deux mais trois fois
7) ( adding to the discussion)but to continue... — mais, pour continuer...
••no buts (about it) — il n'y a pas de ‘mais’ qui tienne, pas de discussion
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10 dubbing
dubbing [ˈdʌbɪŋ]doublage m* * *['dʌbɪŋ]noun ( into foreign language) doublage m; ( adding soundtrack) postsynchronisation f; ( sound mixing) mixage m -
11 eke
eke [i:k]• he ekes out his pension by doing odd jobs ( = supplement) il fait des petits boulots pour arrondir sa pension* * *[iːk]Phrasal Verbs:- eke out -
12 sorry
sorry [ˈsɒrɪ]a. ( = regretful) désolé• I am sorry to have to tell you that... je regrette d'avoir à vous dire que...• are you going? -- I'm sorry I can't tu vas y aller ? -- désolé mais je ne peux pas• you'll be sorry for this! vous le regretterez !b. ( = pitying) to feel sorry for sb plaindre qn• I'm sorry for you but... je suis désolé pour vous mais...• to feel sorry for o.s. se plaindre (de son sort)c. ( = woeful) triste* * *['sɒrɪ] 1.1) ( apologetic) désolé; ( for emphasis) navréI'm terribly sorry — je suis vraiment désolé, je suis navré
I'm sorry to be a nuisance but... — excusez-moi de vous embêter, mais...
to be sorry about — s'excuser de [behaviour, mistake, change]
2) ( sympathetic)to be sorry to hear of something/to hear that — être désolé d'apprendre quelque chose/d'apprendre que
3) ( regretful)and, I'm sorry to say — et malheureusement
4) ( pitying)to be ou feel sorry for somebody — plaindre quelqu'un also iron
5) ( pathetic) [state, sight, business] triste; [person] minable2.1) ( apologizing) désolé!2) (failing to hear, understand)3) ( interrupting)sorry, time is running out — je suis désolé, mais nous n'avons plus beaucoup de temps
so we have two, sorry, three options — nous avons donc deux, pardon, trois options
4) ( adding a comment)sorry, may I just say that — excusez-moi, je voudrais simplement ajouter que
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13 them
them [ðem, ðəm]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When translating them it is necessary to know whether the French verb takes a direct or an indirect object. Verbs followed by à or de take an indirect object.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. (direct object: people and things) les━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► les precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• look at them! regarde-les !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When the French verb consists of avoir + past participle, les precedes the form of avoir. The participle always agrees, adding s for mpl, and es for fpl.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• have you seen my keys? I've lost them avez-vous vu mes clés ? je les ai perduesb. (indirect object: people) leur• what are you going to say to them? qu'est-ce que tu vas leur dire ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► leur precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━c. (indirect object: things)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When them refers to things, en is used when the pronoun replaces de + noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• can you give me my notes back? I need them est-ce que tu peux me rendre mes notes ? j'en ai besoin• make sure you admire his pictures, he's very proud of them n'oublie pas d'admirer ses tableaux, il en est très fier• I knew it was them! je savais que c'était eux !• I know her but I don't know them je la connais, mais eux (or elles), je ne les connais pase. ► preposition + them• without them sans eux (or elles)• younger than them plus jeune qu'eux (or qu'elles)• my parents? I was just thinking about them mes parents ? je pensais justement à eux• the passports? I've not thought about them les passeports ? je n'y ai pas pensé━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• if anyone arrives early ask them to wait si quelqu'un arrive tôt, fais-le attendre• somebody rang -- did you ask them their name? quelqu'un a téléphoné -- est-ce que tu lui as demandé son nom ?* * *[ðem, ðəm]both of them — tous/toutes les deux
both of them work in London — ils/elles travaillent à Londres tous/toutes les deux
some of them — quelques-uns d'entre eux or quelques-unes d'entre elles
take them all — prenez-les tous/toutes
none of them wants it — aucun/-e d'entre eux/elles ne le veut
every single one of them — chacun/-e d'entre eux/elles
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14 cost-of-living
cost-of-living adjustment (in salary) augmentation f de salaire indexée sur le coût de la vie;cost-of-living allowance indemnité f de vie chère;cost-of-living increase (in salary) augmentation de salaire indexée sur le coût de la vie;cost-of-living index indice m du coût de la vieThe taxpayer asked the IRS if it was possible to modify his payment plan by adding an annual 4% cost-of-living adjustment (COLA) and by including a one-time "catch-up" amount. The IRS denied the request. It held the taxpayer could not modify the annual payment without triggering the 10% penalty for premature distributions.
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15 leveraged
the company is highly leveraged la société est fortement endettéeleveraged buy-out rachat m d'entreprise financé par l'endettement;leveraged management buy-out rachat d'entreprise par les salariésDespite IPC's debt, which stems mostly from its leveraged buy-out from Reed two years ago, it is believed the publisher feels Prima and Best are such strong brands that it could not pass up the opportunity to acquire them. Adding the two titles to its portfolio will substantially increase advertising revenue across the group, IPC believes.
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16 undercut
(competitor) vendre moins cher que; (prices) casserMr O'Leary claimed Ryanair was "Europe's only low-cost airline", with fares undercutting its rivals by up to a third. He insisted EasyJet's takeover of Go represented little threat, dismissing that company's chairman, Stelios Haji-Ioannou, as "the son of a billionaire", adding: "He's Greek, I'm Irish. The Greeks have never beaten the Irish at anything. Not even drinking."
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17 addition
1) (the act of adding: The child is not good at addition.) addition2) (something added: They've had an addition to the family.) nouveau venu -
18 amplify
1) (to make larger, especially by adding details to.) développer2) (to make (the sound from a radio, record-player etc) louder by using an amplifier.) amplifier•- amplifier -
19 average
['ævəri‹] 1. noun(the result of adding several amounts together and dividing the total by the number of amounts: The average of 3, 7, 9 and 13 is 8 (= 32:4).) moyenne2. adjective1) (obtained by finding the average of amounts etc: average price; the average temperature for the week.) moyen2) (ordinary; not exceptional: The average person is not wealthy; His work is average.) moyen3. verb(to form an average: His expenses averaged (out at) 15 dollars a day.) atteindre en moyenne -
20 calculator
noun (a machine for calculating: Use a calculator for adding all those numbers.) calculatrice
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