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121 actually
actually [ˈæktjʊəlɪ]a. ( = in fact) en fait• his name is Smith, actually en fait, il s'appelle Smith• interest is only payable on the amount actually borrowed les intérêts ne sont dus que sur la somme empruntéeb. ( = truly) vraiment• are you actually going to buy it? est-ce que tu vas vraiment l'acheter ?• what did he actually say? qu'est-ce qu'il a dit exactement ?• did it actually happen? est-ce que c'est vraiment arrivé ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━‼|/b] [b]actually ≠ actuellement* * *['æktʃʊəlɪ]1) ( contrary to expectation) en faittheir profits have actually risen — en fait, leurs bénéfices ont augmenté
2) ( in reality) vraimentyes, it actually happened! — mais oui, c'est vraiment arrivé!
3) ( in fact) en faitactually, I don't feel like it — à vrai dire je n'en ai pas envie
4) ( exactly) exactement5) ( expressing indignation) carrément6) ( expressing surprise) -
122 any
any [ˈenɪ]1. adjectivea.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The construction not... any is generally translated in French by pas... de.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. (in questions and "if" clauses) have you got any butter? avez-vous du beurre ?• did they find any survivors? ont-ils trouvé des survivants ?• are there any others? y en a-t-il d'autres ?• is there any risk? y a-t-il un risque ?c. ( = no matter which) n'importe quel ; ( = each and every) tout• you can come at any hour of the day or night vous pouvez venir à toute heure du jour ou de la nuit2. pronouna. (with negative) she has two brothers but I haven't got any elle a deux frères mais moi je n'en ai pas• a lot of people booked but hardly any came beaucoup de gens avaient réservé, mais presque personne n'est venub. (in questions and "if" clauses) have you got any? en avez-vous ?• few, if any, will come il viendra peu de gens, si tant est qu'il en viennec. ( = no matter which one) any of those books will do n'importe lequel de ces livres fera l'affaire3. adverba. ► any + comparative• are you feeling any better? vous sentez-vous un peu mieux ?• if it had been any colder we'd have frozen to death si la température avait encore baissé, nous serions morts de froid• do you want any more soup? voulez-vous encore de la soupe ?• I couldn't do that any more than I could fly je ne serais pas plus capable de faire cela que de volerb. ► not any + comparative* * *Note: When any is used as a determiner in negative sentences it is not usually translated in French: we don't have any money = nous n'avons pas d'argentWhen any is used as a determiner in questions it is translated by du, de l', de la or des according to the gender and number of the noun that follows: is there any soap? = y a-t-il du savon?; is there any flour? = y a-t-il de la farine?; are there any questions? = est-ce qu'il y a des questions?When any is used as a pronoun in negative sentences and in questions it is translated by en: we don't have any = nous n'en avons pas; have you got any? = est-ce que vous en avez?For adverbial uses such as any more, any longer, any better etc see III below['enɪ] 1.1) (with negative, implied negative)2) (in questions, conditional sentences)3) ( no matter which) n'importe quel/quelle, toutany complaints should be addressed to Mr Cook — pour toute réclamation adressez-vous à M. Cook
I do not wish to restrict your freedom in any way — je n'ai pas l'intention d'entraver votre liberté de quelque façon que ce soit
2.if you should want to discuss this at any time — si à un moment ou à un autre vous souhaitez discuter de cela
1) (with negative, implied negative)she doesn't like any of them — ( people) elle n'aime aucun d'entre eux/elles; ( things) elle n'en aime aucun/-e
2) (in questions, conditional sentences)I'd like some tea, if you have any — je voudrais du thé, si vous en avez
have any of you got a car? — est-ce que l'un/-e d'entre vous a une voiture?
3) ( no matter which) n'importe lequel/laquelle‘which colour would you like?’ - ‘any’ — ‘quelle couleur veux-tu?’ - ‘n'importe laquelle’
3.any of them could do it — n'importe qui d'entre eux/elles pourrait le faire
1) ( with comparatives)he doesn't live here any more ou longer — il n'habite plus ici
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123 approach
approach [əˈprəʊt∫][person, vehicle] s'approcher ; [date, season, war] approchera. ( = get near to) [+ place, person] s'approcher de• we are approaching the time when... le jour approche où...b. [+ problem, subject, task] aborderc. ( = speak to) to approach sb about sth s'adresser à qn pour qch3. nouna. [of person, vehicle] approche fb. ( = way of tackling sth) approche f4. compounds* * *[ə'prəʊtʃ] 1.1) ( route of access) (to town, island) voie f d'accès; Military approche f3) ( way of dealing) approche f4) ( overture) démarche f; ( proposal to buy etc) proposition f2.to make approachs to somebody — gen, Commerce faire des démarches auprès de quelqu'un
transitive verb1) ( draw near to) s'approcher de [person, place]; ( verge on) approcher de2) ( deal with) aborder [problem, topic, subject]3) ( make overtures to) s'adresser à; ( more formally) faire des démarches auprès de; (with offer of job, remuneration) solliciter ( about au sujet de)3.he has been approached by several publishers — il a reçu des propositions de plusieurs maisons d'édition
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124 AT
at [æt]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When at is an element in a phrasal verb, eg laugh at, look at, look up the verb. For fixed expressions such as good at, at once, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━ prepositiona. (position, time, speed, price) à• at 80km/h à 80 km/h• he sells them at 12 euros a kilo il les vend 12 € le kilob. (home, shop) chez• she was on at her husband to buy a new car elle tannait (inf) son mari pour qu'il achète subj une nouvelle voituree. ( = symbol in email address) arobase f► at all━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When used in a question, at all is not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• did it hurt at all? c'était douloureux ?• have you seen him at all? tu l'as vu ?• did she seem at all worried? avait-elle l'air inquiète ?• they're at it again! les voilà qui recommencent !• at that, he turned and left sur ces mots, il est parti* * *noun: abrév alternative technology -
125 bad
bad [bæd]1. adjectivea. mauvais ; [person] méchant• you bad boy! vilain !• bad dog! vilain chien !b. [mistake, accident, illness] gravec. ( = going badly) business is bad les affaires vont mal• how is he? -- (he's) not so bad comment va-t-il ? -- (il ne va) pas trop mald. ( = ill) to feel bad se sentir male. ( = guilty) to feel bad about doing sth s'en vouloir d'avoir fait qchf. ( = decayed) [food] mauvais ; [tooth] cariég. ( = harmful) (to be) bad for... (être) mauvais pour...• can exercise be bad for you? est-ce qu'il peut être mauvais de faire de l'exercice ?h. ( = not clever, not good) to be bad at... être mauvais en...• bad at English/spelling mauvais en anglais/en orthographe2. noun3. adverb( = badly) he didn't do too bad il ne s'en est pas mal sorti4. compounds► bad-tempered adjective [person] qui a mauvais caractère ; (on one occasion) de mauvaise humeur ; [look, answer] désagréable* * *[bæd] 1.1) ( evil)2) (unpleasantness, unfavourableness)2.1) (poor, inferior, incompetent, unacceptable) [book, eyesight, cook, idea] mauvais (before n); [joke] stupideto have bad teeth/bad legs — avoir de mauvaises dents/de vilaines jambes
to be bad at — être mauvais en [subject]
to be bad at doing — ( do badly) ne pas être doué pour faire
not bad — (colloq) pas mauvais, pas mal (colloq)
2) ( unfavourable) [news, day, moment, smell, dream, result, omen, mood] mauvais (before n)it's bad enough having to wait, but... — c'est déjà assez pénible de devoir attendre, mais...
it looks bad — ou
things look bad — cela s'annonce mal ( for pour)
the journey/exam wasn't bad at all — le voyage/l'examen s'est plutôt bien passé
too bad! — (colloq) ( sympathetic) pas de chance!; ( hard luck) tant pis!
3) ( morally or socially unacceptable) [person, behaviour, reputation] mauvais (before n); [language, word] grossier/-ièreit is bad that — il est regrettable que (+ subj)
to feel bad — avoir mauvaise conscience ( about à propos de)
4) (severe, serious) [accident, attack, injury, mistake] grave5) ( harmful)smoking is bad for you ou your health — fumer est mauvais pour la santé
6) (ill, injured)‘how are you?’ - ‘not so bad’ — ‘comment vas-tu?’ - ‘pas trop mal’
to be in a bad way — (colloq) aller très mal
7) Finance [money, note] faux/fausse; [loan, debt] douteux/-euse8) ( rotten) [fruit] pourri9) (colloq) ( good) terrible (colloq)3.adverb (colloq) surtout US [need, want] méchamment (colloq)he's/she's got it bad — il/elle est vraiment mordu/-e (colloq)
••to be in bad — US avoir des ennuis
to be in bad with something — US être en froid avec quelqu'un
he's having a bad hair day — (colloq) ce n'est pas son jour
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126 block
block [blɒk]1. nounb. [of buildings] pâté m de maisonsc. ( = part of prison, hospital) pavillon m• I've got a block [writer] c'est la panne totale• a block of tickets/seats plusieurs billets/places (acheté(e)s en même temps)a. [+ pipe] boucher ; [+ road, traffic] bloquer ; [+ progress] entraver ; [+ transaction, credit, negotiations] bloquer3. compounds• in block letters en majuscules ► block vote noun mode de scrutin où le vote d'un délégué syndical est proportionnel au nombre de voix des personnes qu'il représentea. [+ light] empêcher de passerb. [+ thoughts, idea] refouler* * *[blɒk] 1.1) ( slab) bloc m2) ( building)block of flats — immeuble m (d'habitation)
administration block — bâtiment m administratif
3) ( group of buildings) pâté m de maisons4) (for butcher, executioner) billot mto put one's head on the block — fig donner sa tête à couper
6) ( obstruction)to be a block to — être un obstacle à [reform, agreement]
2. 3.to put a block on — bloquer [price, sale]; entraver [initiative]; Sport obstruction f
transitive verb1) ( obstruct) bloquer [exit, road]; boucher [drain, hole, artery]; gêner [traffic]to block somebody's way ou path — barrer le passage à quelqu'un
2) ( impede) faire obstacle à [advance, escape, progress]; faire opposition à [bill]3) Finance bloquer [assets]•Phrasal Verbs:- block in- block up -
127 booze
booze (inf!) [bu:z]1. nounalcool m• to go on the booze se mettre à picoler (inf !)picoler (inf !)3. compounds* * *1.(colloq) [buːz] noun bibine (colloq) f; ( wine only) pinard (colloq) m2.intransitive verb picoler (colloq) -
128 cheaply
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