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1 mature
mature, US [transcription][-"tU\@r"]A adj1 [plant, animal] adulte ; mature garden beau jardin (planté depuis quelques années) ;2 ( psychologically) [person] mûr ; [attitude, reader] adulte ; her most mature novel son roman le plus achevé ; after mature consideration après mûre réflexion ;4 Fin [bill, insurance policy] arrivé à échéance.C vi2 ( psychologically) [person, attitude] mûrir ;3 fig [idea, plan] mûrir ;4 [wine, whisky] vieillir ; [cheese] s'affiner ;5 Fin [bill, insurance policy] arriver à échéance. -
2 mature
mature [mə'tjʊə(r)]∎ to be mature for one's age or years être mûr pour son âge;∎ a man of mature years un homme d'âge mûr;∎ British euphemism would suit a mature person (in job advertisement) conviendrait à une personne d'âge mûr;∎ her style is not yet mature son style n'est pas encore arrivé à maturité∎ the more mature trees are slower to come into leaf les arbres les plus vieux ont des feuilles plus tard que les autres∎ she had matured into a sophisticated young woman elle était devenue une jeune femme sophistiquée(cheese) faire mûrir, affiner; (wine, spirits) faire vieillir►► Finance mature economy économie f en pleine maturité;mature garden jardin m planté depuis plusieurs années;British University mature student = étudiant plus âgé que la moyenne ou qui entreprend des études sur le tard, French Canadian étudiant(e) m,f adulte -
3 mature
(a) mature economy économie f en pleine maturitéFINANCE (of bill, investment, insurance policy) échoir, arriver à échéance -
4 old
old [əʊld]1. adjective━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• old for his years ( = mature) mûr (pour son âge)b. (of specified age) how old are you? quel âge as-tu ?• you're old enough to know better! à ton âge tu devrais avoir plus de bon sens !• Martyn? we're old friends Martyn ? c'est un ami de longue date• just like old times! c'est comme au bon vieux temps !2. noun3. plural noun4. compounds► the Old Bill (inf!) noun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━La cravate est l'élément distinctif principal de l'uniforme que portent les élèves des écoles britanniques, à tel point qu'elle en est venue à symboliser le réseau de relations dont continuent de bénéficier dans leur carrière les anciens élèves des écoles les plus prestigieuses. On dira ainsi « how did he get the job ? -- it was a case of the old school tie » (il a fait joué ses relations).━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[əʊld] 1.1) ( old people)the old — (+ v pl) les personnes fpl âgées
2)2.1) ( not young) vieux/vieille, âgéan old man — un vieil homme, un vieillard
2) ( of a particular age)a week old — [bread etc] vieux d'une semaine
I'm the oldest — c'est moi l'aîné/-e
3) ( not new) [object, song, tradition, family] vieux/vieille; [excuse] classique; [joke] rebattu4) (former, previous) [address, school, job, admirer, system] ancien/-ienne (before n)5) (colloq) ( as term of affection) vieux/vieillegood old British weather! — iron ce sacré (colloq) climat anglais!
6) (colloq) ( as intensifier)a right old mess — une sacrée pagaille (colloq)
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