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[ə'ɡresiv](ready to attack or oppose; quarrelsome: He's a most aggressive boy - he is always fighting at school.) agressif- aggressiveness - aggression - aggressor -
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adj.fig. entreprenant; énergique; battant; pugnace; "gagneur"English-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > aggressive
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A adv1 ( negating verb) ne…pas ; she isn't at home elle n'est pas chez elle ; they didn't like it ils ne l'ont pas aimé ; we won't need a car nous n'aurons pas besoin d'une voiture ; has he not seen it? il ne l'a pas vu alors? ;2 (replacing word, clause, sentence etc) ‘is he angry?’-‘I hope not’ ‘est-il en colère?’-‘j'espère que non’ ; ‘is she married?’-‘I believe ou think not’ ‘est-ce qu'elle est mariée?’-‘je ne crois pas, je crois que non’ ; I'm afraid not je crains que non ; certainly/probably not sûrement/probablement pas ; not only ou simply ou merely ou just pas seulement ; tired or not, you're going to bed fatigué ou non, tu vas te coucher ; do you know whether he's coming or not? est-ce que tu sais s'il vient ou pas? ; whether it rains or not, I'm going qu'il pleuve ou non, j'y vais ; why not? pourquoi pas? ;3 ( contrasting) non pas ; they live in caves, not in houses, they live not in houses, but in caves ils habitent non pas dans des maisons, mais dans des grottes ; I laughed, not because I was amused but from nervousness je n'ai pas ri parce que je trouvais ça drôle, c'était nerveux ; he's not so much aggressive as assertive il est plutôt sûr de lui qu'agressif ;4 ( to emphasize opposite) it's not impossible/cheap ce n'est pas impossible/bon marché ; she's not a dishonest/an aggressive woman elle n'est pas malhonnête/agressive ; not without problems/some reservations non sans problèmes/quelques réserves ; you're not wrong tu n'as pas tort ; a not ou not an (entirely) unexpected response une réponse prévisible ;5 ( less than) moins de ; not three miles/hours from here à moins de trois miles/heures d'ici ; not five minutes ago il y a moins de cinq minutes ;6 ( in suggestions) hadn't we better pay the bill? est-ce qu'on ne ferait pas mieux de payer l'addition? ; couldn't we tell them later? est-ce qu'on ne pourrait pas le leur dire plus tard? ; why not do it now?, why don't we do it now? pourquoi ne pas le faire tout de suite? ;7 (with all, every) not all doctors agree, not every doctor agrees tous les docteurs ne sont pas d'accord ; not everyone likes it tout le monde ne l'aime pas ; it's not everyone that can speak several foreign languages tout le monde n'est pas capable de parler plusieurs langues ; it's not every day that ce n'est pas tous les jours que ;8 (with a, one) not a ou one pas un/-e, pas un/-e seul/-e ; not one ou a (single) chair/letter pas une seule chaise/lettre ; not a sound was heard on n'entendait pas un bruit ; not one ou a single person knew personne ne le savait.C † not but what ⇒ not that.D not that conj phr (it's) not that he hasn't been helpful/friendly non pas qu'il n'ait pas été serviable/aimable, ce n'est pas qu'il n'ait pas été serviable/aimable ; not that I know of pas (autant) que je sache ; if she refuses, not that she will… si elle refuse, je ne dis pas qu'elle le fera… Dans la langue parlée ou familière, not utilisé avec un auxiliaire ou un modal prend parfois la forme n't qui est alors accolée au verbe (eg you can't go, he hasn't finished). -
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fighting [ˈfaɪtɪŋ]1. noun• fighting broke out between police and demonstrators des incidents ont éclaté entre la police et les manifestants2. adjective* * *['faɪtɪŋ] 1.1) Military combat m2) gen bagarre f2.2) ( aggressive) [ talk, words] agressif/-ive -
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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
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nature [ˈneɪt∫ər]1. nouna. nature fb. ( = character) [of person, animal] nature fc. ( = type, sort) genre m2. compounds* * *['neɪtʃə(r)] 1.1) ( the natural world) nature fto obey a call of nature — euph aller se soulager (colloq)
2) (character, temperament) nature f, naturel m3) (kind, sort) nature f, sorte f‘nature of contents’ — ‘désignation du contenu’
4) ( essential character) nature f, essence f2.- natured combining formsweet-/pleasant-natured — d'un naturel doux/agréable
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not [nɒt]a. (with verb) ne... pas• he has not or hasn't come il n'est pas venu• is it not?• isn't it? n'est-ce pas ?• you have got it, haven't you? vous l'avez, non ?• is it going to rain? -- I hope not va-t-il pleuvoir ? -- j'espère que nonc. ► not soe. (with pronoun) not me! pas moi !f. (with adj) non• are you cold? -- not at all avez-vous froid ? -- pas du tout• thank you very much -- not at all merci beaucoup -- je vous en prie► not only... but also... non seulement... mais aussi...► not that...* * *[nɒt] 1.adverb ne...passhe isn't at home — ( voir note ci-dessous) elle n'est pas chez elle
not only ou just — non seulement
they live in caves, not in houses — ils habitent non pas dans des maisons, mais dans des grottes
2.a not ou not an (entirely) unexpected response — une réponse prévisible
not at all adverbial phrase gen pas du tout; ( responding to thanks) de rien3.not that conjunctional phrase••if she refuses, not that she will... — si elle refuse, je ne dis pas qu'elle le fera...
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pose [pəʊz]1. nounpose fposer ; ( = attitudinize) poser pour la galerie( = present) [+ problem, question, difficulties] poser ; [+ threat] constituer* * *[pəʊz] 1.1) (for portrait, photo) pose f2.to strike a pose — [dancer, model] prendre une pose
transitive verb ( present) poser [problem] ( for pour); présenter [challenge] (to à); représenter [threat, risk] (to pour); soulever [question] ( about de)3.1) [artist's model] poser; [performer] prendre des poses2) ( masquerade) -
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provocative [prəˈvɒkətɪv]b. ( = seductive) [woman, movement, smile] provocant* * *[prə'vɒkətɪv]1) ( causing controversy) provocant2) ( sexually) provocant3) ( challenging) [book, film] qui fait réfléchir -
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sharp [∫α:p]1. adjectivea. ( = good for cutting) [knife, razor, blade] (bien) aiguisé ; [piece of glass, edge] coupantb. ( = pointed) [pencil] bien taillé ; [needle, pin] très pointu ; [teeth, fingernails, beak, chin] pointu ; [fang, point] acéré ; [features] anguleuxc. ( = well-defined) [contrast, TV picture, difference] net ; [division] fort• to bring into sharp focus [+ problem, issue] faire ressortir nettementd. ( = acute) [person] malin (- igne f) ; [intelligence, wit] vif ; [awareness] aigu (- guë f) ; [eyesight] perçant ; [hearing] fin• to keep a sharp look-out for sb/sth guetter qn/qchf. ( = intense) [pain, sensation, wind, cold] vif ; [frost] fort ; [blow] sec ( sèche f) ; [cry] aigu (- guë f)g. ( = severe) [criticism, attack] incisif ; [retort, words] cinglant ; [rebuke] vif ; [order, tone, voice] cassanth. (pejorative) [business practices] déloyall. [musical note] trop haut2. adverba. [stop] brusquement• to turn sharp left/right prendre un virage serré à gauche/à droiteb. [sing, play] trop hautc. ( = precisely) at 8 o'clock sharp à 8 heures pile3. noun4. compounds* * *[ʃɑːp] 1.noun Music dièse m2.1) [razor] tranchant; [edge] coupant; [blade, scissors, knife] bien aiguisé; [saw] bien affûté2) ( pointed) [tooth, fingernail, end, needle] pointu; [pencil] bien taillé; [features] anguleux/-euse; [nose] pointu3) ( abrupt) [angle] aigu/-uë; [bend, reflex] brusque; [drop, incline] fort; [fall, rise] brusque, brutal4) ( acidic) [taste, smell] âcre; [fruit] acide5) ( piercing) [pain, cold] vif/vive; [cry] aigu/-uë; [blow] sévère; [frost] fort, intense6) fig ( aggressive) [tongue] acéré; [tone] acerbe7) ( alert) [person, mind] vif/vive; [eyesight] perçant; [hearing] finto have a sharp eye for something — fig avoir l'œil pour quelque chose
sharp operator — filou m
9) ( clearly defined) [image, sound, distinction] net/nette; [contrast] prononcéto bring something into sharp focus — lit cadrer quelque chose avec netteté; fig faire passer quelque chose au premier plan
10) (colloq) GB [suit] tape-à-l'œil inv pej11) (colloq) US ( stylish) chic inv3.1) ( abruptly) [stop] net2) (colloq) ( promptly)at 9 o'clock sharp — à neuf heures pile (colloq)
3) Music [sing, play] trop haut••to look sharp — (colloq) se dépêcher
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stand-up [ˈstændʌp]• a stand-up fight ( = argument) une discussion violente* * *['stændʌp] 1.noun (also stand-up comedy) one man show m comique2.1) Theatre, Television2) [buffet] debout inv3) ( aggressive) [argument] en règle -
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