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41 pull
pull [pʊl]1. nounb. ( = swig) gorgée fa. tirer• to pull sb clear of [+ wreckage, rubble] dégager qn deb. [+ trigger] presser• to pull to bits démolir ; [+ argument, scheme, play, film] (inf) démolir ; [+ person] (inf) éreinter• pull the other one! (inf!) à d'autres !d. [+ muscle, tendon, ligament] se déchirerb. ( = move) the train pulled into/out of the station le train est entré en gare/est sorti de la gare• to pull sharply to the left [car, driver] virer brusquement à gauchec. ( = swig) he pulled at his beer il a bu une gorgée de bière4. compounds► pull-out noun (in magazine) supplément m détachable ; [of troops] retrait m adjective [magazine section] détachablea. ( = pull to pieces) démonter ; ( = break) mettre en pièces• the police pulled the house apart looking for drugs (inf) la police a mis la maison sens dessus dessous pour trouver de la drogue• nationalism was threatening to pull the country apart le nationalisme menaçait de déchirer le paysb. ( = separate) séparerc. ( = criticize) éreinter ; [+ argument, suggestion] démolir[vehicle, train] démarrer( = withdraw) retirer brusquement ( from sb à qn ) ; ( = snatch) arracher ( from sb à qn, des mains de qn)a. [+ blind] baisserb. ( = demolish) démolirc. ( = weaken) affaiblir► pull ina. [+ rope] ramener• to pull sb in (into room, car) faire entrer qn ; (into pool) faire piquer une tête dans l'eau à qn• pull your stomach in! rentre le ventre !b. ( = pick up) (inf) the police pulled him in for questioning la police l'a appréhendé pour l'interroger► pull offa. ( = remove) [+ gloves, shoes, coat, hat] ôter• to pull off the road [vehicle, driver] quitter la route► pull on[+ gloves, coat, cover] enfiler ; [+ shoes, hat] mettre► pull outa. ( = leave) [train, bus] démarrerb. ( = withdraw) se retirerc. ( = change lane) déboîterb. ( = withdraw) [+ troops] retirer[driver] he pulled over to let the ambulance past il s'est garé sur le côté pour laisser passer l'ambulanceb. ( = stop) [+ motorist, car] (inf) forcer à s'arrêterc. ( = topple) he pulled the bookcase over on top of himself il a entraîné la bibliothèque dans sa chute[sick person] s'en sortir[+ rope] faire passer[+ illness] réchapper à ; [+ difficulties, crisis] se sortir de( = cooperate) se serrer les coudesa. ( = join) data exists but it needs pulling together les données existent mais il faut les rassemblerb. to pull o.s. together se ressaisir► pull upa. ( = stop) [vehicle] s'arrêterb. ( = draw level with) he pulled up with the leaders il a rattrapé les premiers• he leaned down from the wall and pulled the child up il s'est penché du haut du mur et a hissé l'enfant jusqu'à luib. [+ weed] arracherc. ( = halt) arrêter* * *[pʊl] 1.1) ( tug) coup m2) ( attraction) lit force f; fig attrait m (of de)3) (colloq) ( influence) influence f (over, with sur)4) (colloq) ( swig) lampée (colloq) f5) (colloq) ( on cigarette etc) bouffée f7) ( snag) ( in sweater) maille f tirée2.transitive verb1) ( tug) tirer [chain, curtain, hair, tail]; tirer sur [cord, rope]to pull a sweater over one's head — ( put on) enfiler un pull-over; ( take off) retirer un pull-over
2) (tug, move) ( towards oneself) tirer ( towards vers); ( by dragging) traîner ( along le long de); ( to show something) entraîner [quelqu'un] par le bras [person]to pull somebody/something through — faire passer quelqu'un/quelque chose par [hole, window]
3) ( draw) gen tirer; [vehicle] tracter4) ( remove)to pull something off — [child, cat] faire tomber quelque chose de
to pull something out of — tirer quelque chose de [pocket, drawer]
to pull somebody out of — retirer quelqu'un de [wreckage]; sortir quelqu'un de [river]
5) (colloq) sortir [gun, knife]6) ( operate) appuyer sur [trigger]; tirer [lever]7) Medicine se faire une élongation à [muscle]8) (steer, guide)9) Sport [golfer, batsman] hookerto pull one's punches — lit retenir ses coups; fig
10) (colloq) GB tirer [pint of beer]11) (colloq) ( attract) attirer12) ( make)3.1) ( tug) tirer (at, on sur)2) (move, resist restraint) tirer (at, on sur)to pull ahead of somebody — [athlete, rally driver] prendre de l'avance sur quelqu'un; [company] avoir de l'avance sur
•Phrasal Verbs:- pull in- pull off- pull out- pull up••pull the other one, (it's got bells on)! — (colloq) à d'autres (mais pas à moi)! (colloq)
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42 should
should [∫ʊd]a. ( = ought to)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• shouldn't you go and see her? est-ce que vous ne devriez pas aller la voir ?what should I do? qu'est-ce que je dois faire ?• should I go too? -- yes you should est-ce que je dois y aller aussi ? -- oui tu devraisb. (past time)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he thought I should tell her, so I'm going to il pensait que je devais lui dire, alors je vais le faire━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have implies that something did not happen, it is translated by the conditional of avoir + dû.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should have means that something probably has happened, it is translated by the present tense of devoir.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he should have finished by now ( = probably has) il doit avoir terminé à l'heure qu'il est ; ( = but he hasn't) il aurait dû terminer à l'heure qu'il estc. ( = would)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When should has conditional meaning, it is translated by the conditional of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I should go if he invited me s'il m'invitait, j'irais• we should have come if we had known si nous avions su, nous serions venus• will you come? -- I should like to est-ce que vous viendrez ? -- j'aimerais bien• why should he suspect me? pourquoi me soupçonnerait-il ?• how should I know? comment voulez-vous que je le sache ?• he's coming to apologize -- I should think so too! il vient présenter ses excuses -- j'espère bien !• and who should come in but Paul! et devinez qui est entré ? Paul bien sûr !* * *[ʃʊd, ʃəd]1) ( ought to)as it should be — ( in order) en ordre
...which is only as it should be —...ce qui est parfaitement normal
2) ( in conditional sentences)had he asked me, I should have accepted — s'il me l'avait demandé, j'aurais accepté
I don't think it will happen, but if it should... — je ne pense pas que cela arrive, mais si toutefois cela arrivait...
if you should change your mind,... — si vous changez d'avis,...
3) ( expressing purpose)4) ( in polite formulas)5) (expressing opinion, surprise)‘how long?’ - ‘an hour, I should think’ — ‘combien de temps?’ - ‘une heure, je suppose’
I should think she must be about 40 — à mon avis, elle doit avoir 40 ans environ
and then what should happen, but it began to rain! — et devine quoi - il s'est mis à pleuvoir!
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43 thaw
thaw [θɔ:]1. noun[+ frozen food] décongeler* * *[θɔː] 1.1) Meteorology dégel m2) ( political) détente f2.a thaw in her attitude towards me — ( social) une amélioration f dans son attitude envers moi
transitive verb faire fondre [ice, snow]; décongeler [frozen food]3.1) lit [snow] fondre; [ground, frozen food] dégeler2) fig se détendre4.impersonal verb dégelerPhrasal Verbs:- thaw out -
44 local
local(e)local agent agent m sur le terrain;COMPUTING local area network réseau m local;COMPUTING local bus bus m local;TELECOMMUNICATIONS local call communication f locale;local council conseil m municipal;local currency monnaie f locale;Local Exchange Trading Scheme = système d'échange de services dans une communauté donnée, basé sur une monnaie nominale;local tax impôts m pl locaux;local time heure f locale;∎ 6 a.m. local time 6 heures du matin heure localeCommunities in several countries have also organized indirect exchange systems, most notably using the Local Exchange Trading System (LETS), which began in Canada in 1983. LETS is similar to a credit union, but members begin their account balances at zero and exchange with other members. Those who purchase goods incur a debit, while those who sell obtain a credit; debits and credits are denominated in the national currency.
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45 rogue trader
STOCK EXCHANGE opérateur m peu scrupuleuxThe fallout from the Allied Irish Banks scandal began to spread yesterday after it emerged that Citibank had suspended two employees for lavishly indulging the rogue trader who lost $691m (£487m) at AIB's subsidiary Allfirst Financial.
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46 backup
1) (additional people who provide help when it is needed: The police officer requested some backup when the shooting began.) renforts2) (a copy of a computer file that can be used in case the original is destroyed.) sauvegarde3) (( also adjective) a piece of equipment, a system etc that can be used when there is a problem with the original one: a backup plan; We have a backup generator in case the power fails.) soutien -
47 button
1. noun1) (a knob or disc used as a fastening: I lost a button off my coat.) bouton2) (a small knob pressed to operate something: This button turns the radio on.) bouton2. verb((often with up) to fasten by means of buttons.) boutonner3. verb(to catch someone's attention and hold him in conversation: He buttonholed me and began telling me the story of his life.) accrocher -
48 cloud
1.1) (a mass of tiny drops of water floating in the sky: white clouds in a blue sky; The hills were hidden in cloud.) nuage2) (a great number or quantity of anything small moving together: a cloud of flies.) nuée3) (something causing fear, depression etc: a cloud of sadness.) nuage2. verb1) ((often with over) to become cloudy: The sky clouded over and it began to rain.) s'ennuager2) (to (cause to) become blurred or not clear: Her eyes were clouded with tears.) (s')embuer3) (to (cause to) become gloomy or troubled: His face clouded at the unhappy news.) (s')assombrir•- cloudy - cloudburst - under a cloud -
49 compose
[kəm'pəuz]1) (to form by putting parts together: A word is composed of several letters.) composer2) (to write (eg music, poetry etc): Mozart began to compose when he was six years old.) composer3) (to control (oneself) after being upset.) se calmer•- composed- composer - composition - composure -
50 culprit
(a person responsible for something wrong, unpleasant etc: As soon as he saw the broken window he began to look for the culprit.) coupable -
51 dance
1. verb1) (to move in time to music by ma-king a series of rhythmic steps: She began to dance; Can you dance the waltz?) danser2) (to move quickly up and down: The father was dancing the baby on his knee.) (faire) sauter2. noun1) (a series of fixed steps made in time to music: Have you done this dance before?; ( also adjective) dance music.) danse; de danse2) (a social gathering at which people dance: We're going to a dance next Saturday.) bal•- dancer- dancing -
52 ebb
[eb]1) ((of the tide) to go out from the land: The tide began to ebb.) descendre2) (to become less: His strength was ebbing fast.) décliner•- ebb tide- at a low ebb - on the ebb -
53 even out
1) (to become level or regular: The road rose steeply and then evened out; His pulse began to even out.) (s')égaliser2) (to make smooth: He raked the soil to even it out.) égaliser3) (to make equal: If Jane would do some of Mary's typing, that would even the work out.) égaliser -
54 fall away
1) (to become less in number: The crowd began to fall away.) diminuer2) (to slope downwards: The ground fell away steeply.) (s')affaisser -
55 fester
['festə]((of an open injury eg a cut or sore) to become infected: The wound began to fester.) (s')envenimer -
56 flag
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57 flow
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58 freshen
1) (to become fresh or cool: The wind began to freshen.) fraîchir2) ((often with up) to (cause to) become less tired or untidy looking: I must freshen up before dinner.) faire un brin de toilette -
59 intensive
[-siv]adjective (very great; showing or having great care etc: The police began an intensive search for the murderer; The hospital has just opened a new intensive care unit.) intensif -
60 keyboard
1) (the keys in a piano, typewriter etc arranged along or on a flat board: The pianist sat down at the keyboard and began to play; A computer keyboard looks like that of a typewriter; ( also adjective) harpsichords and other early keyboard instruments.) (à) clavier2) (any keyboard (musical) instrument.)
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