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1 impress
B vtr1 ( arouse respect) impressionner [person, public, audience, panel] (with par ; by doing en faisant) ; to be impressed by ou with sb/sth être impressionné par qn/qch ; to be easily impressed se laisser facilement impressionner ; they were (favourably) impressed ça leur a fait bonne impression ; they weren't too impressed by his attitude/with the results ils n'ont guère apprécié son attitude/les résultats ; she/the company is not impressed elle/la société n'apprécie pas beaucoup ; she does it just to impress people elle ne fait ça que pour la galerie ○ ;2 ( emphasize) to impress sth (up)on sb faire bien comprendre qch à qn ; to impress upon sb that faire (bien) comprendre à qn que ;3 ( imprint) to impress sth on marquer qch sur [surface, material] ; to impress sth in faire une empreinte de qch dans [wax, plaster].C vi [person, quality, feature] faire bonne impression. -
2 impress
impress [ɪmˈpres][+ person] impressionner• I am not impressed (negative opinion) (by object, performance) ça me laisse froid ; (by sb's behaviour) ça ne m'impressionne pas[work of art, performance] être impressionnant ; [person] faire bonne impression* * *1. ['ɪmpres]noun sout empreinte f2. [ɪm'pres]transitive verb1) ( arouse respect) impressionner ( with par; by doing en faisant)2) ( emphasize)3) ( imprint)3. [ɪm'pres]to impress something on/in — marquer quelque chose sur/faire une empreinte de quelque chose dans
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3 impress
(a) (create impression on) faire impression sur, impressionner;∎ I was favourably impressed by her appearance son apparence m'a fait bonne impression;∎ I'm not in the least impressed ça ne m'impressionne pas du tout;∎ he impressed the jury il a fait une forte impression sur le jury;∎ I wasn't impressed by her friend son ami ne m'a pas fait grande impression∎ the clay was impressed with a design, a design was impressed onto the clay un motif était imprimé dans l'argile;∎ figurative her words are impressed on my memory ses paroles sont gravées dans ma mémoire2 noun['ɪmpres] empreinte f -
4 impress
[im'pres]1) (to cause feelings of admiration etc in (a person): I was impressed by his good behaviour.) impressionner2) ((with on or upon) to stress (something to someone): I must impress upon you the need for silence.) faire bien comprendre (qqch. à qqn)3) (to fix (a fact etc in the mind): She re-read the plans in order to impress the details on her memory.) graver (dans)4) (make (a mark) on something by pressing: a footprint impressed in the sand.) imprimer•- impressive - impressively - impressiveness - be under the impression that - be under the impression -
5 to impress
faire impression sur; frapper les esprits; forcer l'admirationEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to impress
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6 to impress upon
faire valoir; s'employer à convaincre; bien faire comprendreEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > to impress upon
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7 bowl over
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8 grab
grab [græb]1. nouna. [+ object] saisirb. ( = seize unlawfully) [+ land, power] s'emparer de• don't grab! (to child) doucement !4. compounds* * *[græb] 1.1) ( snatch)to make a grab at ou for — essayer d'attraper
to be up for grabs — (colloq) être bon à prendre
2) ( on excavator) pelle f automatique2.transitive verb (p prés etc - bb-)1) ( seize) empoigner [money, toy]; saisir [arm, person, opportunity]2) ( illegally) accaparer3) ( snatch)4) (colloq) ( impress) -
9 impact
impact [ˈɪmpækt]impact m• to make an impact on sb ( = affect) créer un choc chez qn ; ( = impress) faire une forte impression sur qn* * *1. ['ɪmpækt]1) ( effect) impact m (on sur)2) ( violent contact) (of hammer, vehicle) choc m; (of bomb, bullet) impact m2. [ɪm'pækt] 3. [ɪm'pækt]intransitive verb avoir un impact (on sur) -
10 to
to [tu:, tə]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When to is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg apply to, set to, look up the verb. When to is part of a set combination, eg nice to, of help to, look up the adjective or noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. (direction, movement) à━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to it ( = there) y• I liked the exhibition, I went to it twice j'ai aimé l'exposition, j'y suis allé deux foisb. ( = towards) versc. (home, workplace) chez► to + feminine country/area en• to England/France en Angleterre/France• to Brittany/Provence en Bretagne/Provence• to Sicily/Crete en Sicile/Crète• to Louisiana/Virginia en Louisiane/Virginie━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to Iran/Israel en Iran/Israël► to + masculine country/area au• to Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït• to the Sahara/Kashmir au Sahara/Cachemire► to + plural country/group of islands aux• to the United States/the West Indies aux États-Unis/Antilles► to + town/island without article à• to London/Lyons à Londres/Lyon• to Cuba/Malta à Cuba/Malte• is this the road to Newcastle? est-ce que c'est la route de Newcastle ?• it is 90km to Paris ( = from here to) nous sommes à 90 km de Paris ; ( = from there to) c'est à 90 km de Paris• planes to Heathrow les vols mpl à destination de Heathrow► to + masculine state/region/county dans• to Texas/Ontario dans le Texas/l'Ontario• to Sussex/Yorkshire dans le Sussex/le Yorkshire━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► dans is also used with many départements.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to the Drôme/the Var dans la Drôme/le Vare. ( = up to) jusqu'àf. ► to + person (indirect object) à━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When a relative clause ends with to, a different word order is required in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When translating to + pronoun, look up the pronoun. The translation depends on whether it is stressed or unstressed.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━h. (in ratios) he got a big majority (twenty votes to seven) il a été élu à une large majorité (vingt voix contre sept)i. ( = concerning) that's all there is to it ( = it's easy) ce n'est pas plus difficile que ça• you're not going, and that's all there is to it ( = that's definite) tu n'iras pas, un point c'est toutj. ( = of) de━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► A preposition may be required with the French infinitive, depending on what precedes it: look up the verb or adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The French verb may take a clause, rather than the infinitive.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• well, to sum up... alors, pour résumer...• we are writing to inform you... nous vous écrivons pour vous informer que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to is not translated when it stands for the infinitive.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he'd like me to come, but I don't want to il voudrait que je vienne mais je ne veux pas• yes, I'd love to oui, volontiers2. adverb( = shut) to push the door to pousser la porte3. compounds(plural to-dos)• he made a great to-do about lending me the car il a fait toute une histoire pour me prêter la voiture ► to-ing and fro-ing noun allées et venues fpl* * *1. [tə], devant une voyelle [tʊ, tuː], emphatique [tuː]1) ( expressing purpose) pour2) ( linking consecutive acts)he looked up to see... — en levant les yeux, il a vu...
3) ( after superlatives) àthe youngest to do — le or la plus jeune à faire
‘did you go?’ - ‘no I promised not to’ — ‘tu y es allé?’ - ‘non j'avais promis de ne pas le faire’
‘are you staying? ’ - ‘I want to but...’ — ‘tu restes?’ - ‘j'aimerais bien mais...’
it is difficult to do something — il est difficile de faire quelque chose; ( expressing wish)
2.oh to be able to stay in bed! — hum ô pouvoir rester au lit!
1) ( in direction of) à [shops, school]; ( with purpose of visiting) chez [doctor's, dentist's]; ( towards) vers2) ( up to) jusqu'àto the end/this day — jusqu'à la fin/ce jour
3) ( in telling time)4) ( introducing direct or indirect object) [give, offer] àto me/my daughter it's just a minor problem — pour moi/ma fille ce n'est qu'un problème mineur
5) (in toasts, dedications) àto prosperity — à la prospérité; ( on tombstone)
6) ( in accordance with)7) (in relationships, comparisons)8) ( showing accuracy)9) ( showing reason)10) ( belonging to) depersonal assistant to the director — assistant/-e m/f du directeur
11) ( on to) [tied] à; [pinned] à [noticeboard etc]; sur [lapel, dress]12) ( showing reaction) à3. [tuː]to his surprise/dismay — à sa grande surprise/consternation
••that's all there is to it — ( it's easy) c'est aussi simple que ça; ( not for further discussion) un point c'est tout
what a to-do! — (colloq) quelle histoire! (colloq)
what's it to you? — (colloq) qu'est-ce que ça peut te faire?
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11 eloquence
['eləkwəns](the power of expressing feelings or thoughts in words that impress or move other people: a speaker of great eloquence.) éloquence- eloquent- eloquently -
12 ostentatious
[osten'teiʃəs](behaving, done etc in such a way as to be seen by other people and to impress them: Their style of living is very ostentatious.) ostentatoire- ostentatiousness - ostentatiously -
13 pose
I 1. [pəuz] noun1) (a position or attitude of the body: a relaxed pose.) pose2) (a false manner or way of behaving assumed in order to impress others; a pretence: His indignation was only a pose.) affectation2. verb1) (to position oneself eg for a photograph to be taken: She posed in the doorway.) poser2) ((with as) to pretend to be: He posed as a doctor.) se faire passer pourII [pəuz] verb(to set or offer (a question or problem) for answering or solving: He posed a difficult question; This poses a problem.) poser -
14 show off
1) (to show or display for admiration: He showed off his new car by taking it to work.) en mettre plein la vue2) (to try to impress others with one's possessions, ability etc: She is just showing off - she wants everyone to know how well she speaks French (noun show-off a person who does this).) étalage de qqch.; prétentieux/-euse -
15 strike
1. past tense - struck; verb1) (to hit, knock or give a blow to: He struck me in the face with his fist; Why did you strike him?; The stone struck me a blow on the side of the head; His head struck the table as he fell; The tower of the church was struck by lightning.) frapper2) (to attack: The enemy troops struck at dawn; We must prevent the disease striking again.) attaquer3) (to produce (sparks or a flame) by rubbing: He struck a match/light; He struck sparks from the stone with his knife.) faire jaillir4) ((of workers) to stop work as a protest, or in order to force employers to give better pay: The men decided to strike for higher wages.) faire grève5) (to discover or find: After months of prospecting they finally struck gold/oil; If we walk in this direction we may strike the right path.) trouver6) (to (make something) sound: He struck a note on the piano/violin; The clock struck twelve.) sonner7) (to impress, or give a particular impression to (a person): I was struck by the resemblance between the two men; How does the plan strike you?; It / The thought struck me that she had come to borrow money.) frapper8) (to mint or manufacture (a coin, medal etc).) frapper9) (to go in a certain direction: He left the path and struck (off) across the fields.) prendre, aller10) (to lower or take down (tents, flags etc).) démonter; amener2. noun1) (an act of striking: a miners' strike.) grève2) (a discovery of oil, gold etc: He made a lucky strike.) découverte•- striker- striking - strikingly - be out on strike - be on strike - call a strike - come out on strike - come - be within striking distance of - strike at - strike an attitude/pose - strike a balance - strike a bargain/agreement - strike a blow for - strike down - strike dumb - strike fear/terror into - strike home - strike it rich - strike lucky - strike out - strike up -
16 bowl
A n1 ( basin) ( for food) bol m ; ( large) saladier m ; ( for soup) assiette f creuse ; ( for washing) cuvette f ; ( of lavatory) cuvette f ; ( of lamp) globe m ; a bowl(ful) of milk un bol de lait ; a bowl(ful) of water une cuvette d'eau ;3 Sport boule f (en bois).B vtr1 ( roll) faire rouler [hoop, ball] ;2 ( throw) lancer [ball] ;C vi1 Sport lancer ; to bowl to sb lancer la balle à qn ;2 US ( go bowling) aller au bowling ;■ bowl out:▶ bowl [sb] out mettre [qn] hors jeu.■ bowl over:▶ bowl [sb] over1 ( knock down) renverser [person] ; -
17 favourably
favourably GB, favorably US adv [speak, write] en termes favorables ; [look on, consider] d'un œil favorable ; [impress, review] favorablement ; to be favourably situated être bien situé ; to be favourably disposed to sb/to sth être bien disposé à l'égard de qn/en ce qui concerne qch ; to be favourably received être accueilli favorablement ; to compare favourably with sth soutenir la comparaison avec qch. -
18 grab
A n1 ( snatch) geste m vif ; to make a grab at ou for sth essayer d'attraper qch ; to be up for grabs ○ être bon à prendre ;2 ( on excavator) pelle f automatique.1 ( take hold of) ( also grab hold of) empoigner [money, toy] ; saisir, attraper [arm, person] ; fig saisir [opportunity, chance] ; to grab sth from sb arracher qch à qn ; to grab hold of sb/sth se saisir de qn/qch ; to grab sb by the arm saisir qn par le bras ; to grab all the attention accaparer toute l'attention ;2 ( illegally) accaparer [land, resources] ;3 ( snatch) to grab some sleep dormir un peu, piquer un roupillon ○ ; to grab a snack manger en vitesse or vite fait ; I grabbed two hours' sleep j'ai réussi à dormir deux heures ;4 ○ ( impress) how does he/the idea grab you? qu'est-ce que tu penses de lui/dis de cette idée? -
19 greatly
greatly adv [admire, regret, influence, impress] beaucoup, énormément ; [exceed] de beaucoup ; [impressed, admired, surprised, distressed, respected] très, extrêmement ; [improved, changed, increased, reduced] considérablement ; [superior, inferior] bien ; it is greatly to be regretted that il est très regrettable que. -
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