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21 nervousness
['nɜːvəsnɪs]1) ( of person) ( shyness) timidité f; ( fear) peur f; ( anxiety) inquiétude f; ( stage fright) trac (colloq) m; ( physical embarrassment) agitation f; ( tenseness) nervosité f2) Finance instabilité f -
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23 scarlet
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24 shame
shame [∫eɪm]a. honte f• he hung his head in shame honteux, il a baissé la tête• to put sb/sth to shame faire honte à qn/qch• shame on you! vous devriez avoir honte !b. ( = pity) dommage m• what a shame! (quel) dommage !* * *[ʃeɪm] 1.1) (embarrassment, disgrace) honte fto feel shame at — être honteux/-euse de
to bring shame on — être or faire la honte de
there were cries of ‘shame!’ — les gens criaient au scandale
2) ( pity)it is a shame that — c'est dommage que (+ subj)
it was a great ou such a shame (that) she lost — c'est tellement dommage qu'elle ait perdu
it's a shame about your father — ( if not very serious matter) c'est dommage pour ton père; ( if serious) je suis désolé pour ton père
2.nice costumes - shame about the play! — (colloq) les costumes étaient réussis - mais la pièce! (colloq)
transitive verb1) ( embarrass) faire honte à•• -
25 shucks
(colloq) [ʃʌks] exclamation US ( in irritation) zut (colloq), mince (colloq); ( in embarrassment) allons donc -
26 shuffle
shuffle [ˈ∫ʌfl]1. noun• to shuffle in/out/along entrer/sortir/avancer en traînant les pieds* * *['ʃʌfl] 1.1) ( way of walking) pas mpl traînants2) ( sound of walk) bruit m de pas traînants2.transitive verb1) (also shuffle about) déplacer [objects, people]2)3) ( mix together) mélanger [papers]4) Games battre [cards]3.intransitive verb traîner les piedsPhrasal Verbs: -
27 spare
spare [spεər]1. adjective• take a spare pen in case that one runs out prends un stylo de rechange au cas où celui-ci n'aurait plus d'encre• I've a spare pen if you want it je peux te passer un stylo, si tu veux• have you any spare cups? (in case you need more) est-ce que tu as des tasses de réserve ? ; (which you're not using) est-ce que tu as des tasses en trop ?• have you got any spare cash? est-ce que tu as un peu d'argent ?2. nouna. ( = do without) se passer de• can you spare it? vous n'en avez pas besoin ?• can you spare £10? est-ce que tu aurais 10 livres à me passer ?• can you spare some change please? vous n'avez pas une petite pièce ?• I can only spare an hour for my piano practice je ne peux consacrer qu'une heure à mes exercices de pianob. ( = show mercy to) épargnerc. [+ suffering, grief] épargnerd. ( = refrain from using) [+ one's strength, efforts] ménagere. ► to spare ( = available)• he had time to spare so he went to the pictures il avait du temps devant lui, alors il est allé au cinéma4. compounds• spare-time activities loisirs mpl ► spare tyre noun roue f de secours ; ( = fat) (inf) poignée f d'amour* * *[speə(r)] 1.2.use my pen, I've got a spare — prends mon stylo, j'en ai un autre
1) ( surplus) [cash, capacity] restant; [capital, land, chair, seat] disponible; [copy] en plus2) ( in reserve) gen de rechange; [wheel] de secours3) [person, build] élancé; [design, building, style] simple4) (colloq) GB ( mad) dingue (colloq)3.transitive verb1)have my pen, I've got one to spare — prends mon stylo, j'en ai un autre
the project was finished with only days to spare — le projet a été terminé seulement quelques jours avant la date limite
2) ( treat leniently) épargner3)can you spare a minute/a pound? — as-tu un moment/une livre?
4) ( manage without) se passer de [person]4.•• -
28 vague
vague [veɪg]• I had a vague idea or feeling she would come j'avais vaguement le sentiment qu'elle viendrait• he was vague about the time he would be arriving at il est resté vague quant à l'heure de son arrivéeb. ( = absent-minded) [person] distrait* * *[veɪg]1) ( imprecise) [person, account, idea, memory, rumour, term] vague2) ( evasive)to be vague about — rester vague sur or évasif/-ive au sujet de [plans, past]
3) ( distracted) [person, expression] distrait; [gesture] vague4) (faint, slight) [sound, smell, taste] vague, imprécis; [fear, embarrassment] vague (before n); [doubt] léger/-ère (before n)5) ( unsure) -
29 with
with [wɪð, wɪθ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. avec• come with me! viens avec moi !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The pronoun is not translated in the following, where it and them refer to things.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• these gloves, I can't drive with them on ces gants-là, je ne peux pas conduire avec━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the verbal construction in the following example.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'm with you ( = understand) je vous suis• sorry, I'm not with you désolé, je ne vous suis pas• I'll be with you in a minute ( = attend to) je suis à vous dans une minute• I'm with you all the way ( = support) je suis à fond avec vous► to be with it (inf) ( = fashionable) être dans le vent (inf)get with it! ( = pay attention) réveille-toi !, secoue-toi ! ; ( = face facts) redescends sur terre !b. ( = on one's person) surc. ( = in the house of, working with) chez• I've been with this company for seven years cela fait sept ans que je travaille pour cette sociétéf. ( = in spite of) malgré• with all his intelligence, he still doesn't understand malgré toute son intelligence, il ne comprend toujours pas• with so much happening it was difficult to... il se passait tellement de choses qu'il était difficile de...• with that, he closed the door sur ce, il a fermé la porte* * *[wɪð, wɪθ]Note: If you have any doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with with ( with a vengeance, with all my heart, with a bit of luck, with my blessing etc) you should consult the appropriate noun entry (vengeance, heart, luck, blessing etc)with is often used after verbs in English ( dispense with, part with, get on with etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (dispense, part, get etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as the human body and illnesses, aches and pains which use the preposition with. For the index to these notesFor further uses of with, see the entry below1) ( in descriptions)2) (involving, concerning) aveca treaty/a discussion with somebody — un traité/une discussion avec quelqu'un
3) ( indicating an agent) avec4) (indicating manner, attitude)with difficulty/pleasure — avec difficulté/plaisir
‘OK,’ he said with a smile/sigh — ‘d'accord,’ a-t-il dit en souriant/soupirant
5) ( according to)6) (accompanied by, in the presence of) avecshe's got her brother with her — ( on one occasion) elle est avec or accompagnée de son frère; ( staying with her) son frère est chez elle
to live with somebody — ( in one's own house) vivre avec quelqu'un; ( in their house) vivre chez quelqu'un
7) (owning, bringing)8) (in relation to, as regards)what's up with Amy? —
what's with Amy? — US qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec Amy?
9) (showing consent, support)I'm with you 100% ou all the way — je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi
10) ( because of)sick with worry — malade or mort d'inquiétude
11) ( remaining)with only two days to go before the election — alors qu'il ne reste plus que deux jours avant les élections
12) ( suffering from)people with Aids/leukemia — les personnes atteintes du sida/de la leucémie
13) ( in the care or charge of)14) ( against) avec15) ( showing simultaneity)with that, he left — sur ce, il est parti
16) (employed by, customer of)17) ( in the same direction as)••to be with it — (colloq) ( on the ball) être dégourdi; ( trendy) être dans le vent
I'm not really with it today — (colloq) j'ai l'esprit ailleurs aujourd'hui
get with it! — (colloq) ( wake up) réveille-toi!; ( face the facts) redescends sur terre!
I'm not with you, can you repeat? — je ne te suis pas, tu peux répéter?
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30 at ease
(free from anxiety or embarrassment: He is completely at ease among strangers.) à l'aise -
31 awkward
['o:kwəd]1) (not graceful or elegant: an awkward movement.) maladroit2) (difficult or causing difficulty, embarrassment etc: an awkward question; an awkward silence; His cut is in an awkward place.) gênant•- awkwardness -
32 crimson
['krimzn]noun, adjective((of) a deep red colour: He went crimson with embarrassment.) cramoisi -
33 embarrass
[im'bærəs]1) (to cause to feel uneasy or self-conscious: She was embarrassed by his praise.) embarrasser2) (to involve in (especially financial) difficulties: embarrassed by debts.) gêner•- embarrassed - embarrassing -
34 flame
[fleim] 1. noun(the bright light of something burning: A small flame burned in the lamp.) flamme2. verb1) (to burn with flames: His eyes flamed with anger.) jeter des flammes, flamber2) (to become very hot, red etc: Her cheeks flamed with embarrassment.) s'empourprer•- flaming- flammable - flame of the forest -
35 flush
1. noun1) (a flow of blood to the face, making it red: A slow flush covered her face.) rougeur2) ((the device that works) a rush of water which cleans a toilet: a flush toilet.) chasse (d'eau)2. verb1) (to become red in the face: She flushed with embarrassment.) rougir2) (to clean by a rush of water: to flush a toilet.) tirer la chasse (d'eau)3) ((usually with out) to cause (an animal etc) to leave a hiding place: The police flushed out the criminal.) débusquer•- flushed- in the first flush of - the first flush of -
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adjective (showing shame or embarrassment: He was very shamefaced about his mistake.) confus -
37 unashamedly
(showing no shame or embarrassment: She was weeping unashamedly.) sans honte -
38 uninhibited
(expressing feelings etc freely and without embarrassment: uninhibited people/behaviour.) sans inhibitions -
39 acute
1 ( intense) [anxiety, grief] vif/vive ; [boredom, remorse] profond ; to cause sb acute embarrassment beaucoup embarrasser qn ;2 Med [condition, illness, symptom] aigu/aiguë ; acute patient urgence f ; acute care soins mpl d'urgence ; acute hospital hôpital m spécialisé dans les soins d'urgence ;3 ( grave) [crisis, shortage, situation] grave ;4 ( keen) [person, mind] pénétrant ; [intelligence] aigu/aiguë ; to have acute eyesight/hearing avoir la vue/l'oreille fine ; to have an acute sense of smell avoir l'odorat fin. -
40 awkwardly
1 ( inconveniently) awkwardly placed/designed mal placé/conçu ; awkwardly for me, he was only free at 10 o’clock malheureusement pour moi, il n'était libre qu'à 10 h ;2 ( clumsily) [move, hold, express oneself] maladroitement, avec maladresse ; [fall, land] lourdement ;
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