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busy [ˈbɪzɪ]1. adjectivea. [person] ( = occupied) occupé ( doing sth à faire qch) ( with sth à qch ) ; ( = active) énergique• to keep o.s. busy trouver à s'occuperc. [telephone line, room] occupé3. compounds* * *['bɪzɪ] 1.to keep oneself/somebody busy — trouver de quoi s'occuper/occuper quelqu'un
2) [shop] où il y a beaucoup de monde; [junction, airport] où le trafic est intense; [road] très fréquenté; [street, town] animé; [day, week] chargé3) ( engaged) [line] occupé2. -
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24 delight
delight [dɪˈlaɪt]1. nouna. ( = intense pleasure) grand plaisir mb. ( = source of pleasure) régal m[+ person] enchanter* * *[dɪ'laɪt] 1.noun joie f, plaisir m2.to take delight in something/in doing — prendre un malin plaisir à quelque chose/à faire
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desperation [‚despəˈreɪ∫ən]( = state) désespoir m• in desperation she killed him poussée à bout, elle l'a tué* * *[ˌdespə'reɪʃn]noun désespoir min (sheer) desperation she... — en désespoir de cause elle...
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26 emotionally
emotionally [ɪˈməʊ∫nəlɪ]a. [mature, stable] sur le plan affectif• to be emotionally involved with sb ( = care about) s'engager affectivement avec qnb. [speak, describe, react] avec émotion* * *[ɪ'məʊʃənəlɪ]adverb [speak, react] avec émotion; [drained, involved] émotionnellement; [immature] sur le plan affectifemotionally charged — [relationship] intense; [atmosphere] chargée d'émotion
emotionally disturbed — caractériel/-ielle
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28 fierce
fierce [fɪəs][animal, person, battle] féroce ; [attack, argument] violent ; [debate] houleux ; [opposition] farouche ; [criticism, critic] virulent* * *['fɪəs]adjective [animal, expression, person] féroce; [battle, storm, hatred] violent; [determination, loyalty] farouche; [supporter] fervent; [criticism, speech] virulent; [competition] acharné; [flames, heat] intense -
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heavy [ˈhevɪ]1. adjectivelourd ; [payments, charges] important ; [crop] abondant ; [rain, shower] fort before n ; ( = tedious) indigeste ; [fighting, shelling] intensif ; [traffic] dense ; [sigh, work] gros ( grosse f) before n• how heavy is it? combien ça pèse ?• a heavy concentration of... une forte concentration de...• heavy sea grosse mer f• it's heavy stuff (inf) ( = not superficial) ça a de la substance ; ( = difficult, tedious) c'est indigeste2. adverb3. compounds* * *['hevɪ] 1.(colloq) noun ( person) grosse brute f2.1) [person, load, bag] lourd; Military, Industry [machinery] gros/grosse (before n), lourd; [artillery] lourd2) [fabric, coat] lourd; [shoes, frame] gros/grosse (before n); [line, features] épais/épaisse; [movement, step] pesant, lourd; [blow] violent; [perfume, accent] fort; [irony, responsibility, sigh] lourd3) ( abundant) [traffic] dense; [gunfire] nourri; [bleeding] abondantto be a heavy drinker/smoker — boire/fumer beaucoup
4) ( severe) [loss, debt] lourd; [attack] intense; [sentence, fine] sévère; [criticism] fort (before n); [cold] gros/grosse (before n)5) Meteorology [rain, frost] fort; [fog] épais/épaisse; [snow] abondant; [sky] chargé6) Culinary [meal, food] lourd7) ( busy) [timetable] chargé8) [book, film, lecture] ardu3. -
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32 severe
severe [sɪˈvɪər]a. ( = serious) [problems, damage, shortage, injury, illness] grave ; [blow, loss] sévère ; [hardship, setback] sérieux ; [pain, frost] fort ; [migraine] violent ; [climate, winter] rigoureux ; [cold] intenseb. ( = strict) [person, expression, measure] sévèrec. [clothes] sévère* * *[sɪ'vɪə(r)]1) ( extreme) [problem, damage, shortage, injury, depression, shock] grave; [weather, cold, winter] rigoureux/-euse; [headache] violent; [loss] lourd2) ( harsh) sévère3) ( austere) austère -
33 smouldering
smouldering [ˈsməʊldərɪŋ]a. [fire] qui couve ; [ashes, rubble] qui fumeb. [expression, look] provocant ; [emotion] qui couve* * *GB, smoldering US ['sməʊldərɪŋ] adjective1) lit [fire, cigarette] qui se consume; [ashes, ruins] fumant -
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strain [streɪn]1. noun• it was a strain on the economy/their resources/his purse cela grevait l'économie/leurs ressources/son budgetc. ( = sprain) foulure fa. [+ rope, beam] tendre fortement ; [+ muscle] froisser ; [+ ankle] fouler ; [+ friendship, marriage] mettre à rude épreuve ; [+ resources, the economy] peser lourdement sur• to strain o.s. ( = damage muscle) se froisser un muscle ; ( = overtire o.s.) se surmener• don't strain yourself! (ironic) surtout ne te fatigue pas !• to strain to do sth (physically) fournir un gros effort pour faire qch ; (mentally) s'efforcer de faire qch• to strain at sth (pushing/pulling) pousser/tirer qch de toutes ses forces[+ liquid] vider* * *[streɪn] 1.to put a strain on — fatiguer [heart, lungs]
to take the strain — [beam, rope] être soumis à des efforts or des sollicitations
2) ( pressure) ( on person) stress m; ( in relations) tension fmental ou nervous strain — tension f nerveuse
to put a strain on — avoir un effet néfaste sur [relationship]; créer des tensions au sein de [alliance]; grever [economy, finances]; mettre [quelque chose] à rude épreuve [patience, goodwill]
to be under strain — [person] être stressé; [relations] être tendu
3) ( injury) muscle m froissé5) ( style) veine f, ton m2.strains plural noun air m3.transitive verb1)to strain one's eyes — ( to see) plisser les yeux
2) fig grever [resources, finances]; compromettre [relationship]; mettre [quelque chose] à rude épreuve [patience]3) ( injure)4) ( sieve) passer [sauce]; égoutter [vegetables, pasta]4.to strain at — tirer sur [leash, rope]
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35 when
when [wen]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb2. conjunction━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adverb• when does the term start? quand commence le trimestre ?• when did it happen? quand cela s'est-il passé ? ça s'est passé quand ?• when was the Channel Tunnel opened? quand a-t-on ouvert le tunnel sous la Manche ?• when's the wedding? quand a lieu le mariage ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► There is no inversion after quand in indirect questions.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• when does the train leave? à quelle heure part le train ?• when do you finish work? à quelle heure est-ce tu quittes le travail ?2. conjunctiona. ( = at the time that) quand━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► If the when clause refers to the future, the future tense is used in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• when you're older, you'll understand quand tu seras plus grand, tu comprendras━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en + present participle may be used, if the subject of both clauses is the same, and the verb is one of action.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► when + noun/adjective• when a student at Oxford, she... quand elle était étudiante à Oxford, elle...• my father, when young, had a fine tenor voice quand mon père était jeune il avait une belle voix de ténorb. (with day, time, movement) où• there are times when I wish I'd never met him il y a des moments où je souhaiterais ne l'avoir jamais rencontréc. ( = which is when) he arrived at 8 o'clock, when traffic is at its peak il est arrivé à 8 heures, heure à laquelle la circulation est la plus intense• in August, when peaches are at their best en août, époque où les pêches sont les plus savoureusesd. ( = the time when) he told me about when you got lost in Paris il m'a raconté le jour où vous vous êtes perdu dans Parise. ( = after) quand• when he had made the decision, he felt better après avoir pris la décision, il s'est senti soulagéf. ( = whereas) alors que• he thought he was recovering, when in fact... il pensait qu'il était en voie de guérison alors qu'en fait...g. ( = if) how can I be self-confident when I look like this? comment veux-tu que j'aie confiance en moi en étant comme ça ?• how can you understand when you won't listen? comment voulez-vous comprendre si vous n'écoutez pas ?* * *[wen], US [hwen] 1.1) ( with prepositions) quandsince when? — depuis quand? also iron
2) ( the time when)2.that's when I was born — ( day) c'est le jour où je suis né; ( year) c'est l'année où je suis né
1) ( as interrogative) quand (est-ce que)I forget exactly when — ( time) j'ai oublié l'heure exacte; ( date) j'ai oublié la date exacte
tell me ou say when — ( pouring drink) dis-moi stop
2) ( as relative)at the time when — ( precise moment) au moment où; ( during same period) à l'époque où
one morning when he was getting up, he... — un matin en se levant, il...
3) ( then)she resigned in May, since when we've had no applicants — elle a démissionné en mai, et depuis (lors) nous n'avons reçu aucune candidature
4) ( whenever) quand3.when I sunbathe, I get freckles — chaque fois que je prends un bain de soleil, j'ai des taches de rousseur
1) ( at the precise time when) quand, lorsque2) ( during the period when) quand, lorsque3) ( as soon as) quand, dès queI was strolling along when all of a sudden... — je marchais tranquillement quand tout d'un coup...
4) ( when it is the case that) alors quewhy buy their products when ours are cheaper? — pourquoi acheter leurs produits alors que les nôtres sont moins chers?
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concentrated [ˈkɒnsəntreɪtɪd]a. [liquid, substance] concentréb. [effort] intense ; [attack] en règle -
37 triple witching hour
American familiar STOCK EXCHANGE = heure d'avant la fermeture de la Bourse le troisième vendredi des mois de mars, juin, septembre et décembre, caractérisée par une activité intenseNote that a trade can be put in by a trader to be executed at the market closing price for a given stock. Regardless of what the price is, the trade will be executed. The deluge of orders on the triple witching hour at the market closing price often caused the ticker to be delayed up to a half hour at the closing.
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38 intensive agriculture
English-French dictionary of Geography > intensive agriculture
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40 agony
['æɡəni]plural - agonies; noun(great pain or suffering: The dying man was in agony; agonies of regret.) agonie; douleur intense- agonized- agonised - agonizing - agonising - agonizingly - agonisingly
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