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21 pick
pick [pɪk]1. nounb. ( = choice) choix mc. ( = best) meilleur m• the pick of the bunch or the crop (inf) le meilleur de tousa. ( = choose) choisirc. [+ fruit, flower] cueillir ; [+ mushrooms] ramasserd. ( = pick at) to pick one's nose se curer le nez• I need to pick your brains about something (inf) j'ai besoin de vos lumières à propos de quelque chosee. ( = remove) prendrea. ( = choose) choisir• there are only three doctors, patients cannot pick and choose il n'y a que trois médecins, les patients n'ont pas tellement le choixb. ( = poke, fiddle) to pick at one's food manger du bout des dents• don't pick! (at food) ne chipote pas !4. compounds(US) ( = nag) s'en prendre àa. [+ flower, leaf] cueillirb. ( = kill)• the lions pick off any stragglers les lions éliminent les traînards► pick on (inf) inseparable transitive verb( = nag, harass) s'en prendre àa. ( = choose) choisirc. ( = highlight) letters picked out in gold caractères rehaussés d'or[+ fruit, lentils, rice] trier► pick upb. ( = resume) reprendrea. ( = lift) ramasser• to pick o.s. up (after fall) se relever• pick up your clothes before you go out! ramasse tes vêtements avant de sortir !• to pick up the pieces [of broken object] ramasser les morceaux ; (in relationship, one's life) recoller les morceauxb. ( = collect) (passer) prendre• can you pick up my coat from the cleaners? pourrais-tu (passer) prendre mon manteau chez le teinturier ?e. ( = buy) dénicher• she picked up a secondhand car for just $800 elle a déniché une voiture d'occasion pour seulement 800 dollarsf. [+ language, skill, information] apprendre ; [+ habit] prendreg. [+ station, signal, programme] capterh. ( = rescue) recueilliri. ( = take in) [+ suspect] interpellerj. ( = notice) [+ sb's error] releverk. ► to pick up on• to pick up on a point ( = develop) revenir sur un point• to pick sb up on sth ( = correct) reprendre qn sur qchl. ( = gain) to pick up speed [car, boat] prendre de la vitesse• he managed to pick up a few points in the later events il a réussi à rattraper quelques points dans les épreuves suivantes* * *[pɪk] 1.1) ( tool) gen pioche f, pic m; ( of climber) piolet m; ( of mason) smille f2) ( choice) choix m3) ( best) meilleur/-e m/fthe pick of the crop — ( fruit) les meilleurs fruits
2.the pick of the bunch — le/la etc meilleur/-e etc du lot
transitive verb1) (choose, select) gen choisir ( from parmi); Sport sélectionner [player] ( from parmi); former [team]to pick a fight — ( physically) chercher à se bagarrer (colloq) ( with avec)
to pick a fight ou a quarrel — chercher querelle ( with à)
2) ( navigate)to pick one's way through — avancer avec précaution parmi [rubble, litter]
3) (pluck, gather) cueillir [fruit, flowers]4) ( poke at) gratter [spot, scab]3.to pick something from ou off — enlever quelque chose de
intransitive verb choisirto pick and choose — faire le/la difficile (among, between pour choisir parmi)
Phrasal Verbs:- pick at- pick off- pick on- pick out- pick up -
22 pressure
pressure [ˈpre∫ər]1. nounpression f• don't pressure me! (inf) ne me bouscule pas !3. compounds* * *['preʃə(r)] 1.1) gen, fig, Technology, Meteorology pression fshe has come under a lot of pressure to do — on exerce de fortes pressions sur elle pour l'amener à faire
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23 too
too [tu:]a. ( = excessively) trop• too right! (inf) et comment !b. ( = also) aussi ; ( = moreover) en plus* * *[tuː]Note: When too means also it is generally translated by aussi: me too = moi aussi; can I have some too? = est-ce que je peux en avoir aussi?When too means to an excessive degree it is translated by trop: too high, too dangerous trop haut, trop dangereuxFor examples of the above and further usages, see the entry below1) ( also) aussi‘I love you’ - ‘I love you too’ — ‘je t'aime’ - ‘moi aussi, je t'aime’
have you been to India too? — ( like me) est-ce que toi aussi tu es allé en Inde?; ( as well as other countries) est-ce que tu es allé en Inde aussi?
‘I'm sorry’ - ‘I should think so too!’ — ‘je m'excuse’ - ‘j'espère bien!’
...and in front of your mother too! —...et devant ta mère en plus!
2) ( excessively) troptoo many/too few people — trop de/trop peu de gens
that's too bad! — ( a pity) c'est tellement dommage!; ( hard luck) tant pis!
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24 until
until [ənˈtɪl]1. preposition• until such time as... (in future) jusqu'à ce que... + subj en attendant que... + subj ; (in past) avant que... + subj• I had heard nothing of it until five minutes ago j'en ai entendu parler pour la première fois il y a cinq minutes2. conjunction* * *Note: When used as a preposition in positive sentences until is translated by jusqu'à: they're staying until Monday = ils restent jusqu'à lundiRemember that jusqu'à + le becomes jusqu'au and jusqu'à + les becomes jusqu'aux: until the right moment = jusqu'au bon moment; until the exams = jusqu'aux examensIn negative sentences not until is translated by ne...pas avant: I can't see you until Friday = je ne peux pas vous voir avant vendrediWhen used as a conjunction in positive sentences until is translated by jusqu'à ce que + subjunctive: we'll stay here until Maya comes back = nous resterons ici jusqu'à ce que Maya revienneIn negative sentences where the two verbs have different subjects not until is translated by ne...pas avant que + subjunctive: we won't leave until Maya comes back = nous ne partirons pas avant que Maya revienneIn negative sentences where the two verbs have the same subject not until is translated by ne...pas avant de + infinitive: we won't leave until we've seen Claire = nous ne partirons pas avant d'avoir vu Claire[ən'tɪl] 1.1) (also till) ( up to a specific time) jusqu'à; ( after negative verb) avantuntil then — jusqu'à ce moment-là, jusque-là
(up) until 1901 — jusqu'en or jusqu'à 1901
until such time as you find work — jusqu'à ce que tu trouves (subj) du travail, en attendant que tu trouves (subj) du travail
it wasn't until the 50's that... — ce n'est qu'à partir des années cinquante que...
2) ( as far as) jusqu'à2.conjunction (also till) jusqu'à ce que (+ subj); ( in negative constructions) avant que (+ subj), avant de (+ infinitive)things won't improve until we have democracy — la situation ne s'améliorera pas tant que nous ne serons pas en démocratie
stir mixture until (it is) smooth — Culinary mélangez bien jusqu'à obtenir une pâte lisse
until you are dead — Law jusqu'à ce que mort s'ensuive
she waited until she was alone/they were alone — elle a attendu d'être seule/qu'ils soient seuls
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25 up
up [ʌp]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. noun4. adjective7. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When up is the second element in a phrasal verb, eg come up, throw up, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg this way up, close up, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition• to be up a tree/up a ladder être dans un arbre/sur une échelle2. adverb━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When used with a preposition, up is often not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• people up and down the country are saying... partout dans le pays les gens disent...• are you up for it? (inf) ( = willing) tu es partant ? (inf) ; ( = fit) tu te sens d'attaque (inf) ?► up to ( = as far as) jusqu'à• what page are you up to? à quelle page en êtes-vous ?► to be up to sth ( = capable of)• is he up to doing research? est-il capable de faire de la recherche ?• it isn't up to his usual standard ( = equal to) il peut faire bien mieux que cela► to feel or be up to sth ( = strong enough for)• he really isn't up to going back to work yet il n'est vraiment pas en état de reprendre le travail► to be up to sth (inf) ( = doing)what is he up to? qu'est-ce qu'il fabrique ? (inf)• what have you been up to? qu'est-ce que tu as fabriqué ? (inf)• shall I do it? -- it's up to you je le fais ? -- à vous de voir• if it were up to me... si ça ne tenait qu'à moi...3. noun4. adjective• get up! debout !• she was up all night because the baby was ill elle n'a pas fermé l'œil de la nuit parce que le bébé était maladeb. ( = raised) the blinds were up les stores n'étaient pas baissés• "this side up" (on parcel) « haut »• hands up, everyone who knows the answer levez le doigt si vous connaissez la réponse• hands up! (to gunman) haut les mains !c. ( = installed, built)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Whichever verb is implicit in English is usually made explicit in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• we've got the curtains/pictures up at last nous avons enfin posé les rideaux/accroché les tableauxe. ( = finished) his leave is up sa permission est terminée• time's up! c'est l'heure !f. ( = wrong) (inf) what's up? qu'est-ce qui ne va pas ?• what's up with him? qu'est-ce qu'il a qui ne va pas ?• what's up with the car? qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec la voiture ?• what's up with your leg? qu'est-ce qui t'est arrivé à la jambe ? (inf)• he's been rather up and down recently il a eu des hauts et des bas récemment► up and running ( = functioning) opérationnel7. compounds* * *Note: up appears frequently in English as the second element of phrasal verbs ( get up, pick up etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (get, pick etc)[ʌp] 1.1) ( out of bed)2) (higher in amount, level)sales/prices are up (by 10%) — les ventes/les prix ont augmenté (de 10%)
shares/numbers are up — les actions sont/le nombre est en hausse
production is up (by) 5% — la production a augmenté de 5%
his temperature is up 2 degrees — sa température a augmenté de 2°
sales are 10% up on last year — les ventes ont augmenté de 10% par rapport à l'an dernier
3) (colloq) ( wrong)4) (erected, affixed)5) ( open)6) ( finished)‘time's up!’ — ‘le temps est épuisé!’
it's all up (colloq) with him — il est fini (colloq)
7) ( facing upwards)‘this side up’ — (on parcel, box) ‘haut’
8) ( rising)her blood's up — fig la moutarde lui monte au nez
9) ( pinned up)10) ( cheerful)11) ( being repaired)12) ( in upward direction)13) ( on trial)2.1) ( high)up here/there — là-haut
up in the tree/the clouds — dans l'arbre/les nuages
up to/in London — à Londres
up to/in Scotland — en Écosse
all the way up — jusqu'en haut, jusqu'au sommet
2) ( ahead) d'avanceshe's 40-15 up — ( in tennis) elle mène 40-15
3) ( upwards)t-shirts from £2 up — des t-shirts à partir de deux livres
4) ( to high status)3.1) (at, to higher level)2) ( in direction)4.up above adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase gen au-dessus; Religion au ciel5.up against prepositional phrase6. 7.to be ou come up against opposition — rencontrer de l'opposition
up and down adverbial phrase, prepositional phrase1) ( to and fro)to walk ou pace up and down — aller et venir, faire les cent pas
2) ( throughout)8.up and running adjectival phrase, adverbial phraseto be up and running — [company, project] bien marcher; [system] bien fonctionner
9.to get something up and running — faire marcher or fonctionner quelque chose
up for prepositional phrase10.the subject up for discussion is... — le sujet qu'on aborde est...
up to prepositional phrase1) ( to particular level) jusqu'à2) ( as many as) jusqu'à, près dereductions of up to 50% — des réductions qui peuvent atteindre 50%
tax on profits of up to £150,000 — les impôts sur les bénéfices de moins de 150000 livres sterling
3) ( until) jusqu'àup to 10.30 pm — jusqu'à 22 h 30
4) ( good enough for)I'm not up to it — ( not capable) je n'en suis pas capable; ( not well enough) je n'en ai pas la force
this work wasn't up to your usual standard — ce travail n'est pas au niveau de ce que vous faites d'habitude
6) ( doing)what are those children up to? — qu'est-ce qu'ils fabriquent (colloq) ces enfants?
11. 12.they're up to something — ils mijotent (colloq) quelque chose
intransitive verb (p prés etc - pp-)••to be (well) up on — s'y connaître en [art, history etc]; être au courant de [news, developments]
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26 goodwill
fonds m de commerce, biens m pl incorporelsgoodwill accounting comptabilisation f de la survaleurAccounting convention assumes that goodwill, the premium a company pays for an acquisition, is a wasting asset. Why not create an impairment test that would consider market conditions and profitability projections to determine the value of goodwill? A 15-person team of accounting firms and investment bankers recently floated such a proposal, which is currently under consideration by the Financial Accounting Standards Board (FASB).
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27 graduate
1 noundiplômé(e) m, f, licencié(e) m, fgraduate entry échelon m d'entrée pour les diplômés;graduate training scheme programme m de formation professionnelle pour les diplômésobtenir sa licence;∎ she has recently graduated in economics elle a récemment obtenu sa licence en économie -
28 learning curve
courbe f d'assimilationAs a result, the company became an early adopter of Microsoft's recently-launched.NET platform and in just three months, fortified its comprehensive content repository with a technical backbone designed to maximize content delivery and services. Following a short learning curve, HealthGate optimized its architecture with the.NET technology and transformed more than 20,000 files into validated, well-formed XML.
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29 receiver
(a) (of goods, consignment) destinataire m f, consignataire m f∎ to be in the hands of the receiver(s) être en règlement judiciaire;∎ the receivers have been called in at Lawson Trading Lawson Trading a été placée sous administration judiciareLeading fresh prepared food firm Geest has announced it has acquired the facilities of Tinsley Foods, which is in the hands of the receivers. Geest, which recently revealed an 18% rise in turnover for the interim period, said it planned to continue to invest in capacity to match strong consumer demand for quality fresh products.
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30 reengineering
réorganisation fInvestors are growing concerned that the company's customer base is not growing quickly enough while customers themselves are not spending enough. Telewest, which recently claimed it could survive on its current facilities as long as it executed well, is known to have discussed options with both Liberty Media and Microsoft, two of its major shareholders. It remains silent on whether a financial reengineering is under way.
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31 spend
1 noundépenses f pl;∎ we must increase our marketing spend nous devons augmenter le budget marketing;∎ this year's spend has exceeded the budget by 10 percent nous avons dépassé de 10 pour cent les dépenses prévues au budget de l'année écoulée∎ to spend money on sth dépenser de l'argent en qch∎ to spend time on sth/doing sth passer du temps sur qch/à faire qchPernod Ricard, the French drinks group which recently bought part of Seagram, has announced that it will increase its marketing spend in Central and South America by around 20%. The move by the makers of Clan Campbell and Havana Club comes despite the region's economic instability.
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32 be in / out of practice
((not) having had a lot of practice recently: I haven't played the piano for months - I'm very out of practice.) être bien entraîné; être rouillé -
33 bereavement
noun The family has suffered two bereavements recently.) deuil -
34 break in(to)
1) (to enter (a house etc) by force or unexpectedly (noun break-in: The Smiths have had two break-ins recently).) entrer par effraction (dans)2) (to interrupt (someone's conversation etc).) interrompre -
35 break in(to)
1) (to enter (a house etc) by force or unexpectedly (noun break-in: The Smiths have had two break-ins recently).) entrer par effraction (dans)2) (to interrupt (someone's conversation etc).) interrompre -
36 death
[deƟ]1) (the act of dying: There have been several deaths in the town recently; Most people fear death.) mort, décès2) (something which causes one to die: Smoking too much was the death of him.) mort3) (the state of being dead: eyes closed in death.) mort•- deathly- death-bed - death certificate - at death's door - catch one's death of cold - catch one's death - put to death - to death -
37 decline
1. verb1) (to say `no' to (an invitation etc); to refuse: We declined his offer of a lift.) refuser2) (to become less strong or less good etc: His health has declined recently; Our profits have temporarily declined.) baisser2. noun(a gradual lessening or worsening (of health, standards, quantity etc): There has been a gradual decline in the birthrate.) baisse -
38 deteriorate
[di'tiəriəreit](to grow worse: His work has deteriorated recently.) (se) détériorer -
39 dip into
1) (to withdraw amounts from (a supply, eg of money): I've been dipping into my savings recently.) puiser (dans)2) (to look briefly at (a book) or to study (a subject) in a casual manner: I've dipped into his book on Shakespeare, but I haven't read it right through.) feuilleter -
40 freshly
adverb (newly; recently: freshly gathered plums; freshly arrived.) nouvellement
См. также в других словарях:
Recently (EP) — Saltar a navegación, búsqueda Recently (EP) EP de The Dave Matthews Band Publicación 1994 Grabación The Birchmere Alexandria, Virginia e … Wikipedia Español
Recently — can refer to the following:* Recently (album), by Joan Baez * Recently (EP), by Dave Matthews Band … Wikipedia
Recently — Re cent*ly (r[=e] sent*l[y^]), adv. Newly; lately; freshly; not long since; as, advices recently received. [1913 Webster] … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
recently — [adv] currently afresh, anew, freshly, in recent past, in recent times, just a while ago, just now, lately, latterly, new, newly, not long ago, of late, short while ago, the other day; concept 820 Ant. before, later … New thesaurus
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recently — / ri:sFntli/ adverb not long ago: I ve only recently started learning French. | Jerry lived in Cairo until quite recently. | a recently published biography … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
recently */*/*/ — UK [ˈriːs(ə)ntlɪ] / US [ˈrɪsəntlɪ] adverb at a time that was not long ago, or that started not long ago She only recently discovered the truth. He s been back to America fairly recently. Recently, though, she seems to have run out of energy … English dictionary