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1 unless
unless [ənˈles]à moins que... (ne) + subj, à moins de + infin• I'll take it, unless you want it je vais le prendre, à moins que vous (ne) le vouliez• take it, unless you can find another prenez-le, à moins que vous n'en trouviez un autre* * *[ən'les]1) ( except if) à moins que (+ subj), à moins de (+ infinitive), sauf si (+ indic)he won't come unless you invite him — il ne viendra pas à moins que tu (ne) l'invites or sauf si tu l'invites
she can't take the job unless she finds a nanny — elle ne peut pas accepter le poste à moins de trouver une nourrice
unless I get my passport back, I can't leave the country — si je ne récupère pas mon passeport je ne pourrai pas quitter le pays
unless I'm very much mistaken — si je ne m'abuse fml or à moins que je (ne) me trompe
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2 unless
1 ( except if) à moins que (+ subj), à moins de (+ infinitive), sauf si (+ indic) ; he won't come unless you invite him il ne viendra pas à moins que tu (ne) l'invites or sauf si tu l'invites ; she can't take the job unless she finds a nanny elle ne peut pas accepter le poste à moins de trouver or à moins qu'elle (ne) trouve une nourrice ; I'll have the egg, unless anyone else wants it? je mangerai l'œuf, à moins que quelqu'un d'autre (ne) le veuille? ; unless I get my passport back, I can't leave the country si je ne récupère pas mon passeport je ne pourrai pas quitter le pays ; he threatened that unless they agreed to pay him he'd reveal the truth il a menacé de révéler la vérité s'ils refusaient de le payer ; it won't work unless you plug it in! ça ne marchera pas si tu ne le branches pas! ; she wouldn't go unless she was accompanied by her mother elle ne voulait y aller que si elle était accompagnée par sa mère ; unless I'm very much mistaken, that's Jim si je ne m'abuse fml or à moins que je (ne) me trompe, c'est Jim ; unless I hear to the contrary sauf contrordre ; unless otherwise agreed/stated sauf accord/avis contraire ;2 ( except when) sauf quand ; we eat out on Fridays unless one of us is working late nous mangeons au restaurant le vendredi sauf quand l'un de nous travaille tard. -
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unless [ən'les]à moins que + subjunctive, à moins de + infinitive;∎ I'll go unless he phones first j'irai, à moins qu'il (ne) téléphone d'abord;∎ unless I'm very much mistaken à moins que je ne me trompe;∎ unless he pays me tomorrow, I'm leaving s'il ne m'a pas payé demain, je m'en vais;∎ we won't get there on time unless we leave now nous ne serons pas à l'heure à moins de partir maintenant;∎ I would always be back by 6.15, unless I was working late je rentrais toujours à 6 heures 15 au plus tard, sauf quand je travaillais tard;∎ you won't win unless you practise vous ne gagnerez pas si vous ne vous entraînez pas;∎ they won't agree unless I go myself ils n'accepteront pas si je n'y vais pas moi-même;∎ don't speak unless spoken to ne parle que lorsqu'on t'adresse la parole;∎ unless I hear otherwise or to the contrary sauf avis contraire, sauf contrordre;∎ unless otherwise stated sauf indication contraire -
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[ən'les]1) (if not: Don't come unless I telephone.) à moins que2) (except when: The directors have a meeting every Friday, unless there is nothing to discuss.) à moins que -
5 unless otherwise agreed
Jur. sauf dispositions contraires; sauf stipulation contraireEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > unless otherwise agreed
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6 unless otherwise agreed provided for
Jur. sauf dispositions contraires; sauf stipulation contraireEnglish-French dictionary of law, politics, economics & finance > unless otherwise agreed provided for
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7 unless otherwise directed
sauf directive contraireEnglish-French legislative terms > unless otherwise directed
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8 unless otherwise ordered
(by court)sauf ordonnance contraire;(by director, etc)sauf arrêté contraire, sauf ordre contraire -
9 unless otherwise provided
sauf disposition contraireEnglish-French legislative terms > unless otherwise provided
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10 average unless general
avarie sauf commune (2e)English-French insurance dictionari > average unless general
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11 contrary
I.contrary1 [ˈkɒntrərɪ]1. adjective2. preposition3. nounII.contrary2 [kənˈtrεərɪ]( = unreasonable) contrariant* * *['kɒntrərɪ], US [-trerɪ] 1.noun contraire m2.despite views/claims to the contrary — contrairement à ce que certains pensent/disent
1) [idea, view] contraireto be contrary to — [activity, proposal, opinion, measure] être contraire à
2) [direction, movement] contraire (to à)3) [kən'treərɪ] [person] contrariant3.contrary to prepositional phrase contrairement àcontrary to popular belief/to rumours — contrairement à ce que l'on peut croire/à la rumeur
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12 mistaken
mistaken [mɪsˈteɪkən]1. verb2. adjectivea. ( = wrong) to be mistaken (about sb/sth) se tromper (à propos de qn/qch)• to be mistaken in thinking that... se tromper en croyant que...• that's just where you're mistaken! c'est là que vous vous trompez !b. ( = erroneous) [belief, idea] erroné• to do sth in the mistaken belief that... faire qch en croyant à tort que...* * *[mɪ'steɪkən] 1. 2.1)it's a case of mistaken identity — Law il y a erreur sur la personne
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14 F.P.A. free of particular average
F.A.P., franc d'avaries particulières (LGA) F.P.A. absolutely free of particular average absolutely F.A.P., franc d'avaries particulières (LGA) F.P.A. unless, free of particular average unless F.A.P., franc d'avaries particulières (LGA)English-French insurance dictionari > F.P.A. free of particular average
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15 free of particular average, F.P.A.
franc d'avaries particulières, F.A.P. (LGA) free of particular average absolutely, F.P.A. absolutely franc d'avaries particulières absolument, F.A.P. absolument (LGA) free of particular average unless, F.P.A. unless franc d'avaries particulières sauf, F.A.P. sauf (LGA)English-French insurance dictionari > free of particular average, F.P.A.
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16 contrary
contrary, US [transcription][-trerI]A n contraire m ; the contrary is the case c'est le contraire qui est vrai ; quite the contrary bien au contraire ; on the contrary (bien) au contraire ; despite views/claims to the contrary contrairement à ce que certains pensent/disent ; unless there is evidence to the contrary à moins qu'il n'y ait une preuve du contraire ; no-one said anything to the contrary personne n'a dit le contraire ; unless you hear anything to the contrary sauf contrordre.B adj1 [idea, view] contraire ; to be contrary to [activity, proposal, opinion, measure] être contraire à ;2 [direction, movement] contraire (to à) ;3 [person] contrariant.C contrary to prep phr contrairement à ; contrary to popular belief/to rumours ( in spite of) contrairement à ce que l'on peut croire/à la rumeur ; contrary to expectations contre toute attente. -
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agree [əˈgri:]a. ( = consent) accepterb. ( = admit) reconnaîtrec. ( = come to an agreement) convenir ( to do sth de faire qch ) ; [+ time, price] se mettre d'accord sur• the delivery was three days later than agreed la livraison a été effectuée trois jours après la date convenuea. ( = hold same opinion) être d'accordb. ( = come to terms) se mettre d'accord• to agree about or on sth se mettre d'accord sur qchc. [ideas, stories, assessments] concorder* * *[ə'griː] 1.transitive verb (prét, pp agreed)I agree it sounds unlikely — ça a l'air peu probable, j'en conviens
it's dangerous, don't you agree? — c'est dangereux, tu ne crois pas?
3) ( consent)4) (settle on, arrange) se mettre d'accord sur [date, price, candidate, solution]2.intransitive verb (prét, pp agreed)1) ( hold same opinion) être d'accord ( with avec; about, on sur; about doing pour faire)‘I agree!’ — ‘je suis bien d'accord!’
2) ( reach mutual understanding) se mettre d'accord, tomber d'accord (about, on sur)3) ( consent) accepterto agree to — consentir à [plan, suggestion, terms]
4) (hold with, approve)to agree with — approuver [belief, idea, practice]
6) ( suit)to agree with somebody — [climate, weather] être bon pour quelqu'un; [food] réussir à quelqu'un
7) Linguistics s'accorder ( with avec; in en)3.agreed past participle adjective [date, time, venue, amount, budget, rate, terms, signal] convenuto be agreed on — être d'accord sur [decision, statement, policy]
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18 BE
be [bi:]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verb3. modal verb6. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verba. être• who is that? -- it's me! qui est-ce ? -- c'est moi !• if I were you I would refuse si j'étais vous, je refuserais━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The following translations use ce + être because they contain an article or possessive in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► No article is used in French, unless the noun is qualified by an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• how are you? comment allez-vous ?d. ( = cost) coûter• how much is it? combien ça coûte ?e. ( = equal) fairef.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to be cold/hot/hungry/thirsty/ashamed/right/wrong avoir froid/chaud/faim/soif/honte/raison/tort━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note how French makes the person, not the part of the body, the subject of the sentence in the following.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━g. (with age) avoir• how old is he? quel âge a-t-il ?► to be + -ing━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French does not distinguish between simple and continuous actions as much as English does.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'm coming! j'arrive !• what have you been doing this week? qu'est-ce que tu as fait cette semaine ?• will you be seeing her tomorrow? est-ce que vous allez la voir demain ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► être en train de + infinitive emphasizes that one is in the middle of the action.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I haven't got time, I'm cooking the dinner je n'ai pas le temps, je suis en train de préparer le repas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The imperfect tense is used for continuous action in the past.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► have/had been +... for/since━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French uses the present and imperfect where English uses the perfect and past perfect.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd been at university for six weeks when my father got ill j'étais à l'université depuis six semaines quand mon père est tombé malade• he's a friend of yours, isn't he? c'est un ami à toi, n'est-ce pas ?• she wasn't happy, was she? elle n'était pas heureuse, n'est-ce pas ?• so it's all done, is it? tout est fait, alors ?• you're not ill, are you? tu n'es pas malade j'espère ?c. (in tag responses) they're getting married -- oh are they? ils vont se marier -- ah bon ?• he's going to complain about you -- oh is he? il va porter plainte contre toi -- ah vraiment ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he's always late, isn't he? -- yes, he is il est toujours en retard, n'est-ce pas ? -- oui• is it what you expected? -- no it isn't est-ce que tu t'attendais à ça ? -- non━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The past participle in French passive constructions agrees with the subject.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The passive is used less in French than in English. It is often expressed by on + active verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• it is said that... on dit que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The reflexive can be used to describe how something is usually done.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━3. modal verb► am/are/is to + infinitivea. ( = will)• now the old lady has died, her house is to be sold maintenant que la vieille dame est décédée, sa maison va être mise en venteb. ( = must) you are to follow these instructions exactly tu dois suivre ces instructions scrupuleusementc. ( = should) he is to be pitied il est à plaindre• not to be confused with... à ne pas confondre avec...d. ( = be destined to) this was to have serious repercussions cela devait avoir de graves répercussionse. ( = can) these birds are to be found all over the world on trouve ces oiseaux dans le monde entiera. être ; ( = take place) avoir lieu• he is there at the moment, but he won't be there much longer il est là en ce moment mais il ne va pas rester très longtemps► there is/are ( = there exist(s)) il y a• here you are at last! te voilà enfin !• here you are! ( = take this) tiens (or tenez) !b. ► to have been (to a place)• where have you been? où étais-tu passé ?a. (weather, temperature) faire• it's fine/cold/dark il fait beau/froid/nuit• it's windy/foggy il y a du vent/du brouillard• it was then we realized that... c'est alors que nous nous sommes rendu compte que...• it was they who suggested that... ce sont eux qui ont suggéré que...• why is it that she is so popular? pourquoi a-t-elle tant de succès ?6. compounds* * *noun: abrév bill of exchange -
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be [bi:]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verb3. modal verb6. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. link verba. être• who is that? -- it's me! qui est-ce ? -- c'est moi !• if I were you I would refuse si j'étais vous, je refuserais━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The following translations use ce + être because they contain an article or possessive in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► No article is used in French, unless the noun is qualified by an adjective.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• how are you? comment allez-vous ?d. ( = cost) coûter• how much is it? combien ça coûte ?e. ( = equal) fairef.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• to be cold/hot/hungry/thirsty/ashamed/right/wrong avoir froid/chaud/faim/soif/honte/raison/tort━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note how French makes the person, not the part of the body, the subject of the sentence in the following.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━g. (with age) avoir• how old is he? quel âge a-t-il ?► to be + -ing━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French does not distinguish between simple and continuous actions as much as English does.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'm coming! j'arrive !• what have you been doing this week? qu'est-ce que tu as fait cette semaine ?• will you be seeing her tomorrow? est-ce que vous allez la voir demain ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► être en train de + infinitive emphasizes that one is in the middle of the action.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I haven't got time, I'm cooking the dinner je n'ai pas le temps, je suis en train de préparer le repas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The imperfect tense is used for continuous action in the past.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► have/had been +... for/since━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► French uses the present and imperfect where English uses the perfect and past perfect.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd been at university for six weeks when my father got ill j'étais à l'université depuis six semaines quand mon père est tombé malade• he's a friend of yours, isn't he? c'est un ami à toi, n'est-ce pas ?• she wasn't happy, was she? elle n'était pas heureuse, n'est-ce pas ?• so it's all done, is it? tout est fait, alors ?• you're not ill, are you? tu n'es pas malade j'espère ?c. (in tag responses) they're getting married -- oh are they? ils vont se marier -- ah bon ?• he's going to complain about you -- oh is he? il va porter plainte contre toi -- ah vraiment ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• he's always late, isn't he? -- yes, he is il est toujours en retard, n'est-ce pas ? -- oui• is it what you expected? -- no it isn't est-ce que tu t'attendais à ça ? -- non━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The past participle in French passive constructions agrees with the subject.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The passive is used less in French than in English. It is often expressed by on + active verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• it is said that... on dit que...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The reflexive can be used to describe how something is usually done.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━3. modal verb► am/are/is to + infinitivea. ( = will)• now the old lady has died, her house is to be sold maintenant que la vieille dame est décédée, sa maison va être mise en venteb. ( = must) you are to follow these instructions exactly tu dois suivre ces instructions scrupuleusementc. ( = should) he is to be pitied il est à plaindre• not to be confused with... à ne pas confondre avec...d. ( = be destined to) this was to have serious repercussions cela devait avoir de graves répercussionse. ( = can) these birds are to be found all over the world on trouve ces oiseaux dans le monde entiera. être ; ( = take place) avoir lieu• he is there at the moment, but he won't be there much longer il est là en ce moment mais il ne va pas rester très longtemps► there is/are ( = there exist(s)) il y a• here you are at last! te voilà enfin !• here you are! ( = take this) tiens (or tenez) !b. ► to have been (to a place)• where have you been? où étais-tu passé ?a. (weather, temperature) faire• it's fine/cold/dark il fait beau/froid/nuit• it's windy/foggy il y a du vent/du brouillard• it was then we realized that... c'est alors que nous nous sommes rendu compte que...• it was they who suggested that... ce sont eux qui ont suggéré que...• why is it that she is so popular? pourquoi a-t-elle tant de succès ?6. compounds* * *[biː, bɪ]1) gen êtreit's me —
2) ( in probability)were it not that... — si ce n'était que...
had it not been for Frank, I'd have missed the train — sans Frank j'aurais raté le train
3) ( phrases)let ou leave him be — laisse-le tranquille
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20 otherwise
otherwise [ˈʌðəwaɪz]1. adverba. ( = in another way) autrement• a debate about the merits or otherwise of this proposal un débat sur les mérites ou autres de cette proposition• Montgomery, otherwise known as Monty Montgomery, également connu sous le nom de Montyb. ( = in other respects) autrement2. conjunction• take down the number, otherwise you'll forget it note le numéro, sinon tu vas l'oublier* * *['ʌðəwaɪz] 1.1) (differently, in other ways)improve or otherwise change something — améliorer ou modifier quelque chose d'une manière ou d'une autre
no woman, married or otherwise — aucune femme, mariée ou non
William otherwise known as Bill — William, qu'on connaît aussi sous le nom de Bill
2) ( in other respects) à part cela, par ailleurs2.conjunction (or else, in other circumstances) sinonit's quite safe, otherwise I wouldn't do it — ce n'est pas dangereux du tout, sinon je ne le ferais pas
См. также в других словарях:
Unless — Un*less , conj. [Formerly, onles, onlesse, onlesse that, that is, in less, in a less case. See {On}, and {Less}.] Upon any less condition than (the fact or thing stated in the sentence or clause which follows); if not; supposing that not; if it… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
unless — [un les′] conj. [ME onlesse, earlier on lesse that, in lesse that, at less than, for less] in any case other than that; except that; except if [unless it rains, the game will be played] prep. except; save [nothing can help him, unless a miracle] … English World dictionary
unless — preposition except, excepting, however, precluding, save, without Burton s Legal Thesaurus. William C. Burton. 2006 … Law dictionary
unless — mid 15c., earlier onlesse, from on lesse (than) on a less condition (than), the first syllable originally on, but the negative connotation and the lack of stress changed it to un … Etymology dictionary
unless — ► CONJUNCTION ▪ except when; if not. ORIGIN from ON(Cf. ↑on) or IN(Cf. ↑in) + LESS(Cf. ↑less) … English terms dictionary
unless — un|less W1S1 [ʌnˈles, ən ] conj [Date: 1400 1500; Origin: on less than on a lower condition than (1400 1500)] 1.) used to say that something will happen or be true if something else does not happen or is not true ▪ Unless some extra money is… … Dictionary of contemporary English
unless — conjunction used when one thing will only happen or be true as long as another thing happens or is true: Milk quickly turns sour unless it s refrigerated. | Unless some extra money is found, the theatre will close. USAGE NOTE: UNLESS WORD CHOICE … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
unless — un|less [ ən les ] conjunction *** used for saying that if something does not happen, something else will happen or be true as a result: I can t help you unless you tell me what s wrong. The car should be in the garage unless someone s moved it.… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
unless */*/*/ — UK [ənˈles] / US conjunction used for saying that if something does not happen, something else will happen or be true as a result I can t help you unless you tell me what s wrong. The car should be in the garage unless someone s moved it. Unless… … English dictionary
Unless — infobox Book | name = Unless title orig = translator = author = Carol Shields cover artist = country = Canada language = English series = genre = Novel publisher = Harper Collins release date = April 30, 2002 media type = Print (Hardback… … Wikipedia
unless — [[t]ʌnle̱s[/t]] ♦♦ CONJ SUBORD You use unless to introduce the only circumstances in which an event you are mentioning will not take place or in which a statement you are making is not true. Unless you are trying to lose weight to please yourself … English dictionary