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∎ we belong together body and soul nous sommes faits l'un pour l'autre;∎ he gave himself to her body and soul il s'est donné à elle corps et âme;∎ figurative to have just enough to keep body and soul together avoir tout juste de quoi vivre;∎ this obsession with the body beautiful cette obsession que tout le monde a d'avoir un corps parfait∎ familiar over my dead body! il faudra me passer sur le corps!∎ the main body of voters le gros des électeurs;∎ a large body of people une foule énorme;∎ they came in one body ils sont venus en masse;∎ taken as a body dans leur ensemble, pris ensemble;∎ Law legislative body corps m législatif∎ a body of water un plan d'eau;∎ a growing body of evidence une accumulation de preuves;∎ the body of public opinion la majorité de l'opinion publique;∎ there is a large body of support for the policy un grand nombre de personnes sont en faveur de cette politique(e) (largest part → of document, speech, e-mail) fond m, corps m(f) (of car) carrosserie f; (of plane) fuselage m; (of ship) coque f; (of camera) boîtier m; (of dress) corsage m; (of building) corps m; (of musical instrument) coffre m∎ a wine with (a lot of) body un vin qui a du corps;∎ a shampoo that gives your hair body un shampooing qui donne du volume à vos cheveux∎ she's a funny little body c'est une drôle de petite bonne femme►► body armour vêtements mpl pare-balles;body art body art m;body bag sac m mortuaire;Boxing body blow coup m dur;∎ figurative to be a real body blow to sb's hopes être un véritable coup porté aux espoirs de qn;Sport body building culturisme m;body clock horloge f interne ou biologique;Politics body corporate personne f morale;body count pertes fpl en vies humaines;Cinema body double doublure f;body fascism culte m excessif de la beauté physique (conduisant à un phénomène de discrimination);body fluids fluides mpl organiques;body hair poils mpl;body heat chaleur f animale;body language attitude f;∎ I could tell by his body language je le savais d'après la façon dont il se tenait;body lotion lait m corporel;body odour odeur f corporelle;body paint peinture f pour le corps;body piercing piercing m;Politics body politic corps m politique;body popper smurfer(euse) m,f;body popping smurf m;Sport body rafting canyoning m;Medicine body scan scanographie f;Medicine body scanner scanner m, scanographe m;body scrub produit m exfoliant pour le corps;body search fouille f corporelle;body shampoo shampooing m pour le corps;History body snatcher déterreur(euse) m,f de cadavres;body stocking body m;body swerve feinte f;∎ Scottish familiar figurative to give sb/sth a body swerve éviter qn/qch□ ;body warmer gilet m matelassé -
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A n1 (of person, animal) corps m ; body and soul corps et âme ; to have just enough to keep body and soul together avoir juste assez pour survivre ; to sell one's body se prostituer ; all he wants is your body ○ tout ce qu'il veut, c'est coucher avec toi ○ ;3 ( main section) ( of car) carrosserie f ; ( of boat) coque f ; ( of aircraft) fuselage m ; ( of camera) boîtier m ; (of violin, guitar) caisse f de résonance ; (of text, type) corps m ; ( of dress) corsage m ; the body of the church la nef ;4 ( large quantity) ( of water) étendue f ; ( of laws) recueil m or corps m (de lois) ; a large body of evidence un vaste faisceau de preuves ; there is a body of opinion in favour of l'ensemble m de l'opinion est en faveur de ; the body of support for her is growing le soutien en sa faveur va croissant ;5 ( group) (of troops, students) corps m ; the student body la masse des étudiants ; the main body of demonstrators le gros des manifestants ; in a body en masse ;6 ( organization) organisme m ; advisory/official body organisme consultatif/officiel ; disciplinary body commission f disciplinaire ;7 Phys corps m ;10 ○ †( person) bonhomme ○ /bonne femme ○ m/f.B modif2 Aut [repair] de carrosserie.over my dead body! plutôt mourir! ; you'll do that over my dead body! plutôt mourir que te laisser faire ça! -
3 place
place [pleɪs]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. endroit m• we came to a place where... nous sommes arrivés à un endroit où...━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► A more specific word is often used to translate place.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• it's a small place ( = village) c'est un village━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note adjective + place translated by adjective alone.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► place of + noun• place of birth/work lieu m de naissance/de travail• he'll go places all right! ( = make good) il ira loin !• we're going places at last ( = make progress) nous avançons enfin• your place or mine? on va chez moi ou chez toi ?• his business is growing, he needs a bigger place son affaire s'agrandit, il lui faut des locaux plus grandsd. ( = position) place f• (if I were) in your place... (si j'étais) à votre place...• to take the place of sb/sth prendre la place de qn/qch• to fit into place ( = become clear) devenir clair• the moment I changed jobs everything fell into place ( = turned out well) il a suffi que je change de travail pour que tout s'arrangee. (in competition) place f• Paul won the race with Robert in second place Paul a gagné la course et Robert est arrivé deuxième• my personal life has had to take second place to my career ma vie privée a dû passer après ma carrière• he has risen to second place in the opinion polls il occupe maintenant la deuxième place dans les sondagesf. ( = job) place fg. (for student, player) place f• I've looked for him all over the place je l'ai cherché partout► to be in place [object] être à sa place ; [measure, policy, elements] être en place ; [conditions] être rassemblé ; [law, legislation] être en vigueur► in places ( = here and there) par endroits• the snow is very deep in places la neige est très profonde par endroits► in place of à la place de• in the first place, it will be much cheaper d'abord, ça sera beaucoup moins cher• we need to consider why so many people are in prison in the first place nous devons d'abord nous demander pourquoi tant de gens sont en prison• he shouldn't have been there in the first place d'abord, il n'aurait même pas dû être là► in the second place ensuite► out of place [object, remark] déplacéa. ( = put) mettre• events have placed the president in a difficult position les événements ont mis le président en mauvaise posture• we are now well placed to... nous sommes maintenant bien placés pour...b. ( = rank) placer• he places good health among his greatest assets il considère sa bonne santé comme l'un de ses meilleurs atouts• to place local interests above those of central government placer les intérêts locaux avant ceux de l'Étatc. ( = classify) classerd. ( = make) [+ order, contract] passer ; [+ bet] engagere. ( = find job for) trouver un emploi pour• we have so far placed 28 people in permanent jobs jusqu'à présent nous avons réussi à trouver des emplois permanents à 28 personnes• the agency is trying to place him with a building firm l'agence essaie de lui trouver une place dans une entreprise de constructionf. ( = identify) situer• he looked familiar, but I couldn't immediately place him sa tête me disait quelque chose mais je n'arrivais pas à le situer3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━‼|/b] The French word [b]place is not the commonest translation for place.* * *[pleɪs] 1.1) (location, position) endroit msame time, same place — même heure, même endroit
in places — [hilly, damaged, worn] par endroits
in several places — ( in region) dans plusieurs endroits; ( on body) à plusieurs endroits
place of birth/work — lieu m de naissance/travail
in Oxford, of all places! — à Oxford, figure-toi!
to lose/find one's place — ( in book) perdre/retrouver sa page; (in paragraph, speech) perdre/retrouver le fil
he had no place to go — (colloq) surtout US il n'avait nulle part où aller
some place — (colloq) surtout US quelque part
2) (town, hotel etc) endroit ma little place called... — un petit village du nom de...
all over the place — ( everywhere) partout; fig (colloq) [speech, lecture] complètement décousu; [hair] en bataille
3) ( home)4) (seat, space) (on bus, at table, in queue) place f; ( setting) couvert mto keep a place — garder une place ( for pour)
to lay ou set a place for somebody — mettre un couvert pour quelqu'un
5) (on team, with firm) place f (on dans); (on committee, board) siège m (on au sein de)a place as — une place comme [au pair, cook, cleaner]
6) GB University place f (at à)to get a place on — obtenir une place dans [course]
7) (in competition, race) place fto finish in first place — terminer premier/-ière or à la première place
to take second place — fig ( in importance) passer au deuxième plan
in the first place — fig ( firstly) en premier lieu; ( at the outset) pour commencer
8) (in order, correct position)in place — [law, system, scheme] en place
to put somebody in his/her place — remettre quelqu'un à sa place
9) ( role)to have no place in — n'avoir aucune place dans [organization, philosophy]
10) ( situation)in my/his place — à ma/sa place
11) ( moment) moment m2.in places — [funny, boring, silly] par moments
out of place adjectival phrase déplacé3.to look out of place — [building, person] détonner
in place of prepositional phrase à la place de [person, object]4.transitive verb1) ( put) placer, mettre [object]; mettre [advertisement]to place something back on — remettre quelque chose sur [shelf, table]
2) ( locate) placer3) ( rank) ( in competition) classer; ( in exam) GB classerto be placed third — [horse, athlete] arriver troisième
4) ( identify) situer [person]; reconnaître [accent]5) Administration (send, appoint) placer [student, trainee] (in dans); ( find home for) placer [child]••that young man is really going places — (colloq) voilà un jeune homme qui ira loin
to fall ou fit into place — devenir clair; take place
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