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1 act
act [ækt]agir ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c), 1 (e) jouer ⇒ 1 (d), 2 servir de ⇒ 1 (b) acte ⇒ 3 (a), 3 (d), 3 (f) numéro ⇒ 3 (b), 3 (c) comédie ⇒ 3 (b) loi ⇒ 3 (e)(a) (take action) agir;∎ we must act quickly to stop her nous devons agir rapidement pour l'arrêter;∎ they acted for the best ils ont agi pour le mieux;∎ to act out of fear/greed/selfishness agir sous l'emprise de la peur/par cupidité/par égoïsme;∎ she has a good lawyer acting for her elle est représentée par un bon avocat;∎ to act on behalf of sb, to act on sb's behalf agir au nom de qn∎ to act as servir de, faire office de;∎ she acted as my interpreter elle m'a servi d'interprète;∎ the trees act as a windbreak les arbres servent de barrière contre le vent;∎ the smell acts as a warning to other animals les autres animaux sont avertis par l'odeur;∎ the engine acts as a brake le moteur fait fonction de frein;∎ to act as a warning servir d'avertissement∎ they acted very sensibly/responsibly ils ont agi de façon très raisonnable/responsable;∎ they act as if nothing had happened ils se comportent ou ils font comme si rien ne s'était passé;∎ she just acts dumb elle fait l'innocente;∎ to act stupid/all innocent faire l'idiot/l'innocent;∎ you acted like a fool vous vous êtes conduit comme un imbécile;∎ he acts as though he were bored il agit comme s'il s'ennuyait;∎ she's just acting like she's angry elle joue à ou fait celle qui est en colère∎ he's been acting since he was a child il joue depuis son enfance;∎ he can't act c'est un mauvais acteur;∎ I always wanted to act j'ai toujours voulu être acteur;∎ to act in a film tourner dans un film(e) (produce an effect, work) agir∎ he's acting (the part of) King Lear il joue le rôle du Roi Lear;∎ figurative he tries to act the dutiful husband il essaie de jouer les maris parfaits;∎ stop acting the fool! arrête de faire l'imbécile!;∎ act your age! arrête de faire l'enfant!3 noun(a) (action, deed) acte m;∎ the act of a criminal/madman l'action d'un criminel/fou;∎ to be caught in the act être pris sur le fait;∎ she was caught in the act of taking the money on l'a surprise en train de voler l'argent;∎ to get in on the act s'y mettre;∎ to be/to let sb in on the act être/mettre qn dans le coup(b) (pretence) comédie f, numéro m;∎ to put on an act jouer la comédie;∎ it's all an act tout ça c'est de la comédie;∎ I'm not fooled by your worried mother act! ton numéro de mère anxieuse ne prendra pas avec moi!(c) (in circus, show) numéro m;∎ a comedy act un numéro de comédie;∎ Act I, scene 1 Acte I, scène 1∎ an act of Congress/Parliament une loi du Congrès/Parlement∎ an act of war un acte de guerre►► Bible the Acts of the Apostles les Actes mpl des Apôtres;Religion an act of faith un acte de foi;British History the Act of Settlement = loi promulguée en 1701 interdisant à l'héritier de la couronne britannique d'épouser une personne de confession catholique;British History the Act of Union l'Acte m d'union (traité de 1707 unissant l'Angleterre et l'Écosse, et constituant ainsi le Royaume-Uni de la Grande-Bretagne)∎ she acted on the information we gave her elle a suivi les ou s'est conformée aux indications que nous lui avons données;∎ acting on your instructions, we have cancelled your account selon vos instructions, nous avons fermé votre compte∎ acid acts on metal l'acide agit sur le métal;∎ to act on the brain/the bowels exercer une action sur ou agir sur le cerveau/l'intestin➲ act out∎ local people act out scenes from the town's history les gens du coin jouent des scènes de l'histoire de leur villePsychology passer à l'acte∎ my knee/back is acting up again mon genou/dos recommence à me faire souffrir -
2 act
[ækt] 1. verb1) (to do something: It's time the government acted to lower taxes.) agir2) (to behave: He acted foolishly at the meeting.) se comporter3) (to perform (a part) in a play: He has acted (the part of Romeo) in many theatres; I thought he was dying, but he was only acting (= pretending).) jouer2. noun1) (something done: Running away is an act of cowardice; He committed many cruel acts.) acte2) ((often with capital) a law: Acts of Parliament.) loi3) (a section of a play: `Hamlet' has five acts.) acte4) (an entertainment: an act called `The Smith Family'.) divertissement•- acting- actor - act as - act on - act on behalf of / act for - in the act of - in the act - put on an act -
3 act
A n1 (action, deed) acte m ; to be in the act of doing être en train de faire ; an act of cruelty/kindness un acte de cruauté/bonté ; it was the act of a madman il fallait être fou pour faire ça ;2 Jur, Pol ( law) ( also Act) loi f ; Act of Parliament/Congress loi votée par le Parlement/le Congrès ;4 ( entertainment routine) numéro m ; song and dance act numéro m de chant et de danse ; to put on an act fig péj jouer la comédie ; it's all an act c'est de la frime ○ or du cinéma ○ ; to get in on the act s'y mettre ; their company started the trend and now all their rivals want to get in on the act c'est leur entreprise qui a lancé la mode et maintenant tous leurs concurrents veulent s'y mettre aussi.B vtr Theat jouer [part, role] ; he acted (the part of) the perfect host fig il s'est comporté en hôte irréprochable.C vi1 ( take action) agir ; we must act quickly il nous faut agir rapidement ; she still believes she was acting for the best elle persiste à penser qu'elle a fait pour le mieux ; they only acted out of fear c'est la peur qui les a fait agir ; to act for sb, to act on behalf of sb agir au nom de or pour le compte de qn ;2 ( behave) agir, se comporter ; to act aggressively towards sb se comporter or agir de manière agressive envers qn ;3 Theat jouer, faire du théâtre ; fig ( pretend) jouer la comédie, faire semblant ; she can't act! Theat elle joue mal!, c'est une mauvaise actrice! ;4 ( take effect) [drug, substance] agir ;5 ( serve) to act as [person, object] servir de ; he acted as their interpreter il leur a servi d'interprète.to be caught in the act être pris sur le fait or en flagrant délit ; to get one's act together se prendre en main ; it will be a hard act to follow ça sera difficile à égaler. -
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act [ækt]1. nouna. ( = deed) acte mb. ( = law) loi fa. ( = take action) agirb. (in play, film) jouer• have you ever acted before? (on stage) avez-vous déjà fait du théâtre ? ; (in film) avez-vous déjà fait du cinéma ?[+ part in play] jouer• to act the part of... tenir le rôle de...4. compounds[+ advice, suggestion] suivre ; [+ order] exécuter[+ event] faire un récit mimé de ; [+ fantasies] vivre[child] se conduire mal[+ advice, suggestion] suivre ; [+ order] exécuter* * *[ækt] 1.1) (action, deed) acte mAct of Parliament/Congress — loi votée par le Parlement/le Congrès
3) Theatre acte m4) ( entertainment routine) numéro m2.to put on an act — fig jouer la comédie
transitive verb Theatre jouer [part, role]3.1) ( take action) agirto act for somebody —
to act on behalf of somebody — agir au nom de or pour le compte de quelqu'un
2) ( behave) agir, se comporter4) ( take effect) [drug] agir5) ( serve)to act as — [person, object] servir de
•Phrasal Verbs:- act out- act up••to be caught in the act — être pris sur le fait or en flagrant délit
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5 might
might [maɪt]1. modal verba. ( = may)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When might expresses present, future or past possibility, it is often translated by peut-être, with the appropriate tense of the French verb.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. ( = could)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you might have told me you weren't coming! tu aurais pu me prévenir que tu ne viendrais pas !might I suggest that...? puis-je me permettre de suggérer que... ?c. ( = should) I might have known j'aurais dû m'en douter━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━d. (emphatic) and, I might add, it was entirely his fault et j'ajouterais que c'était entièrement de sa faute• why did he give her his credit card? -- you might well ask! mais pourquoi lui a-t-il donné sa carte de crédit ? -- va savoir !• one might well ask whether... on est en droit de se demander si...• try as he might, he couldn't do it il a eu beau essayer, il n'y est pas arrivé2. noun* * *I [maɪt]1) ( indicating possibility)‘will you come?’ - ‘I might’ — ‘tu viendras?’ - ‘peut-être’
you might have guessed that... — vous aurez peut-être deviné que...
try as I might, I can't do it — j'ai beau essayer, je n'y arrive pas
he was thinking about what might have been — il pensait à ce qui se serait passé si les choses avaient été différentes
if they had acted quickly he might well be alive — s'ils avaient agi plus vite il serait peut-être encore en vie
4) sout ( when making requests)and who, might I ask, are you? —
and who might you be? — ( aggressive) on peut savoir qui vous êtes?
5) ( when making suggestions)6) (when making statement, argument)one might argue ou it might be argued that — on pourrait dire or faire valoir que
as you ou one might expect — comme de bien entendu
7) (expressing reproach, irritation)I might have known ou guessed! — j'aurais dû m'en douter!
8) ( in concessives)II [maɪt]they might not be fast but they're reliable — ils ne sont peut-être pas rapides mais on peut au moins compter sur eux; well I 2. 2
1) ( power) puissance f2) ( physical strength) force f -
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other [ˈʌðər]1. adjective• the other one l'autre mf• the other day/week l'autre jour/semaine2. pronoun• some like flying, others prefer the train les uns aiment prendre l'avion, les autres préfèrent le train3. adverb• other than that, I said nothing à part ça, je n'ai rien dit* * *['ʌðə(r)] 1.1) (what is left, the rest) autre2) (alternative, additional) autre3) ( alternate)4) (different, not the same) autrethe ‘other woman’ — ( mistress) la maîtresse
5) ( opposite) autre6) ( recent)7) ( in lists)2.she will visit Japan, among other places — entre autres, elle ira au Japon
other than prepositional phrase1) ( except)2) ( anything but)3.others — ( as subject) d'autres; ( as object) les autres
somebody ou someone or other — quelqu'un
some book or other — un livre, je ne sais plus lequel
••my other half — (colloq) ma moitié (colloq) f
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7 professionally
professionally [prəˈfe∫nəlɪ]a. ( = vocationally) professionnellement• it was a difficult time both personally and professionally ce fut une période difficile aussi bien sur le plan personnel que professionnelb. ( = expertly) de manière professionnelle• these forged tickets were produced very professionally ces faux billets ont été produits par des professionnelsc. ( = according to professional standards) avec professionnalisme━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[prə'feʃənəlɪ]1) ( expertly) [designed] par un professionnel2) ( from an expert standpoint) d'un point de vue professionnel3) ( in work situation) dans un cadre professionnelhe is known professionally as Tim Jones — dans le métier, il est connu sous le nom de Tim Jones
4) [play sport] en professionnel/-ellehe sings/dances professionally — il est chanteur/danseur professionnel
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8 quickly
quickly [ˈkwɪklɪ]a. ( = with great speed) [speak, work] viteb. ( = in short time) [die, embrace] rapidement ; ( = without delay) [arrive, answer, react] sans tarder* * *['kwɪklɪ] -
9 compliance
(conformity) conformité f;∎ she acted in compliance with the terms of the contract elle a agi en accord avec les stipulations du contratcompliance test test m de conformité -
10 according to
1) (as said or told by: According to John, the bank closes at 3 p.m.) selon2) (in agreement with: He acted according to his promise.) selon3) (in the order of: books arranged according to their subjects.) selon; par4) (in proportion to: You will be paid according to the amount of work you have done.) selon -
11 advisory
adjective (giving advice: an advisory leaflet; He acted in an advisory capacity.) consultatif -
12 as if / as though
(in the way one would expect if: He acted as if he were mad; He spoke as though he knew all about our plans; He opened his mouth as if to speak; You look as if you are going to faint.) comme (si, pour) -
13 charades
noun singular (a game in which each syllable of a word, and then the whole word, is acted and the audience has to guess the word.) charade -
14 decisively
adverb He acted very decisively.) sans hésiter -
15 decoy
['di:koi](anything intended to lead someone or something into a trap: The policewoman acted as a decoy when the police were trying to catch the murderer.) piège -
16 duty
['dju:ti]plural - duties; noun1) (what one ought morally or legally to do: He acted out of duty; I do my duty as a responsible citizen.) devoir2) (an action or task requiring to be done, especially one attached to a job: I had a few duties to perform in connection with my job.) obligation3) ((a) tax on goods: You must pay duty when you bring wine into the country.) taxe•- dutiable- dutiful - duty-free - off duty - on duty -
17 foil
I [foil] verb(to defeat; to disappoint: She was foiled in her attempt to become President.) faire échouerII [foil] noun1) (extremely thin sheets of metal that resemble paper: silver foil.) feuille/papier d'aluminium2) (a dull person or thing against which someone or something else seems brighter: She acted as a foil to her beautiful sister.) repoussoirIII [foil] noun(a blunt sword with a button at the end, used in the sport of fencing.) fleuret -
18 forethought
['fo:Ɵo:t](thought about, or concern for, the future: They acted without sufficient forethought.) prévoyance -
19 hindsight
(wisdom or knowledge got only after something (usually bad) has happened: In hindsight, we should have acted differently.) sagesse (rétrospective) -
20 play
[plei] 1. verb1) (to amuse oneself: The child is playing in the garden; He is playing with his toys; The little girl wants to play with her friends.) jouer2) (to take part in (games etc): He plays football; He is playing in goal; Here's a pack of cards - who wants to play (with me)?; I'm playing golf with him this evening.) jouer (à)3) (to act in a play etc; to act (a character): She's playing Lady Macbeth; The company is playing in London this week.) jouer4) ((of a play etc) to be performed: `Oklahoma' is playing at the local theatre.) jouer5) (to (be able to) perform on (a musical instrument): She plays the piano; Who was playing the piano this morning?; He plays (the oboe) in an orchestra.) jouer (de)6) ((usually with on) to carry out or do (a trick): He played a trick on me.) jouer (un tour à)7) ((usually with at) to compete against (someone) in a game etc: I'll play you at tennis.) jouer (contre)8) ((of light) to pass with a flickering movement: The firelight played across the ceiling.) chatoyer9) (to direct (over or towards something): The firemen played their hoses over the burning house.) diriger10) (to put down or produce (a playing-card) as part of a card game: He played the seven of hearts.) jouer2. noun1) (recreation; amusement: A person must have time for both work and play.) jeu, amusement2) (an acted story; a drama: Shakespeare wrote many great plays.) pièce3) (the playing of a game: At the start of today's play, England was leading India by fifteen runs.) match4) (freedom of movement (eg in part of a machine).) jeu•- player- playable - playful - playfully - playfulness - playboy - playground - playing-card - playing-field - playmate - playpen - playschool - plaything - playtime - playwright - at play - bring/come into play - child's play - in play - out of play - play at - play back - play down - play fair - play for time - play havoc with - play into someone's hands - play off - play off against - play on - play a - no part in - play safe - play the game - play up
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