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1 appearance
appearance [əˈpɪərəns]a. ( = act) apparition fb. (in play, film, TV programme) since his appearance in "Hamlet" depuis qu'il a joué dans « Hamlet »• in order of appearance (in play) par ordre d'entrée en scène ; (in film, TV programme) par ordre d'apparition à l'écranc. ( = look) apparence fd. [of publication] parution f* * *[ə'pɪərəns] 1.1) ( arrival) (of person, vehicle) arrivée f; (of development, invention) apparition f2) Cinema, Theatre, Television passage mto make an appearance on television/on stage — passer à la télévision/à la scène
cast in order of appearance — Theatre distribution par ordre d'entrée en scène; Cinema distribution par ordre d'apparition (à l'écran)
3) (public, sporting) apparition f6) ( semblance)to give the appearance of something/of doing — donner l'apparence de quelque chose/de faire
it had all the appearances ou every appearance of — cela avait tout l'air de
7) (of book, article) parution f2.appearances plural noun apparences fplto judge ou go by appearances — se fier aux apparences
for the sake of appearances —
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2 appearance
appearance [ə'pɪərəns](a) (act of appearing) apparition f;∎ with the appearance of fast-food restaurants avec l'apparition ou l'arrivée des fast-foods;∎ the antibiotics help guard against the appearance of further infections les antibiotiques contribuent à éviter l'apparition de nouvelles infections;∎ she made a brief appearance at the party elle a fait une brève apparition à la fête;∎ the president made a personal appearance le président est apparu en personne;∎ to put in an appearance passer; (as token gesture) faire acte de présence(b) (advent) avènement m; Commerce (of new product) mise f sur le marché; (of book, newspaper) parution f∎ to make an appearance before a court or a judge comparaître devant un tribunal∎ this was her first appearance on the stage c'était sa première apparition sur scène;∎ she's made a number of television appearances elle est passée plusieurs fois à la télévision;∎ offers have flooded in since her television appearance les propositions ont afflué depuis son passage à la télévision;∎ in order of appearance par ordre d'entrée en scène(e) (outward aspect) apparence f, aspect m;∎ from his appearance one would say… à son air ou son extérieur on dirait…;∎ to have a good appearance (person) présenter bien;∎ I tried to give the appearance that I cared j'ai essayé de donner l'impression que ça ne m'était pas indifférent;∎ it has all the appearances of being a first-class show si l'on en juge par les apparences, ce devrait être un spectacle de premier ordre;∎ to or by all appearances selon toute apparence;∎ contrary to all appearances, against all appearances contrairement à toute apparence;∎ appearances can be deceptive les apparences sont parfois trompeuses;∎ don't judge by appearances ne vous fiez pas aux apparences, il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences;∎ to keep up appearances sauver les apparences;∎ for appearances' sake pour la forme -
3 appearance
1) (what can be seen (of a person, thing etc): From his appearance he seemed very wealthy.) apparence2) (the act of coming into view or coming into a place: The thieves ran off at the sudden appearance of two policemen.) apparition3) (the act of coming before or presenting oneself/itself before the public or a judge etc: his first appearance on the stage.) apparition; comparution -
4 guest
guest [gest](at home) invité (e) m(f) ; (at table) convive mf ; (in hotel) client (e) m(f) ; (in boarding house) pensionnaire mf ; (on TV, radio show) invité (e) m(f)• be my guest! (inf) je vous en prie !• to make a guest appearance on sb's show être invité sur le plateau de qn ► guest artist noun invité (e) m(f) spécial(e)* * *[gest] 1.guest of honour — invité/-e m/f d'honneur
house guest — invité/-e m/f
2) Biology hôte m2.guest book — livre m d'or
guest list — liste f des invités
guest star — gen invité/-e m/f d'honneur; ( in film credits) avec la participation de
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5 cameo
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6 daybreak
noun (dawn; the first appearance of light: We left at daybreak.) lever du jour -
7 fairy-tale
noun (a fairy-story: to tell fairy-tales; ( also adjective) the fairy-tale appearance of the countryside.) conte de fées -
8 front
1) (the part of anything (intended to be) nearest the person who sees it; usually the most important part of anything: the front of the house; the front of the picture; ( also adjective) the front page.) devant, première (page)2) (the foremost part of anything in the direction in which it moves: the front of the ship; ( also adjective) the front seat of the bus.) avant, de devant3) (the part of a city or town that faces the sea: We walked along the (sea) front.) bord de mer4) ((in war) the line of soliers nearest the enemy: They are sending more soldiers to the front.) front5) (a boundary separating two masses of air of different temperatures: A cold front is approaching from the Atlantic.) front6) (an outward appearance: He put on a brave front.) contenance7) (a name sometimes given to a political movement: the Popular Front for Liberation.) front•- frontage- frontal - at the front of - in front of - in front -
9 guise
(a disguised or false appearance: The thieves entered the house in the guise of workmen.) apparence, déguisement -
10 looks
noun plural ((attractive) appearance: She lost her looks as she grew older; good looks.) beauté -
11 make-over
noun (a (complete) change in a person's appearance made by cosmetic treatment, new hairstyle, new clothes etc.) -
12 scenery
1) (the painted background for a play etc on a stage: The scenery looked rather shabby.) décor(s)2) (the general appearance of a landscape etc: beautiful scenery.) paysage -
13 uniformity
noun (the condition of being uniform: The houses in the street had no uniformity of appearance.) uniformité -
14 wolf-whistle
noun (a whistle impolitely made by a man to express his admiration of a woman's appearance.) sifflement admiratif -
15 personal
personal [ˈpɜ:snl]1. adjectivepersonnel ; [habits] intime ; [application] (fait) en personne ; [remark, question] indiscret (- ète f)• my personal belief is... je crois personnellement...• a letter marked "personal" une lettre marquée « personnel »• don't be personal! (inf) ne sois pas si blessant !• the president believes his personal safety is at risk le président craint pour sa sécurité personnelle2. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ personnel ends in -el instead of -al and has a double n.* * *['pɜːsənl] 1.noun US petite annonce f personnelle2.adjective [opinion, life, problem, attack, call, matter] personnel/-elle; [safety, freedom, choice, income, profit, insurance] individuel/-elle; [service] personnaliséon ou at a personal level — sur le plan personnel
personal belongings ou effects ou possessions — effets mpl personnels
personal hygiene — hygiène f intime
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16 face
face [feɪs]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. [of person] visage m• you're lying, it's written all over your face! (inf) tu mens, ça se lit sur ton visage !• to come face to face with [+ person] se trouver nez à nez avec• get out of my face! (inf!) fous-moi la paix ! (inf !)b. ( = front) he was lying face down il était à plat ventrec. ( = expression) mine fd. ( = appearance) visage mf. [of mountain] face f• it fell face up/down [playing card, photo] elle est tombée face en dessus/en dessousa. ( = look towards) faire face àb. ( = look out onto) [building] donner surc. ( = confront) two problems faced them ils se trouvaient devant deux problèmes• the government, faced with renewed wage demands... le gouvernement, confronté à de nouvelles revendications salariales...• he was faced with a bill for £100 il se voyait obligé de payer une note de 100 livresd. ( = face up to) [+ problem] affronter ; [+ truth] regarder en face• she won't face the fact that he's not going to come back elle ne veut pas se rendre à l'évidence et admettre qu'il ne reviendra pase. ( = risk incurring) risquerf. ( = appear before) affronterb. [house] être orienté4. compounds► face cloth noun ≈ gant m de toilette• to give a face-lift to [+ house] (exterior) ravaler la façade de ; (interior) retaper ; [+ political party, company] rajeunir l'image de• the town has been given a face-lift la ville a fait peau neuve ► face mask noun masque m ; (Cosmetics) masque m (de beauté)• it was a face-saving exercise on their part ils l'ont fait pour sauver la face ► face-to-face adjective face à face• to face up to the fact that... admettre que...* * *[feɪs] 1.to slam the door/laugh in somebody's face — claquer la porte/rire au nez de quelqu'un
to be face up/down — [person] être sur le dos/ventre
2) ( expression) air mto pull ou make a face — faire la grimace
3) fig ( outward appearance)to change the face of — changer le visage de [industry]
4) ( dignity)5) ( surface) (of clock, watch) cadran m; (of gem, dice) face f; ( of coin) côté m; ( of planet) surface f; (of cliff, mountain) face f; ( of rock) paroi f; ( of playing card) face f; ( of document) recto mto disappear ou vanish off the face of the earth — (colloq) disparaître de la circulation
2.face up/down — à l'endroit/l'envers
transitive verb1) ( look towards) [person] faire face à; [building, room] donner surto face north/south — [person] regarder au nord/sud; [building] être orienté au nord/sud
facing our house, there is... — en face de notre maison, il y a...
2) ( confront) se trouver face à [challenge, crisis]; se voir contraint de payer [fine]; se trouver menacé de [defeat, redundancy]; être contraint de faire [choice]; affronter [attacker, rival, team]to be faced with — se trouver confronté à [problem, decision]
to face somebody with — confronter quelqu'un à [truth, evidence]
3) ( acknowledge)face the facts, you're finished! — regarde la réalité en face, tu es fini!
let's face it, nobody's perfect — admettons-le, personne n'est parfait
4) ( tolerate prospect)he couldn't face the thought of walking/eating — l'idée de marcher/manger lui était insupportable
5) ( run the risk of) risquer [fine, suspension]6) Construction revêtir [façade, wall] ( with de)7) ( in printing) [photo etc] être face à [page]3.1)to face towards — [person, chair] être tourné vers; [building, house] être en face de
to face backwards — [person] tourner le dos
to be facing forward — [person] être de face
2) Military4.in the face of prepositional phrase1) ( despite) en dépit de [difficulties]2) ( in confrontation with) face à, devant [opposition, enemy, danger]•Phrasal Verbs:•• -
17 look
look [lʊk]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. noun2. plural noun5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. nouna. ( = glance) do you want a look? tu veux jeter un coup d'œil ?• and now for a quick look at the papers et maintenant, les grands titres de vos journaux► to have/take a look• take a look at this! regarde !• take a good look! regarde bien !• to take a long hard look at o.s. (psychologically) faire son autocritique• I just want to have a look round (in town) je veux simplement faire un tour ; (in a shop) je ne fais que regarderb. ( = expression) regard m• I told her what I thought and if looks could kill, I'd be dead (inf) je lui ai dit ce que je pensais et elle m'a fusillé du regardc. ( = search) to have a look for sth chercher qch• have another look! cherche bien !d. ( = appearance) air m• you can't go by looks(PROV) il ne faut pas se fier aux apparences2. plural nouna. ( = see, glance) regarder• look over there! regarde là-bas !• look! regarde !• look what a mess you've made! regarde le gâchis que tu as fait !• look who's here! (inf) regarde qui est là !• to look the other way ( = avert one's eyes) détourner le regard ; (figurative) fermer les yeux (fig) (PROV) look before you leap il faut réfléchir avant d'agir► to look + adverb/preposition• look here, we must discuss it first (inf) écoutez, il faut d'abord en discuter• look here, that isn't what I said! (inf) dites donc, ce n'est pas (du tout) ce que j'ai dit !• she looked into his eyes elle l'a regardé droit dans les yeux ; (romantically) elle a plongé son regard dans le sien• to look over sb's shoulder regarder par-dessus l'épaule de qn ; (figurative) être constamment sur le dos de qnb. ( = face) [building] donnerc. ( = search) chercherd. ( = seem) avoir l'air• how do I look? comment me trouves-tu ?• how does it look to you? qu'en pensez-vous ?• try to look as if you're glad to see them! essaie d'avoir l'air content de les voir !• it doesn't look as if he's coming on dirait qu'il ne va pas venir► to look + adjective/noun• how are you getting on with your autobiography? -- it's looking good comment avance ton autobiographie ? -- elle avance bien• it makes him look ten years older/younger ça le vieillit/rajeunit de dix ans• how pretty you look! comme vous êtes jolie !• what does he look like? comment est-il ?• it looks like salt ( = seems) on dirait du sel• look where you're going! regarde où tu vas !• look what you've done now! regarde ce que tu as fait !5. compounds• our team didn't have or get a look-in notre équipe n'a jamais eu la moindre chance de gagner[+ invalid, child, animal, plant] s'occuper de ; [+ one's possessions] prendre soin de ; [+ finances] gérer• look after yourself! (inf) prends soin de toi !• she's quite old enough to look after herself elle est assez grande pour se débrouiller (inf) toute seule• will you look after my bag for me? tu peux surveiller mon sac ?• I'm looking ahead at what might happen j'essaie d'imaginer ce qui pourrait se passer► look around intransitive verb regarder autour de soia. ( = observe) [+ person, object] regarder• just look at this mess! regarde un peu ce fouillis !• just look at you! (inf) regarde de quoi tu as l'air !• to look at him you would never think that... à le voir, on n'imaginerait pas que...b. ( = consider) [+ situation, problem] examinerc. ( = check) vérifier ; ( = see to) s'occuper de• will you look at the carburettor? pourriez-vous vérifier le carburateur ?d. ( = have in prospect) (inf) you're looking at a minimum of £65 ça va vous coûter 65 livres au minimum• they are looking at savings of $3 million les économies pourraient atteindre 3 millions de dollars► look away intransitive verb détourner les yeux ( from de ) ; (figurative) fermer les yeux• looking back, I'm surprised I didn't suspect anything avec le recul, je suis étonné de n'avoir rien soupçonné• to look back on sth ( = remember, evaluate) repenser à qch• when they look back on this match... lorsqu'ils repenseront à ce match...• we can look back over 20 years of happy marriage nous avons derrière nous 20 ans de bonheur conjugal► look behind intransitive verb regarder en arrière• don't look down or you'll fall ne regarde pas en bas, sinon tu vas tomber► look down on inseparable transitive verba. ( = despise) mépriserb. ( = overlook) dominer• the castle looks down on the valley le château domine la vallée► look for inseparable transitive verba. ( = seek) [+ object, work] chercher[+ event, meal, trip, holiday] attendre avec impatience• I look forward to the day when... j'attends avec impatience le jour où...• are you looking forward to your birthday? tu te réjouis pour ton anniversaire ?• I'm really looking forward to it je m'en réjouis à l'avance► look in intransitive verb regarder à l'intérieur• the doctor will look in again tomorrow le docteur repassera demain► look into inseparable transitive verb( = examine) examiner• there's obviously been a mistake. I'll look into it il y a dû y avoir une erreur. Je vais m'en occuper► look on• they just looked on while the raiders escaped ils ont regardé les bandits s'enfuir sans intervenira. ( = look outside) regarder dehorsb. ( = take care) faire attention• I told you to look out! je t'avais bien dit de faire attention !• look out! attention !• I've looked out the minutes of the meeting j'ai trouvé le procès-verbal de la réunion► look out for inseparable transitive verba. ( = look for) chercher ; ( = watch out for) [+ sth good] essayer de repérer ; [+ danger] se méfier deb. ( = look after) (inf) [+ person] s'occuper de[+ document, list] parcourir ; [+ goods, produce] inspecter ; [+ town, building] visiter ; [+ person] (quickly) jeter un coup d'œil à ; (slowly) regarder de la tête aux piedsa. ( = glance about) regarder (autour de soi)b. ( = search) chercherc. ( = look back) se retourner• don't look round! ne vous retournez pas !a. ( = scan) [+ mail] regarder ; (thoroughly) [+ papers, book] examiner ; (briefly) [+ papers, book] parcourirb. ( = revise) [+ lesson] réviser ; ( = re-read) [+ notes] relirec. ( = ignore) he just looked right through me (inf) il a fait comme s'il ne me voyait pas► look to inseparable transitive verba. ( = seek help from) se tourner vers• many sufferers look to alternative therapies de nombreux malades se tournent vers les médecines parallèlesb. ( = think of) penser àc. ( = seek to) chercher àa. ( = seek out) (inf) [+ person] passer voir• look me up the next time you are in London passez me voir la prochaine fois que vous serez à Londresb. (in reference book) [+ name, word] chercher[+ reference book] consulter( = admire) admirer* * *[lʊk] 1.1) ( glance) coup m d'œilto have ou take a look at something — jeter un coup d'œil à or sur quelque chose
to have ou take a good look at — fig examiner [quelque chose] soigneusement; lit regarder [quelque chose] de près
to have a look inside/behind something — regarder à l'intérieur de/derrière quelque chose
to have a look round — faire un tour de [house, town]
to have a look through — ( scan) chercher dans [archives, files]; parcourir [essay, report]
to take a long hard look at something — fig étudier sérieusement quelque chose
2) ( search)3) ( expression) regard ma look of sadness/anger — un regard triste/rempli de colère
he got some odd ou funny looks — on l'a regardé d'un drôle d'air
from the look on his face... — à son expression...
4) ( appearance) ( of person) air m; (of building, scenery) aspect mI like the look of him — il a l'air sympa (colloq)
by the look of him... — à le voir...
5) ( style) look (colloq) m2.looks plural noun3.to keep one's looks — rester beau/belle
transitive verb1) (gaze, stare) regarderto look somebody in the eye/in the face — regarder quelqu'un dans les yeux/en face
to look somebody up and down — ( appraisingly) regarder quelqu'un de haut en bas
2) ( appear)4.1) regarder ( into dans; over par-dessus)to look away — détourner le regard or les yeux
to look the other way — lit regarder ailleurs; fig fermer les yeux
I didn't know where to look — fig je ne savais plus où me mettre; ( in shop)
2) ( search) chercher, regarderto look down — parcourir [list]
3) (appear, seem) avoir l'air, paraîtreyou look good enough to eat! — tu es mignon/-onne à croquer! (colloq)
it looks to me as if ou like... (colloq) — j'ai l'impression que...
it looks likely that — il semble probable que (+ subj)
it looks certain that — il semble certain que (+ indic)
to look like somebody/something — ressembler à quelqu'un/quelque chose
you look like being the only man there — il y a de fortes chances pour que tu sois le seul homme présent
4) ( listen) écoute5) ( be oriented)5.to look north — [house, room] être orienté au nord
- looking combining formdistinguished-looking — [person] à l'air distingué
sinister-looking — [place] à l'aspect sinistre
Phrasal Verbs:- look at- look for- look in- look on- look out- look to- look up••if looks could kill... — il/elle etc m'a fusillé du regard
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18 neglect
neglect [nɪˈglekt][+ person, animal] délaisser ; [+ garden, house, car, machinery] ne pas entretenir ; [+ rule, law, advice] ne tenir aucun compte de ; [+ duty, obligation, promise] manquer à ; [+ business, work, hobby, one's health] négliger ; [+ opportunity] laisser passer2. noun[of duty, obligation] manquement m (of à)• the building collapsed after years of neglect le bâtiment, à l'abandon depuis des années, s'est écroulé* * *[nɪ'glekt] 1.1) ( lack of care) ( of person) négligence f; (of building, garden equipment) manque m d'entretien; (of health, appearance) manque m de soin2) ( lack of interest) indifférence f (of à l'égard de)2.transitive verb1) ( fail to care for) ne pas s'occuper de [person, dog, plant]; ne pas entretenir [garden, house]; négliger [health, appearance]2) ( ignore) négliger [problem, friend, artist, subject, work]; se désintéresser de [industry, economy, sector]; ne pas tenir compte de [needs, wishes]; ignorer [offer, opportunity]3) ( fail)3. -
19 good
good [gʊd]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective2. noun3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. adjective━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. bonb. ( = kind) gentil• I tried to find something good to say about him j'ai essayé de trouver quelque chose de bien à dire sur luic. ( = well-behaved) [child, animal] sage• be good! sois sage !d. ( = at ease) I feel good je me sens biene. ( = attractive) joli• you look good! ( = healthy) tu as bonne mine ! ; ( = well-dressed) tu es très bien comme ça !f. ( = thorough) to have a good cry pleurer un bon coup━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Verb + adverb may be used in French, instead of adjective + noun. For combinations other than the following, look up the noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━h. (in exclamations) good! bien !• that's a good one! [joke, story] elle est bien bonne celle-là ! (inf)• good old Charles! (inf) ce bon vieux Charles !• this ticket is good for three months ( = valid for) ce billet est valable trois mois• my car is good for another few years ma voiture tiendra bien encore quelques années► what's good for• what's good for the consumer isn't necessarily good for the economy ce qui bon pour le consommateur ne l'est pas forcément pour l'économie► more than is good for• they tend to eat and drink more than is good for them ils ont tendance à boire et à manger plus que de raison• some children know more than is good for them certains enfants en savent plus qu'ils ne devraient► as good as ( = practically) pratiquement• she as good as told me that... elle m'a dit à peu de chose près que...• it's as good as saying that... autant dire que...• in a day or so he'll be as good as new dans un jour ou deux il sera complètement rétabli► to make good ( = succeed) faire son chemin ; [ex-criminal] s'acheter une conduite (inf) ; ( = compensate for) [+ deficit] combler ; [+ deficiency, losses] compenser ; [+ expenses] rembourser ; [+ injustice, damage] réparer2. nouna. ( = virtue) bien mb. ( = good deeds) to do good faire le bienc. ( = advantage, profit) bien m• a lot of good that's done! nous voilà bien avancés !• what good will that do you? ça t'avancera à quoi ?• a fat lot of good that will do you! (inf) tu seras bien avancé !• a lot of good that's done him! le voilà bien avancé !d. ( = use) what's the good? à quoi bon ?• what's the good of hurrying? à quoi bon se presser ?• it's not much good to me [advice, suggestion] ça ne m'avance pas à grand-chose ; [object, money] ça ne me sert pas à grand-chose• is he any good? [worker, singer] qu'est-ce qu'il vaut ?► no good ( = useless)• it's no good, I'll never get it finished in time il n'y a rien à faire, je n'arriverai jamais à le finir à tempse. ► for good pour de bon3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━Le Good Friday Agreement (« Accord du Vendredi saint »), également appelé le Belfast Agreement, a été signé le 10 avril 1998 dans le cadre du processus de paix qui devait mettre fin aux « Troubles » en Irlande du Nord. Il avait pour but de régler les relations entre l'Irlande du Nord et la République d'Irlande et entre ces deux pays et l'Angleterre, l'Écosse et le pays de Galles. Il a mis en place la « Northern Ireland Assembly » et lui a délégué certains pouvoirs. L'accord fut soumis à référendum le 22 mai 1998 et la population vota majoritairement pour.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[gʊd] 1.1) ( virtue) bien mto be up to no good — (colloq) mijoter quelque chose (colloq)
2) ( benefit) bien mfor the good of his health — lit pour sa santé
no good can ou will come of it — rien de bon n'en sortira
3) ( use)4) GB ( profit)2.to be £20 to the good — avoir 20 livres sterling à son crédit
goods plural noun1) ( for sale) gen articles mpl, marchandise felectrical goods — appareils mpl électro-ménagers
goods and services — biens mpl de consommation et services
2) GB Railways marchandises fpl3) ( property) affaires fpl, biens mpl4) (colloq)3. 4.to deliver ou come up with the goods — répondre à l'attente de quelqu'un
1) ( enjoyable) gen bon/bonne; [party] réussi2) ( happy)to feel good about/doing — être content de/de faire
3) ( healthy) [eye, ear etc] bon/bonne4) ( high quality) bon/bonne; ( best) [coat, china] beau/belle; [degree] avec mention (after n)5) ( prestigious) (épith) [address, marriage] bon/bonne6) ( obedient) [child, dog] sage; [manners] bon/bonnethere's a good boy ou girl! — c'est bien!
7) ( favourable) bon/bonne8) ( attractive) beau/belleto look good with — [garment, accessories] aller bien avec
9) ( tasty) [meal] bon/bonneto smell good — sentir bon inv
10) ( virtuous) (épith) [man, life] vertueux/-euse; [Christian] bon/bonnethe good guys — les bons mpl
11) ( kind) [person] gentil/-illewould you be good enough to do —
12) ( pleasant) [humour, mood] bon/bonne13) ( competent) bon/bonneto be good at — être bon en [Latin, physics]; être bon à [badminton, chess]
to be no good at — être nul/nulle en [tennis, chemistry]; être nul/nulle à [chess, cards]
to be good with — savoir comment s'y prendre avec [children, animals]; aimer [figures]
14) ( beneficial)to be good for — faire du bien à [person, plant]; être bon pour [health, business, morale]
say nothing if you know what's good for you — si je peux te donner un conseil, ne dis rien
15) (effective, suitable, accurate, sensible) bon/bonneto look good — [design] faire de l'effet
this will look good on your CV GB ou résumé US — cela fera bien sur votre CV
16) ( fluent)17) ( fortunate)it's a good job ou thing (that) — heureusement que
it's a good job ou thing too! — tant mieux!
we've never had it so good — (colloq) les affaires n'ont jamais été aussi prospères
18) ( serviceable)this season ticket is good for two more months — cette carte d'abonnement est valable encore deux mois
the car is good for another 10,000 km — la voiture fera encore 10000 km
19) ( substantial) (épith) [salary, size, hour] bon/bonneit must be worth a good 2,000 dollars — ça doit valoir au moins 2000 dollars
5.we had a good laugh — on a bien ri; better, best
as good as adverbial phrase1) ( virtually) quasimentto be as good as new — être comme neuf/neuve
2) ( tantamount to)6.for good adverbial phrase pour toujours7.exclamation (expressing pleasure, satisfaction) c'est bien!; ( with relief) tant mieux!; (to encourage, approve) très bien!••good for you! — ( approvingly) bravo!; ( sarcastically) tant mieux pour toi!
that's a good one! — (of joke, excuse) elle est bonne celle-là!
good on you! — (colloq) GB bravo!
to be onto a good thing (colloq), to have a good thing going — (colloq) être sur un bon filon
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20 tidy
tidy [ˈtaɪdɪ]1. adjectivea. ( = neat) [house, room] bien rangé ; [garden] bien entretenu ; [hair, appearance, schoolwork] soigné ; [handwriting, pile, stack] netb. [person] (in character) ordonné• to tidy o.s. up s'arranger3. compounds• to have a tidy-out or tidy-up faire du rangement* * *['taɪdɪ] 1. 2.1) [house, room, desk] bien rangé; [garden, work, person, appearance] soigné; [habits] ordonné; [hair] bien coiffé2) (colloq) [amount] beau/belle3.transitive verb = tidy up4.Phrasal Verbs:- tidy out- tidy up
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