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1 believe
A vtr1 ( accept as true) croire [evidence, statement, fact, person] ; believe (you) me! croyez-moi! believe it or not croyez-le ou pas ; would you believe it? le croiriez-vous? ; I'll believe it when I see it je le croirai quand je le verrai ; it has to be seen to be believed il faut le voir pour le croire ; I can't believe (that) he did that je n'arrive pas à croire qu'il ait fait cela ; I can believe that of her! ça ne m'étonne pas d'elle! ; don't you believe it! n'en croyez rien! ; I don't believe you! ce n'est pas vrai! ; I can well believe it je suis prêt à le croire ; I don't believe a word of it! je n'en crois pas un mot! ; if he's to be believed à l'en croire ; I'll believe you, thousands wouldn't je te crois, mais je dois bien être le seul ; I can't believe my luck! je n'arrive pas à le croire! ; she could hardly ou scarcely believe her eyes elle en croyait à peine ses yeux ;2 (think, be of the opinion) croire, estimer ; I believe (that) she is right, I believe her to be right je crois or j'estime qu'elle a raison ; Mr Smith, I believe? M. Smith, je crois? ; it is believed that on croit or estime que ; he is believed to be dead on le croit mort ; she is believed to be a spy on pense que c'est une espionne ; to believe sth to be true/false croire or estimer que qch est vrai/faux ; to have reason to believe that avoir des raisons de croire que ; I have every reason to believe that j'ai toutes les raisons de croire que ; to let sb believe (that) laisser croire à qn que ; to lead sb to believe (that) faire croire à qn que ; to give sb to believe (that) donner à qn des raisons de croire que ; I believe so je crois que oui ; I believe not je crois que non.B vi1 (have confidence, trust) to believe in croire à ; [promises, discipline, exercise etc] ; to believe in sb avoir confiance en qn ; to believe in doing croire or estimer qu'il est bon de faire ; I believe in taking a cold shower every morning je crois qu'il est bon de prendre une douche froide tous les matins ; to fight for what one believes in lutter pour ce en quoi on croit or pour ses convictions ; you have to believe in what you do il faut croire à or avoir foi dans ce qu'on fait ;2 Relig avoir la foi ; to believe in God/reincarnation croire en Dieu/à la réincarnation ; to believe in ghosts croire aux fantômes.C v refl to believe oneself to be se croire ; he believes himself to be really clever il se croit vraiment intelligent.seeing is believing il faut le voir pour le croire. -
2 believe
believe [bɪ'li:v](a) (consider as real or true) croire;∎ don't believe a word she says ne croyez pas un mot de ce qu'elle dit;∎ I don't believe a word of it je n'en crois rien ou pas un mot;∎ don't you believe it! détrompe-toi!;∎ he's getting married! - I don't believe it! il va se marier! - c'est pas vrai!;∎ she's fifty, would you believe it! elle a cinquante ans, figure-toi!;∎ he couldn't believe his ears/his eyes il n'en croyait pas ses oreilles/ses yeux;∎ and, believe it or not, she left et, crois-le si tu veux, elle est partie;∎ I can well believe it je suis prêt à le croire, je veux bien le croire;∎ it has to be seen to be believed il faut le voir pour le croire(b) (accept statement or opinion of) croire;∎ if she is to be believed, she was born a duchess à l'en croire, elle est duchesse;∎ and believe (you) me, I know what I'm talking about! et croyez-moi, je sais de quoi je parle!;∎ familiar you'd better believe it! bien sûr que oui!(c) (hold as opinion, suppose) croire;∎ I believe he left je crois qu'il est parti;∎ I don't believe we've met je ne crois pas que nous nous connaissions;∎ I believe I've taken a wrong turning je crois que je me suis trompé de route ou que j'ai pris la mauvaise route;∎ Law the jury believes him (to be) guilty le jury le croit coupable;∎ I don't know what to believe je ne sais que croire, je ne sais pas à quoi m'en tenir;∎ it is widely believed that the prisoners have been killed on pense généralement que les prisonniers ont été tués;∎ she is, I believe, our greatest novelist elle est, je crois ou à mon avis, notre meilleure romancière;∎ we have every reason to believe he's telling the truth nous avons tout lieu de croire qu'il dit la vérité;∎ he'd have her believe it's an antique il voudrait lui faire croire que c'est un objet d'époque;∎ I believe not je crois que non, je ne crois pas;∎ I believe so je crois que oui, je crois;∎ I wouldn't have believed it of him je n'aurais pas cru cela de lui(have religious faith) être croyant, avoir la foi∎ to believe in miracles/in God croire aux miracles/en Dieu∎ I believe in free enterprise je crois à la libre entreprise;∎ they believe in their president ils ont confiance en ou font confiance à ou croient en leur président;∎ he believes in giving the public greater access to information il est d'avis qu'il faut donner au public un plus grand accès à l'information;∎ I don't believe in making promises je ne fais jamais de promesses -
3 different
different [ˈdɪfrənt]1. adjective• do you like my shirt? -- well, it's different! tu l'aimes bien ma chemise ? -- eh bien, elle n'est pas ordinaire !2. adverb• this time everything turned out different cette fois, les choses se sont passées tout autrement• she believes this, but I know different c'est ce qu'elle croit mais je sais qu'il n'en est rien• children behave like that because they don't know any different (inf) les enfants se comportent ainsi parce qu'ils ignorent que ça ne se fait pas• to me things seemed normal because I didn't know any different (inf) les choses me semblaient normales car je ne savais pas que ça pouvait être différent* * *['dɪfrənt]1) ( dissimilar) différent (from, to GB, than US de)2) ( other) autreit would have been a different story if... — cela aurait été tout autre chose si...
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4 must
must [mʌst]1. modal verba. (obligation)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When must expresses obligation, it is translated either by the impersonal expression il faut que, which is followed by the subjunctive, or by devoir, followed by the infinitive; il faut que is more emphatic.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I must see him! il faut absolument que je le voie !• why must you always be so pessimistic? pourquoi faut-il toujours que tu sois si pessimiste ?• it must not be forgotten that... il ne faut pas oublier que...• "the windows must not be opened" « défense d'ouvrir les fenêtres »► I must say or admit• this came as a surprise, I must say je dois avouer que cela m'a surprisb. (invitations, suggestions)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When you must is used to make invitations and suggestions more forceful, the imperative may be used in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► you mustn't ( = don't)• he must be regretting it, mustn't he? il le regrette sûrement• he must be mad! il est fou !• you must be joking! vous plaisantez !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► must have made/had/been etc━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The perfect tense of devoir + infinitive is generally used to translate must have + past participle.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• was he disappointed? -- he must have been! est-ce qu'il a été déçu ? -- sûrement !2. noun• a must for all students! un must pour les étudiants !3. compounds* * *Note: When must indicates obligation or necessity, French tends to use either the verb devoir or the impersonal construction il faut que + subjunctive: I must go = je dois partir, il faut que je parte. For examples and particular usages see I 1 and I 3 below. See also have II 1 and the related usage noteWhen must expresses assumption or probability, the verb devoir is always used: it must strike you as odd that = ça doit te sembler bizarre que (+ subj). See I 7 below for further examplesFor the conjugation of devoir, see the French verb tables[mʌst, məst] 1.1) (indicating obligation, prohibition)you mustn't mention this to anyone — il ne faut en parler à personne, tu ne dois en parler à personne
withdrawals must not exceed £200 — les retraits ne doivent pas dépasser 200 livres sterling
2) (indicating requirement, condition)to gain a licence you must spend 40 hours in the air — pour obtenir son brevet il faut avoir 40 heures de vol
3) (stressing importance, necessity)you must be patient — il faut que tu sois patient, tu dois être patient
I feel I must tell you that... — je pense devoir te dire que...
very nice, I must say! — iron très gentil vraiment! iron
4) ( expressing intention)I must check the reference — je dois vérifier la référence, il faut que je vérifie la référence
5) ( indicating irritation)well, come in if you must — bon, entre si tu y tiens
he's ill, if you must know — il est malade si tu veux vraiment le savoir
6) (in invitations, suggestions)7) (expressing assumption, probability)8) (expressing strong interest, desire)2.this film is a must — ce film est à voir or à ne pas rater
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5 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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6 glass ceiling
= plafond de verre qui désigne métaphoriquement l'ensemble des facteurs qui empêchent les femmes de parvenir aux postes les plus élevés dans le monde professionnelIn the seven years Morag Stuart has been a qualified lawyer, she has seen a marked shift in attitudes towards women in the legal profession which indicate the so-called glass ceiling is finally cracking. While in the past some female solicitors would have been held back because of their gender, now Ms Stuart, 29, believes that attitude is simply not tolerated.
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7 leveraged
the company is highly leveraged la société est fortement endettéeleveraged buy-out rachat m d'entreprise financé par l'endettement;leveraged management buy-out rachat d'entreprise par les salariésDespite IPC's debt, which stems mostly from its leveraged buy-out from Reed two years ago, it is believed the publisher feels Prima and Best are such strong brands that it could not pass up the opportunity to acquire them. Adding the two titles to its portfolio will substantially increase advertising revenue across the group, IPC believes.
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8 anarchist
1) (a person who believes that governments are unnecessary or undesirable.) anarchiste2) (a person who tries to overturn the government by violence.) anarchiste -
9 as
[æz] 1. conjunction1) (when; while: I met John as I was coming home; We'll be able to talk as we go.) tandis que; comme; en2) (because: As I am leaving tomorrow, I've bought you a present.) comme3) (in the same way that: If you are not sure how to behave, do as I do.) comme4) (used to introduce a statement of what the speaker knows or believes to be the case: As you know, I'll be leaving tomorrow.) comme5) (though: Old as I am, I can still fight; Much as I want to, I cannot go.) malgré (que)6) (used to refer to something which has already been stated and apply it to another person: Tom is English, as are Dick and Harry.) ainsi que2. adverb(used in comparisons, eg the first as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) aussi (que)3. preposition1) (used in comparisons, eg the second as in the following example: The bread was as hard as a brick.) que2) (like: He was dressed as a woman.) en3) (with certain verbs eg regard, treat, describe, accept: I am regarded by some people as a bit of a fool; He treats the children as adults.) comme4) (in the position of: He is greatly respected both as a person and as a politician.) en tant que•- as for- as if / as though - as to -
10 believe in
(to accept the existence or recognize the value of (something): Do you believe in ghosts?; He believes in capital punishment.) croire (à/en) -
11 communist
noun ((often with capital) a person who believes in communism: He is a Communist; ( also adjective) a Communist leader.) communiste -
12 cynic
noun (a person who believes the worst about everyone: He is a cynic - he thinks no-one is really unselfish.) cynique -
13 democracy
[di'mokrəsi]plural - democracies; noun((a country having) a form of government in which the people freely elect representatives to govern them: Which is the world's largest democracy?; He believes in democracy.) démocratie- democrat- democratic - democratically -
14 democrat
['deməkræt]noun (one who believes in democracy as a principle: She likes to pretend she's a democrat.) démocrate -
15 disciple
(a person who believes in the teaching of another, especially one of the original followers of Christ: Jesus and his twelve disciples.) disciple -
16 fatalist
noun (a person who believes in fatalism: He is a complete fatalist - he just accepts everything that happens to him.) fataliste -
17 gullible
(easily tricked or fooled: He is so gullible that he believes everything you tell him.) crédule -
18 heathen
['hi:ðən]noun, adjective((of) a person who believes in a less advanced form of religion, especially one with many gods: Missionaries tried to convert the heathens to Christianity.) païen, ïenne -
19 Hindu
[hin'du:]noun, adjective((of) a person who believes in, and lives according to the rules of, the religion of Hinduism.) hindou, oue -
20 male chauvinist
(a man who believes that women are inferior to men.) phallocrate
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