conscious of one's importance

Общая лексика: быть преисполненным сознания собственной важности

noun matters of great importance.) važnost

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važnost, tehtnost, pomembnost, vplivnost; pompoznost, domišljavost

a person of importance — pomembna osebnost

conscious of one's importance — samozavesten, domišljav

to attach importance to s.th. — pripisovati čemu važnost

1) Bedeutung, die; Wichtigkeit, die

2) (significance) Bedeutung, die; (of decision) Tragweite, die

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noun matters of great importance.) die Wichtigkeit

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[ɪmˈpɔ:t^ən(t)s, AM -ˈpɔ:r-]

n no pl Bedeutung f, Wichtigkeit f, Belang m

a matter of considerable \importance eine Sache von großer Wichtigkeit

to be full of one's own \importance sich akk selbst für sehr wichtig halten

to be of little \importance von geringer Bedeutung sein, kaum eine Rolle spielen

to attach \importance to sth/doing sth etw dat Bedeutung beimessen, auf etw akk Wert legen

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importance [ımˈpɔː(r)tns; US auch ımˈpəʊr-] s

1. Bedeutung f:

a) Wichtigkeit f, Bedeutsamkeit f:

be of no importance unwichtig oder belanglos sein (to für);

attach great (little) importance to sth einer Sache große (wenig) Bedeutung oder großes (wenig) Gewicht beimessen;

not attach any importance to nichts geben auf (akk);

conscious ( oder full) of one’s importance (äußerst) selbstbewusst, wichtigtuerisch, eingebildet;

of such importance von solcher Größenordnung;

of the first importance ersten Ranges; → academic.ru/1300/air">air¹ A 6

b) Einfluss m, Gewicht n, Ansehen n:

a person of importance eine bedeutende oder gewichtige Persönlichkeit

2. wichtigtuerisches Gehabe, Wichtigtuerei f

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1) Bedeutung, die; Wichtigkeit, die

2) (significance) Bedeutung, die; (of decision) Tragweite, die

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Bedeutung f.

Geltung -en f.

Wichtigkeit f.

значение, важность, значительность

1) (one of the five powers (hearing, taste, sight, smell, touch) by which a person or animal feels or notices.) sentido

2) (a feeling: He has an exaggerated sense of his own importance.) sensación, sentido

3) (an awareness of (something): a well-developed musical sense; She has no sense of humour.) sentido

4) (good judgement: You can rely on him - he has plenty of sense.) sentido común, juicio, sensatez

5) (a meaning (of a word).) significado

6) (something which is meaningful: Can you make sense of her letter?) sentido

- senseless

sense¹ n

1. sentido

2. sentido común / juicio / sensatez

sense² vb notar / sentir / darse cuenta

El gerundio de sense se escribe sensing

tr[sens]

noun

1 (faculty) sentido

■ sense of smell sentido del olfato

2 (feeling - of well-being, loss) sensación nombre femenino; (awareness, appreciation - of justice, duty) sentido

■ I had the sense someone was watching me tenía la sensación de que alguien me miraba

■ he has an exaggerated sense of his own importance se cree más importante de lo que es

■ he's got no sense of humour no tiene sentido del humor

■ sense of direction sentido de la orientación

■ dress sense gusto para vestirse

■ business sense visión para los negocios

3 (wisdom, judgement) sentido común, juicio, sensatez nombre femenino, tino

■ he had the (good) sense to turn off the electricity tuvo la sensatez de desconectar la corriente

■ I thought you had more sense creía que tenías más sentido común

4 (reason, purpose) sentido

■ what's the sense in driving there? ¿qué sentido tiene conducir hasta allí?

■ there's no sense in crying ¿de qué sirve llorar?

5 (meaning - gen) sentido; (- of word) significado, acepción nombre femenino

■ in every sense of the word en todos los sentidos

■ this word has 9 different senses esta palabra tiene 9 significados diferentes

transitive verb

1 (feel, perceive) sentir, percibir, presentir, intuir; (apprehend, detect) percibir, darse cuenta de

■ I sensed that she wanted to leave intuí que quería marcharse

■ animals can sense danger los animales perciben el peligro

2 (machine) detectar

plural noun senses

1 (normal state of mind) juicio m sing

\

in a sense hasta cierto punto, en cierto sentido

in no sense de ninguna manera

to be out of one's senses no estar en sus cabales

to bring somebody to their senses hacer a alguien entrar en razón

to come to one's senses recobrar el juicio

to have a sense of occasion tener sentido de la ocasión

to make sense (have clear meaning) tener sentido 2 (be sensible) ser razonable, ser sensato,-a

to make sense out of something entender algo

to see sense entrar en razón

to take leave of one's senses perder el juicio

to talk sense hablar con juicio

sense organ órgano del sentido

sense ['sɛnts] vt, sensed ; sensing : sentir

he sensed danger: se dio cuenta del peligro

sense n

1) meaning: sentido m, significado m

2) : sentido m

the sense of smell: el sentido del olfato

to make sense : tener sentido

• sensitivo, -a adj.

• juicio s.m.

• mollera s.f.

• opinión s.f.

• sensación s.f.

• sentido s.m.

• testa s.f.

• detectar (Teléfono) v.

• percibir v.

• sentir v.

• sospechar v.

1)

a) c ( physical faculty) sentido m

b) senses pl ( rational state)

2)

a) ( impression) (no pl) sensación f

b) c u ( awareness) sentido m

3) u

a) ( common sense) sentido m común

b) (point, value) sentido m

4) c

a) ( meaning) sentido m, significado m

b) (aspect, way)

5) to make sense

a) ( be comprehensible) tener* sentido

b) ( be sensible)

a) ( be aware of) sentir*, notar

b) ( detect) ( Tech) detectar

1. N

1) (bodily) sentido m

2) (=feeling) sensación f

3) (=good judgement) sentido m común

4)

5) (=point, use) sentido m

6) senses (=sanity)

7) (=meaning) (gen) sentido m ; (in dictionary) acepción f, significado m

8) (=awareness) sentido m

9) (=opinion) opinión f

2. VT

1) (=suspect, intuit) presentir

2) (=be conscious of) percibir

3) (=realize) darse cuenta de

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1)

a) c ( physical faculty) sentido m

b) senses pl ( rational state)

2)

a) ( impression) (no pl) sensación f

b) c u ( awareness) sentido m

3) u

a) ( common sense) sentido m común

b) (point, value) sentido m

4) c

a) ( meaning) sentido m, significado m

b) (aspect, way)

5) to make sense

a) ( be comprehensible) tener* sentido

b) ( be sensible)

a) ( be aware of) sentir*, notar

b) ( detect) ( Tech) detectar

   1) Programs and the Complexity of Human Mental Processes

   In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)

   2) Artificial Intelligence Is an Engineering Discipline

   Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)

   3) A Sceptical View of Artificial Intelligence

   Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....

   When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)

   4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, Eventually

   Just as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the Program

   Many problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)

   6) The Meaning of a Symbolic Description

   What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)

   7) The Principle of Artificial Intelligence

   [AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)

   8) Artificial Intelligence Recognizes the Need for Knowledge in Its Systems

   The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)

   9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract Form

   The basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)

    10) There Are Many Types of Reasoning

   There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:

    Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."

    Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)

    11) Programs Are Beginning to Do Things That Critics Have Asserted to Be Impossible

   Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)

    12) The Synthesis of Man and Machine

   Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)

    13) The Thesis of Good Old-Fashioned Artificial Intelligence (GOFAI)

   The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)

    14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory Formation

   It is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)

    15) Four Kinds of Artificial Intelligence

   We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.

   ♦ Nonpsychological AI

   Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.

   ♦ Weak Psychological AI

   Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.

   ♦ Strong Psychological AI

... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)

   ♦ Suprapsychological AI

   Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)

    16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular Contexts

   Even if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)

    17) Form and Content Are Not Fundamentally Different

   Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    18) The Assumption That the Mind Is a Formal System

   Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)

    19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial Intelligence

   The primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.

   The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)

    20) Mathematical Logic Provides the Basis for Theory in AI

   The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....

   AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)

    21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary Propositions

   In artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)

    22) Definitions of Artificial Intelligence

   Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)

    23) The Computer Can Not Be a Model of the Mind

   Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)

    24) Computers Will Not Always Be Inferior to Human Brains

   The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)

self [self]

1. noun

(plural selves)

• the self le moi

• her real self sa vraie personnalité

• she's her old self again elle est redevenue celle qu'elle était

• he'll soon be his usual self again il retrouvera bientôt son état normal

2. compounds

► self-absorbed adjective égocentrique

► self-addressed envelope noun

• send a self-addressed envelope envoyez une enveloppe à votre nom et adresse ► self-adhesive adjective autocollant

► self-appointed adjective [expert] soi-disant ; [leader] autoproclamé

► self-assessment noun autoévaluation f

• self-assessment system (British = taxation system) système de déclaration des revenus avec autoévaluation des impôts à payer ► self-assurance noun confiance f en soi

► self-assured adjective sûr de soi

► self-aware adjective conscient de soi-même

► self-awareness noun (prise f de) conscience f de soi

► self-belief noun confiance f en soi

► self-catering adjective [flat] indépendant (avec cuisine) ; [holiday] en location

► self-centred adjective égocentrique

► self-cleaning adjective autonettoyant

► self-coloured (British), self-colored (US) adjective uni

► self-composed adjective posé

► self-confessed adjective

• he is a self-confessed thief il reconnaît être voleur ► self-confidence noun confiance f en soi

► self-confident adjective sûr de soi

► self-congratulation noun autosatisfaction f

► self-conscious adjective ( = shy) [person, manner] emprunté ; ( = aware of oneself or itself) [art, person, political movement] conscient (de son image)

• to be self-conscious about sth être gêné par qch ► self-consciously adverb ( = shyly) de façon empruntée ; ( = deliberately) volontairement

► self-consciousness noun ( = shyness) gêne f ; ( = awareness) conscience f (de son image)

► self-contained adjective [person] indépendant ; (British) [flat] indépendant

► self-contradictory adjective [text] contradictoire ; [person] qui se contredit

► self-control noun maîtrise f de soi

► self-controlled adjective maître ( maîtresse f) de soi

► self-deception noun aveuglement m

► self-declared adjective autoproclamé

► self-defeating adjective

• a self-defeating plan un plan qui va à l'encontre du but recherché ► self-defence noun autodéfense f

• it was in self-defence c'était de la légitime défense ► self-delusion noun aveuglement m

► self-denial noun abnégation f

► self-deprecating adjective

• to be self-deprecating [person] se dénigrer soi-même ► self-destruct intransitive verb s'autodétruire adjective

[device, program] autodestructeur (- trice f)

► self-destructive adjective [behaviour] autodestructeur (- trice f)

• she has a tendency to be self-destructive elle présente une tendance à l'autodestruction ► self-determination noun autodétermination f

► self-discipline noun autodiscipline f

► self-disciplined adjective

• he is self-disciplined il fait preuve d'autodiscipline ► self-doubt noun manque m de confiance en soi

► self-drive adjective (British) sans chauffeur

► self-educated adjective autodidacte

► self-effacement noun effacement m

► self-effacing adjective effacé

► self-employed adjective

• to be self-employed travailler à son compte ► the self-employed plural noun les travailleurs mpl indépendants

► self-esteem noun respect m de soi

• to have low/high self-esteem avoir une mauvaise/bonne opinion de soi-même ► self-evident adjective évident

► self-examination noun examen m de conscience ; [of breasts, testicles] autopalpation f

► self-explanatory adjective explicite

► self-expression noun expression f (libre)

► self-governing adjective autonome

► self-government noun autonomie f

► self-help group noun groupe m d'entraide

► self-image noun image f de soi-même

► self-importance noun suffisance f

► self-important adjective suffisant

► self-imposed adjective librement choisi ; [exile] volontaire

► self-indulgence noun cocooning m

► self-indulgent adjective [book, film] complaisant

• a self-indulgent lifestyle un mode de vie hédoniste

• buying flowers for myself seems self-indulgent m'acheter des fleurs semble une dépense inutile ► self-inflicted adjective volontaire

► self-interest noun intérêt m (personnel)

► self-interested adjective intéressé

► self-knowledge noun connaissance f de soi

► self-loading adjective [gun] automatique

► self-loathing noun dégoût m de soi-même adjective

► self-locking adjective à fermeture automatique

► self-made man noun

• he's a self-made man il s'est fait tout seul ► self-obsessed adjective égocentrique

► self-opinionated adjective entêté

► self-pity noun apitoiement m sur soi-même

► self-pitying adjective qui s'apitoie sur son (propre) sort

► self-portrait noun autoportrait m

► self-possessed adjective maître ( maîtresse f ) de soi

► self-preservation noun instinct m de conservation

► self-proclaimed adjective autoproclamé

► self-promotion noun autopromotion f

► self-propelled adjective autopropulsé

► self-protection noun

• out of self-protection pour se défendre ► self-raising flour noun (British) farine f pour gâteaux (avec levure incorporée)

► self-regulation noun autorégulation f

► self-reliance noun autonomie f

► self-reliant adjective autonome

► self-respect noun respect m de soi

► self-respecting adjective digne de ce nom

► self-restraint noun retenue f

► self-righteous adjective moralisateur (- trice f)

► self-righteousness noun attitude f moralisatrice

► self-rising flour noun (US) farine f pour gâteaux (avec levure incorporée)

► self-rule noun (Politics) autonomie f

► self-sacrifice noun abnégation f

► self-satisfied adjective [person] content de soi ; [smile] suffisant

► self-service noun adjective

• self-service shop/restaurant magasin m/restaurant m en libre-service

• self-service garage station f (d'essence) en libre-service ► self-serving adjective intéressé

► self-starter noun (in car) démarreur m ; ( = hard-working person) personne f motivée (et pleine d'initiative)

► self-study noun apprentissage m autonome

► self-styled adjective soi-disant inv

► self-sufficiency noun autosuffisance f

► self-sufficient adjective autosuffisant

► self-taught adjective autodidacte

► self-timer noun (on camera) retardateur m

► self-worth noun

• feeling of self-worth confiance f en soi

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noun (pl selves)

1) gen, Psychology moi m

2) Finance ( on cheque) moi-même

sense [sens]

sens ⇒ 1 (a), 1 (c), 1 (e), 1 (f) sensation ⇒ 1 (b) sentiment ⇒ 1 (b) notion ⇒ 1 (c) bon sens ⇒ 1 (d) sentir ⇒ 2 (a) raison ⇒ 3

1 noun

(a) (faculty) sens m;

∎ the five senses les cinq sens mpl;

∎ to have a keen sense of smell/hearing avoir l'odorat fin/l'ouïe fine;

∎ she seemed to have a sixth sense elle semblait posséder un sixième sens;

∎ to be in possession of all one's senses jouir de toutes ses facultés;

∎ to excite the senses exciter les sens

(b) (sensation) sensation f; (feeling) sentiment m;

∎ a sense of pleasure/warmth une sensation de plaisir/chaleur;

∎ I felt a certain sense of pleasure j'ai ressenti un certain plaisir;

∎ a sense of achievement/injustice un sentiment d'accomplissement/d'injustice;

∎ to have a sense of belonging avoir le sentiment d'être intégré;

∎ I felt a sense of shame je me suis senti honteux;

∎ children need a sense of security les enfants ont besoin de se sentir en sécurité;

∎ there's a new sense of foreboding in her writing ses écrits sont maintenant empreints d'un sentiment d'angoisse devant l'avenir

(c) (notion) sens m, notion f;

∎ she seems to have lost all sense of reality elle semble avoir perdu le sens des réalités;

∎ I lost all sense of time j'ai perdu toute notion de l'heure;

∎ to have a (good) sense of direction avoir le sens de l'orientation;

∎ figurative she lost her sense of direction when her husband died elle s'est sentie complètement désorientée après la mort de son mari;

∎ he has a good sense of humour il a le sens de l'humour;

∎ I try to teach them a sense of right and wrong j'essaie de leur inculquer la notion du bien et du mal;

∎ she acted out of a sense of duty/of responsibility elle a agi par sens du devoir/des responsabilités;

∎ they have no business sense at all ils n'ont aucun sens des affaires;

∎ he has an overdeveloped sense of his own importance il est trop imbu de lui-même

(d) (practical wisdom) bon sens m;

∎ to show good sense faire preuve de bon sens;

∎ there's a lot of sense in what she says il y beaucoup de bon sens dans ce qu'elle dit, ce qu'elle dit est tout à fait sensé;

∎ to have the (good) sense to do sth avoir l'intelligence ou le bon sens de faire qch;

∎ to have more sense than to do sth avoir assez de bon sens pour ne pas faire qch;

∎ they didn't even have enough sense to telephone ils n'ont même pas eu l'idée de téléphoner

(e) (reason, rational quality) sens m;

∎ there's no sense in all of us going cela ne rime à rien d'y aller tous;

∎ I can't see any sense or the sense in continuing this discussion je ne vois pas l'intérêt de continuer cette discussion;

∎ to see sense entendre raison;

∎ to talk sense dire des choses sensées;

∎ oh, come on, talk sense! voyons, ne dis pas n'importe quoi!;

∎ to make sense (words) avoir un sens; (be logical) tenir debout, être sensé;

∎ can you make (any) sense of this message? est-ce que vous arrivez à comprendre ce message?;

∎ it makes no sense ça n'a pas de sens;

∎ it makes/doesn't make sense to wait c'est une bonne idée/idiot d'attendre;

∎ it makes more sense to do this first c'est plus logique de commencer par cela;

∎ that makes good sense c'est logique, c'est une bonne idée;

∎ it makes good political/business sense to… il est bon sur le plan politique/commercial de…

(f) (meaning → of word, expression) sens m, signification f; (→ of text) sens m;

∎ don't take what I say in its literal sense ne prenez pas ce que je dis au sens propre ou au pied de la lettre;

∎ in every sense of the word dans tous les sens du terme;

∎ in the normal sense (of the word) à proprement parler;

∎ I got the general sense j'ai saisi le sens général;

∎ I think we have, in a very real sense, grasped the problem je crois que nous avons parfaitement saisi le problème;

∎ this is not in any real sense a change of policy ça ne représente pas du tout un changement de politique;

∎ in a sense dans un sens;

∎ in no sense en aucune manière;

∎ in more senses than one dans tous les sens;

∎ in the sense that… en ce sens que…, dans le sens où…

2 transitive verb

(a) (feel → presence) sentir; (→ danger, catastrophe) pressentir;

∎ I sensed something was wrong j'ai senti que quelque chose n'allait pas;

∎ I sensed as much c'est bien l'impression ou le sentiment que j'avais;

∎ I sensed her meaning j'ai compris ce qu'elle voulait dire

(b) Electronics détecter; Computing lire

3 senses plural noun

(sanity, reason) raison f;

∎ to come to one's senses (become conscious) reprendre connaissance; (be reasonable) revenir à la raison;

∎ to take leave of one's senses perdre la raison ou la tête;

∎ to bring sb to his/her senses ramener qn à la raison

►► sense organ organe m sensoriel ou des sens

✾ Book ✾ Film 'Sense and Sensibility' Austen, Lee 'Raison et sentiments'

● self-abasement, autoumiliazione; svilimento di sé stesso □ self-abnegation, abnegazione; spirito di rinuncia (o di sacrificio) □ self-absorbed, che pensa solo a sé stesso; assorbito dai propri affari; egocentrico, egoista □ self-absorption, l'essere assorbito dai propri affari; egocentrismo, egoismo; (fis. nucl.) autoassorbimento □ self-abuse, cattivo uso delle proprie capacità; ( anche, eufem.) masturbazione □ (leg.) self-accusation, autoaccusa □ self-acting, automatico: a self-acting door, una porta automatica □ self-action, automatismo □ ( di congegno esplosivo) self-activating, a innesco automatico □ (psic.) self-actualization, autorealizzazione □ self-addressed, con l'indirizzo del mittente; preindirizzato: Please enclose a self-addressed envelope, siete pregati di allegare una busta col vostro indirizzo □ self-adhesive, autoadesivo (agg.) □ (tecn.) self-adjusting, ad autoregolazione □ self-admiration, narcisismo □ self-advancement, arrivismo; carrierismo □ self-aggrandizement, affermazione (o estensione) della propria potenza □ (psic.) self-analysis, autoanalisi □ self-applause, l'elogiarsi da solo; autoincensamento □ self-appointed, autonominatosi □ self-appreciation, apprezzamento di sé; compiacimento □ (tecn., comm.: di un oggetto) self-assembly, da montare ( da parte dell'acquirente) □ self-asserting (o self-assertive), che si fa valere; autoritario □ self-assertion, il farsi valere; il far valere i propri diritti; (psic.) autoaffermazione □ self-assessment, autovalutazione; (fisc.) autotassazione □ ( di titolo, ecc.) self-assumed, assunto senz'averne il diritto □ self-assurance, sicurezza di sé; fiducia nelle proprie capacità □ self-assured, sicuro di sé □ self-aware, consapevole di sé □ self-awareness, autocoscienza □ self-belief, fiducia in sé stesso; sicurezza di sé □ self-betrayal, il tradirsi da solo □ (agric.) self-binder, mietitrice legatrice automatica; mietilega □ self-catering, con uso di cucina: self-catering accommodation, sistemazione ( senza pasti) con uso di cucina; DIALOGO → - Back from holiday- Was the holiday self-catering?, la vacanza era in appartamento con uso cucina? □ (tur.) self-catering holidays, vacanze in appartamento d'affitto (o in camping) □ (mecc.) self-centering chuck, mandrino autocentrante □ (autom., mecc.) self-centering shoes, ganasce autocentranti ( di freno a tamburo) □ self-centred, egocentrico □ self-centredness, egocentrismo □ ( banca) self-cheque, assegno pagabile all'emittente □ (tecn.) self-cleaning, autopulente □ self-closing, che si chiude da sé; a chiusura automatica □ self-collected, padrone di sé; calmo; dotato di sangue freddo □ self-coloured, monocromatico, a tinta unita; di colore naturale □ self-combustion, autocombustione □ self-command, autocontrollo □ self-complacence, self-complacency, autocompiacimento □ self-complacent, che si compiace di sé; borioso; vanitoso □ self-composed, calmo; padrone di sé □ self-conceit, presunzione □ self-conceited, presuntuoso; pieno di sé □ self-condemnation, autocondanna □ self-confessed, confesso, dichiarato: a self-confessed thief, un ladro confesso; a self-confessed drug addict, uno che ammette di drogarsi □ self-confidence, sicurezza di sé; fiducia in sé stesso; □ self-confident, sicuro di sé □ self-congratulatory, autocelebrativo □ self-conscious, imbarazzato, timido, impacciato; (filos.) cosciente di sé, autocosciente □ self-consciousness, timidezza, imbarazzo, impaccio; (filos.) autocoscienza □ self-consistency, coerenza □ self-consistent, coerente □ a self-constituted judge, una persona che s'arroga il diritto di giudicare □ (econ.) self-consumption, autoconsumo □ self-contained, ( di persona) riservato; padrone di sé; indipendente; ( di oggetto) autosufficiente, completo, autonomo, indipendente; (mecc.) autonomo: a self-contained community, una comunità autonoma; a self-contained flat, un appartamento indipendente □ a self-contained electric lamp, una lampada elettrica ( portatile) a batteria □ self-contempt, disprezzo di sé □ self-content, il contentarsi □ self-contented, che s'accontenta della sua condizione □ self-contradiction, contraddizione in termini; mancanza di coerenza, incoerenza □ self-contradictory, che si contraddice da solo; contraddittorio; incoerente □ self-control, autocontrollo; padronanza (o dominio) di sé; imperturbabilità □ self-controlled, padrone di sé; imperturbabile □ (tecn.) self-cooled, autoraffreddato; a raffreddamento automatico □ (ling.) self-correction, autocorrezione □ self-critical, autocritico □ ( anche polit.) self-criticism, autocritica □ self-debasement, autoumiliazione; svilimento di sé stesso □ self-deceit (o self-deception), l'illudersi; il lusingarsi; l'ingannare sé stesso; illusione □ self-deceived, illuso □ self-declared = self-proclaimed ► sotto □ self-defeating, controproducente; autolesionistico (fig.) □ self-defence, autodifesa, difesa personale ( lotta, ecc.); difesa di sé, dei propri interessi e beni; (leg.) legittima difesa: in self-defence, per legittima difesa □ self-degradable, biodegradabile □ self-delusion = self-deceit ► sopra □ self-denial, abnegazione; rinuncia; altruismo □ self-denying, (agg.) pieno di abnegazione; che si impone (o accetta) rinunce; altruista; parco, frugale □ (econ.) self-dependent, autosufficiente □ self-deprecating, che disapprova sé stesso; di autocritica; troppo modesto □ self-deprecation, autocritica; eccessiva modestia □ (tecn.) self-destroying, che si autodistrugge □ self-destruction, autodistruzione ( anche mil.); suicidio □ self-destructive, autodistruttivo; che tende a distruggersi; suicida □ self-determination, (polit.) autodeterminazione, autodecisione; (filos.) libero arbitrio □ self-development, lo sviluppo delle proprie capacità; (econ.) sviluppo autonomo □ self-devotion, abnegazione; dedizione □ (telef.) self-dialled call, telefonata in teleselezione □ self-discipline, autodisciplina □ self-disciplined, autodisciplinato; dotato di senso del dovere □ self-distrust, mancanza di fiducia in sé stesso □ self-doubt, dubbio sulle proprie capacità; mancanza di fiducia in sé; insicurezza □ self-doubting, irresoluto; incerto □ (autom.) self-drive hire, noleggio senza autista □ (mecc.) self-driven, semovente □ (ind. min.) self-dumping car, vagone a cassa inclinabile □ self-educated, autodidatta □ self-effacement, il tenersi nell'ombra; modestia □ self-effacing, che si tiene in disparte; schivo; che resta (o vive) nell'ombra □ self-elected, autoelettosi; che si è scelto liberamente: a self-elected job, un lavoro di propria libera scelta □ ( di un'assemblea) self-elective, che elegge i propri membri; elettivo: a self-elective body, un organo elettivo □ self-employed, indipendente; che lavora in proprio; autonomo □ (econ.) self-employed people (o workers), gli (o i lavoratori) autonomi NOTA D'USO: - lavoratore autonomo- □ (econ.) self-employment, lavoro autonomo (o in proprio) □ self-esteem, stima di sé; amor proprio; (spreg.) presunzione □ self-evident, chiaro di per sé; ovvio; lampante; lapalissiano □ self-examination, esame di coscienza; introspezione □ (elettr.) self-excited, autoeccitato □ (leg.: di un provvedimento, ecc.) self-executing, precettivo; che si applica subito □ self-explaining (o self-explanatory), che si spiega da sé; ovvio □ ( arte, pedagogia) self-expression, libera espressione della propria personalità □ self-feeding, (mecc.) alimentazione automatica; (comput.) autoavanzamento □ (bot., zool.) self-fertilization, autofecondazione □ (econ.) self-financed, autofinanziato □ (econ.) self-financing, (agg.) che si autofinanzia; (sost.) autofinanziamento: self-financing ratio, rapporto di autofinanziamento ( di un'azienda) □ ( ottica) self-focusing, autofocalizzante □ self-forgetful, dimentico di sé; disinteressato; altruista □ self-forgetfulness, disinteresse; altruismo □ self-fulfilling = self-realizing ► sotto □ self-fulfilment = self-realization ► sotto □ self-funding = self-financing ► sopra □ (polit.) self-governing, indipendente; autonomo □ (polit.) self-government, autonomia; autogoverno □ (med.) self-graft, autotrapianto □ self-harm, lesioni (pl.) autoinflitte □ (bot.) self-heal ( Brunella vulgaris), brunella □ self-help, (sost.) l'aiutarsi da solo, il contare sulle proprie forze, il risolvere da solo i propri problemi, self-help (psic.); (leg.) autotutela; (med.: di un malato) autosufficienza: self-help books, libri che insegnano a migliorare la propria vita; (psic.) self-help group, gruppo di self-help □ (med.) self-hypnosis, autoipnosi □ self-ignition, (mecc.) autoaccensione; (fis., chim.) accensione spontanea, autocombustione □ self-importance, alta opinione di sé; boria; presunzione □ self-important, borioso; presuntuoso □ a self-imposed task, un compito assunto volontariamente □ (leg.) self-incrimination, autoincriminazione □ (elettr., mecc.) self-induced, autoindotto □ (elettr.) self-inductance, autoinduttanza □ (elettr.) self-induction, autoinduzione □ self-indulgence, indulgenza verso sé stesso □ self-indulgent, indulgente con sé stesso; ( anche) che indulge ai piaceri della vita □ self-inflicted, inflitto da sé □ self-inflicted injury, autolesione □ self-injurer, autolesionista □ self-injury, autolesione □ self-instructed, che ha imparato da solo: a self-instructed man, un autodidatta □ self-instructor, manuale; guida □ self-insurance, autoassicurazione □ self-interest, interesse personale; tornaconto; egoismo □ self-interested, egoistico □ a self-interested man, un egoista □ self-invited, che s'è invitato da solo; autoinvitatosi □ self-justification, il giustificarsi □ self-justifying, che si giustifica; (tipogr.) a giustificazione automatica □ self-knowledge, consapevolezza di sé; conoscenza di sé stesso □ ( di un debito) self-liquidating, autoliquidantesi □ (mecc.) self-loading, a caricamento automatico; automatico: a self-loading pistol, una pistola automatica □ self-locking, che si chiude da sé; autobloccante □ self-love, amore di sé; egoismo; egocentrismo □ self-made, (che si è) fatto da sé: a self-made man, un uomo che s'è fatto da sé □ ( di stampato, ecc.) self-mailer, pieghevole ( che si spedisce per posta senza bisogno di busta) □ self-managed learning, apprendimento autogestito □ (econ.) self-management, autogestione □ self-mastery = self-control ► sopra □ self-medication, automedicazione □ self-murder, suicidio □ (mecc.) self-moving, semovente □ self-neglect, trascuratezza; trasandatezza □ self-obsessed, narcisistico □ self-opinion, boria, presunzione, arroganza; caparbietà, testardaggine □ self-opinionated, borioso, presuntuoso, arrogante; caparbio, testardo □ self-perpetuating, che si perpetua da solo: The prices-wages spiral is self-perpetuating, la spirale prezzi-salari si alimenta da sola □ self-pity, autocommiserazione; vittimismo; il piangersi addosso □ self-pitying, che si autocommisera; che si piange addosso; vittimista □ (bot.) self-pollination, autoimpollinazione; impollinazione diretta; autogamia □ self-portrait, autoritratto □ self-possessed, calmo; composto; padrone di sé □ self-possession, controllo dei propri nervi; calma; compostezza; padronanza di sé: to lose one's self-possession, perdere la calma □ self-praise, lode (o elogio) di sé; autoincensamento □ self-preservation, autoconservazione □ (tecn.) self-priming, autoadescante ( di una pompa) □ self-proclaimed, autoproclamato; dichiarato: a self-proclaimed racist, un razzista dichiarato □ self-promotion, il farsi propaganda da solo; autopromozione □ (mecc.) self-propelled, a propulsione autonoma; autopropulso; motorizzato; semovente: (mil.) self-propelled artillery, artiglieria semovente; (miss.) a self-propelled missile, un missile autopropulso □ (mecc.) self-propulsion, autopropulsione □ self-protection = self-defence ► sopra □ a self-publicist, uno che si fa la pubblicità da solo; uno che si batte la grancassa (fig.) □ ( cucina) self-raising flour, farina con l'aggiunta di bicarbonato di sodio; farina autolievitante □ self-realization, il realizzarsi ( nel lavoro, ecc.) □ self-realizing, che si realizza; che appaga le proprie aspirazioni □ (leg.) self-redress, autotutela □ self-regard, (grande) considerazione di sé e dei propri interessi □ self-regarding, interessato, egocentrico; egoista; pieno d'amor proprio □ self-registering, a registrazione automatica □ (mecc.) self-regulating, a regolazione automatica; autoregolatore □ self-regulatory, autoregolamentato □ self-reliance, fiducia in sé □ self-reliant, che ha fiducia in sé □ (leg.) self-remedy, autotutela □ self-renunciation = self-sacrifice ► sotto □ self-reproach, senso di colpa; rimorso □ (elettr.) self-reset, ripristino automatico □ self-respect, rispetto di sé; amor proprio; dignità □ self-respecting (o self-respectful), che ha amor proprio; dignitoso □ self-restraint, riserbo, riservatezza; dominio di sé, autocontrollo □ self-restrained, riservato; padrone di sé □ self-righteous, moralistico; che si crede più virtuoso degli altri; farisaico; ipocrita □ self-righteousness, moralismo; fariseismo; ipocrisia □ (tecn.) self-righting, (sost.) autoraddrizzamento; (agg.) di autoraddrizzamento, autoraddrizzante: self-righting mechanism, meccanismo di autoraddrizzamento □ ( USA) self-rising flour = self-raising flour ► sopra □ (polit.) self-rule = self-government ► sopra □ (polit.) self-ruling, dotato di autogoverno □ self-sacrifice, sacrificio di sé; abnegazione; altruismo □ self-sacrificing, che si sacrifica per gli altri; pieno d'abnegazione; altruistico □ self-satisfied, compiaciuto di sé; tronfio; borioso □ self-satisfaction, autocompiacimento; boria □ (elettron.) self-saturation, autosaturazione □ (tecn.) self-selection, autoselezione □ self-seeker, egoista; chi cerca solo il proprio interesse □ self-seeking, (sost.) egoismo; (agg.) egoistico □ self-service, self-service: self-service restaurant [shop, petrol station], ristorante [negozio, pompa di benzina] self-service □ self-serving, egoista □ (bot.) self-sown, spontaneo: self-sown vegetation, vegetazione spontanea □ self-starter, (autom., mecc.) starter automatico, autostarter; (fig. fam.) chi si sa organizzare bene da solo ( nel lavoro, ecc.), persona efficiente □ self-study, (sost.) studio di sé stessi; ( anche) studio da autodidatta, autoapprendimento; (agg.) autodidattico, per autoapprendimento □ self-styled, sedicente □ self-sufficiency, (eccessiva) sicurezza di sé, sicumera, presunzione; (econ.) autosufficienza, autarchia □ a self-sufficiency policy, una politica autarchica □ self-sufficient (o self-sufficing), (troppo) sicuro di sé, presuntuoso, che si dà arie di sufficienza; (econ.) autosufficiente: a self-sufficient country, un paese autosufficiente □ self-suggestion, autosuggestione □ self-supporting, in grado di mantenersi da solo; (econ.) autosufficiente, indipendente, autonomo; (tecn.) autoportante, autoreggente: self-supporting people, persone autosufficienti ( non a carico) □ self-surrender, arrendevolezza; accondiscendenza □ (econ.) self-sustained, autosostentato: self-sustained growth, sviluppo autosostentato □ self-sustaining = self-supporting ► sopra □ self-tanning cream, crema autoabbronzante □ (mecc.) self-tapping, autofilettante: a self-tapping screw, una vite autofilettante □ self-taught, autodidatta: a self-taught man, un autodidatta □ (fisc.) self-taxation, autotassazione □ (comput.) self-test, prova automatica; verifica automatica □ (fotogr.) self-timer, autoscatto □ self-training, autoaggiornamento ( di docenti, ecc.) □ (naut.) self-trimmer, (nave) autostivante □ (autom., mecc.) self-tuning, (agg.) che si registra da solo; dotato di autoregistrazione; (sost.) autoregistrazione ( di un motore) □ (naut.) self-unloader, (nave) autoscaricante □ self-will, caparbietà; ostinazione; il fare di testa propria □ self-willed, caparbio; ostinato; che fa di testa propria □ ( d'orologio) self-winding, a carica automatica □ self-worship, egolatria; egotismo □ self-worshipper, egolatra; egotista □ self-worth, autostima.