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61 punctuation
punctuation [‚pʌŋktjʊˈeɪ∫ən]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ ponctuation is spelt with an o instead of a u.* * *[ˌpʌŋktʃʊ'eɪʃn]noun ponctuation f -
62 rational
rational [ˈræ∫ənl]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ rationnel ends in -el instead of -al and has a double n.* * *['ræʃənl]adjective [approach, argument] rationnel/-elle; [person] sensérational being — être m doué de raison
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64 reasonably
reasonably [ˈri:znəblɪ]a. ( = sensibly) [behave] d'une façon raisonnable ; [say, expect] raisonnablementb. ( = fairly) [happy, easy, safe] assez━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *['riːznəblɪ]1) ( legitimately) légitimement; ( sensibly) raisonnablement2) ( rather) assez -
65 sensational
sensational [senˈseɪ∫ənl]a. [event] sensationnelb. [film, novel, newspaper] à sensationc. ( = marvellous) (inf) sensationnel━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word sensationnel has a double n and ends in -el instead of -al.* * *[sen'seɪʃənl]1) gen, péj sensationnel/-ellesensational story/article — histoire f/article m à sensation pej
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66 snack
snack [snæk]1. nounb. ( = party snack) amuse-gueule m inv2. compounds* * *[snæk] 1.1) ( small meal) repas m léger; ( instead of meal) casse-croûte m invto have ou eat a snack — manger quelque chose
2) (crisps, peanuts etc) amuse-gueule m inv2.intransitive verb grignoter, manger légèrement -
67 superficial
superficial [‚su:pəˈfɪ∫əl]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *[ˌsuːpə'fɪʃl, ˌsjuː-]adjective superficiel/-ielle -
68 terrace
terrace [ˈterəs]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word terrasse has a double s instead of a c.* * *['terəs] 1.1) ( veranda) terrasse f2) Architecture alignement m de maisons ( identiques et contiguës)2.terraces plural noun ( in stadium) gradins mpl3.transitive verb arranger [quelque chose] en terrasses [garden, hillside] -
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70 traditional
traditional [trəˈdɪ∫ənl]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word traditionnel has a double n and ends in -el instead of -al.* * *[trə'dɪʃənl]adjective traditionnel/-elle -
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72 unconditional
unconditional [ˈʌnkənˈdɪ∫ənl][surrender, offer] sans condition(s) ; [love, support] inconditionnel━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ The French word inconditionnel has a double n and ends with -el instead of -al.* * *[ˌʌnkən'dɪʃənl]adjective [obedience] inconditionnel/-elle; [offer, surrender] sans condition -
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usual [ˈju:ʒʊəl]1. adjective• the journey took four hours instead of the usual two le voyage a pris quatre heures au lieu des deux heures habituelles• she welcomed us in her usual friendly way elle nous a accueillis chaleureusement, comme à son habitude► as usual ( = as always) comme d'habitude• for her it's just life as usual pour elle, la vie continue comme avant• "business as usual" « ouvert pendant les travaux »• it is business as usual (for them) les affaires continuent (pour eux) ; (figurative) la vie continue (pour eux)2. noun( = drink) (inf) the usual please! comme d'habitude, s'il vous plaît !* * *['juːʒl] 1.(colloq) noun‘what did he say?’ - ‘oh, the usual’ — ‘qu'est-ce qu'il a dit?’ - ‘oh, toujours la même chose’
2.your usual, sir? — ( in bar) comme d'habitude, monsieur?
adjective [behaviour, form, procedure, problem, route, place, time] habituel/-elle; [word, term] usuel/-elleit is usual to do —
she was her usual cheerful self — elle était gaie, comme d'habitude
‘business as usual’ — ‘la vente continue’
more/less than usual — plus/moins que d'habitude
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74 you
you [ju:]a.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When you is the subject of a sentence, the translation is tu or vous in the singular and vous in the plural. vous is used as the polite form in the singular. When you is the object of a sentence te replaces tu in the singular, but vous remains unchanged. toi is used instead of tu after a preposition and in comparisons. toi is also used when you is stressed.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'll see you soon je te or je vous verrai bientôt• this book is for you ce livre est pour toi or vous• you two wait here! attendez ici, vous deux !• now you say something maintenant à toi or à vous de parler• you and I will go together toi or vous et moi, nous irons ensemble• if I were you à ta or votre place• you fool (you)! espèce d'imbécile !• I like the uniform, it's very you (inf) j'aime bien ton uniforme, c'est vraiment ton styleb. ( = one, anyone)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When you is the subject of a sentence the translation is either on or the passive form. When you is the object of a sentence or is used after a preposition, the direct translation of you is te or vous.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• how do you switch this on? comment est-ce que ça s'allume ?* * *[juː, jʊ]1) ( addressing somebody)I saw you on Saturday — ( one person) ( polite) je vous ai vu samedi; ( informal) je t'ai vu samedi; ( more than one person) je vous ai vus samedi
you would never do that — ( polite) vous, vous ne feriez jamais cela; ( informal) toi, tu ne ferais jamais ça
there's a manager for you! — (colloq) iron ça c'est un patron!
you idiot! — (colloq) espèce d'imbécile! (colloq)
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75 contortionist
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76 functionality
functionality [fʌŋk∫əˈnælɪtɪ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ fonctionnalité is spelt with an o instead of a u and has a double n. -
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obsessional [əbˈse∫ənl]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✎ obsessionnel has a double n and ends in -el instead of -al. -
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1 noun(vente f au) détail m;∎ a wholesale and retail business un commerce de gros et de détailretail audit audit m des détaillants; retail auditor audit des détaillants, auditeur(trice) m, f des détaillants;retail bank banque f de détail;retail banking banque de détail;retail chain chaîne f de détail;retail company maison f de détail;retail customer client(e) m, f qui achète au détail;retail dealer détaillant(e) m, f;American retail elephant magasin m de grande distribution (qui domine une zone donnée); retail goods marchandises f pl au détail;retail outlet magasin de (vente au) détail, point m de (vente au) détail;retail panel panel m de détaillants;retail park zone f commerciale;retail price prix m de détail;retail price maintenance prix imposé;retail sales vente au détail;retail shipment expédition f de détail;retail shop magasin de (vente au) détail;retail trade (commerce m de) détailvendre au détailse vendre (au détail);∎ they retail at £50 each ils se vendent à 50 livres la pièceLocated in a mall near P&G's headquarters in suburban Cincinnati, the 4,700-square-foot retail outlet is being regarded by the company as a test. However, executives say P& G does not plan on entering the retail arena. Instead, the company will use the store to launch new products and refine offerings.
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80 (on the one hand) ... on the other hand
(an expression used to introduce two opposing parts of an argument etc: (On the one hand) we could stay and help you, but on the other hand, it might be better if we went to help him instead.) d'une part... d'autre part...English-French dictionary > (on the one hand) ... on the other hand
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Instead — In*stead , adv. [Pref. in + stead place.] [1913 Webster] 1. In the place or room; usually followed by of. [1913 Webster] Let thistles grow of wheat. Job xxxi. 40. [1913 Webster] Absalom made Amasa captain of the host instead of Joab. 2 Sam. xvii … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
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instead — [[t]ɪnste̱d[/t]] ♦♦ 1) PHR PREP: PREP n/ ing If you do one thing instead of another, you do the first thing and not the second thing, as the result of a choice or a change of behaviour. She had to spend nearly four months away from him that… … English dictionary
instead — in|stead [ ın sted ] adverb *** used for saying that one person, thing, or action replaces another: If you don t have olive oil, you can use sunflower oil instead. The committee has rejected our proposal. Instead, they have brought forward an… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English