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sorrow ['sɒrəʊ]1 nounchagrin m, peine f, tristesse f; (stronger) affliction f, douleur f;∎ I am writing to express my sorrow at your sad loss je vous écris pour vous faire part de la tristesse que j'ai éprouvée en apprenant votre deuil;∎ her sorrow at or over losing the match was short-lived le chagrin qu'elle a éprouvé ou la tristesse qu'elle a éprouvée d'avoir perdu le match n'a pas duré;∎ to our great sorrow à notre grand regret;∎ more in sorrow than in anger avec plus de tristesse que de colère;∎ his son's failure was a great sorrow to him l'échec de son fils lui a fait ou causé beaucoup de peine;∎ life is full of joys and sorrows la vie est faite de joies et de peines;∎ one for sorrow, two for joy = maxime que l'on prononce par supersitition lorsqu'on voit une pie, une pie seule étant censée porter malheur tandis que deux pies sont censées porter bonheurliterary éprouver du chagrin ou de la peine;∎ he is still sorrowing over his son's death il pleure encore la mort de son fils -
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A n1 ( grief) chagrin m ; to feel sorrow éprouver du chagrin ; to my sorrow à mon grand chagrin ; it was said more in sorrow than in anger cela a été dit avec plus de tristesse que de colère ; I am writing to express my sorrow at your sad loss c'est avec beaucoup de peine que j'ai appris le deuil qui vient de vous frapper ;2 ( misfortune) chagrin m, peine f ; we share each other's joys and sorrows nous partageons nos joies et nos peines.one for sorrow, two for joy ( of magpies) une pie tant pis, deux pies tant mieux. -
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A n1 ( faculty) sens m ; sense of hearing ouïe f ; sense of sight vue f ; sense of smell odorat m ; sense of taste goût m ; sense of touch toucher m ; to dull/sharpen the senses émousser/aiguiser les sens ;2 fig ( ability to appreciate) a sense of le sens de ; a sense of direction/of rhythm le sens de l'orientation/du rythme ; a writer with a sense of history/the absurd un écrivain doué du sens de l'histoire/l'absurde ; to have no sense of style/decency n'avoir aucun style/aucune notion de la décence ; to lose all sense of time perdre toute notion du temps ;3 ( feeling) a sense of un sentiment de [guilt, security, failure, identity] ; his sense of having failed/being excluded son sentiment d' avoir échoué/d'être exclu ; he had the sense that something was wrong/that he had forgotten something il avait le sentiment que quelque chose n'allait pas/d'avoir oublié quelque chose ; a sense of purpose le sentiment d'avoir un but ; the town has a great sense of community la ville a un grand sens de la communauté ;4 ( practical quality) bon sens m ; to have the (good) sense to do avoir le bon sens de faire ; to have more sense than to do avoir suffisamment de bon sens pour ne pas faire ;5 ( reason) there's no sense in doing cela ne sert à rien de faire ; what's the sense in getting angry/leaving now? à quoi sert de se fâcher/partir maintenant? ; to make sense of sth comprendre qch ; I can't make sense of this article/this sentence je ne comprends rien à cet article/cette phrase ; it makes sense to do c'est une bonne idée de faire ; it makes good business sense to employ an accountant ce serait profitable d'employer un comptable ; to make sense [sentence, film, theory] avoir un sens ; not to make any sense [sentence, film, theory] n'avoir aucun sens ; what he said didn't make much sense to me ce qu'il a dit ne m'a pas semblé très logique ;6 ( meaning) gen, Ling sens m ; in the literal/strict sense (of the word) au sens littéral/strict (du mot) ; in all senses ou in every sense of the word dans tous les sens du mot ; in the sense that en ce sens que ; he is in a ou one ou some sense right to complain, but… dans un certain sens il a raison de se plaindre, mais… ; they are in no sense democratic ils ne sont en aucune manière démocratiques ;B senses npl ( sanity) raison f ; to bring sb to his senses ramener qn à la raison ; to come to one's senses revenir à la raison ; to take leave of one's senses perdre la raison or l'esprit.C vtr1 ( be aware of) deviner (that que) ; he sensed her uneasiness/her anger/her sorrow il devinait son malaise/sa colère/son chagrin ; to sense where/how etc deviner où/comment etc ; to sense danger/hostility sentir un danger/de l'hostilité ; to sense sb ou sb's presence sentir la présence de qn ;to knock ou hammer ou pound US some sense into sb ramener qn à la raison ; to see sense entendre raison ; to talk sense dire des choses sensées.
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