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101 drink
drink [drɪŋk]1. nouna. ( = liquid to drink) boisson f• may I have a drink? est-ce que je pourrais boire quelque chose ?• have a drink! tu prendras bien un verre ?• I need a drink! j'ai besoin de boire un verre !c. ( = alcoholic liquor) to be under the influence of drink être en état d'ivresse• would you like something to drink? voulez-vous boire quelque chose ?• "don't drink and drive" « boire ou conduire, il faut choisir »• to drink to sb/to sb's success boire à qn/au succès de qn4. compounds• drink up! finis ton verre !• to drink sth up finir son verre (or sa tasse) de qch* * *[drɪŋk] 1.1) ( nonalcoholic) boisson f2) ( alcoholic) verre m3) ( act of drinking)to take ou have a drink of something — boire une gorgée de quelque chose
4) [U] ( collectively) boisson f; ( alcoholic) alcool m2. 3.1) boire (from, out of dans)2) ( as toast)•Phrasal Verbs:- drink in- drink up•• -
102 emotional
emotional [ɪˈməʊ∫ənl]1. adjectivea. ( = psychological) [problem, development] affectifb. ( = emotive) it is an emotional issue cette question soulève les passionsc. ( = full of emotion) [person] émotif ; (on specific occasion) ému ; [experience, event] chargé d'émotion2. compounds* * *[ɪ'məʊʃənl]adjective [development, problem] émotif/-ive; [reaction, state] émotionnel/-elle; [tie, response] affectif/-ive; [film] émouvant; [speech] passionné; [occasion] chargé d'émotionemotional health — équilibre m mental
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103 exaggerate
exaggerate [ɪgˈzædʒəreɪt]a. ( = overstate) exagérer ; [+ problem] exagérer l'importance deb. ( = emphasize) accentuer* * *[ɪg'zædʒəreɪt] 1.transitive verb gen exagérer; ( in one's own mind) s'exagérer [problem, effect]2.intransitive verb exagérer -
104 grapple
grapple [ˈgræpl]* * *['græpl]to grapple with — lit lutter avec [person]; fig se colleter avec [problem]
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105 housing
housing [ˈhaʊzɪŋ]1. nounlogement m• affordable housing is difficult to find les logements à des prix abordables sont difficiles à trouver2. compounds[matters, problem] de logement ; [crisis] du logement► housing association noun (British) (for providing housing) association qui construit et rénove des logements pour les louer à des prix raisonnables ; (for co-ownership) association f de copropriétaires► housing estate noun (British) ( = council-owned flats) cité f ; ( = privately-owned houses) lotissement m* * *['haʊzɪŋ] 1.noun (houses, flats) logements mpl2. -
106 intractable
intractable [ɪnˈtræktəbl][problem] insoluble ; [illness] réfractaire (à tout traitement) ; [child] difficile ; [opponent] irréductible* * *[ɪn'træktəbl]adjective [person] intraitable; [opinion] inflexible; [illness, problem] rebelle -
107 knotty
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108 land
land [lænd]1. nouna. terre fb. ( = farmland) terre fd. ( = country) pays m• buying the house landed him in debt l'achat de la maison l'a mis financièrement dans le pétrin (inf)d. (British) (inf) to be landed with sth ( = left with) rester avec qch sur les bras ; ( = forced to take on) devoir se coltiner qch (inf)• now we're landed with all this extra work maintenant il faut qu'on se coltine tout ce boulot en plus (inf)a. [aircraft] atterrir• to land on sth [falling object] tomber sur qch ; [person or animal jumping] retomber sur qch ; [bird, insect] se poser sur qch4. compounds* * *[lænd] 1.1) (terrain, property) terrain m; ( very large) terres fplthe lie GB ou lay US of the land — lit le relief du terrain
to get the lie GB ou lay US of the land — fig savoir de quoi il retourne
private/public land — propriété f privée/publique
2) Agriculture ( farmland) terre f3) ( countryside) campagne f4) ( country) pays m5) ( not sea) terre f2.noun modifier [ clearance, drainage, prices] du terrain; [ purchase, sale] de terrain; [ deal, tax] foncier/-ière; [ law] agraire; [ battle, forces, animal] terrestre3.transitive verb1) Aviation [pilot] poser [aircraft]; faire atterrir [space capsule]2) ( in fishing) prendre [fish]3) (colloq) fig ( secure) décrocher (colloq) [job, contract, prize]4) (colloq) ( leave with problem)he landed me with washing the car — il m'a refilé (colloq) la voiture à laver
to be landed with somebody/something — se retrouver avec quelqu'un/quelque chose sur les bras
now you've really landed her in it! — tu l'as vraiment fichue (colloq) dans de beaux draps!
5) (colloq) ( deliver) flanquer (colloq) [blow, punch]4.1) Aviation [aircraft, passenger] atterrir2) Nautical [passenger] débarquer; [ship] accoster3) Sport, gen [person, animal, object] atterrir; [ball] toucher le sol5.to land oneself in — se mettre dans [situation]
to land oneself with — (colloq) se retrouver avec [task, problem]
Phrasal Verbs:- land up•• -
109 lap
lap [læp]1. noun• we're on the last lap (of project, task) on a fait le plus difficilea. [+ milk] laperb. [+ runner, car] prendre un tour d'avance sur[waves] clapoter3. compoundsa. [+ milk] laperb. [+ information] (inf) absorber ; [+ compliments] (inf) boire comme du petit-lait (inf) ; [+ attention] (inf) se délecter de* * *[læp] 1.1) ( area of body) genoux mplto be on the last lap — lit faire le dernier tour; fig en être à la dernière étape
3) ( part of journey) étape f2.transitive verb (p prés etc - pp-)1) Sport avoir un tour d'avance sur [person]2) ( drink) laper [water]3.Phrasal Verbs:- lap up•• -
110 look at
look at [something]you'd never guess, to look at her — à la voir on ne devinerait jamais
2) ( examine) vérifier [equipment]; examiner [patient]; jeter un coup d'œil à [car, plumbing]; étudier [problem, options]3) (see, view) voir [life, situation]; envisager [problem]you can't be too careful, look at Tom! — il faut être très prudent, regarde ce qui est arrivé à Tom!
4) ( talk about)you're looking at about 3,000 dollars — ça va vous coûter aux alentours de 3000 dollars
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111 magnitude
magnitude [ˈmægnɪtju:d]* * *['mægnɪtjuːd], US [-tuːd]1) (of problem, disaster) ampleur f2) ( in astronomy) magnitude f -
112 one
one [wʌn]1. adjective• one hot summer afternoon she... par un chaud après-midi d'été, elle...► one... the other• one girl was French, the other was Swiss une des filles était française, l'autre était suisse• the sea is on one side, the mountains on the other d'un côté, il y a la mer, de l'autre les montagnes► one thing ( = something that)one thing I'd like to know is where he got the money ce que j'aimerais savoir, c'est d'où lui vient l'argent• if there's one thing I can't stand it's... s'il y a une chose que je ne supporte pas, c'est...► one person ( = somebody that)one person I hate is Roy s'il y a quelqu'un que je déteste, c'est Royb. ( = a single) un seul• the one man/woman who could do it le seul/la seule qui puisse le faire• the one and only Charlie Chaplin! le seul, l'unique Charlot !c. ( = same) même2. noun• one, two, three un, deux, trois• I for one don't believe it pour ma part, je ne le crois pas━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• any one of them n'importe lequel (or laquelle)3. pronoun━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• would you like one? en voulez-vous un(e) ?► adjective + one━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► one is not translated.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• that's a difficult one! ( = question) ça c'est difficile !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The article and adjective in French are masculine or feminine, depending on the noun referred to.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'd like a big one ( = glass) j'en voudrais un grand• I'd like the big one ( = slice) je voudrais la grosse► the one + clause, phrase• the one who or that... celui qui (or celle qui)...• the one on the floor celui (or celle) qui est par terre• is this the one you wanted? c'est bien celui-ci (or celle-ci) que vous vouliez ?► one another l'un (e) l'autre4. compounds• his company is a one-man band (inf) il fait marcher l'affaire tout seul ► one-man show noun [of performer] spectacle m solo, one-man show m• it's a one-off (object) il n'y en a qu'un comme ça ; (event) ça ne va pas se reproduire ► one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective= one-to-one(US) = one-off► one-to-one, one-on-one, one-one (US) adjective [conversation] en tête-à-tête ; [training, counselling] individuel• to have a one-track mind n'avoir qu'une idée en tête ► one-upmanship (inf) noun art m de faire mieux que les autres• it's a one-way ticket to disaster (inf) c'est la catastrophe assurée ► one-woman adjective [business] individuel* * *Note: When one is used as a personal pronoun it is translated by on when it is the subject of the verb: one never knows = on ne sait jamais. When one is the object of the verb or comes after a preposition it is usually translated by vous: it can make one ill = cela peut vous rendre maladeFor more examples and all other uses, see the entry below[wʌn] 1.1) ( single) un/une2) (unique, sole) seulshe's one fine artist — US c'est une très grande artiste
3) ( same) même4) ( for emphasis)2.1) ( indefinite) un/une m/fcan you lend me one? — tu peux m'en prêter un/une?
every one of them — tous/toutes sans exception (+ v pl)
2) ( impersonal) ( as subject) on; ( as object) vousone would like to think that... — on aimerait penser que...
you're a one! — (colloq) toi alors!
I for one think that... — pour ma part je crois que...
4) ( demonstrative)the grey one — le gris/la grise
this one — celui-ci/celle-ci
which one? — lequel/laquelle?
that's the one — c'est celui-là/celle-là
5) ( in knitting)knit one, purl one — une maille à l'endroit, une maille à l'envers
6) ( in currency)one-fifty — ( in sterling) une livre cinquante; ( in dollars) un dollar cinquante
7) (colloq) ( drink)he's had one too many — il a bu un coup (colloq) de trop
8) (colloq) ( joke)have you heard the one about...? — est-ce que tu connais l'histoire de...?
9) (colloq) ( blow)to land ou sock somebody one — en coller une à quelqu'un (colloq)
10) (colloq) (question, problem)3.1) ( number) un m; ( referring to feminine) une fto throw a one — ( on dice) faire un un
2) ( person)4.her loved ones — ceux qui lui sont/étaient chers
as one adverbial phrase [rise] comme un seul homme; [shout, reply] tous ensemble5.one by one adverbial phrase [pick up, wash] un par un/une par une••to be one up on somebody — (colloq) avoir un avantage sur quelqu'un
to have a thousand ou million and one things to do — avoir un tas de choses à faire
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113 pinpoint
pinpoint [ˈpɪnpɔɪnt][+ place] localiser avec précision ; [+ problem] mettre le doigt sur* * *['pɪnpɔɪnt] 1.noun tête f d'épingle2.transitive verb1) (identify, pick out) indiquer [problem, risk, causes]2) ( place exactly) indiquer [location, position, site]; déterminer [time, exact moment] -
114 pose
pose [pəʊz]1. nounpose fposer ; ( = attitudinize) poser pour la galerie( = present) [+ problem, question, difficulties] poser ; [+ threat] constituer* * *[pəʊz] 1.1) (for portrait, photo) pose f2.to strike a pose — [dancer, model] prendre une pose
transitive verb ( present) poser [problem] ( for pour); présenter [challenge] (to à); représenter [threat, risk] (to pour); soulever [question] ( about de)3.1) [artist's model] poser; [performer] prendre des poses2) ( masquerade) -
115 present
1. adjectivea. ( = in attendance) présent (at à)• who was present? qui était là ?b. ( = existing now) actuel2. nouna. ( = present time) présent m• there's no time like the present! il ne faut jamais remettre au lendemain ce que l'on peut faire le jour même !b. ( = gift) cadeau m• to present sth to sb [+ prize, medal] remettre qch à qnb. [+ tickets, documents] présenter ; [+ plan, account, proposal] soumettre ; [+ report] remettre ; [+ complaint] déposer ; [+ proof, evidence] apporter• to present o.s. se présenter• how you present yourself is very important la manière dont vous vous présentez est très importantec. ( = constitute) [+ problem, difficulties, features] présenter ; [+ opportunity] donner ; [+ challenge] constituerd. [+ play, film, programme] passer ; ( = act as presenter of) présenter• we are proud to present... nous sommes heureux de vous présenter...4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ Lorsque present est un adjectif ou un nom, l'accent tombe sur la première syllabe: ˈpreznt, lorsque c'est un verbe, sur la seconde: prɪˈzent.* * *1. ['preznt]1) ( gift) cadeau m2)the present — ( now) le présent
for the present — pour le moment, pour l'instant
3) Linguistics (also present tense) présent m2. ['preznt]1) ( attending) présent2) ( current) actuel/-elleat the present time ou moment — actuellement
3) Linguistics présent3. 4. [prɪ'zent]transitive verb1) ( raise) présenter [problem, challenge, risk]; offrir [chance, opportunity]2) (proffer, show) présenter3) ( submit for consideration) présenter [plan, figures, petition]; fournir [evidence]4) ( formally give) remettre [prize, certificate]; présenter [apologies, respects, compliments]5) ( portray) présenter [person, situation] (as comme étant)6) Television, Radio, Theatre présenter [programme, show]; donner [production, play, concert]7) Military présenter [arms]5.intransitive verb Medicine [patient, baby] se présenter; [symptom, condition] apparaître6.1)2)to present itself — [opportunity, thought] se présenter
••there is no time like the present — il ne faut jamais remettre au lendemain ce que l'on peut faire le jour même
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116 recur
recur [rɪˈkɜ:r][error, event] se reproduire ; [illness, infection] réapparaître ; [opportunity, problem] se représenter* * *[rɪ'kɜː(r)]intransitive verb (p prés etc - rr-) [event, error, dream] se reproduire; [problem, illness] réapparaître; [theme, phrase] revenir; Mathematics [number] se répéter à l'infini -
117 recurrence
recurrence [rɪˈkʌrəns][of problem, event, idea] répétition f ; [of headache, symptom, problem] réapparition f ; [of opportunity] retour m* * *[rɪ'kʌrəns] -
118 refer
refer [rɪˈfɜ:r][+ matter, question] soumettre (to à)• to refer sb to the article on... renvoyer qn à l'article sur...• "the reader is referred to page 10" « prière de se reporter à la page 10 »• what can he be referring to? de quoi parle-t-il ?* * *[rɪ'fɜː(r)] 1.(p prés etc - rr-) transitive verb1) ( pass on) renvoyer [task, problem, enquiry] (to à)to refer somebody to — [person] envoyer quelqu'un à [department]; [critic, text] renvoyer quelqu'un à [article, footnote]
2) Law déférer [case] (to à)3) Medicine2.1) (allude to, talk about)to refer to — parler de, faire allusion à [person, topic, event]
2) (as name, label)3) ( signify)to refer to — [number, date, term] se rapporter à
4) ( consult)to refer to — consulter [notes, article]
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119 settle
settle [ˈsetl]• that settles it! ( = that's made my mind up) c'est décidé !• that's settled then? alors c'est entendu ?b. [+ debt] rembourser ; [+ bill, account] réglerc. [+ child, patient] installerd. [+ nerves] calmer ; [+ doubts] dissipere. [+ land] ( = colonize) coloniser ; ( = inhabit) peuplera. [bird, insect] se poserb. [sediment] se déposerc. [dust] retomber• to settle on sth [dust, snow] couvrir qchd. ( = get comfortable) to settle into an armchair s'installer (confortablement) dans un fauteuile. ( = go to live) s'installer( = take up one's residence) s'installer ; ( = become calmer) se calmer ; (after wild youth) se ranger ; [emotions] s'apaiser ; [situation] s'arranger• will you settle for a draw? un match nul vous satisferait-il ?* * *['setl] 1.noun banquette f coffre2.transitive verb1) ( position comfortably) installer [person, animal]2) ( calm) calmer [stomach, nerves]3) ( resolve) régler [matter, business, dispute]; mettre fin à [conflict]; régler, résoudre [problem]that settles it! I'm leaving tomorrow! — ( making decision) c'est décidé! je pars demain!; ( in exasperation) c'en est trop! je pars demain!
to settle an argument — ( as referee) trancher
4) ( agree on) fixer5) ( put in order)6) Commerce régler [bill, debt]7) ( colonize) coloniser3.1) ( come to rest) [bird, insect, wreck] se poser; [dust, dregs] se déposerto let the dust settle — lit laisser retomber la poussière; fig attendre que les choses se calment
to settle over — [clouds] descendre sur; [silence, grief] s'étendre sur
2) ( become resident) gen s'installer; ( more permanently) se fixer3) ( become compacted) se tasser4) ( calm down) gen se calmer; ( go to sleep) s'endormir; [weather] se mettre au beau fixe5) ( take hold)to be settling — [snow] tenir; [mist] persister
6) Law régler4.to settle oneself in — s'installer dans [chair, bed]
Phrasal Verbs:•• -
120 severity
severity [sɪˈverɪtɪ][of problem, illness, injury] gravité f ; [of punishment, criticism] sévérité f ; [of pain, storm] violence f ; [of winter] rigueur f* * *[sɪ'verətɪ]1) ( seriousness) (of problem, situation, illness) gravité f; (of shock, pain) violence f2) ( harshness) (of sentence, treatment) sévérité f; ( of climate) rigueur f
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