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1 downstairs
downstairs [ˈdaʊnˈstεəz]1. adverben bas ; ( = to or on floor below) à l'étage du dessous ; ( = to or on ground floor) au rez-de-chaussée2. adjective( = on ground floor) du rez-de-chaussée* * *[ˌdaʊn'steəz] 1.noun rez-de-chaussée m inv2.adjective [room] gen en bas; ( on ground-floor) du rez-de-chaussée3.the downstairs flat GB ou apartment US — l'appartement du rez-de-chaussée
adverb en basto go ou come downstairs — descendre (l'escalier)
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2 race
race [reɪs]1 noun(a) (competition) course f;∎ an 800-metre race une course de ou sur 800 mètres;∎ the 100 metres race le 100 mètres, la course de 100 mètres;∎ to run a race courir, participer à une course;∎ it's anybody's race il n'y a pas de favori;∎ Horseracing a day at the races une journée aux courses;∎ a race against time une course contre la montre;∎ it'll be a race to finish on time il faudra se dépêcher pour finir à temps;∎ the race for the Presidency la course à la présidence∎ the human race la race humaine;∎ figurative he belongs to the race of poets il est de la race des poètes(discrimination, hatred, prejudice) racial(a) (compete against) faire la course avec;∎ (I'll) race you there! à qui y arrivera le premier!;∎ I'll race you home! le premier arrivé à la maison a gagné!;∎ he raced me round the block il a fait la course avec moi autour du pâté de maisons;∎ the car raced the bus to the traffic lights la voiture a fait la course avec le bus pour arriver la première aux feux∎ he raced me to the airport il m'a emmené à l'aéroport à toute vitesse;∎ the casualties were raced to hospital les blessés ont été transportés d'urgence à l'hôpital;∎ to race a bill through Parliament faire adopter un projet de loi en toute hâte∎ to race a horse faire courir un cheval;∎ this colt hasn't been raced yet ce poulain n'a pas encore couru;∎ to race pigeons faire des courses de pigeons∎ to race the engine accélérer; (excessively) faire s'emballer le moteur∎ the cars/drivers were racing against each other les voitures/les conducteurs faisaient la course;∎ his horse will be racing at Ascot son cheval courra à Ascot(b) (go fast, rush) aller à toute allure ou vitesse;∎ to race in/out/past entrer/sortir/passer à toute allure;∎ they raced out of the café ils se précipitèrent hors du café;∎ to race for a bus courir pour attraper un bus;∎ she raced downstairs elle a dévalé l'escalier;∎ she raced up the stairs elle a monté les escaliers quatre à quatre;∎ you'll have to race to catch your train tu vas devoir te dépêcher si tu veux avoir ton train;∎ he raced through his meal il a avalé son repas à toute vitesse;∎ my pulse was racing mon cœur battait à tout rompre;∎ the ambulance raced to the scene of the accident l'ambulance fonça sur les lieux de l'accident;∎ the car was racing along la voiture allait à toute vitesse;∎ a thousand ideas raced through her mind mille idées lui sont passées par la tête;∎ the work is racing ahead le travail avance très vite;∎ the competition is racing ahead of us nous sommes en train de nous faire dépasser par la concurrence;∎ the clouds are racing across the sky les nuages filent dans le ciel►► American race car voiture f de course;race card programme m (des courses);American race driver pilote m de course;race meeting courses fpl;∎ there is a race meeting at Newmarket tomorrow on court ou il y a des courses demain à Newmarket;race norming égalité f des chances;race relations relations fpl interraciales;the Race Relations Act (in the UK) = loi de 1976 sur le respect des minorités ethniques;British race relations body or race relations board = organisme luttant contre la discrimination raciale;race riot émeute f raciale;race walking marche f (athlétique)(time) filer;∎ the weekend just raced by le weekend a passé très vite -
3 by
by [baɪ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When by is an element in a phrasal verb, eg go by, stand by, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg by degrees, surrounded by, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. prepositiona. ( = close to) à côté de, près de• her cousins are over there, and she's sitting by them ses cousins sont là-bas et elle est assise à côté (d'eux)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• her bag was on the table and her keys right by it son sac était sur la table et ses clés juste à côtéb. ( = past) à côté dec. ( = via) par• which route did you come by? par où êtes-vous passés ?d. ( = not later than) pour• applications must be submitted by 21 April les candidatures doivent nous parvenir au plus tard le 21 avrile. ( = in) en• by 1990 the figure had reached... en 1990, ce chiffre avait atteint...• by 2010 the figure will have reached... en 2010, cette somme aura atteint...f. ( = on) by 30 September we had paid out £500 au 30 septembre nous avions payé 500 livres• by yesterday it was clear that... dès hier on savait que...g. ( = according to) by my calculations d'après mes calculsk. ( = created, written by) de• who's it by? c'est de qui ?l. (method, means, manner) à► by + -ing en• by leaving early he missed the rush en partant de bonne heure il a évité la cohue► by + means of transport en• by bus/car/taxi en bus/voiture/taxi• by rail or train en train━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When there is no clear agent, the active is more natural in French.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• by and large, I still think this is true globalement, je crois toujours que c'est vrai► by the way au fait• by the way, did you know it was Ann's birthday? au fait, tu savais que c'était l'anniversaire d'Ann ?2. adverb( = along, past) he'll be by any minute il sera là dans un instant3. compounds* * *[baɪ] 1.1) (showing agent, result) par2) ( through the means of)to travel by bus/train — voyager en bus/train
by bicycle — à bicyclette, en vélo
by candlelight — [dine] aux chandelles; [read] à la bougie
3) (according to, from evidence of) àby my watch it is three o'clock — à ma montre, il est trois heures
I could tell by the look on her face that she was angry — rien qu'à la regarder je savais qu'elle était fâchée
4) (via, passing through) par5) (near, beside) à côté de, près deby the bed/the window — à côté du lit/de la fenêtre
6) ( past)to go ou pass by somebody — passer devant quelqu'un
7) ( showing authorship) de8) (before, not later than) avantby four o'clock/next Thursday — avant quatre heures/jeudi prochain
by the time she had got downstairs he was gone — le temps qu'elle descende, il était parti
by now it was clear that they were going to win — à ce moment-là il était clair qu'ils allaient gagner
9) ( during)10) ( according to)it seems primitive by western standards — cela a l'air primitif selon or d'après les critères occidentaux
11) ( to the extent or degree of) deprices have risen by 20% — les prix ont augmenté de 20%
he's taller than me by two centimetres — il fait deux centimètres de plus que moi, il est plus grand que moi de deux centimètres
12) ( in measurements) sur13) (in multiplication, division) par14) (showing rate, quantity) à15) (in successive degrees, units)one by one — un par un, un à un
16) ( with regard to) dehe is an architect by profession ou trade — il est architecte de son métier
17) ( as a result of) parby accident/mistake — par accident/erreur
18) ( used with reflexive pronouns)19) Nautical ( in compass directions) quart2.1) ( past)the people walking by — les gens mpl qui passent/passaient, les passants mpl
2) ( near) près3) (aside, in reserve)4) ( to one's house)••by and by — bientôt, en peu de temps
by the by —
but that's by the by — mais ça c'est un détail, mais ça c'est autre chose
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4 tumble
tumble [ˈtʌmbl]1. nounculbute f• the clothes tumbled out of the cupboard la pile de vêtements a dégringolé quand on a ouvert le placardb. ( = rush) se jeter3. compounds* * *['tʌmbl] 1.1) ( fall) chute fto take a tumble — [person] faire une chute; [price, share] chuter
2) (of clown, acrobat) culbute f3) ( jumble) tas m2.1) ( fall) [person, object] tomber (off, out of de)to tumble down something — [water] dévaler quelque chose en cascade
2) [price, share, currency] chuter3) Sport [clown, acrobat, child] faire des culbutes4) (colloq)to tumble to something — ( understand) comprendre [fact, plan]
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