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1 surprise
surprise [səˈpraɪz]1. nounsurprise f• what a surprise! quelle surprise !• it was a lovely/nasty surprise for him ça a été une agréable/mauvaise surprise pour lui• it came as a surprise to learn that... j'ai eu la surprise d'apprendre que...2. adjective[defeat, decision, gift] inattendu• he was surprised to hear that... il a été surpris d'apprendre que...• I'm surprised at you! cela me surprend de votre part !• go on, surprise me! allez, étonne-moi !* * *[sə'praɪz] 1.1) (unexpected event, gift) surprise fthe result came as ou was no surprise — le résultat n'a surpris personne
it comes as ou is no surprise that — il n'est pas surprenant que (+ subj)
it comes as ou is a surprise to hear that — c'est une surprise d'apprendre que
it came as ou was a complete surprise to me — je ne m'y attendais pas du tout
surprise, surprise! — ô surprise!
2) ( astonishment) surprise f, étonnement m2.to take somebody by surprise — gen prendre quelqu'un au dépourvu; Military surprendre quelqu'un
noun modifier ( unexpected) gen surprise; [announcement, closure, result] inattendu3.surprise tactics — lit, fig tactique f fondée sur l'effet de la surprise
transitive verb1) ( astonish) surprendreit surprised them that — ils ont été surpris que (+ subj)
it might surprise you to know that... — tu seras peut-être surpris d'apprendre que...
you (do) surprise me! — iron tu m'étonnes!
go on, surprise me — allez, dis toujours!
2) ( come upon) surprendre [intruder]; attaquer [quelque chose] par surprise [garrison] -
2 spring
spring [sprɪŋ]1. nouna. ( = leap) bond mb. (for chair, mattress, watch) ressort m• the springs [of car] la suspensionc. [of water] source fd. ( = season) printemps ma. ( = leap) bondir• to spring in/out/across entrer/sortir/traverser d'un bond• to spring at sth/sb bondir sur qch/qn• where did you spring from? d'où est-ce que tu sors ?4. compounds[weather, day, flowers] de printemps ; [mattress] à ressorts• she's no spring chicken elle n'est pas de toute première jeunesse ► spring-clean noun grand nettoyage m (de printemps) transitive verb[person] se lever d'un bond ; [flowers, weeds] surgir de terre ; [new buildings, settlements] pousser comme des champignons ; [problem] surgir* * *[sprɪŋ] 1.1) ( season) printemps m2) Technology ( coil) ressort mto be like a coiled spring — fig ( tense) être tendu
3) ( leap) bond m4) ( elasticity) élasticité f5) ( water source) source f2. 3.1) ( set off) déclencher [trap, lock]2) ( develop)to spring a leak — [tank] commencer à fuir
3) ( cause unexpectedly)4) (colloq) ( liberate) libérer4.to spring from/over something — sauter d'un bond de/par-dessus de quelque chose
2) ( move suddenly)to spring open/shut — [door, panel] s'ouvrir/se fermer brusquement
the first name that sprang to mind was Egbert — le premier prénom qui m'est venu à l'esprit a été (celui d') Egbert
to spring into ou to life — [machine, motor] se mettre en marche or route
3) ( originate)to spring from — naître de [jealousy, fear]
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3 in
in [ɪn]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition2. adverb3. adjective4. plural noun5. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━1. preposition━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When in is an element in a phrasal verb, eg ask in, fill in, look up the verb. When it is part of a set combination, eg in danger, weak in, look up the other word.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in it/them ( = inside it, inside them) dedans• our bags were stolen, and our passports were in them on nous a volé nos sacs et nos passeports étaient dedansb. (people, animals, plants) chez► in + feminine countries, regions, islands en━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Feminine countries usually end in -e.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► en is also used with masculine countries beginning with a vowel or silent h.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + masculine country au• in Japan/Kuwait au Japon/Koweït━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note also the following:━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in + plural country/group of islands aux━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━e. (month, year, season) en• in summer/autumn/winter en été/automne/hiver━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━f. ( = wearing) eng. (language, medium, material) en• in marble/velvet en marbre/veloursj. ( = while) en• in trying to save her he fell into the water himself en essayant de la sauver, il est tombé à l'eau2. adverba. ( = inside) à l'intérieur• she opened the door and they all rushed in elle a ouvert la porte et ils se sont tous précipités à l'intérieur━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━b. (at home, work)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• you're never in! tu n'es jamais chez toi !• is Paul in? est-ce que Paul est là ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► to be in may require a more specific translation.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► in between + noun/pronoun entre• he positioned himself in between the two weakest players il s'est placé entre les deux joueurs les plus faibles• in between adventures, he finds time for... entre deux aventures, il trouve le temps de...► to be in for sth ( = be threatened with)• you don't know what you're in for! (inf) tu ne sais pas ce qui t'attend !• he's in for it! (inf) il va en prendre pour son grade ! (inf)► to be in on sth (inf) ( = know about)the new treatment is preferable in that... le nouveau traitement est préférable car...► to be well in with sb (inf) être dans les petits papiers de qn (inf)3. adjective• it's the in thing to... c'est très à la mode de...4. plural noun5. compounds• to have in-service training faire un stage d'initiation ► in-store adjective [detective] employé par le magasin* * *Note: in is often used after verbs in English ( join in, tuck in, result in, write in etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (join, tuck, result, write etc)If you have doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with in ( in a huff, in business, in trouble etc) you should consult the appropriate noun entry (huff, business, trouble etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as age, countries, dates, islands, months, towns and cities etc. Many of these use the preposition in. For the index to these notesFor examples of the above and particular functions and uses of in, see the entry below[ɪn] 1.in prison/town — en prison/ville
in the film/newspaper — dans le film/journal
I'm in here! — je suis là!; bath, bed
2) (inside, within) dansthere's something in it — il y a quelque chose dedans or à l'intérieur
3) ( expressing a subject or field) dansin insurance — dans les assurances; course, expert
4) (included, involved)to be in on the secret — (colloq) être dans le secret
I wasn't in on it — (colloq) je n'étais pas dans le coup (colloq)
5) ( in expressions of time)6) ( within the space of) en7) ( expressing the future) dans8) ( for) depuisit hasn't rained in weeks — il n'a pas plu depuis des semaines, ça fait des semaines qu'il n'a pas plu
9) (during, because of) dans10) ( with reflexive pronouns)how do you feel in yourself? — est-ce que tu as le moral?; itself
11) (present in, inherent in)12) (expressing colour, composition) en13) ( dressed in) en14) ( expressing manner or medium)‘no,’ he said in a whisper — ‘non,’ a-t-il chuchoté
in pencil/in ink — au crayon/à l'encre
15) ( as regards)rich/poor in minerals — riche/pauvre en minéraux
16) (by)17) ( in superlatives) de18) ( in measurements)19) ( in ratios)a gradient of 1 in 4 — une pente de 25%
20) ( in approximate amounts)in their hundreds ou thousands — par centaines or milliers
21) ( expressing age)2.in old age — avec l'âge, en vieillissant
in and out prepositional phrase3.to weave in and out of — se faufiler entre [traffic, tables]
in that conjunctional phrase dans la mesure où4.1) ( indoors)to ask ou invite somebody in — faire entrer quelqu'un
2) (at home, at work)to be in by midnight — être rentré avant minuit; keep, stay
3) (in prison, in hospital)4) ( arrived)5) Sport6) ( gathered)7) ( in supply)8) ( submitted)5.the homework has to be in tomorrow — le devoir doit être rendu demain; get, power, vote
(colloq) adjectiveto be in —
••to have an in with somebody — US avoir ses entrées chez quelqu'un
to have it in for somebody — (colloq) avoir quelqu'un dans le collimateur (colloq)
you're in for it — (colloq) tu vas avoir des ennuis
he's in for a shock/surprise — il va avoir un choc/être surpris
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