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1 shame
shame [∫eɪm]a. honte f• he hung his head in shame honteux, il a baissé la tête• to put sb/sth to shame faire honte à qn/qch• shame on you! vous devriez avoir honte !b. ( = pity) dommage m• what a shame! (quel) dommage !* * *[ʃeɪm] 1.1) (embarrassment, disgrace) honte fto feel shame at — être honteux/-euse de
to bring shame on — être or faire la honte de
there were cries of ‘shame!’ — les gens criaient au scandale
2) ( pity)it is a shame that — c'est dommage que (+ subj)
it was a great ou such a shame (that) she lost — c'est tellement dommage qu'elle ait perdu
it's a shame about your father — ( if not very serious matter) c'est dommage pour ton père; ( if serious) je suis désolé pour ton père
2.nice costumes - shame about the play! — (colloq) les costumes étaient réussis - mais la pièce! (colloq)
transitive verb1) ( embarrass) faire honte à•• -
2 with
with [wɪð, wɪθ]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. avec• come with me! viens avec moi !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► The pronoun is not translated in the following, where it and them refer to things.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• these gloves, I can't drive with them on ces gants-là, je ne peux pas conduire avec━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► Note the verbal construction in the following example.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• I'm with you ( = understand) je vous suis• sorry, I'm not with you désolé, je ne vous suis pas• I'll be with you in a minute ( = attend to) je suis à vous dans une minute• I'm with you all the way ( = support) je suis à fond avec vous► to be with it (inf) ( = fashionable) être dans le vent (inf)get with it! ( = pay attention) réveille-toi !, secoue-toi ! ; ( = face facts) redescends sur terre !b. ( = on one's person) surc. ( = in the house of, working with) chez• I've been with this company for seven years cela fait sept ans que je travaille pour cette sociétéf. ( = in spite of) malgré• with all his intelligence, he still doesn't understand malgré toute son intelligence, il ne comprend toujours pas• with so much happening it was difficult to... il se passait tellement de choses qu'il était difficile de...• with that, he closed the door sur ce, il a fermé la porte* * *[wɪð, wɪθ]Note: If you have any doubts about how to translate a phrase or expression beginning with with ( with a vengeance, with all my heart, with a bit of luck, with my blessing etc) you should consult the appropriate noun entry (vengeance, heart, luck, blessing etc)with is often used after verbs in English ( dispense with, part with, get on with etc). For translations, consult the appropriate verb entry (dispense, part, get etc)This dictionary contains usage notes on such topics as the human body and illnesses, aches and pains which use the preposition with. For the index to these notesFor further uses of with, see the entry below1) ( in descriptions)2) (involving, concerning) aveca treaty/a discussion with somebody — un traité/une discussion avec quelqu'un
3) ( indicating an agent) avec4) (indicating manner, attitude)with difficulty/pleasure — avec difficulté/plaisir
‘OK,’ he said with a smile/sigh — ‘d'accord,’ a-t-il dit en souriant/soupirant
5) ( according to)6) (accompanied by, in the presence of) avecshe's got her brother with her — ( on one occasion) elle est avec or accompagnée de son frère; ( staying with her) son frère est chez elle
to live with somebody — ( in one's own house) vivre avec quelqu'un; ( in their house) vivre chez quelqu'un
7) (owning, bringing)8) (in relation to, as regards)what's up with Amy? —
what's with Amy? — US qu'est-ce qui ne va pas avec Amy?
9) (showing consent, support)I'm with you 100% ou all the way — je suis tout à fait d'accord avec toi
10) ( because of)sick with worry — malade or mort d'inquiétude
11) ( remaining)with only two days to go before the election — alors qu'il ne reste plus que deux jours avant les élections
12) ( suffering from)people with Aids/leukemia — les personnes atteintes du sida/de la leucémie
13) ( in the care or charge of)14) ( against) avec15) ( showing simultaneity)with that, he left — sur ce, il est parti
16) (employed by, customer of)17) ( in the same direction as)••to be with it — (colloq) ( on the ball) être dégourdi; ( trendy) être dans le vent
I'm not really with it today — (colloq) j'ai l'esprit ailleurs aujourd'hui
get with it! — (colloq) ( wake up) réveille-toi!; ( face the facts) redescends sur terre!
I'm not with you, can you repeat? — je ne te suis pas, tu peux répéter?
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3 shame
A n1 ( embarrassment) honte f ; to feel shame ressentir de la honte ; he has no (sense of) shame il n'a honte de rien ; to feel shame at être honteux/-euse de ;2 ( disgrace) honte f ; to her/our shame à sa/notre honte ; to my eternal shame à ma très grande honte ; the shame of doing la honte de faire ; the shame of it! quelle honte!, la honte ○ ! ; there's no shame in doing il n'y a pas de honte à faire ; to bring shame on être or faire la honte de ; shame on you! tu devrais avoir honte!, tu n'as pas honte? ; shame on him for doing il devrait avoir honte de faire ; shame! c'est un scandale! ; there were cries of ‘shame!’ les gens criaient au scandale ;3 ( pity) it is a shame that c'est dommage que (+ subj) ; it seems a shame il semble dommage ; it was a great ou such a shame (that) she lost c'est tellement dommage qu'elle ait perdu ; it would be a shame if he couldn't come il serait dommage qu'il ne puisse pas venir ; it's a shame to do c'est dommage de faire ; it seemed a shame to do il semblait dommage de faire ; it's a shame about the factory closing c'est dommage que l'usine ait fermé or ferme ; it's a shame about your father ( if not very serious matter) c'est dommage pour ton père ; ( if serious) je suis désolé pour ton père ; nice costumes-shame about the play ○ ! les costumes étaient réussis-mais la pièce ○ ! ; what a shame! quel dommage! ; isn't it a shame? c'est vraiment dommage.B vtr1 ( embarrass) faire honte à [person] ; I was shamed by her words ses paroles m'ont fait honte ; to shame sb into doing obliger qn à faire en lui faisant honte ; he was shamed into a confession il avait tellement honte qu'il a avoué ; to shame sb out of faire passer [qch] à qn en lui faisant honte [habit, fault] ;2 ( disgrace) déshonorer [family, country] (by doing en faisant) ; they shamed the nation ils ont fait la honte de la nation.to put sb to shame faire honte à qn ; your garden puts the others to shame tous les jardins semblent minables comparés au tien. -
4 cover
cover ['kʌvə(r)]housse ⇒ 1 (a) couvre-lit ⇒ 1 (b) couvercle ⇒ 1 (c) couverture ⇒ 1 (d), 1 (f), 1 (g) abri ⇒ 1 (e) remplacement ⇒ 1 (h) couvrir ⇒ 2 (a), 2 (d), 2 (f)-(k) recouvrir ⇒ 2 (b) parcourir ⇒ 2 (d) traiter ⇒ 2 (e) avoir sous surveillance ⇒ 2 (l) marquer ⇒ 2 (m)1 noun∎ loose cover (for chair, sofa) housse f(b) (on bed → bedspread) couvre-lit m;∎ the covers (blankets) les couvertures fpl(d) (of book, magazine) couverture f;∎ (front) cover couverture f;∎ to read a book (from) cover to cover lire un livre de la première à la dernière page ou d'un bout à l'autre(e) (shelter, protection) abri m; Hunting (for birds, animals) couvert m; Military (from gunfire etc) couvert m, abri m; (firing) tir m de couverture ou de protection;∎ to take cover se mettre à l'abri;∎ to take cover from the rain s'abriter de la pluie;∎ to run for cover courir se mettre à l'abri;∎ that tree will provide cover cet arbre va nous permettre de nous abriter ou nous offrir un abri;∎ we'll give you cover (by shooting) nous vous couvrirons;∎ to keep sth under cover garder qch à l'abri;∎ to do sth under cover of darkness faire qch à la faveur de la nuit;∎ under cover of the riot/noise profitant de l'émeute/du bruit;∎ they escaped under cover of the riot/noise ils ont profité de l'émeute/du bruit pour s'échapper;∎ to work under cover travailler clandestinement;∎ to break cover (animal, person in hiding) sortir à découvert∎ to have cover against sth être couvert ou assuré contre qch;∎ I've taken out cover for medical costs j'ai pris une assurance pour les frais médicaux(g) (disguise, front → for criminal enterprise) couverture f; (→ for spy) fausse identité f, identité f d'emprunt;∎ familiar your cover has been blown vous avez été démasqué;∎ to be a cover for sth servir de couverture à qch;∎ it's just a cover for her shyness c'est juste pour cacher ou masquer sa timidité(h) (during a person's absence) remplacement m;∎ to provide cover for sb remplacer qn;∎ I provide emergency cover je fais des remplacements d'urgence∎ to operate with/without cover opérer avec couverture/à découvert(k) (in restaurant) couvert m(l) (envelope) enveloppe f;∎ under plain/separate cover sous pli discret/séparé(a) (in order to protect) couvrir; (in order to hide) cacher, dissimuler; (cushion, chair, settee) recouvrir; (in bookbinding → book) couvrir;∎ to cover sth with a sheet/blanket recouvrir qch d'un drap/d'une couverture;∎ to cover one's eyes se couvrir les yeux;∎ to cover one's ears se boucher les oreilles;∎ to cover one's face with one's hands (in shame, embarrassment) se couvrir le visage de ses mains;∎ to cover one's shyness/nervousness dissimuler ou masquer sa timidité/nervosité(b) (coat → of dust, snow) recouvrir;∎ to be covered in dust/snow être recouvert de poussière/neige;∎ his face was covered in spots son visage était couvert de boutons;∎ you're covering everything in dust/paint tu mets de la poussière/peinture partout;∎ figurative I was covered in or with shame j'étais mort de honte;∎ figurative to cover oneself in glory se couvrir de gloire;∎ our team didn't exactly cover itself in glory notre équipe n'est pas rentrée très glorieuse(c) (extend over, occupy → of city, desert etc) couvrir une surface de;∎ water covers most of the earth's surface l'eau recouvre la plus grande partie de la surface de la terre;∎ his interests cover a wide field il a des intérêts très variés;∎ does this translation cover the figurative meaning of the word? cette traduction couvre-t-elle bien le sens figuré du mot?(d) (travel over) parcourir, couvrir;∎ we've covered every square inch of the park looking for it nous avons ratissé chaque centimètre carré du parc pour essayer de le retrouver;∎ we covered 100 kilometres before breakfast nous avons fait 100 kilomètres avant le petit déjeuner;∎ to cover a lot of ground (travel great distance) faire beaucoup de chemin; (search etc over a wide area) parcourir un champ très vaste; figurative (book, author etc) couvrir de nombreux domaines; (meeting etc) traiter bien des problèmes(e) (deal with) traiter;∎ there's one point we haven't covered il y a un point que nous n'avons pas traité ou vu;∎ is that everything covered? (in discussion) tout a été vu?;∎ the course covers the first half of the century le cours couvre la première moitié du siècle;∎ to cover all eventualites parer à toute éventualité;∎ the law doesn't cover that kind of situation la loi ne prévoit pas ce genre de situation(f) (report on) couvrir, faire la couverture de(g) (of salesman, representative) couvrir∎ £30 should cover it 30 livres devraient suffire;∎ to cover a deficit combler un déficit;∎ Accountancy to cover a loss couvrir un déficit;∎ to cover one's costs (company) rentrer dans ses frais∎ to be covered against or for sth être couvert ou assuré contre qch∎ to cover a bill faire la provision d'une lettre de change;∎ Stock Exchange to cover a position couvrir une position(k) (with gun → colleague) couvrir;∎ I've got you covered (to criminal) j'ai mon arme braquée sur toi;∎ figurative the president covered himself by saying that… le président s'est couvert en disant que…(l) (monitor permanently → exit, port etc) avoir sous surveillance;∎ I want all exits covered immediately je veux que toutes les sorties soient mises sous surveillance immédiatement(o) (of male animal) couvrir, s'accoupler avecSport (in cricket) = partie du terrain située sur l'avant et sur la droite du batteur, à mi-distance de la limite du terraincover girl cover-girl f;American cover letter (for job application) lettre f de motivation; (sent with invoice etc) lettre f d'accompagnement;cover mount = cadeau offert avec un magazine;cover page (of fax) page f de garde;Sport cover point (in cricket) = joueur qui double celui qui est situé à droite du guichet;cover price (of magazine) prix m;cover sheet (of fax) page f de garde;Press cover story article m principal (faisant la couverture)(replace) remplacer; (provide excuses for) couvrir;∎ I refuse to cover for you with the boss je refuse de te couvrir auprès du patron(hole) remplir➲ cover up(a) (hide, conceal) cacher, dissimuler; (in order to protect) recouvrir; pejorative (involvement, report etc) dissimuler, garder secret(ète); (affair) étouffer;∎ they covered up the body with a sheet ils ont recouvert le cadavre d'un drap;∎ cover yourself up! (for decency) couvre-toi!(b) (in order to keep warm) couvrir∎ (hide something) the government is covering up again le gouvernement est encore en train d'étouffer une affaire;∎ to cover up for sb couvrir qn, protéger qn;∎ they're covering up for each other ils se couvrent l'un l'autre
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