resentment

(1619) ^([1]). Anciennement resentiment ^([1]). Du moyen français resentiment ^([1]) qui est devenu ressentiment en français moderne. → voir resent et -ment.

He cherished no resentments, and his anger gone, was quick to make overtures for reconciliation.

Ambrose Bierce, The Thing at Nolan, 1891, éd. 2008

By the end of eleven years, however, Mrs. Price could no longer afford to cherish pride or resentment, or to lose one connexion that might possibly assist her. (Mansfield Park - Jane Austen)

Au bout de onze ans cependant, madame Price ne put se résoudre à conserver plus long-temps de l’orgueil et du ressentiment, et à perdre une liaison de famille qui pouvait lui donner de l’assistance.


beforehand

(XIIIᵉ siècle) Du moyen anglais biforhand, biforhont, beforehonde, bifornhand.

Auparavant, à l’avance, au préalable, devant.

Will it be possible to have access to the room beforehand so that we can set up chairs?

Sera-t-il possible d’avoir accès à la salle auparavant afin que nous puissions disposer les chaises ?

I love playing tennis but I always get so nervous beforehand.

J’adore jouer au tennis mais je suis toujours nerveux avant.

Weeks beforehand, I had bought the tickets for the concert.

Des semaines à l’avance, j’avais acheté les tickets pour le concert.


beforehand

more beforehand (comparative)
most beforehand (superlative)

rich and much beforehand.

En état d’anticipation d’un événement. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

Agricola […] resolves to be beforehand with the danger.

Hohn Milton, The History of Britain, that Part Especially now Call’d England; […], 1670.

[…] the medical attendant ought to be rather beforehand with the symptoms of excitement, and to diminish the large quantity of wine before they appear.

London Medical Gazette: Or, Journal of Practical Medicine, 1839


take steps

He took radical steps to foster innovation.

Il a pris des mesures radicales pour inciter à l’innovation.


becoming

That dress looks very becoming on you.

Please act in a becoming manner at the party.


packet

sugar packet ; salt, pepper packet

Paquet (ensemble de données numériques, constituant un message ou une partie de message).

network packet


packet

to packet (infinitive)
packets (present third-person singular)
packeted (preterite)
packeted (participle past)
packeting (participle present)

Envoyer dans un paquet, expédier par un navire.

Her husband was packeted to France.


take aback

to take aback (infinitive)
takes aback (present third-person singular)
took aback (preterite)
taken aback (participle past)
taking aback (participle present)

Le mot aback n’occure que rarement, sauf dans cette locution.

She was taken aback by the rudeness of her guest.

The loudness of the cannons took me aback for a moment.


drawback

Poor fuel economy is a common drawback among larger vehicles.


salutation

salutations (plural)
salutations (plural)

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You can start a business letter with the salutation Dear followed by the recipient's last or first name and a colon.

Vous pouvez débuter une lettre professionnelle par la formule d’appel Cher suivi par le prénom ou nom du destinataire et deux-points.

“Letter and Email Salutations Examples (Plus Tips)”, Indeed, 2024.


recapitulate

We have now recognised the necessity to the mental well-being of mankind (on which all their other well-being depends) of freedom of opinion, and freedom of the expression of opinion, on four distinct grounds; which we will now briefly recapitulate.

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 94


talon

Du latin talus (« cheville du pied », « talon », « osselet (pour jouer) », « dé »).

The eagle came home, bearing a young lamb in her talons.

L’aigle revint chez elle, transportant un jeune agneau dans ses serres.

Each of these fingers was tipped by a talon-like 8 inch claw.

Chacun de ces doigts avait une griffe de 8 pouces ressemblant à une serre.


custody

(Moitié XVᵉ siècle) Du latin custodia (« garde, surveillance »), lui-même du latin custos (« gardien »), de la racine proto-indo-européenne *(s)keu- (« cacher, couvrir »).

He is in safe custody.

The police have taken him into custody.

The brother of the Iraqi journalist who threw his shoes at US President George W. Bush has said that the reporter has been beaten in custody.

Le frère du journaliste qui a jeté ses chaussures sur Georges W. Bush dit que celui-ci a été frappé durant sa détention.


tariff

Du français tarif, issu de l’italien tariffa, issu du turc ottoman تعرفه, ta'rife, lui-même issu du persan تعرفه, ta'refe, issu de l’arabe تعاريف, taʕārif (« notification »).

In the trade talks, they're proposing to lower the tariffs by half on automotive parts.

Has the airline published its tariffs on the new flights to Brazil?


scarcely

Ce mot est considéré comme mot négatif et il s’associe à ever et non never.

The British supermarket chain Waitrose - which releases very detailed sales figures - is selling 13% more pumpkin carving kits, 21% more decorations and a scarcely credible 676% more large pumpkins than last year.

Finlo Rohrer, The transatlantic Halloween divide, BBC News, 29 octobre 2010

Dogs, undistinguishable in mire. Horses, scarcely better; splashed to their very blinkers.

On ne reconnaît plus les chiens sous la boue qui les couvre. Les chevaux, crottés jusqu’aux oreilles, ne sont guère mieux que les chiens.


lump

Du moyen anglais lumpe, apparenté à lomp en néerlandais, Lumpen en allemand.

I use to have two lumps of sugar with my tea.

His wife, discovering a lump, still a pretty young woman in her thirty-seventh year, his best and closest friend. He’d supported her as best he could after the surgery, but then came another lump, another surgery, medical treatment, and the downhill slide, always having to be strong for her until the end.

A cottager and his wife had a Hen that laid a golden egg every day. They supposed that the Hen must contain a great lump of gold in its inside, and in order to get the gold they killed it. Having done so, they found to their surprise that the Hen differed in no respect from their other hens. The foolish pair, thus hoping to become rich all at once, deprived themselves of the gain of which they were assured day by day.

Ésope, The Hen and the Golden Eggs, traduction George Fyler Townsend, 1887

Do you want one lump or two with your coffee?

This porridge has lumps in it.


revolve

The world doesn’t revolve around you.


sympathetic

ˌsɪm.pə.ˈθɛ.ɾɪk

The heroine was a very sympathetic character in the movie.

She gave a sympathetic ear to the request.


quietly

more quietly (comparative)
most quietly (superlative)

"His mother did not call him Lungri [the Lame One] for nothing,” said Mother Wolf quietly.

Sa mère ne l’a pas appelé Lungri (le Boiteux) pour rien, dit Mère Louve tranquillement.


dreadful

dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight

c’était une chose douloureuse pour moi que de revenir à la nuit


seriously

Sérieusement, gravement ; (prendre) au sérieux.

She fell and was seriously hurt.

Elle est tombée et s'est gravement blessée.

Se dit pour tenter d’introduire un point grave dans une conversation peu sérieuse.

Now, seriously, why did you forget to feed the cat today?

Bon, sérieusement, pourquoi as-tu oublié de nourrir le chat aujourd'hui?

I seriously thought he'd agree.

Je pensais vraiment qu'il serait d'accord.


chastise

to chastise (infinitive)
chastises (present third-person singular)
chastised (preterite)
chastised (participle past)
chastising (participle present)
chastize

Praise in public, chastise in private.

Corriger (quelqu'un), légèrement réprimander.

“You're not insensitive,” she lightly chastised. “I love you.” “Love you too.”


ignorant

be ignorant


actuate

We need to actuate our staff to perform better.


tempt

to tempt (infinitive)
tempts (present third-person singular)
tempted (preterite)
tempted (participle past)
tempting (participle present)

Based on the performance of our Fibonacci numbers program you might be tempted to conclude that recursive solutions are too slow to be useful.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 129


renew

to renew (infinitive)
renews (present third-person singular)
renewed (preterite)
renewed (participle past)
renewing (participle present)

renew an alliance, and offer

renew a friendship, a correspondance, negotiations


prospect

I went to Putney […] to take prospects in crayon.

La traduction en français de l’exemple manque. (Ajouter)

We drove back to the office with some concern on my part at the prospect of so large a case. Sunning himself on the board steps, I saw for the first time Mr. Farquhar Fenelon Cooke. He was dressed out in broad gaiters and bright tweeds, like an English tourist, and his face might have belonged to Dagon, idol of the Philistines.

The most persistent tormentor was Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who scored a hat-trick in last month’s corresponding fixture in Iceland. His ability to run at defences is instantly striking, but it is his clever use of possession that has persuaded some shrewd judges that he is an even better prospect than Theo Walcott.

JeremyWilson, « England Under 21 5 Iceland Under 21 0: match report » dans Telegraph, 10 novembre 2011


softly

speak softly


radiator

(1832)Dérivé de radiate, avec le suffixe -or, littéralement « corps qui rayonne de la chaleur ». (1899) sens de « radiateur automobile ».

The Roman hypocaust is an early example of a type of radiator for building space heating.


tilt

to tilt (infinitive)
tilts (present third-person singular)
tilted (preterite)
tilted (participle past)
tilting (participle present)

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/LL-Q1860 (eng)-I learned some phrases-tilt.wav

Craquement mental sous une pression telle que la colère ou le stress, mais aussi la peur de ne pas réussir

Tilt at windmills.


circumvent

to circumvent (infinitive)
circumvents (present third-person singular)
circumvented (preterite)
circumvented (participle past)
circumventing (participle present)

It might appear that we can circumvent the difficulty by postulating a higher, second-order type ‘Macavity’, but this violates the proviso that ‘Macavity’ is unique.

Linda Wetzel, Types and Tokens, The MIT Press, 2009


marketplace

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It was market-day when we were there I obferv’d a banner hanging out in the market-place which they told me was a restraint from, selling so long as that hung out, to prevent fore-stalling and to allow time for more sellers and buyers to come-in.

1764, Some observations made in travelling through France, Italy, etc. in the years 1720, 1721 and 1722, Edward Wright

The market-day is still Saturday, when patroles of soldiers are sent on all the roads which lead to the town, to prevent forestalling, by compelling the country people to bring all their commodities into the market-place. 1796,

Letters written in France to a friend in London between the month of November 1794 and the month of May 1795, par Major Tench

It contains, indeed, a great many mosques, caravanseras, pubic baths, market-places or squares, and palaces of the Xeriffes, but all in a most déplorable state of ruin.

1810, Travels through the empire of Morocco, par John Buffa


burdensome

more burdensome (comparative)
most burdensome (superlative)

reap a pleasure from what, to the generality of mankind, may seem burdensome and laborious.

David Hume. Enquiries concerning the human understanding and concerning the principles of moral. London: Oxford University Press, 1973. § 6., 1748


sharpness

sharp tongue


impairment

an impairment in the machinery


landlord

A landlord is the owner or manager of a public house


wind up

to wind up (infinitive)
winds up (present third-person singular)
wound up (preterite)
wound up (participle past)
winding up (participle present)

I followed the signs, and I wound up getting nowhere.

J'ai suivi les panneaux et j'ai fini par atterrir nulle part.


anymore

They don’t make repairable radios anymore.

On ne fabrique plus de radios réparables.

I won’t be naughty anymore.


sprinkle

to sprinkle (infinitive)
sprinkles (present third-person singular)
sprinkled (preterite)
sprinkled (participle past)
sprinkling (participle present)

Sprinkle some water over the meat to keep it moist.

Let’s sprinkle a little more salt on the meat.

From the apartment buildings, they sprinkled confetti over the people in the parade.


left-hand

Composé de left (« gauche ») et de hand (« main »).

In the expression "a + b", "a" is the left-hand operand, "+" is the operator, and "b" is the right-hand operand.

Dans l’expression « a + b », « a » est l’opérande gauche, « + » est l’opérateur et « b » est l’opérande droite.


right-hand

Composé de right (« droit ») et de hand (« main »).


trifle

Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by a trifle.

Ne soyons pas effrayés par une bagatelle.

The professional gentleman who had given Kit the consolatory piece of information relative to the settlement of his trifle of business at the Old Bailey,.

Ce n’était pas à tort que l’agent de justice avait annoncé à Kit, en guise de consolation, que le jugement de sa petite affaire aurait lieu à Old-Bailey.


trifle

to trifle (infinitive)
trifles (present third-person singular)
trifled (preterite)
trifled (participle past)
trifling (participle present)

Badiner, marivauder avec quelqu’un ; jouer avec quelque chose. Chipoter avec sa nourriture.

He’s not someone to trifle with.


prosecute

(XVᵉ siècle) Du latin prosecutus (« poursuivre »).

to prosecute (infinitive)
prosecutes (present third-person singular)
prosecuted (preterite)
prosecuted (participle past)
prosecuting (participle present)

Later that evening the nearest neighbours were aroused, and during that night and the following day a search was prosecuted through the wood were the spring was.


insider

Personne qui a une connaissance particulière à propos des travaux internes d'un groupe, d'une organisation, ou d'une institution.

Insider trading, délit d’initié.

Heavy losses were sustained in Simms Petroleum, which took a greater toll from supposed "Wall Street insiders" than from the general public.

He is also an astute ANC insider who spent ten years on Robben Island alongside Nelson Mandela and the other “grandees” of the movement.

Jonathan Clayton, Profile: Zuma charmed wives and a nation, 19 décembre 2007

Personne située à l'intérieur d'un espace clos.

To the insider, the ceiling is like a small firmament twinkling with astral radiations.

Herman Melville, Redburn: His First Voyage, 1849


garner

to garner (infinitive)
garners (present third-person singular)
garnered (preterite)
garnered (participle past)
garnering (participle present)

Réunir (une majorité des suffrages, par exemple).

While there are at least a half-dozen Democrats who might cross party lines to break a filibuster on certain issues, it will still be difficult for Republicans to garner 60 votes, especially in an atmosphere of partisan rancor.

Sheryl Gay Stolberg,« On Capitol Hill, the Majority Doesn’t Always Rule ». nytimes.com, 7 novembre 2004.

Presidential candidates are well aware of the necessity to garner a majority of the electoral votes of the states.

Brigid Callahan Harrison, Power & Society : An Introduction to the Social Sciences. Partie II (Power and the Social Sciences),chapitre 7 (Power and Politics), p. 172. Boston : Wadsworth Cengage Learning, 2011.


roller

(Date à préciser) Motdérivé de roll, avec le suffixe -er.

hair roller


haemophilia

(1848)Dérivé de haemophile, avec le suffixe -ia ; haemophile est emprunté à l’allemand Hämophile (« hémophile »).

Haemophilia has featured prominently in European royalty and thus is sometimes known as 'the royal disease'. Queen Victoria passed the mutation for haemophilia B to her son Leopold and, through two of her daughters, Alice and Beatrice, to various royals across the continent, including the royal families of Spain, Germany, and Russia.


dispense

Let's dispense with the preliminaries, and move on to the main point.

A pharmacist dispenses drugs to clients.


meanwhile

In the meanwhile.


lunatic

Du latin lunaticus. → voir lunacy et -ic

lunatic fringe


scoundrel

Peut-être du nord anglais ou de l’écossais scunner

Scoundrel! He is not altogether guiltless in this illness of mine; and that I had a great mind to tell him.

Le coquin ! Il n’est pas entièrement innocent de ma maladie, et j’avais bien envie de le lui dire.

Were all the employees then collectively, one and all, scoundrels?

Franz Kafka, traduit par Ian Courtenay Johnston, The Metamorphosis, 1999


plateau

It is a pretty little spot there: a pleasant grass plateau, running along by the water’s edge, and overhung by willows.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, VIII, 1889


plateau

to plateau (infinitive)
plateaus (present third-person singular)
plateaued (preterite)
plateaued (participle past)
plateauing (participle present)

Thus, as the use of RG plateaus, Sci-Hub – not so much a disruptor, as an out and out copyright pirate – has gained increasing traction with ECRs.

DavidNicholas, The Unstoppable Rise of Sci-Hub: How does a new generation of researchers perceive Sci-Hub?, blogs.lse.ac.uk, 19 février 2019


disagreeable

Du français désagréable. → voir dis- et agreeable

Don't be disagreeable.

She felt a disagreeable sensation on her shoulder.


indemnify

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin indemnis (« indemne ») et -fy.

to indemnify (infinitive)
indemnifies (present third-person singular)
indemnified (preterite)
indemnified (participle past)
indemnifying (participle present)

In this contract, we indemnify you against any lawsuits.


sadly

Sadly, we have run out of donuts

He wept sadly


twilight

Du moyen anglais twilight, du vieil anglais tweoneleoht.

Dérivé de light (« lumière »), avec le préfixe twi- (« double, demi »), littéralement « demi-jour ».

blue hour

Crépuscule, faible lumière visible avec le lever de soleil ou après le coucher de soleil

dawn

Période de transition entre le jour et la nuit

Aube, aurore, ou en particulier crépuscule, faible lumière observable dans le ciel observable avant le lever de soleil, ou en particulier le coucher de soleil.

dreadful to me was the coming home in the raw twilight,

- c’était une chose douloureuse pour moi que de revenir au crépuscule

In the shadow of an archway nearly opposite, leading to one of the many passages which diverged from the main street, there lingered one, who, having taken up his position when the twilight first came on, still maintained it with undiminished patience.

En face, sous une voûte ténébreuse menant à l’un des passages qui partaient de la rue, se tenait en observation un individu aposté en ce lieu depuis le commencement de la soirée et qui y était resté sans perdre patience, le dos appuyé contre le mur, comme un homme qui a longtemps à attendre, et qui en a l’habitude.

Heure à laquelle cette lumière est visible, période de transition entre le jour et la nuit et vice versa.

It was twilight by the time I got back home.

C’était le crépuscule quand je suis arrivé à la maison.

At twilight in the summer there is never anybody to fear—man, woman, or cat—in the chambers and at that hour the mice come out. They do not eat parchment or foolscap or red tape, but they eat the luncheon crumbs.

Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate, chapitre II, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1892


frightful

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What a frightful experience.

The weather is frightful today.


cleric

Clerc, membre du clergé ; ecclésiastique.

moslem cleric


specially

This volume of specially written papers is a fitting tribute to Hyman Minsky’s work as it relates to the global financial and economic crisis that began in 2007 in the US and quickly spread around the world.

Dimitri B. Papadimitriou, L. Randall Wray, The Elgar Companion to Hyman Minsky, 2011


wonderfully

(Siècle à préciser) De wonderful avec le suffixe -ly.

Positif
Comparatif
more wonderfully
Superlatif
most wonderfully

He was quite young, wonderfully handsome, extremely agreeable, and to crown the whole, he meant to be at the next assembly with a large party.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 3, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 10


honestly

(milieu du XIVᵉ siècle)Dérivé de honest, avec le suffixe -ly.

Honestly! I want to finish this work and you keep interrupting.

Franchement ! Je veux terminer ce travail et tu ne cesses de m’interrompre.


incessantly

Partiellement d'origine française, cessant du verbe cesser, avec le préfixe in- et le suffixe -ly qui sert à former des adjectifs.

He jabbered incessantly and annoyed everyone.

"You are old, father William," the young man said,


codfish

\ˈkɑːd.ˌfɪʃ\

Several codfish were, and in some cases still are, so abundant that for the last 1,000 years they have provided an important and reliable food source in Europe and, later, in North America.

Encyclopedia of the Aquatic World: Starfish-Worm - Page 313, Marshall Cavendish Corporation, 2004

There are about 21 genera and 55 species of codfishes.


at once

Much of his past was unearthed, indeed, and all disreputable: tales came out of the man's cruelty, at once so callous and violent, of his vile life, of his strange associates, of the hatred that seemed to have surrounded his career; but of his present whereabouts, not a whisper.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, 1885


naughty

Du vieil anglais nawiht. Ce mot fut écrit naugti à partir de 1377.

naughtier (comparative)
naughtiest (superlative)

The child has been naughty. He must be punished.

L’enfant a été méchant. Il doit être puni.


riddle

to riddle (infinitive)
riddles (present third-person singular)
riddled (preterite)
riddled (participle past)
riddling (participle present)

Human DNA is riddled by viral components.

Résoudre ou expliquer une énigme, répondre à une question.

riddle me this


tribute

Psychologists recruited avid fans of Manchester United. Fans wrote about what ManU meant to them, and were told they would record a short video tribute to their team in another building.


grating

A grating is a frame of iron bars to hold a fire


fell

For once more lust of battle was on him; and he was still unscathed, and he was young, and he was king: the lord of a fell people.

J. R. R. Tolkien, Le Seigneur des anneaux : Le Retour du roi, Londres, 1955, chapitre VI : La bataille des champs du Pelennor.


bumpy

Because of the condition of the roads, we had a very bumpy ride.

This surface is bumpy.


magnetize

(1799)Dérivé de magnet, avec le suffixe -ize ou du français magnétiser attesté en 1781.

to magnetize (infinitive)
magnetizes (present third-person singular)
magnetized (preterite)
magnetized (participle past)
magnetizing (participle present)
magnetise

Dr. Bertrand tells us that the first patient he ever magnetized, being attacked by a disease of an hysterical character, became subject to convulsions of so long duration and so violent in character, that he had never, in all his practice, seen the like.

Robert Dale Owen, « The Convulsionists of St. Médard », dans Atlantic Monthly, 1864, volume 13, page 347


differentiate

to differentiate (infinitive)
differentiates (present third-person singular)
differentiated (preterite)
differentiated (participle past)
differentiating (participle present)

If one differentiates x squared with respect to x, the derivative is 2x.

Wouldn't you prefer to differentiate your house by painting it a more unusual color?

It’s just to differentiate this from his masterpieces.

C'est juste pour différencier cela de ses chefs-d'œuvre.

Leonard Maltin, vers 28 minutes, dans le documentaire Topaz: an Appreciation by FilmCritic/Historian Leonard Maltin (2000), réalisé parLaurent Bouzereau, joint à une édition en DVD du film L’Étau (1969), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock


cistern

De l’ancien français cisterne, du latin cisterna (« citerne »), dérivé du latin cista (« cassette ; coffre »), du grec ancien κίστη, kistē.

the cistern of the end toilet


constitute

to constitute (infinitive)
constitutes (present third-person singular)
constituted (preterite)
constituted (participle past)
constituting (participle present)

Scientists do not know what the rim rock crowned snake eats, but centipedes and other small invertebrates are presumed to constitute a major part of its diet.

J. Whitfield Gibbons, Michael E. Dorcas, Snakes of the Southeast, 2005, page 53


spittle

Drool est la salive épaisse et visqueuse qui découle de la bouche ; spittle est la salive qui est projetée par la bouche quand on crache.

An old man’s spittle.


overflow

Déborder (en parlant d'un liquide, d'une variable informatique).

The river overflowed its banks.

The bassin overflowed.

(Informatique)'The buffer overflowed'.


landlady

The landlady of a pub.


tiresome

more tiresome (comparative)
most tiresome (superlative)

Homework is so tiresome.

"My dear Mr. Bennet," replied his wife, "how can you be so tiresome! You must know that I am thinking of his marrying one of them."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 1, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 2


backing

(Date à préciser)Dérivé de back, avec le suffixe -ing.

Backing pump.

Backing vocalist.

Backing washer.


backing

It's a volunteer organization that works with backing from the city and a few grants.

The cardboard backing gives the notebook a little extra stiffness.


perturb

Perturber (dérégler le comportement normal d'un mécanisme, d'un système).

The planet Jupiter perturbs the orbit of Mars.

She was perturbed that he would even think such a thing.


liken

to liken (infinitive)
likens (present third-person singular)
likened (preterite)
likened (participle past)
likening (participle present)

The government’s chief medical officer has called Jacob Rees-Mogg disrespectful after the leader of the House likened the doctor who co-wrote official no-deal contingency plans to the disgraced anti-vaccine conspiracy theorist Andrew Wakefield.

Eleni Courea, « Jacob Rees-Mogg likens Brexit-warning doctor to disgraced anti-vaxxer Andrew Wakefield », Times.co.uk, 5 septembre 2019.


excursion

The proposed tour will make a delightful excursion.

Her studies led her on an excursion into eighteenth-century poetry.


showcase

to showcase (infinitive)
showcases (present third-person singular)
showcased (preterite)
showcased (participle past)
showcasing (participle present)

Mettre en valeur ; afficher, montrer, présenter.

The programme will showcase the very latest work across the whole range of topic areas in Nuclear Physics, from the study of hadrons to the heaviest nuclei, and the role of nuclear physics in our understanding of the universe.

International Nuclear Physcis Conference 2019, inpc2019.iopconfs.org


foresight

If the Bill of Rights contains no guarantee that a citizen shall be secure against lethal poisons distributed either by private individuals or by public officials, it is surely only because our forefathers, despite their considerable wisdom and foresight, could conceive of no such problem.


bully

(1530) Du néerlandais boel, du moyen néerlandais boel, boele, du proto-germanique *bō-lan-.

Bravo. Note d’usage : Souvent suivi de for.

She's finally leaving her abusive husband — bully for her!


bully

browbeater

Personne cruelle envers les plus faibles.

Personne cruelle envers les plus faibles ; brimeur, brute, tyran.

A playground bully pushed a boy off the swing.


pick up

to pick up (infinitive)
picks up (present third-person singular)
picked up (preterite)
picked up (participle past)
picking up (participle present)

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Pick up the pencil that fell on the floor.

I’ll pick you up at 6:00 p.m. in my car.

I’ll pick up the tickets at the ticket office.

Pick up the telephone.

Let’s pick up the pace, or we’ll never finish in time.

The car picked up speed.


step up

The boss decided to step up the rate of production.

Le chef a décidé d'augmenter le rythme de production.

Se porter volontaire, offrir son aide ; se montrer responsable.

She stepped up to the plate, and offered her assistance.


aficionado

And for Vi aficionados, it is possible to configure Bash to recognize Vi-style binding instead

Michael Stutz, The Linux Cookbook (2ème édition), No Starch Press,San Francisco, 2004, page 55


gallop

The horse was racing ahead at a gallop.

Le cheval faisait la course en tête au galop.


decency

The politician argued for greater decency in society.


changeable

(Siècle à préciser) De to change avec le suffixe -able.

The weather is very changeable today; it can be bright sunshine, cloudy, windy and rainy in the same half-hour.


trigger

Altération de tricker, issu du néerlandais trekker.

to trigger (infinitive)
triggers (present third-person singular)
triggered (preterite)
triggered (participle past)
triggering (participle present)

The lack of safety precautions triggered the accident.


personage

Surtout au sens ludique, character est la bonne traduction du français personnage.

Personnalité, personne importante, gros bonnet, grosse pointure, personnage.

How that personage haunted my dreams, I need scarcely tell you.

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 4. 1883.

… the normal personage suddenly cried out in the midst of her conversation, when M. Janet whispered to the secondary personage to make use of her eyes.

William James, Principles of Psychology,page 207.


brotherhood

(Siècle à préciser) Dérivé de brother (« frère ») avec le suffixe -hood.

\ˈbɹʌð.əˌhʊd\

Peace and brotherhood.

Brotherhood of nations.

Brotherhood of railroad engineers.


credible

more credible (comparative)
most credible (superlative)

His testimony is not credible.


competency

Some business analysts recommend that a corporation should stay close to its core competencies.


point of view

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Mister Reagan says 'We will protect you'
I donʼt subscribe to this point of view

Monsieur Reagan dit 'Nous vous protègerons'
Je ne suis pas dʼaccord avec ce point de vue

Gordon Matthew Sumner, Russians, in The Dream of the Blue Turtles, 1985


safeguard

\ˈseɪfˌɡɑːd\

In designing nuclear reactors, it's important to build in proper safeguards against a nuclear accident.


seminary

[Alt: attention] Seminar n’est pas synonyme.

He studied theology at the seminary.


training

Training helped me improve my performance.

L'entraînement m'a permis d'améliorer ma performance.

He shows great discipline in his training.

Il fait preuve d'une grande discipline dans son entraînement.

The trainee will undergo three months of training before becoming a permanent member of the company.


sparse

sparser (comparative)
sparsest (superlative)

It's a sparse crop this season.

The crowd in the stands is sparse.

a sparse matrix


prod

cattle prod

The teacher's frown acted as a prod for the students to work harder.

He felt the prod of her finger.


mahogany

(1670-1680) De l’espagnol mahogani (« acajou »). Attesté en 1759 pour désigner l’arbre, en 1737 pour désigner la couleur et en 1730 en tant qu’adjectif.

Luthiers use a lot of maple and mahogany in their instruments, as well as a whole panoply of choices for a guitar's body and accessories—from African ebony to Hawaiian koa to the “Cadillac” of guitar species: Brazilian rosewood.

Nick Offerman, Good Clean Fun: Misadventures in Sawdust at Offerman Woodshop, Dutton, 18 octobre 2016, page 47


dumbfounded

(Adjectif) Emploi du participe passé de dumbfound.

more dumbfounded (comparative)
most dumbfounded (superlative)
dumfounded

Holt was astonished – ‘dumbfounded’ is the word that he used in telling it – yet seems to have retained a certain intelligent curiosity.

Ambrose Bierce, A Wireless Message, 1905, éd. 2008


hype

Publicité, promotion exagérée de quelque chose.

After all the hype for the diet plan, only the results ended up slim.


hype

to hype (infinitive)
hypes (present third-person singular)
hyped (preterite)
hyped (participle past)
hyping (participle present)

They started hyping the new magazine months before its release.


assignment

Dérivé de assign, avec le suffixe -ment.

In this C code snippet, a program coded in the C language embeds the Python interpreter by linking in its libraries and passes it a Python assignment statement string to run.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 84


dumbfound

to dumbfound (infinitive)
dumbfounds (present third-person singular)
dumbfounded (preterite)
dumbfounded (participle past)
dumbfounding (participle present)
dumfound

On le trouve plus au passif qu’à l’actif.

Abasourdir, ébahir, éberluer, stupéfier, consterner.

He was dumbfounded by her remark.


mete

De l’indo-européen commun *met ^([1]) dont sont issus le grec ancien μέτρον, métron (« mesure »), le latin mētĭor (« mesurer »), le protoslave *me^riti → voir měřit (« mesurer ») en tchèque, le breton amzer et l’allemand messen (« mesurer »).

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

Car avec quel jugement tu juges, tu seras jugé : et avec quelle mesure tu mesures, tu seras mesuré à nouveau.


ripple

Ripple rejection.


parquet

parquet floor


sunne

a false sunne, or apparance of a sunne

Cotgrave, A Dictionarie of the French and English Tongues, définition du mot parelie, édition non-numérisée, publiée en 1611.


abuser

(Siècle à préciser) Motdérivé de abuse, avec le suffixe -er → voir abusor en latin.

Personne qui maltraite moralement, physiquement ou sexuellement une autre personne, agresseur.

Child abuser.

Auteur de maltraitance sur enfant, auteur de sévices sexuels sur enfant.

You can dress up your actions however you like, you can excuse yourself and lie - but your victim will always know who you truly are. You can never escape reality. You can never undo what you did. You are an abuser.

Tu peux déguiser tes actes à ta guise, tu peux te trouver des excuses et mentir – mais ta victime saura toujours qui tu es vraiment. Jamais tu ne pourras échapper à la réalité. Jamais tu ne pourras défaire ce que tu as fait. Tu es un agresseur.

DʳᵉJessica Taylor, « Dear Abuser, A letter from your victim », What Would Jess Say?, Substack, Royaume-Uni, 1ᵉʳ novembre 2024. Consulté le 2 novembre 2024

Personne qui consomme en excès des substances néfastes.

Drug abuser.


huh

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Cheatin’ huh?


nah

“That last LinkedIn request set a new record for the most energetic physical event ever observed. Maybe we should respond.” “Nah.”


patron

(XIIIᵉ siècle) De l’ancien français patron ; apparenté à pattern, patroon. (Vers 1600) Le sens de « client » se développe à partir de « protecteur, soutien », « client régulier qui soutient un commerce » puis simplement « client ».

Patron saint.

Saint patron, protecteur d’un lieu, d’une ville.


tide

Du vieil anglais tid (« point ou portion de temps », « heure », « période », « saison », « jour de fête », « heure canonique»), issu du proto-germanique *tīdi- (« division du temps »).

Temps (aujourd'hui seulement utilisé dans le sens liturgique).

Easter-tide, Christmas-tide.

Time and tide wait for no man.


impermeable

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This new filter is so fine that it allows air to pass through, but it is impermeable to water.


nonchalant

more nonchalant (comparative)
most nonchalant (superlative)

ˌnɑn.ʃəˈlɑnt

She handled the whole frenetic situation with a nonchalant attitude.

He is far too nonchalant about such a serious matter.


Germany

ˈd͡ʒɜː.mə.nɪ

There was on one side Germany, with its silver monometallism, having to make up its bank reserves only with silver ; and on the other England, with its bi-monometallism, at one time dependent for its reserves on the gold that might come in, at another time running over the Continent to purchase silver for transmission to India.

Guilford Lindsey Molesworth, Silver and Gold: The Money of the World, 1891, page 70


Denmark

Marcellus: Something is rotten in the state of Denmark.

William Shakespeare, The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark, acte I, scène 4


London

London Bridge is falling down,
Falling down, falling down.
London Bridge is falling down,
My fair lady.

Le pont de Londres va s’écrouler,
s’écrouler, s’écrouler.
Le pont de Londres va s’écrouler,
ma belle lady.

Lady Lucas quieted her fears a little by starting the idea of his being gone to London only to get a large party for the ball; and a report soon followed that Mr. Bingley was to bring twelve ladies and seven gentlemen with him to the assembly.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 3, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, pages 11-12


London

Jack London.


pole

to pole (infinitive)
poles (present third-person singular)
poled (preterite)
poled (participle past)
poling (participle present)

Faire avancer un bateau avec une perche.

Huck Finn poled that raft southward down the Mississippi because going northward against the current was too much work.

He poled off the serial of the Gulf Stream to confirm its identity.


worried

She's worried about you.


which one

Which one of these cakes do you prefer?


wheezy

wheezier (comparative)
wheeziest (superlative)

I take no interest in creeping round dim and chilly churches behind wheezy old men, and reading epitaphs.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, VII, 1889


watch out

to watch out (infinitive)
watches out (present third-person singular)
watched out (preterite)
watched out (participle past)
watching out (participle present)

While we’re on vacation, let’s watch out for interesting art objects.

Se méfier, faire attention, faire gaffe.

Watch out! That wall is about to collapse.

While we’re here, we’ll have to watch out for snipers.


aboulia

He felt without volition, plunged into a state of aboulia.


video recorder

NHTSA should also require that all buses and trucks over 10,000 pounds be equipped with onboard video recorders that record parametric data associated with an event.

La NHTSA devrait aussi exiger que les bus et autres poids-lourds de plus de 10 000 livres soient équipés avec des enregistreurs vidéo à bord qui enregistrent les données paramétriques associées à un événement.

NTSB Finds Multiple Safety Lapses in 2022 Fatal Collision Between Truck and Party Bus, NTSB, 28 aout 2024


according to

According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal operations on formal strings of symbols.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-08853-X


very much

Be careful not to express “very much” by très beaucoup, which is not French.

Faire attention de ne pas traduire « very much » par très beaucoup, qui n’est pas français.

Alfred G. Havet, Grammar of French grammars on an entirely new plan, 1863

Thank you very much!

On ne dit pas simplement much dans une phrase affirmative


account for

Crashes on rural roads account for around 60% of road deaths in Germany. The DVR is calling for a maximum of 80 km/h on narrow rural roads.

Call for 80 km/h rural road speed limits in Germany, ETSC, 4 mars 2024


acquired

acquired taste, acquired skill.


acrobatics

Acrobatics peut s'employer au singulier ou au pluriel. La signification ne change pas. C'est toujours l'acrobatie.

No circus would be complete without an acrobatics act.

Aucun cirque ne serait complet sans un numéro d'acrobatie.

Acrobatics is a difficult sport.

Acrobatics are a difficult sport.


activism

I act with other women to create social change: activism is optimism.

J’agis avec d’autres femmes pour créer un changement social : l’activisme est de l’optimisme.

Andrea Dworkin, « Fighting Talk », from New Statesman & Society, Londres, 21 avril 1995


unspeakably

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de unspeakable, avec le suffixe -y.

He had unspeakably high standards, as befitted someone who had wanted to be secretary of state.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « The Pedophilic Teacher », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 12


unsafe

In the U.S., meanwhile, we have been reluctant to address any of the root causes of unsafe speeds, preferring instead to play with signage and enforcement.

Pendant ce temps, aux États-Unis, nous avons été réticents à nous attaquer aux causes profondes des vitesses dangereuses, préférant miser sur la signalisation et le respect de la loi.

Henry Grabar, « The American Addiction to Speeding, How we became obsessed with driving fast, no matter the cost », Metropolis, 15 décembre 2021


unmistakably

Dérivé de unmistakable, avec le suffixe -ly.

But for months afterward, at irregular intervals of a few days, the voice was heard by the several members of the family, and by others. All declared it unmistakably the voice of Charles Asmore; ….

Ambrose Bierce, Charles Asmore’s Trail, 1888, éd. 2008, ISBN 978-0-141-03881-0


unkindness

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When numbers fell to just a single raven guard, Winston Churchill ordered that the flock — known as an "unkindness" — was increased to at least six.

«Tower of London's 'queen' raven Merlina missing », BBC News, 13 janvier 2021


admittedly

Dérivé de admitted, avec le suffixe -ly.

Admittedly, vandalism is a bit of problem.

Certes, le vandalisme est un peu un problème.


unify

Du français unifier, issu lui-même du latin unificare.

to unify (infinitive)
unifies (present third-person singular)
unified (preterite)
unified (participle past)
unifying (participle present)

The fear of an external enemy unified the country.

The people unified in the face of danger.


turn away

Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter).

The car turned away just before reaching the cliff.

He tried to enter, but I turned him away.


trump

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Renchérir sur, faire une enchère supérieure, (renchérir sur quelqu’un).

The move of his competitor trumped his own plans.


trolley

Clang, clang, clang went the trolley
Ding, ding, ding went the bell;
Zing, zing, zing went my heartstrings
From the moment I saw him I fell.

Chanson par Ralph Blaine et Hugh Martin, du film Meet Me in St. Louis, 1944


ahead of

You have a long trip ahead of you.

He’s giving a series of concerts in London ahead of his international tour.

Il donne une série de concerts à Londres avant sa tournée internationale.


too much

Pour les dénombrables, on utilise too many.

You ate too much cake at the party, and that’s why you feel sick.

Tu as mangé beaucoup trop de gâteaux à la fête, et c'est pour cela que tu es malade.


too much

Pour un adjectif ou un adverbe, on utilise too.
:* It’s too cold.

You talk too much.


too much

Trop. Définition manquante ou à compléter. (Ajouter)

You expect too much from your employees.

You’re really too much.


together with

\tə.ˈɡɛð.ɚ wɪð\

\tə.ˈɡɛð.ə wɪð\

I saw the the movie together with my wife.

A slice of bread together with cheese, ham and tomato.


air pocket

The plane hit an air pocket.

The plastic seal left an air pocket.


throw away

to throw away (infinitive)
throws away (present third-person singular)
threw away (preterite)
thrown away (participle past)
throwing away (participle present)

\θɹəʊ ə.ˈweɪ\

Throw out signifie jeter dans la poubelle. Throw away signifie rejeter, mais on ne précise pas la destination.

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de throw

You’ve had that scarf for ages. You should throw it away.

Tu possèdes cette écharpe depuis des lustres. Tu devrais la jeter.


thistle

Scotland has the thistle as its national flower.

L'Écosse a le chardon comme fleur nationale.


the day after tomorrow

I'll meet you the day after tomorrow.


thanks to

Richard has just managed to seduce Anne thanks to his ability of manipulation.


amusing

more amusing (comparative)
most amusing (superlative)

Les mots amusing, enjoyable, et entertaining sont de plus en plus fort dans l'ordre indiqué.

Les mots amusing et funny sont de plus en plus fort dans l'ordre indiqué.

What an amusing little boy he is!

I thought the joke was amusing enough, but not really funny.


take over

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Anyhow, they probably didn’t use a copilot, but that chair bollard at the after end of the room suggests that an extra officer sat in reserve, ready to take over.

Quoi qu’il en soit, ils n’ont probablement pas utilisé un co-pilote, mais cette borne de chaise au bout de la pièce suggère qu’un officier supplémentaire était assis au cas où, prêt à prendre le relai. (traduction à préciser ou à vérifier)

Owners of the latest cars fitted with Automated Lane Keeping Systems - or ALKS - will be allowed to use these 'self-driving' features on motorways. Legalisation of the use of ALKS is due to be given the green light in a matter of months. ALKS are categorised as 'Level 3' autonomy and can take over control of a vehicle, keeping it in lane so the driver doesn't need to have any input.

Nino Williams, «The new driving laws and rule changes which come into force in 2022 - Wales Online», Wales on line, December 2021


take care of

I want to marry you and take care of you for the rest of your life.

Don’t worry. I’ll take care of it.


take away

Let’s order some take away food.

Let’s order some take away.


tails

Let’s flip a coin. What do you choose? Heads or tails?

Traduction : Jouons à pile ou face. Que choisis-tu ? Pile ou face ?


antivenin

Du français antivenin ; plus courant sous la forme antivenom.

Their bite is extremely painful and, but luckily, an antivenin (a.k.a. anti-venom, or an injection given to boost antibodies against a particular poison) now exists.

Emilia Benton, Women's Health, 30 juin 2023


any amount of

Composé de any (« n’importe quel »), amount (« quantité ») et of (« de »).

Beaucoup de. Note d’usage : Peut être utilisé avec un nom dénombrable au contraire des autres locutions avec amount.

The grass therein is up to the horses’ fetlocks. There is any amount of rhubarb and early vegetables in the garden.

Miles Franklin, My Brilliant Career, 1901, édition 2007,ISBN 9781460401392

There are no men going about the city with barrows, but there are any amount of men going around with carts.

Report of Commission on the Cost of Living in New Zealand, 1912


survivor

The last will and testament says that the survivors will inherit the remaining estate.

Le testament dit que les survivants hériteront des biens restants.

Were there any survivors from the accident?


surroundings

The trees in the immediate surroundings are small and misshapen.


aplenty

De l’ancien français a plenté (« en abondance, à foison »).

En abondance, à foison. Note d’usage : Placé après un nom modifié.

We have helpers aplenty but lack the skilled support.


summons

(Nom, verbe) De l’ancien français somonse (en trouve aussi en anglo-normand sumunse), d’où vient le -s final pour un singulier.

The judge issued a summons for the missing witness to appear the next time.


summons

She has been summonsed to appear in court.


approximately

Dérivé d’approximate avec le suffixe -ly.

Approximativement, environ, à peu près, aux bords de.

Per 100g of chocolate there are approximately 11.6g of saturated fat.

...approximately 60 beats per minute.

Euclid was a Greek mathematician who lived approximately 2,300 years ago.

Euclide était un mathématicien grec qui vécut il y a environ 2,300 ans.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 132


stupidly

Fred had somehow been made to feel like an outsider and had reacted stupidly by sulking and disappearing.

a stupidly large measure of whisky

JamesHowell, Guinea Pigs, ISBN 9780956926074, 2016


strut

to strut (infinitive)
struts (present third-person singular)
strutted (preterite)
strutted (participle past)
strutting (participle present)

Once our ancestors got moving on two legs, they kept on walking, and that journey has continued right up to today. In a lifetime, the average person will take about 150 million steps—enough to circle Earth three times. We stroll, stride, plod, traipse, amble, saunter, shuffle, tiptoe, lumber, tromp, lope, strut and swagger. After walking all over someone, we might be asked to walk a mile in their shoes. Heroes walk on water, and geniuses are walking encyclopedias. But rarely do we humans think about walking. It has become, you might say, pedestrian. The fossils, however, reveal something else entirely. Walking is anything but ordinary. Instead it is a complex, convoluted evolutionary experiment that began with humble apes taking their first steps in Miocene forests and eventually set hominins on a path around the world.

Jeremy DeSilva, “Walks of Life”, Scientific American, vol. 327, no. 5, novembre 2022, pages 72-81

The male struts and calls, and opens his crest to display its full color.

Le mâle parade et lance des appels, et déploie sa crête pour montrer toute sa couleur.


strike out

Barrer, biffer, rayer, raturer, supprimer.

Let’s strike out this clause.


arrondissement

\əˈɹɒnˌdɪsˈmənt\

Like a woman who has been around the arrondissement a few times, she warned the younger women onstage about the dangers of pairing off with handsome young men.

RebeccaRitzel, « Washington Ballet, In Series beautifully blend French songs and ballet on the stage », The Washington Post, 19 janvier 2014


article of dress

Chose que l’on met, comme vêtement, coiffure ou chaussure.

The general adoption of drawers as an article of dress was due to a freak of fashion.

Ada S. Ballin, Science of Dress, Chapitre XI, 1885

The tall, stiff hat, whether silk or felt, is a most insanitary article of dress.

Ada S. Ballin, Science of Dress, Chapitre XII, 1885

There is no article of dress in which more striking changes have been made in the various ages than in the covering for the feet.

George A. Rich, The Development of American Industries Since Columbus: Leather Industry II, dans Popular Science Monthly, vol. 41, aout 1892


straits

in dire straits - dans une situation déspérée


as to

Sort as to size.


straight ahead

Turn right, and then go straight ahead.

There are some side roads, but you go straight ahead.


ask for

Les deux formes, to ask et to ask for, sont distinctes. On emploie ask pour une question, et on emploie ask for pour obtenir quelque chose d'une autre personne. Quelques autres langues conservent cette distinction plus fortement: ask/ask for (anglais) = fragen/bitten (allemand) = preguntar/pedir (espagnol).

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de ask

Why don't you ask him for his opinion?

He already promised to give you whatever present you ask for.


stoppage

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After the injury, the shop steward (union representative on the floor) called an immediate work stoppage for the rest of the day.


stocks

In medieval times, a punishment was to have the ankles bound in the stocks, for ridicule in the public square.


at all

Du tout. Souvent utilisé pour renforcer une négation.

I don’t like it at all.

If you can see any problems at all, tell us so we can fix them.

Si vous voyez le moindre problème, dites-le-nous pour que nous puissions le régler.

Note that we say “a” solution rather than “the” solution. A differential equation, if it has a solution at all, usually has more than one solution.

Larry Riddle, The domain of solutions to differential equations


sterling

(XIIIᵉ siècle) De même origine que l’ancien français esterlin d’origine discutée :
:#Dérivé de star, avec le suffixe -ling, mais les monnaies normandes étaient rarement ornées d'une étoile - pour la finale, voir schilling ;
:# Certains en font le dérivé, avec le même suffixe, de l’ancien français estedre (« statère »)
:# Moins probable est l’étymon Easterlingi (« gens de l'Est »), qui désignait les marchands de la ligue hanséatique venant faire des affaires à Londres au XIIᵉ ou une peuplade saxonne dont la monnaie se serait répandue dans les relations commerciales.

The exchange rate between sterling and the dollar.


sterling

Authentique, pur, véritable, de grande valeur, de haute qualité

Patience is a sterling virtue.


attune

With practice, you can attune your ear to understand that accent better.


austerity

Demonstrators marched through Brussels in their tens of thousands as trade unionists throughout Europe staged protests against the austerity measures being planned across the continent.

Des manifestants ont défilé à Bruxelles par dizaines de milliers, alors que les syndicalistes de toute l’Europe élèvent des protestations contre les mesures d’austérité annoncées dans tout le continent.


starry

starrier (comparative)
starriest (superlative)

A Starry Eyed Encounter


stand for

He was the first and certainly not the last to point out that BIOS actually stands for “Basic Input/Output System,” not “Built-In Operating System” as I have it here (and as it ought to be); but I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun, so this part of the book is unchanged.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-56262-4 ISBN invalide


squad

Probable apocope de squadron → voir escouade.

Super Special Sonic Search and Smash Squad

Section Spéciale Super Secrète Sabotage Sonic

Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, 1993–1996


back off

back down

reculer (régresser, en parlant des affaires et des personnes)

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de back

Haters Back Off.


spread out

to spread out (infinitive)
spreads out (present third-person singular)
spreading out (participle present)

It was seven o’clock of a very warm evening in the Seeonee hills when Father Wolf woke up from his day’s rest, scratched himself, yawned, and spread out his paws one after the other to get rid of the sleepy feeling in their tips.

Il était sept heures, par un soir très chaud, sur les collines de Seeonee. Père Loup s’éveilla de son somme journalier, se gratta, bâilla et détendit ses pattes l’une après l’autre pour dissiper la sensation de paresse qui en raidissait encore les extrémités.


speed up

We better speed up if we want to get home in time.


speed up

Activer n'est pas équivalent à l'anglais, to activate.

We need to speed up the work.

Can you speed up the motor? (ou speed the motor up)


barbarism

If civilization has got the better of barbarism when barbarism had the world to itself, it is too much to profess to be afraid lest barbarism, after having been fairly got under, should revive and conquer civilization.

J. S. Mill, On Liberty, édition de 1869, page 166


spectre

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A spectre is haunting Europe — the spectre of communism.


barbed wire

barbed wire fence.


barracks

A soldier’s life in the barracks is not a happy one.

La vie d’un soldat dans les baraquements n’est pas joyeuse.

The army will need to provide barracks for ten thousand soldiers.

L’armée va devoir fournir des casernes pour dix mille soldats.


barrenness

Dérivé de barren, avec le suffixe -ness.

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barrenness of the landscape

After three years of the queen's barrenness, the king decided to divorce her.


basics

Here, our goal is a brief tour to introduce the basics.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, p. 95


be able to

→ voir be, able et to (« être capable de »).

to be able to (infinitive)
is able to (present third-person singular)
was able to ou were able to (preterite)
been able to (participle past)
being able to (participle present)

Be able to remplace l'auxiliaire can lorsque ce dernier, verbe défectif, n'est pas possible ou est ambigu :

*He will can go → He will be able to go: Il pourra aller.

He could go: Il pourrait aller; He was able to go: Il a pu aller.

*He would have can go → He would have been able to go (ou He could have gone): Il aurait pu aller.

With this qualification, I am now able to teach French.

I’ve tried so hard to juggle, but I am still not able to do it.


be about

I enjoy being about town.

My new film is about suicide.

Mon nouveau film est au sujet du suicide.


soften up

You can soften up this steak with a tenderizer.

Her tears softened me up.


at loggerheads

\æt ˈlɔɡɚˌhɛdz\

\æt ˈlɑɡɚˌhɛdz\

En désaccord, comme chien et chat, à couteaux tirés.

We were really at loggerheads about what to do with the money we found on the side of the road; she said we should turn it in, I said we should set it free.


be born

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I was born in 1990.


be called

to be called (infinitive)
is called (present third-person singular)
was called ou were called (preterite)
been called (participle past)
being called (participle present)

My new dog is called Rooney.


fed up

Du verbe to feed « nourrir » fed up signifie littéralement : « gavé ».

Gavé, qui en a assez, qui en a ras-le-bol, qui en a marre.

I’m fed up with this job.

She’s fed up with her boyfriend.


skimpy

skimpier (comparative)
skimpiest (superlative)

Look at the skimpy clothes that she's wearing.


sicken

He sickened rapidly, and later died.

His arrogant behaviour sickens me.

It sickens me to think of the large loss of life.

The toiling pleasure sickens into pain.

All pleasures sicken, and all glories sink.


shutter

to shutter (infinitive)
shutters (present third-person singular)
shuttered (preterite)
shuttered (participle past)
shuttering (participle present)

Our study shows that action on climate change demands shuttering vast sections of the military machine.

Notre étude montre que l'action sur le changement climatique impose de mettre à l'arrêt des pans entiers de la machine militaire.

Benjamin Neimark, Oliver Belcher, Patrick Bigger, « US military is a bigger polluter than as many as 140 countries – shrinking this war machine is a must », dans The Conversation, 2019-06-24 https://theconversation.com/us-military-is-a-bigger-polluter-than-as-many-as-140-countries-shrinking-this-war-machine-is-a-must-119269 texte intégral


on fire

Performant, en forme, qui fait de très bonnes performances.

Eunice Barber has been on fire in the long jump today.


shipwreck

Life is but the shipwreck of our plans.

La vie n’est que le naufrage de nos projets.— (La Forme de l'eau)


she-goat

Here was a panel that showed Kronos swallowing Rhea’s children, and here another of the infant Zeus being suckled by the she-goat Amalthea.

Stephen Fry, Mythos, Penguin Books, 2018, p. 296


share to bearer

Composé de share (« portion, action d’une société ») et de bearer (« porteur »).

\ˈʃɛɹ tə ˈbɛɹ.ɚ\

\ˈʃɛə tə ˈbɛə.ɹə\

A share to order may be exchanged for a share to bearer, and vice versa.

Hopkins Library, Railway pamphlets, 1878


be worth

Du verbe be et de la préposition worth (« valant »), littéralement « être valant ».

to be worth (infinitive)
is worth (present third-person singular)
was worth ou were worth (preterite)
ou \wɚ ˈwɝθ\ ou \wə ˈwɜːθ\ (preterite)
been worth (participle past)
being worth (participle present)

Toujours suivi par un nom signifiant une valeur.

En anglais, cette expression n’est pas considérée comme une locution figée.

His house is worth a million dollars.


bear witness

→ voir bear et witness (le verbe « to bear »)

She bore witness to the long-lasting damage that he suffered after the accident.


beating

In her statement, she attributed the beatings to the couple's opposition to the regime.

La lettre du procureur aux avocats de DSK, LeMonde.fr, 1 juillet 2011


self-sufficiency

Energy self-sufficiency.


bidder

Renchérisseur (dans une vente aux enchères).

This building has been sold to the highest bidder.


searing

more searing (comparative)
most searing (superlative)

Count Dracula has come to purify this corrupt world with the searing flames of chaos!

Le comte Dracula est venu pour purifier ce monde corrompu avec les flammes brûlantes du chaos ! [traduction non officielle]

Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, réplique de Shaft


séance

(Date à préciser) Emprunt du français séance.

I need more than just a beer
must I first hold a séance
to get some spirits around here

J’ai besoin de plus qu’une bierre
dois-je d’abord tenir une séance
pour invoquer des esprits/obtenir des spiritueux par ici


scholastic

Are his scholastic studies going well?

She follows the scholastic school of philosophy.


say yes

Shall we do it or not? Do you say yes or no?


say no

Say no to drugs.


satchel

De l'ancien français sachel (« petit sac »).

It's a satchel with books and school lessons that the young Volodka was carrying the morning they did him in.

Traduction : C'est un cartable contenant des livres et des devoirs scolaires que le jeune Volodka portait le matin où ils l'ont exécuté.

Sholem Aleichem, The bloody hoax, éd. Indiana university press, 1991


breast feeding

Dérivé de breast feed, avec le suffixe -ing.

The mother is breast feeding her baby.


briefs

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By the way, the interviewer also found out he wears briefs, as opposed to boxers.

Au fait, l’intervieweur a également découvert qu’il porte des slips, plutôt que des caleçons.

It doesn’t matter if she wears briefs or thongs, they shouldn’t be hanging around in your laundry room.

Peu importe qu’elle porte des culottes ou des strings, ils ne devraient pas traîner dans ta buanderie.


run in

When the machine is new, it will run a little rough. But it will be smoother after you run it in.


run down

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I had to run down the mountain to escape.

Je devais descendre le montagne en courant afin de m’échapper.

We had to run down the engine of the car.

Nous avons dû épuiser le moteur de la voiture.


brougham

Du baron écossais Henry Brougham, qui mit cette voiture à la mode dans les années 1850.

“Yes,” he continued, glancing out of the window. “A nice little brougham and a pair of beauties.”


rumpsteak

En quelque endroit qu’un Anglais se trouve, il vit exactement comme s’il était à Londres ; il lui faut son thé, ses rumpsteaks, ses tartes de rhubarbe, son porter et son sherry s’il se porte bien, et son calomel s’il se porte mal.

Théophile Gautier, Voyage en Espagne, 1840, édition Charpentier, 1859


burly

burlier (comparative)
burliest (superlative)

The man was up on his feet now, angry and surprised. He was a big burly fellow, with very small close-set eyes and a cruel mouth.

L’homme était sur pied désormais, furieux et surpris. C’était un gars robuste et costaud, avec de très petits yeux rapprochés et une bouche cruelle.


by now

The idea of a “virtual reality” such as the Metaverse is by now widespread in the computer-graphics community and is being implemented in a number of different ways.


rinse

I'll just give this knife a quick rinse.


right now

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I said that you have to do this right now!

There's a great program on TV right now.


call out

to call out (infinitive)
calls out (present third-person singular)
called out (preterite)
called out (participle past)
calling out (participle present)

Don’t call out to him.

They called out to the horses


caller

When a function is called, the caller stops until the function finishes its work and returns control to the caller.

Mark Lutz, Learning Python (5ème édition),O'Reilly, 2013, page 494


calmness

The Patriarchal state, always a state of calmness and composure, was so particularly serene that evening as to be provoking.

Le Patriarche, qui se trouvait toujours dans un état de calme et de quiétude, paraissait, ce soir-là, d’une sérénité encore plus agaçante que de coutume.


caprice

(Siècle à préciser) Emprunté au français caprice.

as she never acts from caprice, I ams ure there is some fatal secret at the bottom — nay, I know there is

H. Walpole, The Castle of Otranto, 3ᵉ édition, 1766. Page 51

Mr. Bennet was so odd a mixture of quick parts, sarcastic humour, reserve, and caprice, that the experience of three and twenty years had been insufficient to make his wife understand his character.

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 1, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 5


care about

(Siècle à préciser) De care et de about.

S’occuper de, se soucier de. Note d’usage : La négation signifie « se ficher de ».

I care about you.

I don’t care about what happens afterward.

He doesn’t care about me.

I wanted someone who cared about me in particular, as an individual, enough to notice that I could not get a zero on a vocabulary test because I had too big a vocabulary.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Plato », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, pages 25-26


carelessly

Du nom care et des suffixes -less et -ly.

Avec un air d’indifférence ou de négligence.

To say something carelessly.

"What’s the matter now ?" said the man carelessly. — « Qu’est-ce qu’il y a ? » demanda l’homme négligemment. — (Oliver Twist, Charles Dickens)


respite

The enemy gave no respite.

The two-day truce gave the soldiers a temporary respite from the constant barrage.


carry away

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de carry

I talk to the wind
My words are all carried away
I talk to the wind
The wind does not hear
The wind cannot hear

Je parle au vent
Mes paroles sont toutes emportées
Je parle au vent
Le vent n’entend pas
Le vent ne peut pas entendre

Peter Sinfield, I Talk to the Wind, in In the Court of the Crimson King (album de King Crimson), 1969


carry out

to carry out (infinitive)
carries out (present third-person singular)
carried out (preterite)
carried out (participle past)
carrying out (participle present)

\ˌkæɹ.i ˈæɔt\

According to Chomskyan theory, the deep structures are innate components of the brain that enable it to carry out certain formal operations on formal strings of symbols.

Selon la théorie chomskyenne, les structures profondes sont des composants innés du cerveau qui permettent d’effectuer certaines opérations formelles sur des chaînes formelles de symboles.


rescind

Du latin rescindō (« détruire, annuler, casser, abolir »), de scindō (« déchirer, fendre, couper en deux ») et du préfixe re-, indiquant le retour en arrière.

to rescind (infinitive)
rescinds (present third-person singular)
rescinded (preterite)
rescinded (participle past)
rescinding (participle present)

The agency will rescind the policy because many people are dissatisfied with it.

L’agence va supprimer le contrat parce que beaucoup de gens en sont insatisfaits.


chargé d’affaires

Celui qui, au défaut ou en l’absence d’un ambassadeur ou d’un ministre plénipotentiaire, est chargé de veiller aux intérêts de son gouvernement dans une cour étrangère.

Our chargé d’affaires in China.


chase away

The homeowner chased away the juvenile delinquents.


regrettably

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The use of these systems has unsurprisingly yet regrettably already led to deaths and injuries on the road.

L'usage de ces systèmes a sans surprise déjà regrettablement tué et blessé sur la route.

Risks of hands-off driving and system-initiated lane changes in Level 2 driver assistance systems, ETSC, September 6, 2024


refrain

Please refrain from talking during the performance.

Ne pas s’autoriser une action que l’on souhaiterait faire pour des raisons de prudence, de bienséance etc., s’abstenir de, s’interdire de, ne pas s’autoriser à.

Among other public buildings in a certain town, which for many reasons it will be prudent to refrain from mentioning, and to which I will assign no fictitious name, there is one anciently common to most towns, great or small: to wit, a workhouse.

Parmi les divers monuments publics qui font l’orgueil d’une ville dont, par prudence, je m’abstiendrai de dire le nom, et à laquelle je ne veux pas donner un nom imaginaire, il en est un commun à la plupart des villes grandes ou petites : c’est le dépôt de mendicité.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1838, chapitre 1


refer to

He referred back to the incident in September to let the boys know that he hadn't forgotten what they had done in the past.

She referred to the encyclopedia to fill in some background facts.


churchyard

Du moyen anglais churchyard, chirch-ȝerd (attesté kirk-ȝerd, kirkeyard), équivalent aucomposé de church et de yard. Ce terme a remplacé le moyen anglais chirchetoun, issu du vieil anglais ċiriċtūn.

\ˈtʃɜːtʃ.ˌyɑːd\

Cour attenante à une église, faisant généralement office de cimetière.

Take a detour to Newington churchyard and you can find a memorial to poor William.

Sandi Toksvig, Between the stops: a most wonderful memoir, 2019, 320 pages, p. 228


clamour

to clamour (infinitive)
clamours (present third-person singular)
clamoured (preterite)
clamoured (participle past)
clamouring (participle present)

The masses clamoured for bread.


cleanliness

(Siècle à préciser) → voir clean, -ly et -ness

Cleanliness is next to godliness


realization

Dérivé de realize, avec le suffixe -ation.

This is a heuristic realization of the uncertainty relation, which lies at the heart of Quantum Mechanics.

Allan Adams, 8:04 Quantum Mechanics — Problem Set 1, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 05/02/2013


readiness

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The general inspected the readiness of the troops.

She was very pleased with his readiness to help.


coffeehouse

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de coffee (« café (boisson) ») et de house (« maison »).

Philadelphia, in contrast, had folk music and coffeehouses with live performers. Most were white.

À Philadelphie, en revanche, il y avait de la musique folk et on donnait des spectacles dans des cafés. La plupart des artistes étaient blancs.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Music 3 », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 8


ravishing

My dear, you look absolutely ravishing.


ransom

De l’ancien français raençon (le moderne rançon) lui-même du latin redemptio (« rachat »).

The kidnappers are asking for a ransom.

That treasure is worth a king’s ransom.


come on

Your new garden is coming on nicely.

I hate it when creepy guys come on to me.

Je déteste quand les mecs louches me draguent.


come on

Come on guys, we’ll be late!

Dépechez-vous les gars, on sera en retard !

Come on England, we can beat the French!

Allez l’Angleterre ! On peut battre les Français !


come together

\kʌm tʊ.ˈɡɛð.əɹ\

It’s starting to come together.

Les pièces du puzzle commencent à s’assembler.


coming

the second coming of Christ


commit suicide

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de commit et de suicide.

I almost committed suicide at sixteen because I didn’t think he loved me, though he later assured me that he did in a hot and heavy phone call: under his influence and Salinger’s I had walked out into the ocean prepared to drown.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « The Pedophilic Teacher », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, page 15


put to sleep

go to sleep

s'endormir ; aller dormir, aller se coucher

The baby woke up and is crying. Can you put her back to sleep?

Le bébé s’est réveillé et est en train de pleurer. Est-ce que tu peux la rendormir ?

These long speeches put her to sleep.

Standing at this awkward angle for so long has put my leg to sleep.

Me tenir selon cet angle inconfortable pendant si longtemps a ankylosé ma jambe.


competence

(Siècle à préciser) Du latin competentia.

After he failed at even the simplest tasks, I began to doubt his competence.

The EU has the exclusive competence to set minimum safety standards for all new vehicles sold on the EU market.

He demonstrated a high level of competence.


concerned

The concerned persons will come tomorrow afternoon in my office.

Les intéressés viendront me voir demain après-midi dans mon bureau.

be concerned

Avoir soin de, se soucier de, s'occuper, veiller à.


concerted

She made a concerted effort.


pulsating

I enjoyed the pulsating music at the night club.


confront

to confront (infinitive)
confronts (present third-person singular)
confronted (preterite)
confronted (participle past)
confronting (participle present)

To confront s’emploie plus souvent en employant les mots au lieu de la violence. C’est plus insolite d’employer to confront avec violence. Néanmoins, confrontation en anglais peut indiquer avec ou sans violence. Par contre, to assault et le nom assault s’emploient d’ordinaire pour indiquer la violence, bien qu’ils s’emploient figurément sans indiquer la violence.

The police confronted him with the evidence.

Les policiers l'ont confronté avec les preuves.

He confronted the co-worker to ask him about the rumors that he was spreading.

Il a interpellé son collègue à propos des rumeurs que celui-ci repandait.

In his business, he confronts danger every day.

Dans sa profession, il fait face au danger à tous les jours.

He confronted the gunman and tried to stop him.

Il a affronté le tireur et a essayé de l'arrêter.


consist of

Être composé de, consister en, se composer de.

The result will be computed quickly, even for huge numbers consisting of hundreds of digits, because Euclid's algorithm is extremely efficient.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 133


contemptuously

Dérivé de contemptuous avec le suffixe -ly utilisé pour former les adverbes.

He argued with the judge contemptuously, showing no respect or remorse for his actions.

They haven’t no more philosophy nor political economy about 'em than that,' said the beadle, snapping his fingers contemptuously.

Charles Dickens, Oliver Twist, 1867, chapitre 4

Under the statute an individual who "publicly mutilates, tramples upon, defaces or treats contemptuously the flag of the United States […] " was subject to criminal liability.

Treatise on Constitutional Law: Substance and Procedure, 1986, volume 3, page 36

The girl looked at Onisi contemptuously, then laughed jeeringly. He was then six years old and didn't know how to speak in English so he couldn't understand what she was saying but he sensed that it was derogatory.

Joseph Veramo, Moving through the Streets: A Novel, 1994, page 39


prosecutor

Dérivé de prosecute (« poursuivre en justice »), avec le suffixe -or.

— L’affaire était d’importance, car l’alcool de contrebande est souvent très mauvais. Les sommes en jeu étaient considérables — le vrai cognac se vend très, très cher — et le... public prosecutor demandait une punition très sévère, car trop de gens étaient attirés par la chance de s’enrichir très vite.

Régis Messac, la Taupe d'or [1934], éditions de la Grange Batelière, 2021, première partie, chapitre II, p. 47


continual

Les mots continual et continuous se confondent de temps en temps, même par les anglophones. Mais ils sont distincts. Une suite qui est continuous continue sans interruption ou reprise. Une suite qui est continual est une séquence d'évènements distaincts.

but his men had to dismount and grope down the dingle, leading, and sometimes supporting, their horses, and in continual fear of ambushes

Robert Louis Stevenson, Treasure Island, page 42. 1883.


coping

Chaperon, arête : couronnement d’un mur ou d’un muret favorisant l’écoulement des eaux de pluie de part et d’autre ou d’un seul côté.

The coping, wall coping, or cap is the uppermost course of masonry or brickwork in a wall, usually made of a sloping form to throw off rain.

Margelle, dalle de propreté entourant le bassin d’une piscine, et qui peut servir en même temps de chaperon à ses murs.

A course of brick or masonry material along the edge of a pool, usually projecting slightly to cast a shadow line, is called a coping.


corresponding

For similar triangles, corresponding sides are proportional.


count down

De count (« compter ») et de down (« en descendant »).

The clock was counting down to zero.

La montre comptait à rebours jusqu’à zéro.


cower

to cower (infinitive)
cowers (present third-person singular)
cowered (preterite)
cowered (participle past)
cowering (participle present)

Se tapir, être accroupi de peur, se recroqueviller.

cower in fear


crash into

crash into a telephone pole, crash into another car


credentials

Pluriel de credential, désormais assez rare au singulier.

Données permettant d'authentifier un utilisateur d'un système d'information, combinant un identifiant d'utilisateur avec au moins un authentifiant (typiquement un mot de passe).

You supplied incorrect credentials.

Vous avez fourni une combinaison de nom d'utilisateur et de mot de passe incorrecte.


cross out

Players normally record the numbers that have been called by crossing them out or marking them with a Bingo dauber.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 107


crumble

to crumble (infinitive)
crumbles (present third-person singular)
crumbled (preterite)
crumbled (participle past)
crumbling (participle present)

The empire is crumbling.

The wall is crumbling.

The cookie is crumbling.


cut off

se conjugue : → voir la conjugaison de cut

That driver cut me off when I was trying to change lanes.


cut up

Can you please cut the paper up into smaller sizes?


pointed

more pointed (comparative)
most pointed (superlative)

The nail is very pointed.

That was a very pointed remark.


point out

He was the first and certainly not the last to point out that BIOS actually stands for “Basic Input/Output System,” not “Built-In Operating System” as I have it here (and as it ought to be); but I feel that I am entitled to trample all other considerations into the dirt in my pursuit of a satisfying pun, so this part of the book is unchanged.

Neal Stephenson, Snow Crash, 1992 (éd. 1993), ISBN 0-553-56262-4 ISBN invalide


daub

De l’ancien français dauber (« blanchir à la chaux, chauler »).

to daub (infinitive)
daubs (present third-person singular)
daubed (preterite)
daubed (participle past)
daubing (participle present)

Le verbe daub est suivi de with pour traduire l’expression « barbouiller de ».

The artist just seemed to daub on paint at random and suddenly there was a painting.


plug in

to plug in (infinitive)
plugs in (present third-person singular)
plugged in (preterite)
plugged in (participle past)
plugging in (participle present)

Plug in the lamp before using it. (Branchez la lampe avant de l’utiliser)

Please plug it into that electric socket over there. (S’il vous plaît, branchez ceci dans la prise là-bas.)

It won’t turn on because no one plugged it in. (Ça ne peut pas s’allumer car personne ne l’a branché.)


dazzling

more dazzling (comparative)
most dazzling (superlative)

[H]is ſupercilious glances grevv humbled, yea, his dazeling ſplendor (eclipſt in the ſetting [i.e., death] of his Maſter) becomes quickly darkned: […]

Thomas Herbert, Some Yeares Travels Into Divers Parts of Asia and Afrique, volume II, R[ichard] Bi[sho]p pour Iacob Blome and Richard Bishop, Londres, 1638 (OCLC 1118558005), page 206

There is something in intense suffering that seeks concealment, something that is fain to belie itself. In Cooper's novel of the "Bravo," Jacques conceals himself and his boat, by lying where the moonlight fell dazzling on the water. We do the same with any great despair, we shroud it in a glittering atmosphere of smiles and jests; but the smiles are sneers, and the jests are sarcasms.

Letitia Elizabeth Landon, Ether Churchill: Or, The Two Brides. : Success, volume II, Henry Colburn ⁽ᵉⁿ⁾, Londres, 1837 (OCLC 21345056), page 80

The deafening claps of thunder and the dazzling flashes of lightning which lit up the ghastly scene testified that the artillery of heaven had lent its supernatural pomp to the already gruesome spectacle.

James Joyce, Ulysses, Shakespeare and Company, Paris, février 1922 (OCLC 560090630)

Driving 2-6-2 locomotive No. 4771 Green Arrow, Blunt suddenly noticed that the tunnel mouth was silhouetted in a dazzling white glare and that incendiary bombs were showering down in their hundreds, he slammed on all his brakes and brought his train to a stop just inside the tunnel.

« Top Lik Drivers: XXX—Driver H. », dans Railway Magazine


dazzling

Our organization secures the greatest amount of good unbalanced by accomplished evil of any known system, a good which resembles the sober hue of massive gold, rather than the splendid dazzlings of a baser metal.

Minutes of the General Association of Massachusetts, 1837


dead-end street

Cul-de-sacs and dead-end streets are local streets terminated or closed at one end.

Les culs-de-sac et les impasses sont des rues terminées ou fermées à une extrémité.

American Association of State Highway Officials, A policy on arterial highways in urban areas, 1957


deadly

deadlier (comparative)
deadliest (superlative)

How can I save my little boy
From Oppenheimer’s deadly toy?

Comment puis-je protéger mon petit garçon
Du jouet mortel d’Oppenheimer ?

Gordon Sumner, Russians, in The Dream of the Blue Turtles, juin 1985


deal with

I’ll deal with this problem.


decayed

decayed tooth


decision-making

(Siècle à préciser)Composé de decision et de making.

Recalls that the European Parliament will endorse a framework for the future EU-UK relationship only if this framework is in strict concordance with the following principles:
- …
- …
- preservation of the autonomy of the EU's decision-making,

Rappelle que le Parlement européen soutiendra un cadre pour les futures relations entre l'Union européenne et le Royaume-Uni seulement si ce cadre est en accord stricte avec les principes suivants :
- …
- …
- la préservation de l'autonomie du processus de décisions de l'UE,

Parlement européen, Guidelines on the framework of future EU-UK relations, 2020

According to a March 2018 Eurobarometer survey, 75 % of citizens support a common defence and security policy for the EU. The passerelle clause for CFSP in Article 31(3) TEU is an opportunity in the Treaty to move decision-making from unanimity to qualified majority voting (QMV), following unanimous agreement by EU leaders.

Étienne Bassot, «Unlocking the potential of the EU TreatiesAn article-by-article analysis of the scope for action », European Parliamentary Research Service, janvier 2019


decoy

Lure désigne un leurre dans son sens le plus général ; decoy désigne un leurre qui détourne l’attaquant de la véritable cible, qu’il avait déjà prise en chasse.

Objet qui attire dans une fausse direction, leurre.

The opposing army attacked the decoy and fell into the trap.

L’armée adverse attaqua le leurre et tomba dans le piège.


decoy

The attackers were decoyed into chasing after an imaginary second group, while the actual group escaped.

Les agresseurs furent leurrés en les lançant à la poursuite d’un second groupe imaginaire, tandis que le véritable groupe s’échappa.


pick out

to pick out (infinitive)
picks out (present third-person singular)
picked out (preterite)
picked out (participle past)
picking out (participle present)

She picked the suspect out of a police line-up.

She picked out the fake immediately.


delight in

They delight in teasing him.

She delights in fireworks.


deposition

ˌdɛp.əˈzɪʃ.ən

The witness had previously provided a written deposition to the lawyers of the opposing side.

Déposition (d'un roi, prince, dictateur).

The people cheered the deposition of the autocratic king.

The deposition of gravel and sediment over the ages eventually buries the fossils.


detachment

The commander sent two detachments to scout out the enemy.

He ordered the detachment of the wagon from the horses, in order to set up camp for the night.

She watched the whole proceeding with a sense of detachment, as if she had nothing to do with causing it.


pecker

Dérivé de peck (« picorer, becqueter, faire la bise »), avec le suffixe -er. Le premier sens provient du fait que, dans une basse-cour, certaines poules dominantes piquent du bec les plus faibles (voir pecking order).

Two studies of British civil servants, for example, suggest that those at the top of the heap are less stressed than those near the bottom. Work on other species, too, indicates that when it comes to pecking orders, the peckees are more stressed than the peckers.

« Stress Test », dans The Economist, 18 octobre 2003

He’s a rare pecker.

C’est un gros mangeur, une bonne fourchette.

There is a house down in New Orleans,
They call it The Rising Sun,
When you want to get your pecker spoilt,
That's where you get it done.


pay off

Her years of Spanish classes finally paid off when she found herself in Mexico and realized she could communicate with people.

Ses années de cours d’espagnol ont finalement porté leurs fruits quand elle s’est retrouvée au Mexique et a réalisé qu’elle pouvait communiquer avec les gens.


dig up

to dig up (infinitive)
digs up (present third-person singular)
dug up (preterite)
dug up (participle past)
digging up (participle present)

On distingue entre les deux sens figuré de exhumer en anglais. Dans le cas de dig out, on sait que l'objet cherché existe. Dans le cas de dig up, on ne sait pas en avance que l'objet existe.

She went through back issues of the newspaper, trying to dig up some past stories to use against her political opponent.


disabled

Has the device been disabled now?


paperback

available in paperback


disarming

more disarming (comparative)
most disarming (superlative)

She had a disarming manner about her that caused people to immediately open up to her.


overload

to overload (infinitive)
overloads (present third-person singular)
overloaded (preterite)
overloaded (participle past)
overloading (participle present)

\ˌəʊ.vəˈləʊd\

ETSC welcomed a proposal from the European Commission last year to increase the coverage to include not just speeding and drink-driving, but also other dangerous behaviours such as wrong-way driving and overloading a vehicle.

Opinion – Will Foreign Drivers Continue Getting Away with Breaking the Law? Ellen Townsend – Policy Director, 8 March 2024


open up

Composé de open (« ouvrir ») et de up (« complètement »).

Open up!

Every spring, she looks forward to seeing the flower buds open up.


off-hand

some off-hand remarks


drastically

The policy package known as Abenomics appears to have influenced the Japanese economy drastically, in particular, in the financial markets.

Ippei Fujiwara, Policy Regime Change Against Chronic Deflation?, 2015


nub

A nub is the essence or core of something.

What do you think is the nub of the problem?

A nub is a small lump or knob


no longer

\ˌnoʊ ˈlɔŋ.ɡɚ\

\ˌnoʊ ˈlɑŋ.ɡɚ\

\ˌnəʊ ˈlɒŋ.ɡə\

He is no longer a student. — Il n’est plus étudiant.

In your time, I’m no longer hеre
But I am here today
And I’ll always bе cheering for you, right here
Cheering for you, my only self


no further

\ˈnoʊ ˈfɝ.ðɚ\

\ˈnəʊ ˈfɜː.ðə\

There is no further information.


no further

\ˈnoʊ ˈfɝ.ðɚ\

\ˈnəʊ ˈfɜː.ðə\

This is the best textbook. You need look no further.


neighbourhood

(Siècle à préciser)Dérivé de neighbour, avec le suffixe -hood.

"But, my dear, you must indeed go and see Mr. Bingley when he comes into the neighbourhood."

Jane Austen, Pride and Prejudice dans la bibliothèque Wikisource (en anglais) , Vol. 1, chapitre 1, 3ᵉ éd., T. Egerton, Whitehall, Londres, 1817, page 3


needy

needier (comparative)
neediest (superlative)

Let’s also give something for the needy.

I don’t like being around her. She’s always acts so needy (emotionally needy).


more and more

\ˈmɔɹ ənd ˈmɔɹ\

\ˈmɔː ənd ˈmɔː\

More and more people are travelling by plane nowadays.


more and more

\ˈmɔɹ ənd ˈmɔɹ\

\ˈmɔː ənd ˈmɔː\

People are flying more and more nowadays.


moneymaking

We're a moneymaking enterprise, not a charity.


mockery

The tone of his voice was full of mockery.

to expose one to public mockery

to make a mockery of ...


misapprehension

Dérivé de apprehension, avec le préfixe mis-.

I was under the misapprehension that you returned last week.


make fun of

to make fun of (infinitive)
makes fun of (present third-person singular)
made fun of (preterite)
made fun of (participle past)
making fun of (participle present)

Stop making fun of me!


mainline

to mainline (infinitive)
mainlines (present third-person singular)
mainlined (preterite)
mainlined (participle past)
mainlining (participle present)

Intégrer (du code, etc.) dans le dépôt principal d’un projet logiciel, plutôt que dans des forks séparés.

Since the driver was finally mainlined last year in Linux 5.15, there haven't been any major bug fixes to be sent in for the driver.

Depuis que le pilote a finalement été intégré l’année dernière dans Linux 5.15, il n’y a pas eu de corrections de bogues majeures à envoyer pour le pilote.

Michael Larabel,Linus Torvalds Comments On The NTFS Linux Driver Situation, www.phoronix.com, 28 avril 2022


maidenhair

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And he took the leaves from her breasts, and kissed her breasts, and kissed her navel, and kissed her maidenhair, where he left the flowers threaded.

D. H. Lawrence, L’Amant de lady Chatterley, 1928


magnifying glass

De magnify « agrandir » et glass « verre ».

And yes, Sweden does have one of the highest employment rates in the world for women. But if you bring out the magnifying glass, you'll see that many women are working part-time in low-paid jobs.

Helene Almqvist, Is Sweden the best place be a woman?, BBC News, 17 octobre 2010


lowlife

lowlifes (plural)
lowlives (plural)
low-life

When you give a crazed, crying lowlife a break, and give her a job at the White House, I guess it just didn’t work out. Good work by General Kelly for quickly firing that dog !

tweet du compte @realDonaldTrump du 14 août 2018


lowercase

Capitalize a lowercase "i" if it is preceded by a space and followed by a space, period, exclamation mark, question mark or apostrophe.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, p. 69


look at

to look at (infinitive)
looks at (present third-person singular)
looked at (preterite)
looked at (participle past)
looking at (participle present)

La forme intransitive de « to look at » est to look.

Will you please look at what I've written and see if it's right?

Don't look at him. It'll only embarrass him more.


liquidate

What will Paris do once when we have found out? Pass the information to Moscow? (...) And so two men will arrive to liquidate him.

Que fera Paris une fois que nous l'aurons découvert ? Passer l'information à Moscou ? (...) Et c'est ainsi que deux hommes arriveront pour le liquider.

Réplique du personnage d’André Devereaux, vers 17 minutes, dans le film Topaz (1969), réalisé par Alfred Hitchcock, sur un scénario de Samuel A. Taylor et Leon Uris, basé sur le roman éponyme (1967) de ce dernier.


earthly

more earthly (comparative)
most earthly (superlative)

Earthly justice will prevail.

[…] when I favored the reader—inexcusably, and for no earthly reason, that either the indulgent reader or the intrusive author could imagine—with a description of my way of life […]


effectiveness

Ne pas confondre efficacité (en anglais effectiveness) : « qui atteint un objectif » ; et efficience (en anglais efficiency) : « qui produit le maximum de résultats avec le minimum d’efforts ».

Sanctions do not operate in a vacuum and the way in which they are combined with other tools of foreign, security and trade policy has a considerable impact on their ultimate effectiveness.

« Navigating the stars: ten questions to make cyber sanctions more effective » in Guardian of the Galaxy: EU cyber sanctions and norms in cyberspace, EUISS, octobre 2019, page 13


let know

Let me know when you are arriving.

As soon as you find out, please let me know.

He let her know about his plans.

If anyone has seen him, let us know of his whereabouts.


less and less

Less and less money is going into education.

De moins en moins d’argent va vers l’éducation.


less and less

People are travelling less and less in these hard economic times.

Les gens voyagent de moins en moins dans ces temps économiques difficiles.


lay out

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Concocter, concevoir, imaginer (une idée, un plan).

President Bush laid out the scenario we face if the United States decides to cut and run.

Le président Bush a imaginé le scénario qui nous attend si les États-Unis décident d’un retrait militaire immédiat.

There are but two ways of paying debt: increase of industry in raising income, increase of thrift in laying it out.

Il n’y a que deux moyens de payer la dette : augmenter l’industrie pour élever le revenu, faire des économies pour les dépenser.

Thomas Carlyle, Past and Present, livre 2, chapitre X, Government, 1843


end up

She somehow ended up in Germany.

D’une manière ou d’une autre, elle s’est retrouvée en Allemagne.

How did it all end up in the end?

She’ll just end up with less money than when she started.

Elle va juste se retrouver avec moins d’argent que quand elle a commencé.

If we give it to him, he’ll just end up (ou : end up by) asking for more.

Si nous lui en donnons, il finira juste par en demander encore plus.


lapsed

Passé simple et participe passé de lapse, dérivé du moyen français laps, venant du latin lapsus et labi (glisser). Doublet de lapsus.

lapsed catholic

Caduc, qui est périmé, qui n'est plus valable.

Your membership is lapsed.


lady’s maid

A first class lady’s maid is required to be a hairdresser, a good packer and an expert needlewoman. Her first duty is to keep her lady's clothes in order and to help her dress, and undress.

EmilyPost, Etiquette in Society, in Business, in Politics and at Home, 1922, chapitre 12


enlist

to enlist (infinitive)
enlists (present third-person singular)
enlisted (preterite)
enlisted (participle past)
enlisting (participle present)

When war broke out, he decided to enlist.


keep watch

Our guard kept watch over the camp while we slept.

Who will keep watch tonight?


just now

I talked with him just now. He’s at his desk.


judiciary

ˌdʒuː.ˈdɪʃ.ɪ.ˌɛɹ.i

Democracy benefits from an independent judiciary.

La démocratie tire profit d’une magistrature indépendante.


jissom

spurts of jissom.

William S. Burroughs, The Soft Machine, 1961


afield

Loin. Note d’usage : Souvent précédé par far (ou farther, further).

Whether things could have been different is an open question, and one that would take us far afield from the focus of this book.

Jacob S. Hacker, The Road to Nowhere: The Genesis of President Clinton’s Plan for Healthy Security, 1999, p. 118,ISBN 0691005281


faultline

Across the region underground services and buildings are built across 33 separate faultlines.

Ged Cann, «Living on a fault and a prayer - the Upper Hutt street running straight along a faultline », Stuff.co.nz, 14 septembre 2018


instead of

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Instead of dancing, he chose drinking. - Au lieu de danser, il a choisi de boire.


fill up

to fill up (infinitive)
fills up (present third-person singular)
filled up (preterite)
filled up (participle past)
filling up (participle present)

You’re filling me up with your rules

Don't fill up on snacks. We're going to have a big meal.


first-aid

Is there a first-aid kit in this building?


incumbent

more incumbent (comparative)
most incumbent (superlative)

It is incumbent on you all to work hard and to succeed.

The incumbent officeholder has advantages due to his or her position of power.


incumbent

Titulaire (dans une élection) ; celui ou celle qui est en exercice et se présente pour la réélection.

The incumbent always has an avantage in an election.


fisherman

Composé de fisher (« pêcheur ») et de man (« homme »).

300 Vietnamese fishermen rescued after record China typhoon.

Wikinews anglophone, 22 mai 2006, page 1

I am not a good fisherman myself. I devoted a considerable amount of attention to the subject at one time, and was getting on, as I thought, fairly well; but the old hands told me that I should never be any real good at it, and advised me to give it up. They said that I was an extremely neat thrower, and that I seemed to have plenty of gumption for the thing, and quite enough constitutional laziness. But they were sure I should never make anything of a fisherman. I had not got sufficient imagination.

Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat, XVI, 1889


flare up

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We were talking calmly about the incident, and then he flared up for no reason.


in particular

I wanted someone who cared about me in particular, as an individual, enough to notice that I could not get a zero on a vocabulary test because I had too big a vocabulary.

Andrea Dworkin, Heartbreak: The Political Memoir of a Feminist Militant, « Plato », Continuum, 2006 (2002), Londres, pages 25-26

The policy package known as Abenomics appears to have influenced the Japanese economy drastically, in particular, in the financial markets.

Ippei Fujiwara, Policy Regime Change Against Chronic Deflation?, 2015


flutter

to flutter (infinitive)
flutters (present third-person singular)
fluttered (preterite)
fluttered (participle past)
fluttering (participle present)

The banners fluttered in the stiff wind.

The birds flutter among the trees.

Birds flutter their wings.


for example

For example, it is possible to have a total of $ 1.00 using four coins if they are all quarters.

Ben Stephenson, The Python Workbook (2nde édition),Springer, 2019, page 136


in addition to

And she's also an expert craftsman, in addition to being a well-known scientist.


in accordance with

In accordance with the law, I'll have to ask you to stop smoking in this restaurant.


in a hurry

Can you fix it quickly, please? I'm in a hurry.


in a hurry

If you do it in a hurry, you'll only make a mistake.