Le mot anglais du jour

pain

douleur

Définitions

anglais > français
pain
1. n. Douleur, souffrance.
I feel your pain.
Je ressens ta douleur.
2. n. Inconfort.
3. n. Sacrifice.
4. n. Tristesse d'une certaine situation.
5. n. (Familier) Personne ennuyeuse, un boulet.
He is a right pain.
C'est un vrai boulet.
6. n. (Au pluriel) Grand soin.
He took pains to ensure that each guest would feel comfortable.
Il prit grand soin de s'assurer que chaque invité se sentît à l'aise.
7. v. Faire mal, peiner, faire de la peine.
It pains me to say this.
Ça me fait mal de dire cela.
Ça me peine de dire cela.
anglais > anglais
pain
1. n. An ache or bodily suffering, or an instance of this; an unpleasant sensation, resulting from a derangement of functions, disease, or injury by violence; hurt.
The greatest difficulty lies in treating patients with chronic pain.
I had to stop running when I started getting pains in my feet.
2. n. The condition or fact of suffering or anguish especially mental, as opposed to pleasure; torment; distress
In the final analysis, pain is a fact of life.
The pain of departure was difficult to bear.
3. n. (from pain in the neck) An annoying person or thing.
Your mother is a right pain.
4. n. (obsolete) Suffering inflicted as punishment or penalty.
You may not leave this room on pain of death.
5. n. Labour; effort; pains.
6. v. To hurt; to put to bodily uneasiness or anguish; to afflict with uneasy sensations of any degree of intensity; to torment; to torture.
The wound pained him.
7. v. To render uneasy in mind; to disquiet; to distress; to grieve.
It pains me to say that I must let you go.
8. v. (transitive, obsolete) To inflict suffering upon as a penalty; to punish.
9. n. (obsolete, cooking) Any of various breads stuffed with a filling.
gammon pain; Spanish pain
français > anglais
douleur
1. n-f. pain
2. n-f. distress