self
( selves pl ) n the self le moi inv to be one's normal self again redevenir soi-même She was her normal self again. Elle était redevenue elle-même. one's true self, I wanted to discover my true self. Je voulais découvrir ma vraie personnalité.
inner self
n moi m
→ a quest to find your inner self and your own uniqueness
the search for the inner self la quête du moi
→ the search for the inner self through symbolism, interpretation of dreams, symbolic association and repressed sexuality
self-
prefix
(relating to oneself)
auto-, auto
(doing sth automatically)
auto-
a self-regulating mechanism un mécanisme auto-régulateur
self-absorbed
adj
[person] égocentrique
self-abuse
n
(=self-destructive behaviour) conduite f autodestructrice
(=self-harming) automutilation f
self-addressed envelope
n enveloppe f libellée à l'adresse de l'expéditeur
send a self-addressed envelope envoyez une enveloppe libellée à votre adresse
self-adhesive
adj autocollant (e)
self-appointed
adj
[expert, leader] autoproclamé (e)
self-assembly
adj
[furniture, shelves, table] en kit
self-assembly furniture des meubles en kit
a range of self-assembly bedroom furniture une gamme de meubles en kit pour la chambre à coucher
self-assertion
n affirmation f
her silence and lack of self-assertion son silence et son manque d'affirmation
a desire for national self-assertion un désir d'affirmation nationale
self-assertive
adj plein (e) d'assurance
self-assessment
n autoévaluation f
self-assurance
n assurance f
self-assured
adj
[person] qui a de l'assurance
[voice, tone] assuré (e)
He's very self-assured. Il a beaucoup d'assurance.
self-aware
adj
to be self-aware bien se connaître
Studying has increased my confidence and I am much more self-aware. Faire des études m'a donné plus de confiance et je me connais maintenant bien mieux.
self-awareness
n connaissance f de soi
→ It is assumed that you are interested in achieving greater self-awareness.
self-belief
n
(=self-confidence) foi f en soi
self-build
n autoconstruction f
→ the attractions of self-build
modif
[home, housing] autoconstruit (e) , construit (e) par soi-même
→ self-build housing
self-catering
adj
[accommodation] meublé (e)
[holiday] en hébergement meublé
a self-catering apartment un appartement de vacances
self-centred , (British) self-centered (US)
adj égocentrique
self-cleaning
adj
[oven, device] autonettoyant (e)
self-coloured , (British) self-colored (US)
adj uni (e)
self-composed
adj posé (e)
self-confessed
adj
[alcoholic, liar] impénitent (e)
[thief]
He is a self-confessed thief. Il reconnaît être voleur.
self-confidence
n assurance f , confiance f en soi
He hasn't got much self-confidence. Il manque d'assurance., Il manque de confiance en lui.
self-confident
adj sûr (sûre) de soi
a self-confident young woman une jeune femme sûre d'elle-même
→ She'd blossomed into a self-confident young woman.
self-congratulation
n autosatisfaction f
→ This is not a matter for self-congratulation.
self-congratulatory
adj
[person, behaviour] autosatisfait (e)
to be self-congratulatory afficher son autosatisfaction
Officials were self-congratulatory about how well the day had gone. Les officiels affichaient leur autosatisfaction quant au bon déroulement de la journée.
self-conscious
adj
(=shy)
[person, manner] emprunté (e)
to be self-conscious manquer d'assurance
He's always been rather self-conscious. Il a toujours manqué un peu d'assurance.
to feel self-conscious se sentir mal à l'aise
She was really self-conscious at first. Elle était vraiment mal à l'aise au début.
(=self-aware, deliberate)
[art, person, political movement] conscient (e) de son image, conscient (e)
self-consciously
adv
(=shyly) de façon empruntée
→ I glanced down at my dress jacket a little self-consciously ...
→ She was fiddling self-consciously with her wedding ring.
(=deliberately) sciemment
→ The world which the book inhabits seems too self-consciously literary, too introverted ...
→ The place is as self-consciously trendy as they come.
self-consciousness
n
(=shyness) gêne f
→ ... her painful self-consciousness.
(=self-awareness) conscience f de soi
self-contained
adj
(British)
[flat] indépendant (e)
a self-contained flat un appartement indépendant
self-contradictory
adj
[statement] contradictoire
→ He is notorious for making unexpected, often self-contradictory, comments.
[person] qui se contredit
→ You're being self-contradictory.
self-control
n maîtrise f de soi
self-controlled
adj maître (maîtresse) de soi
He had always been very self-controlled. Il avait toujours été très maître de lui.
→ My father, who had always been very self-controlled, became bad-tempered.
self-deception
n aveuglement m
→ Human beings have an infinite capacity for self-deception.
self-declared
adj
[leader, president] autodéclaré (e)
→ ... the self-declared interim president ...
[liar] impénitent (e)
→ He is a self-declared populist.
[racist] déclaré (e)
self-defeating
adj
[plan, behaviour] contre-productif (-ive)
→ His mother hopes the training program will help him break the self-defeating habits of being unemployed.
→ Physically attacking photographers is obviously self-defeating, turning a non-story into front page news.
self-defence , (British) self-defense (US)
n autodéfense f
→ ... the art of self-defence.
in self-defence, She killed him in self-defence. Elle l'a tué en légitime défense.
modif
[class, training] d'autodéfense
[expert, trainer] en autodéfense
self-denial
n abnégation f
→ Should motherhood necessarily mean sacrifice and self-denial?
→ ... an unprecedented act of self-denial.
self-denying
adj désintéressé (e)
→ They believed that good parents should be self-sacrificing and self-denying ...
→ They belong to an older, more self-denying generation.
self-deprecating
adj plein (e) d'autodérision
Sharon tells the story of that night with self-deprecating humour. Sharon raconte l'histoire de cette nuit-là avec un humour plein d'autodérision.
self-destruct
[person, party, country] s'autodétruire
→ They're going to be famous, but unless something happens, they're going to self-destruct ...
→ He won the election because the Democrats self-destructed in their primary.
[machine, device, tape] s'autodétruire
modif
[device, program] qui s'autodétruit
self-destructive
adj
[behaviour] autodestructeur (-trice)
→ He had a reckless, self-destructive streak.
self-determination
n
(=independence)
[+country] autodétermination f
self-discipline
n autodiscipline f
self-disciplined
adj
to be self-disciplined faire preuve d'autodiscipline
→ Most religions teach you to be truthful and self-disciplined.
self-doubt
n doute m de soi
self-drive
adj (British)
[holiday] avec location de voiture
→ ... the growth in popularity of self-drive camping holidays.
self-educated
adj autodidacte
→ ... a self-educated man from a working class background.
self-effacement
n effacement m
→ He was modest to the point of self-effacement.
self-effacing
adj effacé (e)
→ As women we tend to be self-effacing and make light of what we have achieved.
→ ... the slightly self-effacing manner adopted by many diplomats.
self-employed
adj
[person] indépendant (e)
a self-employed builder un maçon indépendant
to be self-employed travailler à son compte
He's self-employed. Il travaille à son compte.
npl
the self-employed les travailleurs mpl indépendants
self-esteem
n amour-propre m
self-explanatory
adj qui se passe d'explications, qui se passe d'explication
I hope the graphs on the following pages are self-explanatory. J'espère que les graphiques des pages suivantes se passent d'explications.
self-expression
n expression f de soi
→ The conflict between the urge for self-expression and the pressure to conform is a central one for her ...
→ Clothes are a fundamental form of self-expression.
self-fulfilling
adj
to become a self-fulfilling prophecy avoir un effet Pygmalion
Fear of failure can become a self-fulfilling prophecy. La peur de l'échec peut avoir un effet Pygmalion.
self-government
n autogouvernement m
self-harm
vi s'automutiler
→ as many as one in ten teenagers are estimated to self-harm
n automutilation f
→ In the past ten years there have been 30 suicides of juveniles and young adults, and hundreds of cases of self-harm in prison.
self-hatred
n haine f de soi
self-harming
n
(=self-mutilation) automutilation f
self-help group
n groupe m d'entraide
self-image
n image f de soi
children who have a positive self-image les enfants qui ont une image d'eux-mêmes positive
self-importance
n suffisance f
self-important
adj suffisant (e)
→ He was self-important, vain and ignorant.
→ ... self-important officials.
self-imposed
adj
[restriction, task, deadline] qu'on s'impose
→ Sometimes a well-defined job becomes cluttered with self-imposed tasks.
[exile] volontaire
→ He returned home in the summer of 1974 after eleven years of self-imposed exile ...
self-indulgence
n plaisir m que l'on se fait
Going to the movies in the afternoon is one of my big self-indulgences. Aller au cinéma l'après-midi est l'un des grands plaisirs que je me fais.
A bit of self-indulgence never did anyone any harm. Se faire plaisir de temps en temps n'a jamais fait de mal à personne.
self-indulgent
adj
(=spoiling oneself)
a self-indulgent person un (e) jouisseur (-euse) m/f
to be self-indulgent, To buy flowers for myself seems wildly self-indulgent. Acheter des fleurs pour moi me semble un plaisir bien extravagant.
[book, film] complaisant (e)
self-inflicted
adj volontaire
self-interest
n intérêt m personnel
self-interested
adj intéressé (e)
→ Narrowly self-interested behaviour is ultimately self-defeating.
self-knowledge
n connaissance f de soi
The more self-knowledge we have ... Plus nous avons de connaissance de nous-mêmes ...
→ The more self-knowledge we have, the more control we can exert over our feelings and behaviour.
self-loading
adj
[gun] semi-automatique
self-loathing
n dégoût m de soi
self-locking
adj à fermeture automatique
self-made
adj qui ne doit rien à personne
→ ... a self-made millionaire.
He is a self-made man. C'est un self-made-man.
self-opinionated
adj entêté (e)
self-parody
n autoparodie f
→ By the end of his life, Presley's vocals often descended close to self-parody.
self-pity
n apitoiement m sur soi-même
self-pitying
adj qui s'apitoie sur son sort
At the risk of sounding self-pitying, I'd say it has been harder on me than it has on Joanne. Au risque de sembler m'apitoyer sur mon sort, je dirais que cela a été plus dur pour moi que pour Joanne.
self-portrait
n autoportrait m
self-possessed
adj maître (maîtresse) de soi
self-possession
n
(=self-assurance) assurance f
→ She found her customary self-possession had deserted her.
self-preservation
n instinct m de conservation
self-proclaimed
adj
[leader, president, expert] autoproclamé (e)
→ ... a self-proclaimed expert ...
→ He is President of his own self-proclaimed republic.
(=self-confessed)
[liar, alcoholic] impénitent (e)
[racist] déclaré (e)
→ One of the prisoners is a self-proclaimed racist who opened fire on a crowd four years ago.
→ ... a self-proclaimed Anglophile.
self-promotion
n autopromotion f
→ what she calls a strategy of "shameless self-promotion"
self-propelled
adj autopropulsé (e)
self-protection
n réflexe m de défense
What I did was simple self-protection. Je n'ai eu qu'un simple réflexe de défense.
out of self-protection pour se protéger
→ He lied out of self-protection.
self-raising flour
n (British) farine f à gâteaux (avec levure incorporée)
self-referential
adj autoréférentiel (le)
self-regulation
n autoréglementation f
→ Competition between companies is too fierce for self-regulation to work.
self-regulatory , self-regulating
adj
[system] autorégulé (e)
→ For a self-regulatory system to work, the consent of all those involved is required.
self-reliance
n
(=independence) autonomie f
The Prime Minister called for more economic self-reliance. Le Premier ministre a appelé à plus d'autonomie sur le plan économique.
to learn self-reliance apprendre à ne dépendre de personne
→ People learned self-reliance.
self-reliant
adj
[person] autonome
→ He is very self-reliant for an 8-year-old.
→ an intelligent, self-reliant woman who speaks her mind
self-respect
n respect m de soi
self-respecting
adj qui se respecte
No self-respecting oil tycoon has fewer than two helicopters. Tout magnat du pétrole qui se respecte a au moins deux hélicoptères.
He died as any self-respecting gangster should - in a hail of bullets. Il est mort, comme tout gangster qui se respecte, dans une grêle de balles.
self-restraint
n retenue f
→ For years she has shown self-restraint in not having that third glass of wine.
→ He urged the two countries to exercise self-restraint and try to solve the issue peacefully.
self-righteous
adj
[person] satisfait (e) de soi
[tone] moralisateur (-trice)
[attitude] pharisaïque
self-righteousness
n pharisaïsme m
→ ... her smug self-righteousness.
self-rising flour
n (US) farine f à gâteaux (avec levure incorporée)
self-sacrifice
n abnégation f
self-sacrificing
adj altruiste
→ He was a generous self-sacrificing man.
self-same
adj même
→ This was the self-same woman I'd met on the train.
self-satisfaction
n
(=smugness) autosatisfaction f
→ He tried hard not to smile in smug self-satisfaction.
self-satisfied
adj
[person] autosatisfait (e)
[smile] d'autosatisfaction
self-sealing
adj
[envelope] autocollant (e)
self-service
adj
[restaurant, petrol station] libre-service inv
it's self-service c'est en libre-service
self-serving
adj
[motive] intéressé (e)
→ They suggest that my motives for proposing reform are self-serving and mercenary.
[person] cupide
corrupt, self-serving politicians des politiciens corrompus et cupides
self-starter
n
(=hard-working person) personne capable de travailler sans supervision et de prendre des initiatives personne capable de travailler sans supervision et de prendre des initiatives
self-study
modif
[course, module] d'auto-apprentissage
→ Individuals can enrol on self-study courses in the university's language institute.
self-styled
adj soi-disant inv
self-sufficiency
n autosuffisance f
self-sufficient
adj
[country, person] (in resources)
autosuffisant (e)
→ They grow enough food to be self-sufficient.
to be self-sufficient in sth être autosuffisant (e) en qch
(=self-reliant)
[person] autonome
→ She's always been very self-sufficient.
self-supporting
adj financièrement indépendant (e)
self-tanning
adj
[cream, lotion] autobronzant (e)
self-taught
adj autodidacte
→ a self-taught cook
→ He is a brilliant pianist, and completely self-taught.
self-test
n (COMPUTING) autotest m
self-timer
n (on camera)
retardateur m
self-will
n volonté f
She had a lot of self-will. Elle avait beaucoup de volonté.
self-willed
adj volontaire
He was very independent and self-willed. Il était très indépendant et volontaire.
self-worth , self worth
n amour-propre m
→ Try not to link your sense of self-worth to the opinions of others.