It doesn't bode well en français : traduction et définition

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Traduction et définition

to bode ill (or to not bode well): être de mauvais augure idiom

It wouldn't bode well for you to come in late when the potential investors are coming to check out the offices. Il serait de mauvais augure pour vous d'arriver en retard le jour où les investisseurs potentiels viennent regarder les bureaux.

to bode well: être de bon augure idiom

Exemples

"Organization of space (for example, in your case, it may bode ill if your bottles of poison are kept on the same shelf as the herbal extracts)."

Exercice 1

Polly writes that "it may bode ill" if Horatio's bottles of poison are mixed with his herbal extracts.

What does she mean by this?

Miss Stake could get sick from exposure to the bottles of poison.

Having mixed-up bottles would leave a bad impression.

Miss Stake wouldn't be proud to see the bottles organized like this.

Horatio will be punished if Miss Stake were to see the bottles organized in this way.

Je ne sais pas

Polly writes that "it may bode ill" if Horatio's bottles of poison are mixed with his herbal extracts.

What does she mean by this?

Miss Stake could get sick from exposure to the bottles of poison.

Although the terms "ill" and "sick" can both refer to someone being unwell or having a disease in other contexts, that's not the meaning here. "To bode ill" is an idiom which refers to something suggesting bad outcomes in the future.

Having mixed-up bottles would leave a bad impression.

The idiom "it bodes ill" expresses that something is a bad idea or a bad omen. Polly is warning Horatio that it would leave a bad impression, and may even be bad luck, if Miss Stake were to discover Horatio's poisons and herbal extracts on the same shelf as the ingredients of his perfumes.

Miss Stake wouldn't be proud to see the bottles organized like this.

We can infer that Miss Stake "wouldn't be proud" to see the bottles organized like this, however, this is not the most accurate definition for the expression "to bode ill". A "proud" person is confident or self-satisfied.

Horatio will be punished if Miss Stake were to see the bottles organized in this way.

The expression "to bode ill" does not indicate that Horatio would be punished if Miss Stake discovered his poorly organized bottles.

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