to be used to /to get used to

Be used to
Be used to is used to show previous experience and familiarity with a certain situation. For example:- I am used to living abroad. - I have previous experience living abroad, so it's not difficult for me.- Jane isn't used to living abroad. - She doesn't have much experience living abroad, or if she does it is still difficult for her.- Paul is used to learning languages. - Paul has learnt languages before, so he's good at it.- Carol has never studied a foreign language, so she's not used to it. - Carol doesn't have previous experience learning a foreign language.
Get used to
Get used to is used for the process of acquiring experience and ability. In the beginning we are less experienced, then we get used to something - we go through a process of gaining experience. For example:- I wasn't used to living abroad, but I got used to it. - I didn't have expeirence living abroad, but I grew in experience until I was happy living abroad.- I didn't like banans, but I got used to them. - In the beginning I didn't like bananas, but after a while I learnt to like them.
To
In the structure be / get used to, to is a preposition, not part of the to-infinitive. For example:- I'm used to cooking for myself. OK- I'm used to cook for myself. Incorrect - "to cook" is a to-infinitive and can't be used here.
Used to - be/get used to
Used to is a completely different structure from be / get used to. Used to is for past habit, be used to means to get accustomed to something.
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Sommaire
1 ''Used to'', les habitudes et états révolus
1.1 Utilisation
1.2 Conjugaison2 ''Be used to'', les choses auxquelles on est habitué
2.1 Exemples avec un groupe nominal
2.2 Exemples avec un verbe
3 ''Get used to'' : s'habituer
3.1 Exemples avec un groupe nominal3.2 Exemples avec un verbe
4 Ne pas confondre avec ''to use'' !
5 Conclusion



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You had better get used to this sort of ...

Look at these sentences to understand the meaning of to be used to and to get used to.

Ishmael has sailed on a ship as a common sailor.
He is used to taking orders.
= it is normal for Ishmael to take orders.
Herman went on his first ocean journey. At first, it was strange for him not to see any land for days and days. Then he got used to not seeing land.
=et became normal for him not to see land.
Notice that we use the the -ing form of the verb after to be used to and to get used to.

Exercice
To be used and to get used to
Read this conversation between Ishmael and a veteran harpooner. Remember Ishmael has already worked as a sailor, but he has never worked on a whaling ship. fill in the gaps with the words in the saure and be or get used to

work not see be close work take orders

Harpooner : I hope that you get used to word very severe.
Ishmael : Oh, that's no problem . I am ysed ti taje irders
Harpooner : Whaling ships stay at sea much longer than other kinds of ships.
Ishmael : I have already sailled and I am certain that I get used to not to see land for long periods.
Harpooner : I still find it very frightening being close to whales!
Ishmael : Well, perhaps , I get used to be close to them either.

Harpooner : Another thing, on a whaling ship every body has to work together.

Ismhael : I am used to work with others.

 

Published: January 19, 2013

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Barack and Michelle Obama have spent more than a thousand days on display before the nation’s eyes, but the personal changes they have undergone can be hard to detect.

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First-Term Promises Made, Kept and Broken

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The first lady, Michelle Obama, greeted her husband after introducing him at a campaign event in Iowa last year. Those who know the Obamas say they can see a number of small shifts in the president and the first lady since they walked the inaugural parade route four years ago.

Up close, though, those who know the Obamas say they can see an accumulation of small shifts in the president and the first lady since they walked the inaugural parade route four years ago. The man who wanted to change the nature of Washington now warns job candidates that it is hard to get anything done there. Not so long ago, he told others that he did not need a presidential library, a tribute to himself costing hundreds of millions of dollars. Now a former aide, Susan Sher, is quietly eyeing possibilities for him in Chicago.

The first lady who wanted to forge connections with her new city found that even viewing the cherry blossoms required a hat, sunglasses and wheedling the Secret Service. In a demonstration of how difficult it can be for any president or first lady to sustain relationships, Mrs. Obama stopped taking on girls in a mentorship program she founded because of concerns that other teenagers would envy the lucky advisees, according to an aide.

When the president returned from consoling families of teachers and children killed in the Newtown, Conn., massacre — he wept as they handed him photos and told him stories of victim after victim — aides could see in his face the toll of absorbing the nation’s traumas. “This is what I do,” Mr. Obama told them.

“This position has perhaps cost him more on a personal, and even energic, level than most of his predecessors, because he was most entirely an outsider,” observed the playwright Tony Kushner, a supporter who recently dined with Mr. Obama to discuss the film “Lincoln,” for which Mr. Kushner wrote the screenplay.

The Obamas have gained and lost in their four years in the White House, becoming seasoned professionals instead of newcomers, more conventional, with a contracted sense of possibility. They are steady characters, not given to serial self-reinvention. Yet in interviews, current and former White House and campaign aides, donors and friends from Chicago said they could see how the president and the first lady had been affected by their roles.

Describing them, they used phrases like: more confident but more scarred. More isolated. Less hesitant about directing staff members, whether butlers or highest-level advisers. Gratified by re-election, which the Obamas view as sweet vindication, and bloodier-minded when it comes to beating Republicans. And Mr. Obama has learned that his presidency will be shaped by unanticipated events — “locusts,” one former aide called them, for the way they swarm without warning.

Mr. Obama never wanted to be an ordinary politician — there was a time when Mrs. Obama could barely use that noun to describe her husband — and his advisers resist the idea that he has succumbed to standard Washington practice. Some donors and aides give an “if only” laugh at the idea that the couple now follows political ritual more closely: this is a president who still has not had Bill and Hillary Rodham Clinton to dinner but holds lunches to discuss moral philosophy with the fellow Nobel laureate Elie Wiesel.

“He thinks about destiny in human terms,” Mr. Wiesel said in an interview.

Still, others say the Obamas have become more relaxed schmoozers, more at ease with the porous line between the political and social, more willing to reveal themselves. They have recently begun inviting more outsiders into their private living quarters, including Mr. Kushner, Steven Spielberg and Daniel Day-Lewis at the “Lincoln” dinner. At a dinner in late November to thank top campaign fund-raisers, the first couple was like a bride and groom, bantering and traveling from table to table to accept congratulations and good wishes for the years ahead, making sly jokes that guests would not repeat for publication.

Even Mr. Obama’s speech has changed a bit, close observers say. Though he still disdains Washington, he often sounds less like a disapproving outsider and more like a participant. One former aide was startled to hear Mr. Obama use “impact” as a verb, a particular tendency in the capital. Another longtime adviser said he was struck during the 2011 debt ceiling negotiations when Mr. Obama grew offended that House Speaker John A. Boehner did not return his multiple phone calls. The old Barack Obama would have thought the who-calls-whom protocol was stupid, the adviser said, but “the world that he inhabits now is the world of inside-the-Beltway maneuvering.”

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Change Comes: After 4 Years, Friends See Shifts in the Obamas

Published: January 19, 2013

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In video footage of Mr. Obama as president, the contrasts can be subtle but amusing. At his first Thanksgiving turkey pardoning ceremony in 2009, the president played along, but then paused to distance himself from what he was doing and hint that he found the tradition ridiculous. “There are certain days that remind me of why I ran for this office,” he said. “And then there are moments like this — where I pardon a turkey and send it to Disneyland.” Cut to the same ceremony, three years later, and cue Mr. Obama promoting a contest over which bird to pardon and giggling just a little. “You can’t maintain your day-to-day cynicism about that stuff,” said Arun Chaudhary, the former White House videographer, because many Americans cherish White House rituals.

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What Mr. Obama wants to achieve this term is pretty clear: a fiscal deal and overhauls of gun and immigration laws, steps to address climate change and less restrictive voter identification laws. But what Mrs. Obama wants is more of a mystery. In almost every appearance, she sounds warm, unpretentious notes; on Friday, she continued her Twitter banter with Ellen DeGeneres over who could do more push-ups.

That informal tone can mask how disciplined she is. Though many surrounding the Obamas say she has changed far more than her husband, mastering a role she initially found uncomfortable, she still treats the job of first lady like a dangerous country through which she must navigate safe passage. The woman who never wanted to live in the bubble now uses it to protect herself, according to friends and former aides, preparing her public activities in 6- and 12-month strategic plans, rarely saying anything unscripted. First ladies are often figures of comfort, but she did not address the Newtown tragedy, beyond two brief letters she published, even though some of her fans were clamoring for the self-described “mom in chief” to do more.

In recent weeks, Mrs. Obama and her advisers have been discussing whether to expand her work beyond childhood obesity and military families and how to capitalize on her popularity. On Friday, she threw herself into her husband’s new effort to organize supporters, introducing the group, Organizing for Action, in an announcement video. (The effort did not seem to garner as much attention as her new hairstyle, which set off headlines like “Michelle Obama’s Bangs Are a Total Shock to the System.”)

Mrs. Obama cannot wait too long to set out on a new course: the Obamas will soon have more time behind them in the White House than in front of them. The rituals they introduced are now matters of tradition instead of innovation. At their White House Seder, the small group of mostly African-American and Jewish attendees reads the Emancipation Proclamation right before welcoming Elijah, just as the year before. The president played basketball on Election Day 2012, as he did on most of the voting days in 2008. But this time it felt different: the men older, the action slower, a reunion game with everyone talking about the old days, said John Rogers Jr., a longtime friend who joined in.

Mr. Obama’s entire career has been about getting to the next stage: if he could only become a lawyer, and then a public official, and then a United States senator, and then president, he could create real change. But soon there will be no higher job to reach for, and aides say there is an all-business quality to the Obamas now, a contrast with the sense of possibility that hung over the first inauguration. Early in the presidency, Mr. Obama would sometimes spend hours polishing ceremonial speeches, like one for Abraham Lincoln’s bicentennial; now, the president has a more finely honed sense of how to use his precious time, said Adam Frankel, a former speechwriter. When Mr. Obama walked off the stage on election night, he did not pause to exult; instead, he wanted to talk about the impact of outside spending in that night’s Congressional races, said Patrick Gaspard, the director of the Democratic National Committee.

But Mr. Obama also knows now that he is not fully in control of his fate, that the presidency will continue to bring tasks that no one could ever anticipate. Mr. and Mrs. Obama were supposed to spend the evening of Dec. 16 enjoying their daughter Sasha’s “Nutcracker” recital. Instead, the president was making condolence calls in cordoned-off rooms at Newtown High School.

“Words don’t exist” to describe the grief on his face as he approached the families, said Sarah D’Avino, whose sister Rachel died protecting her students. The president asked each family to describe the relative who died, paying special attention to the victims’ mothers. Mourning parents handed him pictures to carry back to the White House, and he told them that the children were beautiful, that the teachers were national heroes.

Moments later, he was smiling, on cue. One of his photographers was on hand, as always, and despite everything, the bereaved wanted pictures with the president.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

      

GMT ==>Greenwich Mean Time==>L'heure moyenne de Greenwich

GMT


Greenwich Mean Time


L'heure moyenne de Greenwich

mean ===> verbe ===> signifier

mean

[mi:n]( pt & pp meant [ment])
transitive verb

1.

[signify - subj: word, gesture] vouloir dire, signifier [ - subj: person] vouloir dire what do you mean? qu'est-ce que tu veux dire? what do you mean by "wrong"? qu'entendez-vous par "faux"? what do you mean you don't like the cinema? comment ça, vous n'aimez pas le cinéma? do you mean or you mean it's over already? tu veux dire que c'est déjà fini? how do you mean? qu'entendez-vous par là? does the name Heathcliff mean anything to you? est-ce que le nom de Heathcliff vous dit quelque chose? that was when the word "friendship" still meant something c'était à l'époque où le mot "amitié" avait encore un sens that doesn't mean a thing! ça ne veut (strictement) rien dire! [requesting or giving clarification] do you mean it? tu es sérieux? she always says what she means elle dit toujours ce qu'elle pense I mean [that's to say] je veux dire why diet? I mean, you're not exactly fat pourquoi te mettre au régime? on ne peut pas dire que tu sois grosse I mean to say... ce que je veux dire c'est...

2.	[imply, entail - subj: event, change] signifier going to see a film means driving into town pour voir un film, nous sommes obligés de prendre la voiture et d'aller en ville she's never known what it means to be loved elle n'a jamais su ce que c'est que d'être aimée

3.

[matter, be of value] compter this watch means a lot to me je suis très attaché à cette montre your friendship means a lot to her votre amitié compte beaucoup pour elle you mean everything to me tu es tout pour moi he means nothing to me il n'est rien pour moi I can't tell you what this means to me je ne peux pas te dire ce que ça représente pour moi $20 means a lot to me 20 dollars, c'est une grosse somme or c'est beaucoup d'argent pour moi

4.	[refer to] do you mean us? tu veux dire nous? it was you she meant when she said that c'était à vous qu'elle pensait or qu'elle faisait allusion quand elle a dit ça

5.

[intend] avoir l'intention de, vouloir, compter we mean to win nous avons (bien) l'intention de gagner, nous comptons (bien) gagner I only meant to help je voulais seulement me rendre utile I mean to see him now — and I mean now! j'ai l'intention de le voir tout de suite, et quand je dis tout de suite, c'est tout de suite! I didn't mean it! a. [action] je ne l'ai pas fait exprès! b. [words] je n'étais pas sérieux! without meaning to involontairement I meant it as a joke c'était une plaisanterie that remark was meant for you cette remarque s'adressait à vous the present was meant for your brother le cadeau était destiné à ton frère they're meant for each other ils sont faits l'un pour l'autre it's meant to be a horse c'est censé représenter un cheval perhaps I was meant to be a doctor peut-être que j'étais fait pour être médecin it was meant to be c'était écrit he means well il a de bonnes intentions

6.	[consider, believe] it's meant to be good for arthritis il paraît que c'est bon pour l'arthrite this painting is meant to be by Rembrandt ce tableau est censé être un Rembrandt

7.	[suppose] that box isn't meant to be in here cette boîte n'est pas censée être ici

Hypertexte

 

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mean ===> nom ===> milieu, moyenne

mean

[mi:n]
noun

1.	[middle point] milieu m, moyen terme m the golden or happy mean le juste milieu

2.	mathematics moyenne f

mean==> adj ===> avare radin, terible, super,méchant

mean

[mi:n]
adjective

1.	[miserly] avare, radin, pingre they're very mean about pay rises ils accordent les augmentations de salaire au compte-gouttes

2.

[nasty, unkind] méchant, vache don't be mean to your sister! ne sois pas méchant avec ta sœur! to play a mean trick on somebody jouer un sale tour à quelqu'un I feel mean about not inviting her j'ai un peu honte de ne pas l'avoir invitée he gets mean after a few drinks (US & informal) il devient mauvais or méchant après quelques verres mean weather (US & informal) sale temps

3.	[inferior] the meanest intelligence l'esprit le plus borné he's no mean architect/guitarist c'est un architecte/guitariste de talent it was no mean feat ce n'était pas un mince exploit

4.	[average] moyen mean deviation écart m moyen

5.	(very informal) [excellent] terrible, super she plays a mean guitar comme guitariste, elle est super he makes a mean chocolate cake pas mal, son gâteau au chocolat

6.	[shabby] miteux, misérable mean slums taudis misérables

7.	(literary) [of lower rank or class] of mean birth de basse extraction

Darn me ===> لعنت به من

Darn me = Damn me

 

 

Définitions de damner

• En parlant de Dieu, condamner quelqu'un aux peines éternelles.

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Définitions de se damner

• Attirer sur soi le châtiment de la damnation.