resort

station touristique, complexe hôtelier

Lieu de séjour pour les vacances, avec hébergement, activités et équipements pour se détendre.

En anglais simple : A place where people stay on holiday, with rooms, activities, and things to help them relax.

• We stayed at a beach resort.
• The resort has three swimming pools.
• Which ski resorts are open in April?

Synonymes : holiday centre

Expressions courantes : beach resort, ski resort, luxury resort, seaside resort

recours, refuge

Personne ou moyen auquel on fait appel pour obtenir aide, protection ou solution lorsque les autres possibilités échouent.

En anglais simple : Someone or something you turn to for help, protection, or a solution when other choices fail.

• Surgery is a last resort.
• His savings were his only resort in an emergency.
• They solved the dispute without resort to violence.

Comment l'utiliser : as a last resort (Call the emergency number only as a last resort.); have resort to something (They had resort to the courts when negotiations failed.)

Synonymes : recourse, refuge

Expressions courantes : last resort, resort to violence, final resort

recourir, se résoudre

Employer un moyen désagréable faute de trouver une meilleure solution.

En anglais simple : To use an unpleasant action or method because you cannot find a better choice.

• Don't resort to threats.
• We resorted to borrowing money from friends.
• Why did they resort to force?

Comment l'utiliser : resort to something (They refused to resort to violence.); resort to doing something (We resorted to sleeping on the floor.)

Synonymes : fall back on, turn to

Expressions courantes : resort to violence, resort to force, resort to something

retrier, trier à nouveau

Répartir de nouveau des choses en groupes ou les remettre dans un certain ordre.

En anglais simple : To arrange things into groups or order again.

• Please resort these cards.
• She resorted the names alphabetically.
• We need to resort the folders by year.

Comment l'utiliser : resort something by something (Please resort the files by date.)

Synonymes : reorder, sort again

Expressions courantes : resort the files, resort a list, resort by date