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Dictionary translations for "prendre au sérieux"

prendre au sérieux verb

take seriously (prendre pour réel)

Contexts with "prendre au sérieux"

Elle était tentée de le prendre au mot, croyant à peine qu'il mettrait sa menace à exécution. She was tempted to call his bluff, hardly believing that he would carry out his threat.

Les remarques sarcastiques et de plaisanterie de Spenser sont souvent mal interprétées comme signes d'ambivalence et souvent prises trop au sérieux. Spenser's sarcastic and joking remarks are often misinterpreted as signs of ambivalence and often taken too seriously.

Je n'avais d'autre choix que de le prendre au mot. I had no other choice but to take him at his word.

Ne me prends pas au sérieux. Je ne fais que blaguer. Don't take me seriously. I'm only joking.

Tom ne prend pas ses études au sérieux. Tom is not serious about his studies.

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