A field in which the choice of word is already part of the care.
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From these 23 words, as many per round as you like — up to all of them: first what is due today, then new ones. First you choose, then you fill the gap, then you write it yourself. Mistakes come back again shortly.
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The twentieth entry is le suivi après la cure, and the word at the end of it is the one an English reader translates too quickly. Une cure is not a cure. It is a course: a stretch of treatment with a beginning, an end and very often a place. Faire une cure in a spa town is to take the waters for a set number of weeks; une cure de désintoxication is a stay on a unit; une cure d’amaigrissement is a slimming diet. None of these says that anything has been healed, only that something was undergone. What English means by « a cure » is la guérison, the outcome, or le remède, the thing that brings it about, and the verb is guérir. That is why this entry makes sense at all. Le suivi après la cure is the aftercare that follows the stay, and it lasts longer than the stay did. The English word reaches for the end of the story, and la cure names only one chapter of it.
le trouble de l’usage de substancessubstance use disorderNoun (m)C2
Le trouble de l’usage de substances se décrit par des critères précis.A substance use disorder is defined against a list of exact criteria.
l’écart isoléa one-off lapseNoun (m)C2
Un écart isolé ne met pas fin au traitement.A one-off lapse does not bring the treatment to an end.
le traitement de substitutionsubstitution treatmentNoun (m)C2
Le traitement de substitution remplace le produit par un médicament.In substitution treatment a prescribed medicine takes the place of the street drug.
l’échange de seringuesneedle exchangeNoun (m)C2
L’échange de seringues fait baisser les infections.Needle exchange brings infection rates down.
