epilogue

épilogue

Courte section finale d’un livre qui apporte des informations après le récit principal.

En anglais simple : A short final section of a book that adds information after the main story.

• The book has a short epilogue.
• An epilogue reveals what happens ten years later.
• Did you read the epilogue after the final chapter?

Synonymes : afterword

Contraires : prologue

Expressions courantes : short epilogue, novel’s epilogue, in the epilogue

épilogue

Court discours adressé au public à la fin d’une pièce de théâtre.

En anglais simple : A short speech to the audience at the end of a play.

• The actor delivered the epilogue.
• In the epilogue, she spoke directly to the audience.
• The play’s epilogue thanked everyone for watching.

Synonymes : closing speech

Contraires : prologue

Expressions courantes : deliver an epilogue, play’s epilogue, closing epilogue

interprète de l’épilogue

Artiste qui prononce le discours de clôture devant le public à la fin d’une pièce.

En anglais simple : The performer who speaks to the audience at the end of a play.

• The epilogue stepped onto the stage.
• They chose a young actor as the epilogue.
• After speaking, the epilogue bowed to the audience.

Synonymes : closing speaker

Expressions courantes : the play’s epilogue, act as epilogue

épilogue

Instructions finales d’une routine informatique qui préparent le retour au code qui l’a appelée.

En anglais simple : Instructions at the end of a computer routine that prepare it to return to the calling code.

• The epilogue restores the saved registers.
• The compiler added an epilogue before the return instruction.
• We checked the function’s epilogue for stack errors.

Contraires : prologue

Expressions courantes : function epilogue, routine epilogue, generate an epilogue

ajouter un épilogue

Terminer une œuvre par une courte section supplémentaire ou un discours de clôture.

En anglais simple : To finish a work with a short extra section or closing speech.

• The author chose to epilogue his story.
• She epilogued the play with a brief farewell.
• He will epilogue the book with a final reflection.

Comment l'utiliser : epilogue something with something (She epilogued the novel with a letter from its heroine.)

Expressions courantes : epilogue a novel, epilogue with something