take to heart

prendre à cœur

Accorder de l’importance à des conseils ou remarques et les laisser influencer ses sentiments ou ses actes.

En anglais simple : To treat advice or comments as important and let them affect your feelings or actions.

• I took your advice to heart.
• Don't take every rude comment to heart.
• Has he taken the warning to heart?

Comment l'utiliser : take something to heart (She took her teacher's advice to heart and practised every day.)

Synonymes : take seriously, heed, internalize

Contraires : disregard

Expressions courantes : take something to heart, really take to heart

prendre à cœur

Être très touché par quelque chose et en éprouver beaucoup de peine.

En anglais simple : If you are deeply affected by something, you feel very upset about it.

• He took the criticism to heart.
• Try not to take their jokes to heart.
• She took her failure to heart and cried all evening.

Comment l'utiliser : take something to heart (She took his harsh comments to heart.)

Synonymes : be hurt by, be upset by

Expressions courantes : take criticism to heart, take something to heart