APPREHENSION

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Traducere în limba română

apprehension substantiv

1. (rar) prindere, apucare.

2. arestare.

3. pricepere, înţelegere, sesizare, agerime a minţii;

quick of apprehension ager la minte;

dull / slow of apprehension greu de cap.

4. idee, concepţie, părere, opinie;

to make an apprehension of a-şi forma o idee de(spre).

5. (adesea pl.) teamă, frică, aprehensiune; neîncredere;

to be under the apprehension of a tremura / a-i fi teamă pentru, a se nelinişti la gândul că (sau cu gen.);

to have no apprehension of a nu se teme de, a nu-i fi frică de.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The difficulty had not occurred to me; though I had had my apprehensions too, when I went in, of hearing the old tune.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I had a horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing's face I gathered that he felt some fear or apprehension as to what was to come.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But it was not till the evening of the dance at Netherfield that I had any apprehension of his feeling a serious attachment.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Did they ever show any apprehension of coming danger?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, replied George, you don't be under no kind of apprehension; WE'RE all square, we are.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

The man who could enter a drawing-room walking upon his hands, the man who had filed his teeth that he might whistle like a coachman, the man who always spoke his thoughts aloud and so kept his guests in a quiver of apprehension, these were the people who found it easy to come to the front in London society.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And, although it be hard for a man late in life to remove old habits, I am not altogether out of hopes, in some time, to suffer a neighbour Yahoo in my company, without the apprehensions I am yet under of his teeth or his claws.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Though always objecting to every marriage that was arranged, he never suffered beforehand from the apprehension of any; it seemed as if he could not think so ill of any two persons' understanding as to suppose they meant to marry till it were proved against them.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Such ease and such delights made her love the place and the people more and more every day; and had it not been for a dread of its soon becoming expedient to leave the one, and an apprehension of not being equally beloved by the other, she would at each moment of each day have been perfectly happy; but she was now in the fourth week of her visit; before the general came home, the fourth week would be turned, and perhaps it might seem an intrusion if she stayed much longer.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She could only perceive that it must relate to Wimpole Street and Mr. Crawford, and only conjecture that something very imprudent had just occurred in that quarter to draw the notice of the world, and to excite her jealousy, in Miss Crawford's apprehension, if she heard it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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