BLINDNESS

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Traducere în limba română

blindness substantiv

1. orbire, luarea vederii.

2. (fig.) miopie; orbire; lipsă de discernământ; minte îngustă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It is a leading cause of blindness in the United States.

(Glaucoma, NIH: National Eye Institute)

It is characterized by progressive atrophy of the retina and choroid, leading to loss of vision and blindness.

(Gyrate Atrophy, NCI Thesaurus)

She could not flatter herself with any idea of blindness in his attachment to her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

National Institutes of Health scientists studying the progression of inherited and infectious eye diseases that can cause blindness have found that microglia, a type of nervous system cell suspected to cause retinal damage, surprisingly had no damaging role during prion disease in mice.

(Retinal prion disease study redefines role for brain cells, National Institutes of Health)

It leads to blindness.

(Ocular Cicatricial Pemphigoid, NCI Thesaurus)

He turned, however, at the sound of their hoofs, and it was clear that his blindness was a cheat like all the rest of him, for he ran swiftly through a field and so into a wood, where none could follow him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Rushworth must and would improve in good society; and if Maria could now speak so securely of her happiness with him, speaking certainly without the prejudice, the blindness of love, she ought to be believed.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

And now, when I tell thee of how his blindness came to be, thou wilt know, beyond question, that the daughter of Kinoos cannot mother the children of a coward such as thou art, Negore.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Perhaps she might have passed over more had his manners been flattering to Isabella's sister, but they were only those of a calmly kind brother and friend, without praise and without blindness; but hardly any degree of personal compliment could have made her regardless of that greatest fault of all in her eyes which he sometimes fell into, the want of respectful forbearance towards her father.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He saw how ill he had judged, in expecting to counteract what was wrong in Mrs. Norris by its reverse in himself; clearly saw that he had but increased the evil by teaching them to repress their spirits in his presence so as to make their real disposition unknown to him, and sending them for all their indulgences to a person who had been able to attach them only by the blindness of her affection, and the excess of her praise.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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