BOAST

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Traducere în limba română

boast¹ I. substantiv

1. fală, fudulie, laudă de sine; fanfaronadă;

to make (a) boast of a se lăuda cu, a se făli cu;

he made it his boast to se fălea că, se lăuda că;

it is all an empty boast totul nu este decât fanfaronadă;

(prov.) great boast, small roast vorbă multă, sărăcia omului.

2. mândrie, fală;

he was the boast of his age a fost mândria / fala epocii sale.

boast¹ II. verb A. intranzitiv

(about, of) a se făli, a se lăuda, a se fuduli (cu), a se mândri (cu);

he boasts about it se făleşte, se fuduleşte cu asta;

there is not much to boast of nu e mare ispravă / scofală, nu e lucru mare.

boast¹ II. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a Iăuda, a ridica în slăvi.

2. a se făli cu, a se mândri cu, a avea;

we can rightly boast our sea side ne putem pe drept cuvânt mândri cu litoralul nostru.

boast² verb tranzitiv

a ciopli (piatră).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I wanted you: but don't boast.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I do not like to boast of my own child, but to be sure, Jane—one does not often see anybody better looking.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It was in vain that the poor maiden said that it was only a silly boast of her father, for that she could do no such thing as spin straw into gold: the chamber door was locked, and she was left alone.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

He did not boast, but it naturally betrayed itself, that he had persuaded his aunt where his uncle could do nothing, and on her laughing and noticing it, he owned that he believed (excepting one or two points) he could with time persuade her to any thing.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He had intended, about this time, to be going to London; but he could not leave his father and mother just when everybody else of most importance to their comfort was leaving them; and with an effort, felt but not boasted of, he delayed for a week or two longer a journey which he was looking forward to with the hope of its fixing his happiness for ever.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

It gave her all the animation that her spirits could boast; for she was in no cheerful humour.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She could not but think, indeed, that Mr. Crawford might as well have saved him the trouble; that it would have been particularly proper and becoming in a brother to have done it himself; but Mr. Crawford, with all his boasted good-nature, and all his coachmanship, probably knew nothing of the matter, and had no active kindness in comparison of Edmund.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Frank turned instantly to Emma, to claim her former promise; and boasted himself an engaged man, which his father looked his most perfect approbation of—and it then appeared that Mrs. Weston was wanting him to dance with Mrs. Elton himself, and that their business was to help to persuade him into it, which was done pretty soon.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I ask only a comfortable home; and considering Mr. Collins's character, connection, and situation in life, I am convinced that my chance of happiness with him is as fair as most people can boast on entering the marriage state.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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