BROOK

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Traducere în limba română

brook¹ verb tranzitiv

(în propoziţii negative) a suferi, a răbda, a admite;

the matter brooks no delay chestiunea nu suferă nici o amânare;

I will brook no insolence nu tolerez impertinenţa.

brook² substantiv

pârâu, gârlă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

That morning we mapped out a small portion of the plateau, avoiding the swamp of the pterodactyls, and keeping to the east of our brook instead of to the west.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Old Mr. Rochester and Mr. Rowland combined to bring Mr. Edward into what he considered a painful position, for the sake of making his fortune: what the precise nature of that position was I never clearly knew, but his spirit could not brook what he had to suffer in it.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

No, to the brook.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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