CONSEQUENCE

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Traducere în limba română

consequence substantiv

1. urmare, rezultat, consecinţă, efect;

in consequence of ca urmare a (cu gen.), ca rezultat al (cu gen.), drept consecinţă a (cu gen.);

to take the consequences of a suferi consecinţele (cu gen.).

2. concluzie, urmare; încheiere.

3. însemnătate, importanţă;

of no consequence fără importanţă;

person of consequence persoană importantă / influentă;

to set up for a man of consequence, to give oneself an air of consequence a-şi da aere / importanţă, a face pe importantul.

4. plural joc de societate care constă din răspunsuri scrise de fiecare participant la câte o întrebare, rezultatul final fiind un text absurd.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

My father and mother's having no notice of it is of very little consequence.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He had left the country in consequence.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

You will find his consequence very just and reasonable when you see him in his family, I assure you.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Omer coughed again, in consequence of laughing, and was assisted out of his fit by his daughter, who now stood close beside us, dancing her smallest child on the counter.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I met with one accident which, as it brought on no consequence, I shall no more than mention.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

He dreads the consequence—the burden of a soul.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

‘Well, it is of no great consequence, at any rate.’

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is of no consequence to us which is the correct solution.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yes; but the time is of no consequence: what followed is the strange point.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I answered that he must take the consequence of his own deed.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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