CONSTITUTION

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Traducere în limba română

constitution substantiv

1. constituţie, lege fundamentală.

2. (mod de) organizare; compoziţie, alcătuire.

3. (fig.) constituţie, structură, organism; corp, fire, temperament, caracter;

by constitution prin constituţie, de la natură;

the constitution of one’s mind mentalitate, structura minţii;

strong constitution organism viguros;

(amer. sl.) how is the state of your constitution? cum te simţi?;

4. (înv.mai ales bis.) ordonanţă, hotărâre.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Oh! It was only whether people, who are like each other in their moral constitution—is that the phrase?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I thought half the time in such a place would have done up any constitution!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You will honour the King, and show respect for the Constitution, Mr. Stone.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It can be but for a fortnight, said Henry; and if a fortnight can kill her, she must have a constitution which nothing could save.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

To Isabella, the relief of such tidings was very great, and they were scarcely less acceptable to Emma on her father's account, who was immediately set as much at ease on the subject as his nervous constitution allowed; but the alarm that had been raised could not be appeased so as to admit of any comfort for him while he continued at Randalls.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Even his iron constitution, however, had broken down under the strain of an investigation which had extended over two months, during which period he had never worked less than fifteen hours a day, and had more than once, as he assured me, kept to his task for five days at a stretch.

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

“Oh yes,” said Traddles, “she is alive. She is a very superior woman indeed, but the damp country is not adapted to her constitution, and—in fact, she has lost the use of her limbs.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She was not a woman of strong understanding or any quickness; and with this resemblance of her father, she inherited also much of his constitution; was delicate in her own health, over-careful of that of her children, had many fears and many nerves, and was as fond of her own Mr. Wingfield in town as her father could be of Mr. Perry.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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