CONTRARY

Traducere în limba română

contrary I. adjectiv

1. (to) contrar, opus (cu dat.).

2. (despre vânturi etc.) potrivnic, nefavorabil.

3. şi (fam.) rău, îndărătnic, încăpăţânat; certăreţ, gâlcevitor;

contrary disposition fire îndărătnică.

contrary II. substantiv

contrariu, opus, invers;

on the contrary din contra, dimpotrivă;

it is quite the contrary e tocmai invers, pe dos, nicidecum, dimpotrivă;

to the contrary altfel, invers, în sens contrar;

unless I hear to the contrary până la proba contrară;

there is no evidence to the contrary nu există nici o dovadă împotrivă; nimic nu dovedeşte contrariul;

to interpret by contraries a interpreta, a înţelege pe dos;

for all / aught I know to the contrary după câte ştiu.

contrary III. prepoziție

contrary to împotrivă, în opoziţie cu, contrar;

to set contrary to nature a face (ceva) împotriva naturii, a proceda în chip nefiresc.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“I feel it more than anybody else,” said Mrs. Gummidge; “I'm a lone lorn creetur', and she used to be a'most the only thing that didn't go contrary with me.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I do see a certain justice; but it is contrary to all custom.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

On the contrary, they devoured their own meat hurriedly, for fear that he would take it away from them.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything.

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

“On the contrary,” I answered, “it was only last night that I was looking over my old notes, and classifying some of our past results.”

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

On the contrary, she was as much disposed to complain of it as her husband.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

On the contrary, hack-work is above you, so far above you that you can never hope to rise to it.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Elinor derived no comfortable feelings from this conversation, to lessen the uneasiness of her mind on other points; she was left, on the contrary, with a melancholy impression of Colonel Brandon's unhappiness, and was prevented even from wishing it removed, by her anxiety for the very event that must confirm it.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

For, I remember very well, in a discourse one day with the king, when I happened to say, there were several thousand books among us written upon the art of government, it gave him (directly contrary to my intention) a very mean opinion of our understandings.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He had not seen Louisa; and was so extremely fearful of any ill consequence to her from an interview, that he did not press for it at all; and, on the contrary, seemed to have a plan of going away for a week or ten days, till her head was stronger.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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