CURSE

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Traducere în limba română

curse I. substantiv

1. blestem, afurisire; ocară, sudalmă, suduitură, înjurătură;

not to care a curse a nu-i păsa de loc), a fi/ a rămâne indiferent/ nepăsător;

I wouldn’t give a curse for nu aş da (nici) doi bani pe;

not to be worth a curse a nu fi bun de nimic, a nu face (nici) doi bani sau două parale.

2. hulă, hulire, blasfemie.

3. (fig.) blestem, flagel, plagă, calamitate;

the curse of drink blestemul/ flagelul băuturii, plaga alcoolismului.

curse II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a blestema, a afurisi; a ocărî, a sudui, a înjura.

2. a huli.

3. (bis.) a afurisi, a anatemiza, a excomunica.

curse II. verb B. intranzitiv

a ocărî, a blestema; a sudui, a înjura.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There was a deal of cursing and groaning as the men at the bottom of the ladder crawled to their feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

She would save him from the curse of his early environment, and she would save him from himself in spite of himself.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Cursed, cursed be the fiend that brought misery on his grey hairs and doomed him to waste in wretchedness!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Who but that cursed brother John.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“A curse upon you!” she said, looking round at me, with a mingled expression of rage and grief.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Curse you? No, sir.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, curse it!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Belcher gave a hearty curse.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Do you know, Watson, said he, that it is one of the curses of a mind with a turn like mine that I must look at everything with reference to my own special subject.

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

“I’d give five hundred dollars, though,” he added, “just to be aboard the Macedonia for five minutes, listening to my brother curse.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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