DISCRETION

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Traducere în limba română

discretion substantiv

1. înţelepciune, judecată, discernământ; prudenţă; tact;

the years / age of discretion vârsta la care omul e considerat răspunzător din punct de vedere juridic (în Anglia, la 14 ani);

discretion in the better part of valour prudenţa este mai de preţ decât curajul; fuga-i ruşinoasă dar e sănătoasă.

2. discreţie; libertate (de acţiune), bun plac; apreciere;

at / on / upon discretion la discreţie, după dorinţă;

let him use his own discretion lasă-l să facă cum crede (de cuviinţă);

the instructions leave me a discretion instrucţiunile îmi lasă multă libertate de acţiune;

at the discretion of la discreţia (cuiva);

I leave it to your discretion las la aprecierea dv.;

to surrender at discretion a se preda fără condiţii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

But you and your friend are men of discretion, Mr. Holmes?

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

How the delicacy, the discretion of his favourite could have been so lain asleep!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

For the comfort of her children, had she consulted only her own wishes, she would have kept it; but the discretion of Elinor prevailed.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Daisy and Demi had now arrived at years of discretion, for in this fast age babies of three or four assert their rights, and get them, too, which is more than many of their elders do.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She generally thought he would come, because she generally thought he ought; but it was a case which she could not so shape into any positive act of duty or discretion, as inevitably to defy the suggestions of very opposite feelings.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Now, however, I see nothing in it but a very natural and consistent degree of discretion.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

If I were you, whatever I did should be done at my own discretion entirely.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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