DREADING

Traducere în limba română

dreading substantiv

(ec., mar.) opţiunea de a încărca mărfuri generale.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I need not say that I had my own reasons for dreading his coming: but come he did at last.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Fear overcame me; I dared no advance, dreading a thousand nameless evils that made me tremble, although I was unable to define them.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

The journey in itself had no terrors for her; and she began it without either dreading its length or feeling its solitariness.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I was at Plymouth dreading to hear of him; he sent in letters, but the Grappler was under orders for Portsmouth.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I picture myself coming downstairs in the morning, and looking through a long ghastly gash of a staircase window at the school-bell hanging on the top of an out-house with a weathercock above it; and dreading the time when it shall ring J.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Elinor, dreading her being tired, led her towards home; and till they reached the door of the cottage, easily conjecturing what her curiosity must be though no question was suffered to speak it, talked of nothing but Willoughby, and their conversation together; and was carefully minute in every particular of speech and look, where minuteness could be safely indulged.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Fanny did not share her aunt's composure: she thought of the morrow a great deal, for if the three acts were rehearsed, Edmund and Miss Crawford would then be acting together for the first time; the third act would bring a scene between them which interested her most particularly, and which she was longing and dreading to see how they would perform.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth's spirits were so high on this occasion, that though she did not often speak unnecessarily to Mr. Collins, she could not help asking him whether he intended to accept Mr. Bingley's invitation, and if he did, whether he would think it proper to join in the evening's amusement; and she was rather surprised to find that he entertained no scruple whatever on that head, and was very far from dreading a rebuke either from the Archbishop, or Lady Catherine de Bourgh, by venturing to dance.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

All along I had been dreading the fulfilment of this promise,—I had been looking out daily for the Coming Man, whose information respecting my past life and conversation was to brand me as a bad child for ever: now there he was.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Lady Russell, convinced that Anne would not be allowed to be of any use, or any importance, in the choice of the house which they were going to secure, was very unwilling to have her hurried away so soon, and wanted to make it possible for her to stay behind till she might convey her to Bath herself after Christmas; but having engagements of her own which must take her from Kellynch for several weeks, she was unable to give the full invitation she wished, and Anne though dreading the possible heats of September in all the white glare of Bath, and grieving to forego all the influence so sweet and so sad of the autumnal months in the country, did not think that, everything considered, she wished to remain.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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