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Traducere în limba română

entertain verb A. tranzitiv

1. a trata, a primi, a ospăta (musafiri), a omeni.

2. a întreţine, a conversa / a sta de vorbă cu, a distra, a amuza; a face să petreacă;

were you very much entertained? ai petrecut bine?

3. (fig.) a nutri;

to entertain hopes a nutri speranţe;

to entertain a feeling against smb. a nutri un resentiment împotriva cuiva, a prinde sau a păstra cuiva pică.

4. (înv.) a întreţine, a menţine (corespondenţă).

5. a primi bine / favorabil, a saluta;

to entertain a proposal a primi bine o propunere.

entertain verb B. reflexiv

(with) a se ocupa, a se distra (cu).

entertain verb C. intranzitiv

a primi vizite / oaspeţi;

we don't entertain nu ţinem casă deschisă, nu facem primiri / recepţii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I must confess to having entertained my suspicions of Miss Spenlow, in reference to David Copperfield, for some time.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I never was so long in company with a girl in my life, trying to entertain her, and succeed so ill!

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Emma continued to entertain no doubt of her being in love.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Never, since reading Jane's second letter, had she entertained a hope of Wickham's meaning to marry her.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

The natural love of life gave me some inward motion of joy, and I was ready to entertain a hope that this adventure might, some way or other, help to deliver me from the desolate place and condition I was in.

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

But as for General Tilney, I assure you it would be impossible for anybody to behave to me with greater civility and attention; it seemed to be his only care to entertain and make me happy.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I think my friend Julia knows better than to entertain her father with Mr. Yates.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Emma will be happy to entertain you.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And till Colonel Forster came himself, not one of you entertained a doubt, I suppose, of their being really married?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I felt embarrassed by these compliments; but I was sensible, too, of being entertained as an honoured guest, and I thought Mrs. Heep an agreeable woman.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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