FEAR

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Traducere în limba română

fear¹ I. substantiv

1. frică, teamă; groază, spaimă; nelinişte;

for / from fear, out of fear de teamă;

in fear of one’s life de teamă pentru viaţa sa;

bodily fear teamă pentru viaţa sa;

without fear or favour imparţial, nepărtinitor;

to put smb. in fear, to put fear on smb.’s heart a băga frica în cineva, a băga pe cineva în sperieţi, a teroriza pe cineva.

2. temere, teamă; posibilitate, probabilitate (a ceva nedorit);

(fam.) no fear of that nu e nici un pericol; n-aveţi nici o teamă.

3. respect adânc; evlavie.

fear¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a privi (ceva) cu teamă.

2. a se teme, a aştepta (ceva) cu frică;

it is to be feared este de temut, mă tem (de ceva neplăcut).

3. a venera.

4. (înv.) a teroriza, a speria; a înfricoşa, a înspăimânta.

fear¹ II. verb B. reflexiv

(înv.) I fear me mă tem, mi-e frică.

fear¹ II. verb C. intranzitiv

a se teme, a fi speriat; a fi îngrijorat;

(fam.) ’ ever (you) fear, don’t (you) fear fi fără grijă, linişteşte-te.

fear² substantiv

(înv.) tovarăş sau tovarăşă de viaţă, soţ, soţie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I could see at a glance that she was sick with fear, and the sight sent a chill to my own heart.

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

I fear I cannot help you much.

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

Ah, my God, it is as I feared!

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

But for very shame, and the fear that it might displease him, I could have held him round the neck and cried.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Likewise it was this pride that made him fear Buck as a possible lead-dog.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

So the grey cub knew fear, though he knew not the stuff of which fear was made.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Whatever was to be done I must do for myself; and out of the courage of fear I evolved the plan of fighting Thomas Mugridge with his own weapons.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

For myself, I felt a sort of paralysis of fear.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

My own rule is never to make a decision out of fear. You won’t hear me say, “I was too afraid to do this or that, so I stood still.”

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Evil, I fear, founded—evil was sure to come—of that connection.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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