FORLORN

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Traducere în limba română

forlorn adjectiv

1. singuratic, stingher, solitar; părăsit, abandonat.

2. (lit.) disperat, pierdut.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He tried not to be selfish, but he has felt rather forlorn, I fancy.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Gummidge had never made any other remark than a forlorn sigh, and had never raised her eyes since tea.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Ah! Colonel, I do not know what you and I shall do without the Miss Dashwoods;—was Mrs. Jennings's address to him when he first called on her, after their leaving her was settled—for they are quite resolved upon going home from the Palmers;—and how forlorn we shall be, when I come back!

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Before my Fritz came, I used to think how, when I'd made my fortune, and no one needed me at home, I'd hire a big house, and pick up some poor, forlorn little lads who hadn't any mothers, and take care of them, and make life jolly for them before it was too late.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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