HUMOUR

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humour I. s.

1. umor; glumă;

sense of humour simţ al umorului / ridicolului;

arch / sly humour glumă răutăcioasă;

broad humour umor grosolan;

dry humour umor sec;

grim humour umor macabru;

to do smth. for the humour of it a face ceva în glumă / de haz / de banc.

2. caracter, fire; dispoziţie, toană;

every man in his humour fiecare cu toanele sau dispoziţia lui;

in the humour for dispus să / pentru;

in bad / ill prost dispus;

in good humour bine dispus;

out of humour prost dispus, abătut, posac, ursuz;

to put smb. in / into bad humour a indispune pe cineva;

to put smb. in / into good humour a dispune pe cineva;

to put smb. out of humour a indispune pe cineva, a strica cheful cuiva;

when the humour taken me to go out când îmi vine cheful să ies.

3. (anat.) umoare;

the cardinal humours cele patru umori principale;

aqueous humour umoare apoasă.

humour II. verb tranzitiv

a fi îngăduitor cu, a lăsa în voia (cuiva), a intra în voia (cuiva); a face pe placul (cuiva), a cocoli; a răsfăţa;

to humour a horse a lăsa calul în voia lui;

a man who must be humoured un om căruia trebuie să-i cânţi în strună.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Elinor would not humour her by farther opposition.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I will keep my ill-humour to myself.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I thought it well to humour him: so he is back in his room with the window open.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It was all good-humour and encouragement.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

How can Mr. Bingley, who seems good humour itself, and is, I really believe, truly amiable, be in friendship with such a man?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

If Mr. Murdstone were in his best humour, I checked him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"How is Mary looking?" said Sir Walter, in the height of his good humour.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Still, I must ask you to humour me a little further.

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

I dare say she will not be in good humour again this month; but I am determined I will not be cross; it is not a little matter that puts me out of temper.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

"He is always out of humour."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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