LEST

Traducere în limba română

lest conjuncție

ca să nu, ca nu cumva, de teamă (să nu), de frică (să nu);

they set a strong guard, lest anyone should escape au pus o strajă puternică ca nu cumva să scape cineva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

There are others, too, which I shall tell you of, lest in our seeking we may need them.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I desired, as I have explained, to keep my visit to you a secret, lest my husband should think that I was intruding into his affairs.

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

This I delivered in a firm tone, like a person who was jealous lest his courage should be called in question.

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

Darcy only smiled; and the general pause which ensued made Elizabeth tremble lest her mother should be exposing herself again.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Dora made haste to kiss my aunt, and say, “Yes, you do! I'm only joking!”-lest my aunt should think she really meant it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Alleyne hastened on, lest he make more mischief, and his heart was heavy as lead within him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had handed me the key, and with a happy thought I took it with me lest he should lock himself in.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For me it was only a pleasure outing, but I could see, as we drew near the house, that Jim was troubling in his mind lest we should find that things were amiss.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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