LIKING

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liking I. substantiv

1. gust, înclinare, pornire; simpatie; plăcere; preferinţă;

is it to your liking? îţi place? e pe gustul tău?;

this is not to my liking nu-mi place, nu-i pe gustul meu;

to have a liking for / to smth. a-i plăcea ceva, a avea o înclinare pentru ceva;

to have a liking for / to smb. a) a avea simpatie pentru cineva, a se simţi atras către cineva; b) a iubi pe cineva;

his liking for study înclinaţia sa pentru studiu;

his liking for me simpatia sa pentru mine;

to have a liking for poetry a-i plăcea poezia;

(rar) on liking de încercare, de / ca probă;

to take a liking for / to smth. a prinde gust de ceva, a începe să-i placă ceva;

to take a liking for / to smb. a simţi prietenie pentru cineva; a îndrăgi pe cineva.

2. (înv.) înfăţişare, aspect exterior.

3. (înv.) trupeşie, corpolenţă.

liking II. adjectiv (înv.)

1. trupeş.

2. plăcut, atrăgător.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

That is perfectly natural, and quite harmless, if the liking does not become a passion and lead one to do foolish or unmaidenly things.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I think—shall I be quite plain, Agnes, liking him so much?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was a very good man, sir; I could not help liking him.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Could they be much together, I feel sure of their liking each other.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

If I had not persuaded Harriet into liking the man, I could have borne any thing.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But he had taken a liking to the other, and he added: "I might do the plain washing. I learned that much at sea."

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

You are convinced that I never meant to deceive your brother, never suspected him of liking me till this moment?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Anne, amused in spite of herself, was rather distressed for an answer, and the Admiral, fearing he might not have been civil enough, took up the subject again, to say—The next time you write to your good father, Miss Elliot, pray give him my compliments and Mrs Croft's, and say that we are settled here quite to our liking, and have no fault at all to find with the place.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

That good lady, however, saw only that Marianne had received a letter from Willoughby, which appeared to her a very good joke, and which she treated accordingly, by hoping, with a laugh, that she would find it to her liking.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Her daughter endeavoured to convince her of what she did not believe herself, that his attentions to Jane had been merely the effect of a common and transient liking, which ceased when he saw her no more; but though the probability of the statement was admitted at the time, she had the same story to repeat every day.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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