MISCHIEF

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Traducere în limba română

mischief substantiv

1. greşeală; pagubă, rău, neajuns; bucluc; belea;

to do smb. a mischief a face cuiva un neajuns / un rău;

to mean mischief a căuta să facă rău, a plănui ceva rău, a avea scopuri / intenţii rele / răuvoitoare;

to make mischief a semăna zâzanie într-o căsnicie / în sânul unei familii; a semăna discordie;

to make mischief between two people a crea discordie între două persoane, a aţâţa pe unul împotriva celuilalt;

the mischief of it is that nenorocirea este că; răul stă în aceea că;

(fam.) where the mischief have you been? unde naiba ai fost? pe unde naiba mi-ai umblat?

2. maliţiozitate, răutate;

out of pure mischief din simplă răutate;

he is full of mischief e plin de răutate / ca un demon / numai răutate;

ready for mischief gata să joace renghiuri / o festă;

(despre copii) to be always getting into mischief a face întotdeauna neajunsuri / boroboaţe / prostii;

don't get into mischief!, keep out of mischief! nu face prostii! bagă de seamă să nu-ţi atragi supărări!

to keep smb. out of mischief a impiedica pe cineva facă prostii;

he is (up) to (some) mischiefcloceşte vreo nelegiuire, urzeşte ceva rău, pune la cale o ticăloşie.

3. ştrengar, răutate;

she looks a little mischief e un drăcuşor de fată.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

We can't, for something has been said, and Laurie's mischief has spoiled you for me.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

To-day they lie at their ease near Freshwater, and we fear much lest they come upon us and do us a mischief.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Up to mischief, I'll be bound.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Suppose her a pretty girl, and seen by Tom or Edmund for the first time seven years hence, and I dare say there would be mischief.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

We shall have no occasion to open the windows at all—not once the whole evening; and it is that dreadful habit of opening the windows, letting in cold air upon heated bodies, which (as you well know, sir) does the mischief.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He did not like to diminish the property by division, and yet he was anxious that Mr. Edward should have wealth, too, to keep up the consequence of the name; and, soon after he was of age, some steps were taken that were not quite fair, and made a great deal of mischief.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Once in the hollow, he had got behind the horse and had struck a light; but the creature frightened at the sudden glare, and with the strange instinct of animals feeling that some mischief was intended, had lashed out, and the steel shoe had struck Straker full on the forehead.

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

Indeed she had no taste for a garden; and if she gathered flowers at all, it was chiefly for the pleasure of mischief—at least so it was conjectured from her always preferring those which she was forbidden to take.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He was extremely curious to know from what part of the country I came, and how I was taught to imitate a rational creature; because the Yahoos (whom he saw I exactly resembled in my head, hands, and face, that were only visible), with some appearance of cunning, and the strongest disposition to mischief, were observed to be the most unteachable of all brutes.

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

I know he has been in mischief by the way he acted when he came home.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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