NOBODY

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nobody I. pronume negativ

nimeni; nici unul;

nobody knows better (than he) nimeni nu ştie mai bine ca / decât el;

nobody was more surprised than I nimeni nu era mai uluit / mai uimit decât mine;

nobody else nimeni altul;

(fam.) I knew him when he was nobody îl cunosc încă de pe vremea când numele lui era necunoscut / când era un oarecare.

nobody II. substantiv

nulitate, zero, persoană de nimic; parvenit;

a little nobody un flecuşteţ, un om de nimic;

a mere nobody un om de nimic, un oarecare.

I do not pretend to say that I was not very much pleased with him; but while I have Udolpho to read, I feel as if nobody could make me miserable.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Nobody else's brain ever got beyond her.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

But nobody heard, or, at least, nobody answered her.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Nobody that wishes me well, I am sure, would propose it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

We all looked for it; I myself looked everywhere, I am certain—but nobody could find it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Don't believe there ain't nobody of that kind livin' ere or anywheres.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She doesn't look like my Beth, and there's nobody to help us bear it.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She will be glad: nobody here understands her: Madame Fairfax is all English.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He had said the truth: dead or alive, nobody minded Ben Gunn.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

She never could have deserved him—and nobody but so partial and kind a friend as Miss Woodhouse would have thought it possible.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)