OUGHT

Traducere în limba română

ought¹ substantiv

(amer. fam.) zero.

ought² substantiv, vezi aught (III).

ought³ I. verb modal ought to

1. a se cădea / a se cuveni să, a fi dator să, a avea obligaţia (morală) să; a trebui să;

to behave as one ought to a se purta cum se cuvine;

you ought to have done it before s-ar fi cuvenit s-o faci mai înainte;

you ought to go there ar trebui să to duci acolo;

I thought I ought to let you know about it credeam că sunt dator să te anunţ;

he ought to have known better ar fi trebuit s-ar fi cuvenit să fie mai prevăzător;

(fam.) I ought to be going ar trebui să plec, e vremea să plec;

you ought not to have waited n-ar fi trebuit să aştepţi, nu trebuia să aştepţi;

you ought to go and see the exhibition du-te neapărat să vezi expoziţia.

2. (indică probabilitatea) a trebui să;

the telegram ought to reach him within two hours ar trebui să primească telegrama în (interval de) două ore;

I ought to be through by Monday probabil că vei isprăvi până luni.

ought³ II. substantiv

datorie (morală).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

They ought to be worth a dollar apiece.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

"I should think you ought to be at home yourself," said he, "if you have a home in this neighbourhood: where do you come from?"

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

What we ought to be doing to-day, to-morrow, and all the time, said he, is finding some way out of the trap into which we have fallen.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We can't do much, but we can make our little sacrifices, and ought to do it gladly.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I mean, if the inhabitants ought to be believed, unless a dispute may arise concerning the two Yahoos, said to have been seen many years ago upon a mountain in Houyhnhnmland.

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

Since the idea had been started in the very quarter which ought to dictate, he had no scruple, he said, in confessing his judgement to be entirely on that side.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

You ought to be ashamed of yourself, a big beast like you, to bite a poor little dog!

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

“And ought it not,” reflected Catherine, “to endear it to her husband? Yet the general would not enter it.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I guess that’s what it ought to be called.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“Oh, Ham!” she exclaimed, still weeping pitifully, “I am not so good a girl as I ought to be! I know I have not the thankful heart, sometimes, I ought to have!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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