PAIN

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Traducere în limba română

pain I. substantiv

1. durere (mai ales fizică); suferinţă;

to give smb. pain a pricinui cuiva durere, a face să-l doară; a-l durea; a face pe cineva să sufere, a îndurera pe cineva;

to have a pain in the head a-l durea capul;

shooting pain junghi;

to be in pain a suferi, a fi îndurerat;

to be out of pain a scăpa de suferinţă, a nu mai suferi;

to cry out with pain a striga de durere, a ţipa de durere;

(fam.) to give smb. a pain in the neck a enerva pe cineva, a bate pe cineva la cap;

(fam.) a pain in the neck un om plictisitor / enervant, un om care te calcă pe nervi.

2. plural osteneală, trudă, strădanie;

to take great pains, to be at great pains to, to go to / to be at the pains of a-şi da osteneala să, a se trudi să, a se strădui să, a face tot posibilul să;

to have one's labour for one's pains, to have one's pains for nothing, to have nothing for one’s pains a se trudi (pe) degeaba; a se trudi în zadar;

to be a tool for one's pains a se trudi în zadar / fără nici un rezultat.

3. plural durerile facerii.

4. (înv.) pedeapsă;

(azi numai în expresiile) on / upon pain of (death etc.) sub pedeapsa cu (moartea etc.)

pain II. verb tranzitiv

a face (pe cineva) să sufere; a-l durea (dinţii etc.); a mâhni, a îndurera;

my arm pains me mă doare braţul;

it pains me to learn that mă mâhneşte să aflu că.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The last sensations of pain left him.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

I must not wish you no pain, for that can never be; but I do hope you will be always as happy as I am now.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I do not conceive that this discovery gave me much pain then.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was not ashamed of it, but put it away as one of the bitter-sweet experiences of his life, for which he could be grateful when the pain was over.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There must be the same immediate association of thought, though she was very far from conceiving it to be of equal pain.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It is a power little worth knowing, however, since it can deceive and pain you.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Life, however, was yet in my possession, with all its requirements, and pains, and responsibilities.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Pain in the abdomen can come from any one of them.

(Abdominal Pain, NIH)

Yet it was no time now to think of pain or ache.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I had heard his voice raised in anger and pain only an instant before.