PONDER

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Traducere în limba română

ponder verb A. tranzitiv

a cumpăni; a chibzui / a refiecta asupra (cu gen.).

ponder verb B. intranzitiv

(on, over) a medita, a cugeta, a reflecta (asupra cu gen.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I sat down and pondered the problem.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Sir Nigel pondered for a few moments, and then burst out a-laughing.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It puzzled him, and he pondered it as if life and death hung on the solution.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He looked at me and pondered, then said, very slowly: "No, as you say, there is no end to it. Nobody will ever know the end. Yet is it a true thing. I have seen it. It is life."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

With such matters to ponder over, and arrange, and re-arrange, Edmund could not, on his own account, think very much of the evening which the rest of the family were looking forward to with a more equal degree of strong interest.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Emma pondered a moment, and then replied, I will not pretend not to understand you; and to give you all the relief in my power, be assured that no such effect has followed his attentions to me, as you are apprehensive of.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

John also rode in silence, but his eyes wandered slowly from one side of the road to the other, and he stared and pondered and nodded his head like a traveller who makes his notes and saves them up for the re-telling.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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