PRIDE

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Traducere în limba română

pride I. substantiv

1. mândrie; orgoliu, vanitate; trufie, aroganţă;

to take (a) pride in a se mândri cu, a fi mândru de;

(prov.) pride will have a fall, pride goes before and shame comes after trufaşului îi stă şi Dumnezeu împotrivă.

2. mândrie, obiect al mândriei;

my homeland's pride mândria patriei mele.

3. (şi proper pride) sentiment al demnităţii personale;

false pride îngâmfare, orgoliu, vanitate.

4. (fig.) stare excelentă/ înfloritoare;

in the pride of one's youth în floarea tinereţii, în deplinătatea puterilor.

5. spectacol strălucitor; pompă.

6. (dial.) paralizie.

pride II. verb reflexiv

to pride oneself on/ in a se mândri ca, a fi mândru de.

A distinction to which they had been born gave no pride.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

“I shall always think of it with pride,” I said to Maud.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

This is an attachment which a woman may well feel pride in creating.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She went very slowly across the room, for pride was hard to swallow, and stood by him, but he did not turn his head.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But again the foolish pride fought against that very word.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Does your Sophy play on any instrument, Traddles?” I inquired, in the pride of my heart.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She has a great deal too much of the Elliot pride.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I wonder if you take just pride in that body of yours.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Mr. Collins was also in the same state of angry pride.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)