RATHER

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Traducere în limba română

rather adverb

1. mai bine, mai de grabă, mai curând;

would you rather take tea or coffee? ce preferi, ceai sau cafea?;

the rather that so much the rather as cu atât mai mult cu cât.

2. destul de; puţin, cam, oarecum, întrucâtva, într-o oarecare măsură;

I feel rather better today azi mă simt ceva mai bine;

I know him rather well îl cunosc destul de bine.

3. (ca răspuns la o întrebare, la o propunere) desigur, fireşte;

Do you know him? Rather! Îl cunoşti? Cum să nu!

4. (dial.) mai devreme, mai înainte.

I would fifty times rather you should have them than myself.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I am dreadfully angry with them myself; but I would rather Peggotty didn't know.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“It really is rather like me, is it not?”

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She began to think it rather hard upon the mare to have such double duty; if she were forgotten, the poor mare should be remembered.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

A rather large group of enzymes comprising not only those transferring phosphate but also diphosphate, nucleotidyl residues, and others.

(Phosphotransferase, NCI Thesaurus)

He appeared to be much surprised at seeing me and asked me rather roughly what I was doing there.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

So did I. Don't go away, please, unless you'd rather.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It was a rather desperate business to come suddenly into one's day's work.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But now I know, or, rather, am just beginning to know.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was our misfortune that our only child took after his people rather than mine.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)