READINESS

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Traducere în limba română

readiness substantiv

1. promptitudine; dispoziţie; pregătire, starea de a fi gata;

to be in readiness a fi gata.

2. repeziciune, viteză, grabă, iuţeală.

3. vioiciune, uşurinţă, îndemânare;

readiness of mind/ wit prezenţă de spirit, dibăcie;

readiness of speech uşurinţă în vorbire.

4. bună dispoziţie; tragere de inimă; zel;

readiness to please complezenţă, îndatorire, bunăvoinţă.

5. consimţământ, acord.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Morning broke dull and grey, but calm, and I was awake early and had the boat in readiness.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

My purpose, in short, is to have all things in an absolutely perfect state of readiness for Diana and Mary before next Thursday; and my ambition is to give them a beau-ideal of a welcome when they come.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

She wanted to hear many particulars of their engagement repeated again, she wanted more clearly to understand what Lucy really felt for Edward, whether there were any sincerity in her declaration of tender regard for him, and she particularly wanted to convince Lucy, by her readiness to enter on the matter again, and her calmness in conversing on it, that she was no otherwise interested in it than as a friend, which she very much feared her involuntary agitation, in their morning discourse, must have left at least doubtful.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

After a short consideration, Sir Thomas asked Crawford to join the early breakfast party in that house instead of eating alone: he should himself be of it; and the readiness with which his invitation was accepted convinced him that the suspicions whence, he must confess to himself, this very ball had in great measure sprung, were well founded.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Her good-nature, too, is not so very slight a claim, comprehending, as it does, real, thorough sweetness of temper and manner, a very humble opinion of herself, and a great readiness to be pleased with other people.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

On the contrary, if I have felt any anxiety at all on the subject, it has been in recollecting that he sometimes showed a want of pleasure and readiness in accepting my invitation, when I talked of his coming to Barton.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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