SCORN

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Traducere în limba română

scorn I. substantiv

1. dispreţ;

to feel / to have nothing but scorn for cowardice a nu simţi decât dispreţ pentru laşitate;

to dismiss a proposal with scorn a respinge o propunere cu dispreţ;

to hold in scorn a dispreţui;

to think scorn of smb. sau smth. a dispreţui pe cineva sau ceva;

to think / to hold in scorn to do a socoti ceva de dispreţuit / vrednic de dispreţ, a fi prea mândru pentru a face ceva;

to laugh smb. to scorn a râde cu dispreţ de cineva, a lua pe cineva în batjocură, a ridiculiza pe cineva.

2. obiect de dispreţ; obiect de batjocură;

to become a scorn of / to one’s enemies a deveni un obiect de batjocură / de dispreţ pentru duşmanii săi;

to be the scorn of one’s friends a fi obiectul de dispreţ / de batjocură al prietenilor săi, a fi dispreţuit de prietenii săi.

scorn II. verb tranzitiv

1. a dispreţui, a simţi dispreţ pentru (ceva sau cineva);

to scorn smb.’s proposal a dispreţui, a respinge cu dispreţ propunerea sau sfaturile cuiva.

2. a-şi exprima dispreţul pentru (ceva), a trata cu dispreţ; a găsi nedemn de a face (ceva);

to scorn to do smth. a i se părea nedemn de a face ceva;

to scorn to tell a lie a i se părea un lucru înjositor să spună o minciună.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"I scarcely expected to hear that expression from you," he said: "I think I have done and uttered nothing to deserve scorn."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I will believe no such thing of you, for I can readily see that you are all very valiant men, who would scorn to live here in peace when your prince hath so great a venture before him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I have received outrages from a person—a female I am sorry to say, for the credit of my sex—who is not to be mentioned without scorn and disgust; and therefore I would rather not mention her.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And with regard to the resentment of his family, or the indignation of the world, if the former were excited by his marrying me, it would not give me one moment's concern—and the world in general would have too much sense to join in the scorn.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I scorn the weakness.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Her eyes flashed around her in a defiant way, rather like Tom's, and she laughed with thrilling scorn.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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