SCRUPLE

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Traducere în limba română

scruple I. substantiv

1. unitate de măsură (1,30 grame).

2. (înv.) cantitate mică, dram, găunte, fir, bob.

3. scrupul, mustrare de conştiinţă;

to make no scruples a nu-şi face scrupule / mustrare de conştiinţă;

a man of no scruples om fără scrupule / fără conştiinţă.

scruple II. verb A. intranzitiv

a avea / a-şi face scrupule, a ezita, a şovăi.

scruple II. verb B. tranzitiv

a simţi un scrupul faţă de / mustrări conştiintă pentru;

he would scruple a lie îşi face scrupule pentru o minciună.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I have no fears at all for myself; and I should have no scruples of staying as late as Mrs. Weston, but on your account.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Because, if you are, I shall have no scruple in asking you to take my place, and give Anne your arm to her father's door.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment, on account of some debts of honour, which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill-consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She had no scruple with regard to him.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She was a fine woman, had had a decent education, was brought forward by some cousins, thrown by chance into Mr Elliot's company, and fell in love with him; and not a difficulty or a scruple was there on his side, with respect to her birth.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Edmund was fond of speaking to her of Miss Crawford, but he seemed to think it enough that the Admiral had since been spared; and she scrupled to point out her own remarks to him, lest it should appear like ill-nature.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

By your account, he does seem to have had some scruples.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Why he should feel such a scruple, why he should change his mind when it was all but done, she could not perceive.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

My only scruple in advising the match was on his account, as being beneath his deserts, and a bad connexion for him.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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