SELF

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Traducere în limba română

self, plural selves I. substantiv

1. eul propriu, eul, persoana omului; individul, insul;

I am myself again sunt din nou eu însumi, mi-am revenit (în fire); m-am întremat, m-am restabilit;

our two selves noi doi, amândoi, împreună;

your honoured/ good self onorata dumneavoastră persoană;

my own / very self eu însumi, propria mea persoană;

my poor self umila mea persoană;

the fondness we have for self amorul-propriu;

one’s second self prieten nedespărţit, mână-dreaptă, alter-ego;

the study of the self autoanaliză, introspecţie;

the consciousness of self conştiinţa de sine;

to have no thoughts of self a nu se gândi la sine;

one’s better self partea cea mai bună din sine;

all by one’s very self absolut singer;

(com.) your good selves dumneavoastră, domniile voastre (în corespondenţa comercială).

2. interes personal, egoism;

he cares for nothing but self nu-i pasă decât de el.

3. floare de culoare uniformă.

self, plural selves II. pronume

însumi, însămi, înşine;

I am, dear Sirs, for self and partners yours faithfully primiţi, vă rog, domnilor, cele mai distinse salutări din partea mea şi a asociaţilor mei;

accommodation for wife and self o cameră pentru mine şi soţia;

(prov.) self do, self have a) ce-şi face omul cu mâna lui e sfânt; b) cum îţi vei aşterne, aşa vei dormi.

self, plural selves III. adjectiv

(despre culoare) uniform, omogen.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

She then found that it consisted of Mrs Musgrove, Henrietta, and Captain Harville, beside their two selves.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

The day approached, the day arrived; and after a morning of some anxious watching, Frank Churchill, in all the certainty of his own self, reached Randalls before dinner, and every thing was safe.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Poor Art seemed more cheerful than he has been since Lucy first took ill, and Quincey is more like his own bright self than he has been for many a long day.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You are not like your old self a bit, and seem ever so far away from me.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The gentle and domestic manners it described, combined with lofty sentiments and feelings, which had for their object something out of self, accorded well with my experience among my protectors and with the wants which were for ever alive in my own bosom.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The last time that I saw her like her own old self, was the night when you came home, my dear. The day you went away, she said to me, “I never shall see my pretty darling again. Something tells me so, that tells the truth, I know.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He positively said that it had been known to no being in the world but their two selves.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I did not quite like it, and thought it better not to keep her mind on the subject, so we drifted on to other subjects, and Lucy was like her old self again.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You are your mother's self in countenance and disposition; and if I might be allowed to fancy you such as she was, in situation and name, and home, presiding and blessing in the same spot, and only superior to her in being more highly valued!

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

And you, sir—I have read all the letters to poor Miss Lucy, and some of them speak of you, so I know you since some days from the knowing of others; but I have seen your true self since last night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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