TELLING

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Traducere în limba română

telling I. adjectiv

frapant, care produce vâlvă, de efect, foarte important, însernnat, grăitor, impresionant.

telling II. substantiv

spusă, vorbe etc.;

to take a telling a accepta un sfat, a primi cu calm o mustrare.

Perhaps you would not mind telling me if your suspicions point in any particular direction?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Jane, don't you remember grandmama's telling us of it when we got home?

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

"You know I do nothing without telling you," she began.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I don't mind telling you that she does now, at least I let her think so, it pleases her, you know.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It may be that this strange night-existence is telling on me; but would that that were all!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And she answered, “There is no need, though the telling of it would be sweet, so sweet.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I can tell you best what he is, by telling you what Doctors' Commons is.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Let me show you by telling you a little story.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

What are you telling Miss Bennet?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I was afraid you would think I was taking a great liberty with you, said she, in telling you all this.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)