TRIFLE

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Traducere în limba română

trifle I. substantiv

1. fleac, nimic, bagatelă, prostie, moft; obiect de podoabă lipsit de valoare;

that is a mere trifle asta e pur şi sirnplu un fleac / o nimica toată;

it's no trifle nu e un fleac, nu e un lucru uşor;

to busy oneself with trifles a se ocupa de fleacuri;

to stick at trifles a) a se opri asupra unor fleacuri, a se sesiza de fleacuri; b) (fam.) a vâna greşeli; (fam.) puţin, uşor, cam;

he seems a trifle annoyed pare puţin cam plictisit;

meat a trifle burnt carne cam arsă.

2. dar modest, mică sumă de bani;

he gave the beggar a trifle dădu cerşetorului câţiva gologani.

3. cositor (pentru spoit);

the trifles veselă din cositor.

4. şarlotă, prăjitură făcută din frişcă, migdale şi biscuiţi muiaţi în vin.

5. fleac spiritual, mică operă de spirit; divertisment (muzical).

trifle II. verb A. intranzitiv

to trifle with a) a se purta uşuratic cu, a nu lua în serios, a glumi cu, a se juca cu, a trata cu uşurinţă;

he is not a man to trifle with e un om cu care nu-i de glumit;

do not trifle with love cu dragostea nu-i de glumit;

to trifle with a woman a se purta uşuratec, cu o femeie, a-şi bate joc de o femeie; b) a se juca maşinal cu, a se ocupa de ceva fără a da atenţie;

to trifle with one's watch-chain a se juca maşinal cu lanţul de la ceas;

to trifle with one's food a mânca puţin şi cu gândul aiurea, a ciuguli de ici şi colo; c) a se amuza cu (ceva) ca diletant.

trifle II. verb B. tranzitiv

to trifle away a risipi, a arunca; a pierde, a întrebuinţa fără folos;

to trifle away one's money on useless things a-şi cheltui banii pe lucruri inutile.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Write to me by return of post, judge of my anxiety, and do not trifle with it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Weston do not trifle with me.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

When I was a trifle younger,—a few months younger,—I believed the same thing.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Miss Bennet, replied her ladyship, in an angry tone, you ought to know, that I am not to be trifled with.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

But enough of such trifles, for we have our work before us, and it will be time to speak of this matter when we see the white cliffs of England once more.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You are rather too kind sometimes, and then just a trifle hasty when he tries your patience.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Do you think that I would respond to such a trifle and yet be ignorant of his death?

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“It strikes me, my good Lestrade, as being just a trifle too obvious,” said Holmes.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was bright and cheerful in the old childish way, loved me dearly, and was happy with her old trifles.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Oh, a trifle!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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