UN-ENGLISH

Traducere în limba română

un-English adjectiv

1. (despre comportare etc.) nedemn de un englez.

2. (despre o expresie, o construcţie etc.) neenglezesc, contrar spiritului limbii engleze.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Silver, if you like,” cried the squire; “but as for that intolerable humbug, I declare I think his conduct unmanly, unsailorly, and downright un-English.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

There was a human tenderness, too, in his way of speaking of his dead comrades, which made me understand why it was that he was so beloved by all who served with him, for, iron-hard as he was as seaman and fighter, there ran through his complex nature a sweet and un-English power of affectionate emotion, showing itself in tears if he were moved, and in such tender impulses as led him afterwards to ask his flag-captain to kiss him as he lay dying in the cockpit of the Victory.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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