VENGEANCE

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Traducere în limba română

vengeance substantiv

răzbunare;

to take / to inflict/ to wreak vengeance on / upon a se răzbuna pe;

to take vengeance for a se răzbuna pentru;

(fam.) with a vengeance a) cu furie; cu înverşunare; cu străşnicie; straşnic;

to punish smb. with a vengeance a pedepsi pe cineva cu înverşunare;

it rains with a vengeance plouă cu înverşunare/ în duşmănie; b) într-o foarte mare măsură, din plin; o droaie, cu toptanul;

here are books enough with a vengeance sint cărţi din belşug;c) în adevăratul înţeles al cuvântului, serios, cu tot dinadinsul;

he's a gambler with a vengeance e un cartofor fără pereche;

(sl.) with a vengeance to you! lua-te-ar naiba!

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Abhorred monster! Fiend that thou art! The tortures of hell are too mild a vengeance for thy crimes.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I am weak, but surely the spirits who assist my vengeance will endow me with sufficient strength.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live—swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

But it was not so; thou didst seek my extinction, that I might not cause greater wretchedness; and if yet, in some mode unknown to me, thou hadst not ceased to think and feel, thou wouldst not desire against me a vengeance greater than that which I feel.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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