VICTIM

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Traducere în limba română

victim substantiv

1. jertfă; animal pentru jertfă.

2. victimă; jertfă; pradă;

to fall a victim to smb. a cădea victimă cuiva;

the victim of circumstances victima împrejurărilor;

the victims of a railway accident victimele unui accident de cale ferată.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Soon after we heard that the poor victim had expressed a desire to see my cousin.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My sympathies are with the criminals rather than with the victim, and I will not handle this case.

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

Nothing else of importance was discovered in the room by the police, save the inexplicable fact that neither upon Mrs. Barclay’s person nor upon that of the victim nor in any part of the room was the missing key to be found.

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

I did not mean, I was not thinking of the slave-trade, replied Jane; governess-trade, I assure you, was all that I had in view; widely different certainly as to the guilt of those who carry it on; but as to the greater misery of the victims, I do not know where it lies.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Here I sit at the desk again, watching his eye—humbly watching his eye, as he rules a ciphering-book for another victim whose hands have just been flattened by that identical ruler, and who is trying to wipe the sting out with a pocket-handkerchief.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

There is no typical victim.

(Domestic Violence, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

And now it is ended; there is my last victim!

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

His victims dare not hit back.

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

I could not sustain the horror of my situation, and when I perceived that the popular voice and the countenances of the judges had already condemned my unhappy victim, I rushed out of the court in agony.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

In consequence I'm inclined to reserve all judgments, a habit that has opened up many curious natures to me and also made me the victim of not a few veteran bores.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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