WANTING

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Traducere în limba română

wanting I. adjectiv

1. absent; lipsă;

wanting! lipseşte;

wanting in initiative fără iniţiativă.

2. nerod, neghiob.

wanting II. prepoziție

fără;

wanting energy nothing can be done fără energie nu se poate face nimic;

twelve wanting ten doisprezece fără zece.

wanting III. substantiv

lipsă, nevoie, trebuinţă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

She was wanting to see him again, and especially to see him in company with Mrs. Weston, upon his behaviour to whom her opinion of him was to depend.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I understand, cried her uncle, recollecting himself, and not wanting to hear more: I understand.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The children have been wanting me this half hour.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

They will be all wanting a home.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Is it to be hinted to me that I am wanting in affection for my precious treasure, the dearest little fellow that ever was!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“You will, I am sure, forgive anything that may be wanting in our arrangements, when you consider the blow which has come so suddenly upon us.”

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

A new place, in a new house, amongst new faces, under new circumstances: I want this because it is of no use wanting anything better.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But by-and-by, when I had four little daughters round me and we were poor, then the old trouble began again, for I am not patient by nature, and it tried me very much to see my children wanting anything.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He paused a moment, and went on: I know that she understood your goodness even better than I do; and if I was rude or in any way wanting at that time you acted so—you remember—the Professor nodded—you must forgive me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

There was really nothing wanting.

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

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