WEEP

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Traducere în limba română

weep, past şi part. trec. wept verb A. intranzitiv

a plânge, a vărsa lacrimi;

to weep for joy a plânge de bucurie;

that's nothing to weep over / about a) nu e un motiv pentru a plânge; b) (ironic) cu atât mai bine;

to weep for one's lost youth a-şi plânge tinereţea pierdută;

to weep bitterly a plânge amar.

weep, past şi part. trec. wept verb B. tranzitiv

a vărsa (lacrimi);

to weep away the time a-şi trece vremea plângând, a plânge într-una.

weep, past şi part. trec. wept verb C. reflexiv

to weep oneself to sleep a adormi plângând / în lacrimi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The boy went down, and there sat Clever Elsie and the girl both weeping together.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Maud insisted on helping, and I could have wept over her bruised and bleeding hands.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

And Agnes laid her head upon my breast, and wept; and I wept with her, though we were so happy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She wept with me and for me.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Dorothy wept bitterly at the passing of her hope to get home to Kansas again; but when she thought it all over she was glad she had not gone up in a balloon.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

But I err: you have not wept at all!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Beth had her troubles as well as the others, and not being an angel but a very human little girl, she often 'wept a little weep' as Jo said, because she couldn't take music lessons and have a fine piano.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He's coming, too, and we both want to mingle our weeps over the wine-cup, and to drink a health with all our hearts to the happiest man in all the wide world, who has won the noblest heart that God has made and the best worth winning.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then said the mother likewise: “What a clever Elsie we have!” and sat down and wept with them.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Whereupon he leaned his head on his hands and wept.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

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