WITHHOLD

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Traducere în limba română

withhold, past şi part. trec. withheld verb A. tranzitiv

(from) a reţine (de la), a opri (de la); a interzice (ceva).

withhold, past şi part. trec. withheld verb B. reflexiv

(from) a se abţine (de la).

withhold, past şi part. trec. withheld verb C. intranzitiv

(from) a se abţine, a se reţine (de la).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In short, my dear aunt, I should be very sorry to be the means of making any of you unhappy; but since we see every day that where there is affection, young people are seldom withheld by immediate want of fortune from entering into engagements with each other, how can I promise to be wiser than so many of my fellow-creatures if I am tempted, or how am I even to know that it would be wisdom to resist?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She felt almost persuaded that Miss Tilney was at home, and too much offended to admit her; and as she retired down the street, could not withhold one glance at the drawing-room windows, in expectation of seeing her there, but no one appeared at them.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

But in spite of the certainty in which Elizabeth affected to place this point, as well as the still more interesting one of Bingley's being withheld from seeing Jane, she felt a solicitude on the subject which convinced her, on examination, that she did not consider it entirely hopeless.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Elizabeth was glad to be taken to her immediately; and Jane, who had only been withheld by the fear of giving alarm or inconvenience from expressing in her note how much she longed for such a visit, was delighted at her entrance.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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