WORSE

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Traducere în limba română

worse I. comp. de la bad¹, ill şi evil; adjectiv

1. mai rău / prost;

worse and worse din ce în ce mai rău.

2. mai rău / bolnav.

3. într-o situaţie mai proastă;

you would be none the worse for a walk o plimbare n-ar putea să-ţi strice.

worse II. comp. de la badly; adverb

mai rău/ prost;

he worked worse than before lucra mai prost decât înainte.

worse III. substantiv

rău(l);

if worse comes to worse în cazul cel mai rău;

a change for the worse o schimbare în rău.

"At any rate, it makes us no worse off than we were before," remarked Mary.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You know how much he wanted money: worse than myself.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

So I haven't made matters any worse by boltin'.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But worse than all this were the women.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Elizabeth joined them again only to say that her sister was worse, and that she could not leave her.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

When I came back he looked at me carefully, and then said:—You are not much the worse.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You will not think the worse of my umbleness, if I make a little confidence to you, Master Copperfield?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“It might have been worse,” he smiled.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It might have been worse, but Amy considered it bad.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

‘It must be that, I suppose,’ said he. ‘This is worse than death, for it means disgrace as well.’

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