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ABIDE

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abide past şi part. trec. abode, mai rar abided verb A. intranzitiv

1. a sta; rămâne, a zăbovi; a trăi, a locui;

to abide with smb. a sta la / cu cineva;

to abide at / in / on a place a rămâne / a sta într-un loc;

to abide in a town a locui / a trăi într-un oraş.

2. a continua, a stărui, a persista.

3. a aştepta, a răbda, a suporta;

I cannot abide nu pot aştepta.

4. to abide by a) a rămâne credincios / fidel / statornic (cu dat.), a menţine, a stărui în;

I abide what I have said rămân la cele ce am spus, nu retractez ceea ce am spus, mentin cele spuse;

to abide by a promise a-şi ţine promisiunea;

to abide by the consequences a-şi lua răspunderea, a trage consecinţele; b) a se bizui pe, a se baza pe, a se sprijini pe;

to abide by the law a se sprijini pe lege; a se supune, a se conforma legii; c) a se mulţumi cu.

abide past şi part. trec. abode, mai rar abided verb B. tranzitiv

1. a aştepta; a fi în aşteptarea (cu gen.);

he abode his time / opportunity aştepta un prilej favorabil.

2. a suporta, a suferi; a răbda, a înghiţi;

they could not abide him nu-i puteau suferi;

to abide the consequences a saporta consecinţele.

3. a rezista la;

to abide the test a rezista la probă / încercare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Wickham indeed had gone to her on their first arrival in London, and had she been able to receive them into her house, they would have taken up their abode with her.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

“By our Lady of Rocamadour!” cried the Lord of Mucident, “this is more than I can abide. Sir John Charnell, you shall answer to me for those words!”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

‘Charles,’ said he, ‘I cannot abide to think that you should have lost this money in my house.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Elinor found, when the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If it had ever been meant to be lived in, I might have thought it small, or inconvenient, or lonely; but never having been designed for any such use, it became a perfect abode.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

After this the robbers never dared to go back to the house; but the musicians were so pleased with their quarters that they took up their abode there; and there they are, I dare say, at this very day.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I will pick the glove up; but, certes, I shall abide what I have done unless he first crave my pardon for what he hath said and done.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Collins returned into Hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted by the Gardiners and Jane; but as he took up his abode with the Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs. Bennet.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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