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AFFLICT
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Traducere în limba română
afflict verb A. tranzitiv
a îndurera, a mâhni, a supăra, a întrista; a chinui; a face să sufere;
he was afflicted with gout suferea de podagră / de gută.
afflict verb B. reflexiv
(at, on account of) a fi îngrijorat (de, din cauza).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Mrs. March did not say much but looked disturbed, and comforted her afflicted little daughter in her tenderest manner.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
In short, Dora was so afflicted, and so afflicted me by being in that condition, that I felt it was of no use repeating this kind of effort, though never so mildly, and I must take some other course.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
To say the truth, though I am hurt and grieved, that I cannot still love her, that I am never to hear from her, perhaps never to see her again, I do not feel so very, very much afflicted as one would have thought.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
Against the interest of her own individual comfort, Mrs. Dashwood had determined that it would be better for Marianne to be any where, at that time, than at Barton, where every thing within her view would be bringing back the past in the strongest and most afflicting manner, by constantly placing Willoughby before her, such as she had always seen him there.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
No arguments shall be wanting on my part that can alleviate so severe a misfortune—or that may comfort you, under a circumstance that must be of all others the most afflicting to a parent's mind.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Then there are things which so afflict him that he has no power, as the garlic that we know of; and as for things sacred, as this symbol, my crucifix, that was amongst us even now when we resolve, to them he is nothing, but in their presence he take his place far off and silent with respect.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
His throat was afflicted by rigid spasms, his mouth opened, and in a heart- broken cry bubbled up his loneliness and fear, his grief for Kiche, all his past sorrows and miseries as well as his apprehension of sufferings and dangers to come.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
But her face, as she turned it up to mine, was so earnest; and when I relieved her of the umbrella (which would have been an inconvenient one for the Irish Giant), she wrung her little hands in such an afflicted manner; that I rather inclined towards her.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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