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ANSWERING
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Traducere în limba română
answering I. adjectiv
care răspunde (la).
answering II. answering to prepoziție
corespunzător / potrivit/ conform cu (sau unui lucru).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“Stay with us, Trotwood, eh?” he said in his usual manner, and as if he were answering something I had just said.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Did not you observe her manner of answering me?
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
She resolved on not answering Isabella's letter, and tried to think no more of it.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
I had calculated with certainty on this step answering my end: I felt sure it would elicit an early answer.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Fanny did not love Miss Crawford; but she felt very much obliged to her for her present kindness; and when, from taking notice of her work, and wishing she could work as well, and begging for the pattern, and supposing Fanny was now preparing for her appearance, as of course she would come out when her cousin was married, Miss Crawford proceeded to inquire if she had heard lately from her brother at sea, and said that she had quite a curiosity to see him, and imagined him a very fine young man, and advised Fanny to get his picture drawn before he went to sea again—she could not help admitting it to be very agreeable flattery, or help listening, and answering with more animation than she had intended.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
To give the feelings or the language of Mrs. Dashwood on receiving and answering Elinor's letter would be only to give a repetition of what her daughters had already felt and said; of a disappointment hardly less painful than Marianne's, and an indignation even greater than Elinor's.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
MY DEAR NIECE, I have just received your letter, and shall devote this whole morning to answering it, as I foresee that a little writing will not comprise what I have to tell you.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
The latter led to another broad passage, and just as we reached it we heard the sound of running feet and the shouting of two voices, one answering the other from the floor on which we were and from the one beneath.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I paused before answering, for I felt that I must not betray anything which the Professor wished kept secret; but already he knew so much, and guessed so much, that there could be no reason for not answering, so I answered in the same phrase: That's so.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Jane looked as if she did not mean to be conquered; but instead of answering, she began speaking again to Mr. John Knightley.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)