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ASPIRE
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Traducere în limba română
aspire verb intranzitiv
(to, after, at) a aspira, a năzui (la, spre);
he aspired to become their leader aspira să devină conducătorul lor.
2. (înv., poetic) a se înălţa, a se ridica, a-şi lua zborul.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A person like myself had better not aspire.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I have always aspired, if I could have released him from the toils in which he was held, to render back some little portion of the love and care I owe him, and to devote my life to him.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
But when his eyes passed on to Agnes, and I saw the rage with which he felt his power over her slipping away, and the exhibition, in their disappointment, of the odious passions that had led him to aspire to one whose virtues he could never appreciate or care for, I was shocked by the mere thought of her having lived, an hour, within sight of such a man.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)