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BEAUTY

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beauty substantiv

1. frumuseţe; mândreţe;

a thing of beauty un lucru frumos;

the beauty of it all is that frumuseţea este că;

beauty is but skin-deep frumuseţea e trecătoare;

it is quite a beauty e o splendoare / o minunăţie.

2. făptură frumoasă (mai ales femeie);

beauty and the beast o soţie frumoasă şi un soţ urât;

sleeping beauty frumoasa (din pădurea) adormită;

my beauty frumoasa mea, mândra mea;

(peior.) you are a beauty eşti grozav, nimic de zis.

3. farmec, graţie, nuri.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I thought her in a different style from my mother, certainly; but of another school of beauty, I considered her a perfect example.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Beauty Smith replied with a grunt.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

But I am not in heart to describe beauty, for when I had seen the view I explored further; doors, doors, doors everywhere, and all locked and bolted.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“He’s a beauty, isn’t he?” said the inspector.

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

Don't address me as if I were a beauty; I am your plain, Quakerish governess.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But you must—you, with your beauty, with your soul!

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew it was silly, but they flattered me and said I was a beauty, and quantities of nonsense, so I let them make a fool of me.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Nothing could exceed in beauty the contrast between these two excellent creatures.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

For England, home and beauty—eh, Watson?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He loved beauty, and there he found beauty.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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