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BENT

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bent¹ I. substantiv

1. (rar) încovoietură, curbură, cot, cotitură; înclinare, povârniş, pantă, meandră.

2. (fig.) (for) înclinaţie (pentru), aplecare (pentru), aplicaţie (pentru), vocaţie (pentru), aptitudine (pentru); pornire, tendinţă, apucătură; nărav, deprindere;

to have a bent towards a avea înclinaţii pentru;

to follow one's bent a) a-şi urma aptitudinile; b) a face după capul său / cum i se năzare;

to take a wrong bent a lua deprinderi rele, a apuca pe un drum rău;

natural bent înclinaţie firească, naturală, înnăscută;

to the top of one's bent după plac, după pofta inimii, cât vrea, la limită.

3. tensiune, forţă, energie.

bent¹ II. adjectiv

îndoit, curbat.

bent² substantiv

1. (şi bent grass) (bot.) iarba câmpului, iarba vântului, păiuş (Agrostis); iarbă.

2. câmpie;

(mai ales scoţ. glumeţ) to flee / to go / to take to the bent a fugi din oraş şi a se ascunde într-un colţ de ţară (pentru a scăpa de creditori etc.).

bent³ past şi part. trec. de la bend.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Again Mr. Barkis appeared at the gate, and again Miss Murdstone in her warning voice, said: “Clara!” when my mother bent over me, to bid me farewell.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

And then I bent over her and whispered, ‘Awake, fairest, thy lover is near—he who would give his life but to obtain one look of affection from thine eyes; my beloved, awake!’

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He bent over so that Edith could adjust the rope about his neck.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Both men bent over the dogs.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Holmes suddenly bent his strength upon it, but without result.

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

And I bent my head and kissed her hair softly, so softly that she did not know.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“Hola! my man of peace,” he cried to Alleyne, “whither are you bent this morning?”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mary bent her head low over her work.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I bent over him, and tried to find any sign of life, but in vain.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

When I came to my own house, for which I was forced to inquire, one of the servants opening the door, I bent down to go in, (like a goose under a gate,) for fear of striking my head.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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