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CHARACTER

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character I. substantiv

1. caracter; fire, natură;

a men of character a) un om de caracter; b) un om cu personalitate;

a men of no character un om fără personalitate, lipsit de personalitate.

2. reputaţie;

he has a character for hospitality trece drept un om ospitalier, e vestit pentru ospitalitatea lui.

3. recomandare (scrisă), caracterizare;

(peior.) that’s a pretty character you are giving us of him frumos ni-l zugrăveşti, ni-l descrii frumos (n-am ce zice!).

4. figură, personalitate, individualitate; personaj, individ;

a public character personalitate, om cu vază, figură marcantă;

a bad character un stricat; o persoană cu o reputaţie proastă, un individ dubios, obscur.

5. (fam.) (om) original, excentric, om ciudat, om straniu;

he is quite a character nu-i ca ceilalţi; e un tip năstruşnic / original; are ciudăţeniile lui;

he makes a character of himself face pe originalul; vrea să fie o figură, să iasă din comun.

6. (lit.) personaj, erou, figură, întruchipare; rol;

he made his first apperance on (the) stage in the character of Hamlet a debutat pe scenă în rolul lui Hamlet.

7. caracter, (trăsătură) caracteristică; însuşire; calitate;

innate characters însuşiri înnăscute, ereditare, caracteristici moştenite;

acquired characters însuşiri, calităţi dobândite, trăsături căpătate în viaţă, în existenţa socială;

in the character of a friend în calitate de prieten, ca prieten.

8. literă, caracter; hieroglif; cifră; alfabet; scriere;

Egyptian characters hieroglife egiptene;

Runic characters scriere runică;

in large characters cu litere mari;

is this his character? (acesta) e scrisul lui?

◊ to be in character with a corespunde; a fi consonant cu (cu dat.);

to be out of character with a nu corespunde (cu dat.); a nu sta bine (cuiva), a nu şedea bine (cuiva), a nu prinde.

character II. verb tranzitiv

1. (fig.) a imprima, a săpa, a înscrie.

2. (înv.) a caracteriza, a zugrăvi, a descrie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But Agnes was too superior to me in character and purpose, as I know well now, whatever I might know or not know then, to be long in need of my entreaties.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

May I ask who it was who gave me so good a character?

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

But there are eight servants, and all of good character.

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

Brain, character, soul—only as one sees more of life does one understand how distinct is each.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What, in short, is his character?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

He stood a minute looking at her with new eyes, seeing what no one had ever seen before, the tender side of Amy's character.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

You never considered how impossible such a crime must be for a man of my character.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Those characters are Pluto and its family of five known moons, all of which will be seen up close for the first time next summer.

(Voyager Map Details Neptune's Strange Moon Triton, NASA)

He left the Guards with a good character and we can find nothing against him.

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

But that character, that Wiki-Wiki, why do you make him talk so roughly?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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