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CONDESCEND

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Traducere în limba română

condescend verb A. intranzitiv

1. a condescinde, a consimţi.

2. to condescend to smth. a consimţi la ceva, a îngădui ceva;

to condescend to smb. a arăta condescendenţă cuiva, a se arăta binevoitor faţă de cineva; a fi condescendent cu cineva;

(scoţ.) to condescend upon a da amănunte asupra (cu gen.)

condescend verb B. tranzitiv

to condescend to a condescinde / a catadixi / a binevoi / a consimţi să.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But you never have condescended to me, as much as I could have wished.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But if you have why, then, how could any gentleman ask you to condescend to accept anything under the three figures?

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

There is but one part of my conduct in the whole affair on which I do not reflect with satisfaction; it is that I condescended to adopt the measures of art so far as to conceal from him your sister's being in town.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

What a pity, Master Copperfield, that you didn't condescend to return my confidence!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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