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CONTENDING
Traducere în limba română
contending I. adjectiv
1. care (se) luptă; ostil, vrăjmaş.
2. în conflict, opus, potrivnic, care se ciocnesc.
contending II. substantiv
luptă (şi fig.).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A woman who could betray me for such a rival was not worth contending for; she deserved only scorn; less, however, than I, who had been her dupe.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
“However,” I continued, Miss Brewster is right in contending that temptation is temptation whether the man yield or overcome.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
He said, it was common, when two Yahoos discovered such a stone in a field, and were contending which of them should be the proprietor, a third would take the advantage, and carry it away from them both; which my master would needs contend to have some kind of resemblance with our suits at law; wherein I thought it for our credit not to undeceive him; since the decision he mentioned was much more equitable than many decrees among us; because the plaintiff and defendant there lost nothing beside the stone they contended for: whereas our courts of equity would never have dismissed the cause, while either of them had any thing left.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Edricson and Terlake rode behind him in little better case, while Ford, a careless and light-hearted youth, grinned at the melancholy of his companions, and flourished his lord's heavy spear, making a point to right and a point to left, as though he were a paladin contending against a host of assailants.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Oh, nothing, nothing, said he, and strolled back to where the voices of the contending men of science rose in a prolonged duet, the high, strident note of Summerlee rising and falling to the sonorous bass of Challenger.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Who is this bent lady, supporting herself by a stick, and showing me a countenance in which there are some traces of old pride and beauty, feebly contending with a querulous, imbecile, fretful wandering of the mind?
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
But I was soon informed, both by conversation and reading their histories; for, in the course of many ages, they have been troubled with the same disease to which the whole race of mankind is subject; the nobility often contending for power, the people for liberty, and the king for absolute dominion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Temptation was the topic they had hit upon, and from the few words I heard I made out that he was contending that temptation was temptation only when a man was seduced by it and fell.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
But the danger is much greater, when the ministers themselves are commanded to show their dexterity; for, by contending to excel themselves and their fellows, they strain so far that there is hardly one of them who has not received a fall, and some of them two or three.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
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