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CONVENIENCE
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Traducere în limba română
convenience substantiv
1. uşurinţă, comoditate, înlesnire, ocazie favorabilă, prilej bun;
at your convenience când vă este mai comod;
at your earliest convenience (de) îndată ce veţi putea;
to suit smb.'s convenience (pentru) a-i conveni cuiva;
for greater convenience pentru mai multă uşurinţă.
2. lucru potrivit, indicat, convenabil;
that is a matter of convenience se pune problema dacă acest lucru este potrivit, depinde dacă e posibil.
3. înlesnire, comoditate materială; bunăstare, situaţie bună.
4. plural confort, obiecte de utilitate practică;
a house with modern conveniences o casă cu tot confortul modern.
5. (şi place of convenience) closet cu apă;
public convenience closet public, vespasiană.
6. utilitate, avantaj material, profit;
to make a convenience of smb. a profita de cineva, a se sluji de cineva, a abuza de influenţa sau de prietenia cuiva;
marriage of convenience căsătorie din interes / de circumstanţă / de convenienţă.
7. (înv.) trăsură, caleaşcă.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I wonder how you will answer me a year hence, should I ask a favour it does not suit your convenience or pleasure to grant.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Mr. Yates's convenience had had nothing to do with it.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
He knew her illnesses; they never occurred but for her own convenience.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
It was about seven in the morning, and I longed to obtain food and shelter; at length I perceived a small hut, on a rising ground, which had doubtless been built for the convenience of some shepherd.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Being, at last, ready to leave the office for the night, he asked me if it would suit my convenience to have the light put out; and on my answering “Yes,” instantly extinguished it.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
But, perhaps, Mr. Bingley did not take the house so much for the convenience of the neighbourhood as for his own, and we must expect him to keep it or quit it on the same principle.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
His mother had some old friends in Bath whom she wanted to see; it was thought a good opportunity for Henrietta to come and buy wedding-clothes for herself and her sister; and, in short, it ended in being his mother's party, that everything might be comfortable and easy to Captain Harville; and he and Mary were included in it by way of general convenience.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
Grant is most kind and obliging to me, and though he is really a gentleman, and, I dare say, a good scholar and clever, and often preaches good sermons, and is very respectable, I see him to be an indolent, selfish bon vivant, who must have his palate consulted in everything; who will not stir a finger for the convenience of any one; and who, moreover, if the cook makes a blunder, is out of humour with his excellent wife.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Mary had acquired a little artificial importance, by becoming Mrs Charles Musgrove; but Anne, with an elegance of mind and sweetness of character, which must have placed her high with any people of real understanding, was nobody with either father or sister; her word had no weight, her convenience was always to give way—she was only Anne.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
Mr. Rushworth had been gone at this time to Bath, to pass a few days with his mother, and bring her back to town, and Maria was with these friends without any restraint, without even Julia; for Julia had removed from Wimpole Street two or three weeks before, on a visit to some relations of Sir Thomas; a removal which her father and mother were now disposed to attribute to some view of convenience on Mr. Yates's account.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)