DESERVE

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deserve verb A. tranzitiv

a merita, a fi demn de, vrednic de;

he has not deserved that from you n-a meritat asta de la tine;

one good turn deserves another un serviciu merită un contraserviciu;

to deserve praise a fi vrednic de laudă;

to deserve ill of a merita pedeapsă de la.

deserve verb B. intranzitiv

to deserve well of a merita răsplata de la;

to deserve well of one’s country a binemerita de la patrie;

he richly / thoroughly deserves it o merită cu prisosinţă.

She might love, but she did not deserve Edmund by any other sentiment.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I am very, very happy, and I don't know what I have done to deserve it.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Good-night; and may you have all the fortune that you deserve!

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

The law cannot, as you say, touch you, said Holmes, unlocking and throwing open the door, yet there never was a man who deserved punishment more.

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

—or to feeling grateful to the upright and deserving creature who would have taken you as his gift.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Thank you, I'm afraid I don't deserve that pretty compliment.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"I scarcely expected to hear that expression from you," he said: "I think I have done and uttered nothing to deserve scorn."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

To John, to Fanny,—yes, even to them, little as they deserve, I had given less than their due.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

And now, dear Margaret, do I not deserve to accomplish some great purpose?

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

My conscience told me that I deserved no extraordinary politeness, and I confess that I did not expect to receive more than my due.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)