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DISTRESS

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Traducere în limba română

distress I. substantiv

1. tristeţe, suferinţă, durere, nefericire, dezolare.

2. nenorocire, rău, calamitate, năpastă, dezastru; adversitate, potrivnicie;

a ship in distress un vapor în pericol de naufragiu.

3. oboseală, extenuare, epuizare.

4. sărăcie, lipsă, mizerie;

to relieve distress a uşura mizeria.

5. (jur.) dreptul unui proprietar de a sechestra bunurile unui datornic pentru neplata chiriei.

6. (jur.) sechestru, retenţie;

to levy a distress a pune sechestru.

distress II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a îndurera, a întrista, a cauza o suferinţă (cuiva) / o durere (cuiva), a chinui, a tortura; a extenua, a epuiza, a vlăgui;

she is distressed with pain a suferi cumplit.

2. (jur.) a pune sechestru pe.

3. to distress into a sili să, a constrânge la (prin chinuri).

distress II. verb B. reflexiv

a se îngrijora, a se da de ceasul morţii.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

On the beginning of the fifth, however, the sudden view of Mr. Henry Tilney and his father, joining a party in the opposite box, recalled her to anxiety and distress.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

I dare say we shall have nothing to distress us.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I hope it does not distress you very much, Fanny?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I was a human soul in distress, and yet no soul, fore or aft, betrayed sufficient sympathy to come to my aid.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The circumstances that distressed me are not changed, since I came into this room; but an influence comes over me in that short interval that alters me, oh, how much for the better!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Maybe it's in that wind out over the sea that's bringin' with it loss and wreck, and sore distress, and sad hearts.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Although neither of us understood the other, yet my meaning was easily known, for the people saw the distress I was in.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

For some time after I went to bed, I could not sleep—a sense of anxious excitement distressed me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“There is nothing the matter with me. I am quite well; I am only distressed by some dreadful news which I have just received from Longbourn.”

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Elinor, affected by his relation, and still more by his distress, could not speak.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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