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FAILING

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Traducere în limba română

failing I. substantiv

1. neajuns, lipsă, cusur, meteahnă.

2. slăbiciune.

failing II. adjectiv

neîndestulător, insuficient; absent;

never failing a) (despre un izvor) care nu seacă niciodată; b) (fig.) nesecat; fără margini; fără fund.

failing III. prepoziție

în lipsa (cu gen.); în absenţa (cu gen.);

failing him în caz că lipseşte / că moare etc.;

failing an answer to my letter I shall telegraph dacă nu voi primi răspuns la scrisoarea mea, voi telegrafia;

failing all else în disperare de cauză.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

When I heard this, I was beginning to feel a strange chill and failing at the heart.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“That is a failing indeed!” cried Elizabeth.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I know he would be hurt by my failing in such a mark of respect to him on the present occasion.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

"I'm afraid it will be too disagreeable to you," said Meg, trying to look offended and failing entirely.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I am about to proceed on a long and difficult voyage, the emergencies of which will demand all my fortitude: I am required not only to raise the spirits of others, but sometimes to sustain my own, when theirs are failing.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I took that opportunity, with my voice sticking in my throat, and my sight failing as I uttered the words, to express my hope that Miss Spenlow was quite well; to which Mr. Spenlow replied, with no more emotion than if he had been speaking of an ordinary human being, that he was much obliged to me, and she was very well.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A failing or deficiency.

(Defect, NCI Thesaurus)

“Nobody can think better of Mr. Morland than I do, I am sure. But everybody has their failing, you know, and everybody has a right to do what they like with their own money.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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