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GENEROUS
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Traducere în limba română
generous adjectiv
1. mărinimos, generos; darnic.
2. filantrop.
3. (despre o porţie etc.) mare, imens.
4. bogat, îmbelşugat.
5. rodnic, roditor.
6. (despre vin) tare; de bună calitate, superior.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Uranus is orbiting in your work-a-day area and will stimulate generous Jupiter in your income house.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
You are a generous boy—I suppose I must say, young man, now—and I am proud of you, my dear.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Nature had been more generous to him than to the average animal, that was all.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Strength was what she needed, and he gave it to her in generous measure.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
But you have such a generous spirit!
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
The Luggnaggians are a polite and generous people; and although they are not without some share of that pride which is peculiar to all Eastern countries, yet they show themselves courteous to strangers, especially such who are countenanced by the court.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Generous and self-devoted being!
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Let me thank you again and again, in the name of all my family, for that generous compassion which induced you to take so much trouble, and bear so many mortifications, for the sake of discovering them.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
"I meant to give each of you some of this to take with you," said she, "but as there is so little toast, you must have it now," and she proceeded to cut slices with a generous hand.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
She had hoped for the pleasure of her company for a much longer time—had been misled (perhaps by her wishes) to suppose that a much longer visit had been promised—and could not but think that if Mr. and Mrs. Morland were aware of the pleasure it was to her to have her there, they would be too generous to hasten her return.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)