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Traducere în limba română
glory I. s.
1. glorie;
to cover oneself with glory a se acoperi de glorie;
(fam.) to go to glory a muri;
(fam.) to send to glory a trimite pe lumea cealaltă;
(fam.) we left him in his glory l-am lăsat să stea singur.
2. triumf, motiv de glorie, fală.
3. subiect de glorie;
he was the glory of his age a fost gloria timpului său.
4. strălucire, splendoare;
(fam.) in all her glory în cea mai bună formă.
5. nimb, aureolă.
6. apariţie bruscă a soarelui.
◊ (amer.) Old Glory stindardul S.U.A.
glory II. verb intranzitiv
to glory in a) a se făli cu, a se mândri cu; b) a se bucura de.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
He had it in his heart to wish that they could possess, in some small measure, her goodness and glory.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
She gloried in being a sailor's wife, but she must pay the tax of quick alarm for belonging to that profession which is, if possible, more distinguished in its domestic virtues than in its national importance.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
If the end be now come, I have had great good fortune in having lived in times when so much glory was to be won, and in knowing so many valiant gentlemen and knights.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He was in love, very much in love; and it was a love which, operating on an active, sanguine spirit, of more warmth than delicacy, made her affection appear of greater consequence because it was withheld, and determined him to have the glory, as well as the felicity, of forcing her to love him.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
I observed, with much pleasure, that these two persons were in good intelligence with each other; and Cæsar freely confessed to me, that the greatest actions of his own life were not equal, by many degrees, to the glory of taking it away.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Elizabeth was prepared to see him in his glory; and she could not help in fancying that in displaying the good proportion of the room, its aspect and its furniture, he addressed himself particularly to her, as if wishing to make her feel what she had lost in refusing him.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Agnes has a great liking for Traddles, and it is capital to see them meet, and to observe the glory of Traddles as he commends the dearest girl in the world to her acquaintance.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
If I listened to human pride, I should say no more to you of marriage with me; but I listen to my duty, and keep steadily in view my first aim—to do all things to the glory of God.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
His feet were no longer clay, and his flesh became spirit; before his eyes and behind his eyes shone a great glory; and then the scene before him vanished and he was away, rocking over the world that was to him a very dear world.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
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