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GRIM
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Traducere în limba română
grim adjectiv
1. (despre război, fiare etc.) sălbatic crunt, cumplit, hain, neîndurător, nemilos.
2. (despre înfăţişare etc.) mânios, înverşunat, furios; încruntat.
3. (despre hotărâri etc.) neînduplecat, încăpăţânat, neabătut.
4. (despre fapte, povestiri etc.) sinistru, macabru, funest, de rău augur.
◊ (fam.) old Mr. Grim moartea.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
They were both silent, but the Professor started and quivered; his face, however, grew grimmer and sterner still.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
"I think they would," came from under the hat, in a grim tone, quite as touching as a broken one.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was already deeply interested in his inquiry, for, though it was surrounded by none of the grim and strange features which were associated with the two crimes which I have already recorded, still, the nature of the case and the exalted station of his client gave it a character of its own.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It took all my courage to hold to the wise resolution of keeping her out of our grim task.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
She looked round to see how the Professor liked it, and found him looking at her with the grimmest expression she had ever seen him wear.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
From a rise of the road on the shoulder of Crooksbury Hill, we could see the grim Hall bristling out from amidst the ancient oaks, which, old as they were, were still younger than the building which they surrounded.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
She was standing before a fine portrait of the old gentleman when the door opened again, and without turning, she said decidedly, I'm sure now that I shouldn't be afraid of him, for he's got kind eyes, though his mouth is grim, and he looks as if he had a tremendous will of his own.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
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