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HEART-BREAKING

Traducere în limba română

heart-breaking adjectiv

1. sfâşietor, dureros, care-ţi sfâşie inima, care provoacă o durere / un necaz mare.

2. (fam.) plicticos, anost.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She gave it up, and I heard her scream in a way that cut me to the soul, for it was a woman’s scream of fear and heart-breaking despair.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

But the dogs! The terrible hardship, the heart-breaking toil, the starvation, the frost! Oh, I've read about it and I know.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

This is hard to bear. This is heart-breaking.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was voicing an utter woe, his cry bursting upward in great heart-breaking rushes, dying down into quavering misery, and bursting upward again with a rush upon rush of grief.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

He dipped the end of a towel in cold water and with it began to flick him on the face, his wife all the while holding her face between her hands and sobbing in a way that was heart-breaking to hear.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Another day of heart-breaking and dangerous toil saw us in camp with the two topmasts to the good.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was the stay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

When I had fixed these wretches in my mind, I found that they had driven everything else out of it; then, beginning again, I forgot them; while I was picking them up, I dropped the other fragments of the system; in short, it was almost heart-breaking.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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