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JEST

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Traducere în limba română

jest I. substantiv

1. ispravă; faptă glorioasă.

2. glumă, festi, renghi.

3. spirit, vorbă de duh;

4. obiectul ironiei sau al bătăii de joc;

standing jest ţintă permanentă a glumelor.

jest II. verb A. intranzitiv

a glumi, a face glume.

jest II. verb B. tranzitiv

a ironiza, a batjocori, a-şi bate joc de, de a lua în râs, a ridiculiza.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If there are people so unreflecting or so cruel, as to make a jest of me, what is left for me to do but to make a jest of myself, them, and everything?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I am well persuaded that you did but jest with this lady, and that you will now permit her to leave your land either alone or with me as a guide, if she should need one, through the wood.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I don't know—it is not easy to describe—nothing striking, but you feel it when he speaks to you; you cannot be always sure whether he is in jest or earnest, whether he is pleased or the contrary; you don't thoroughly understand him, in short—at least, I don't: but it is of no consequence, he is a very good master.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

For example, when Mrs. Steerforth observed, more in jest than earnest, that she feared her son led but a wild life at college, Miss Dartle put in thus: Oh, really?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Yet milder men or easier to please I have never seen: eating my bacon and drinking my wine with a merry face, and paying my score with some courteous word or jest which was dearer to me than my profit.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We had gone on, so far, in a mixture of confidential jest and earnest, that had long grown naturally out of our familiar relations, begun as mere children.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I believed that Steerforth had said what he had, in jest, or to draw Miss Dartle out; and I expected him to say as much when she was gone, and we two were sitting before the fire.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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