JOY

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Traducere în limba română

joy I. substantiv

1. bucurie, veselie, plăcere, desfătare, fericire;

to wish smb. joy a felicita pe cineva; a ura fericire cuiva;

it gives me joy mă bucură;

(prov.) no joy without annoy / alloy nici un trandafir fără spini.

2. ceva care provoacă entuziasm / încântare.

3. (amer.) comoditate, confort.

4. noroc.

joy II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a se bucura, a fi încântat, a petrece.

2. a fi fericit.

joy II. verb B. tranzitiv

(înv.) a se bucura de, a gusta.

I could have shouted with joy at her control.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Finding love may be the greatest joy of all for single Capricorns.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

But the joy of writing the 'Love-cycle'!

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I could not repress a cry of joy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was terrible and amazing to see such a woman so convulsed with joy at such a sight.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If she is condemned, I never shall know joy more.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Now, Nigel, it is great joy to me to have seen one of whom I have often heard.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then on he came again, until at last, catching sight of us, he gave a cry of joy, and ran for us full speed with a note held out at arm’s length.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Joy was in every face and every heart.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

His manner seemed changed, his voice was quick from the agitation of joy; and all that had been awful in his dignity seemed lost in tenderness.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)