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OATH

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Traducere în limba română

oath substantiv

1. jurământ;

on oath sub prestare de jurământ;

oath of allegiance jurământ de credinţă;

oath of office jurământ la luarea în primire a unui post;

to make / to take / to swear an oath a depune jurământ;

to put smb. to / on his oath a pune pe cineva să presteze jurământ;

upon my oath pe cinstea mea, pe legea mea.

2. înjurătură, vorbă de ocară.

3. blestem, luarea numelui lui Dumnezeu sau a unui lucru sfânt în deşert.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

“Well,” he said with an oath, “it's not forever.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I swear it—and the oath shall be kept.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

Turning to him, therefore, I said, I consent to your demand, on your solemn oath to quit Europe for ever, and every other place in the neighbourhood of man, as soon as I shall deliver into your hands a female who will accompany you in your exile.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Once I stepped out myself into the road, but he immediately called me back, and as I did not obey quick enough for his fancy, a most horrible change came over his tallowy face, and he ordered me in with an oath that made me jump.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

For a long time, though I certainly did my best to listen, I could hear nothing but a low gattling; but at last the voices began to grow higher, and I could pick up a word or two, mostly oaths, from the captain.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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