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OBLIGATION

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Traducere în limba română

obligation substantiv

1. obligaţie, îndatorire, datorie, angajament; constrângere prin lege / contract / angajament etc.;

moral obligations obligaţii morale;

of obligation obligatoriu, necesar, trebuincios;

(jur.) perfect obligation obligaţie legală;

imperfect obligation obligaţie morală / naturală;

(bis.) (holi)day of obligation zi de post negru;

to pot / to lay smb. under an obligation to do smth. a obliga / a sili / a constrânge pe cineva să facă ceva;

to be under an obligation to do smth. a fi obligat / constrâns / silit să facă ceva;

to repay an obligation a se revanşa, a-şi plăti datoria;

to fall to meet one's obligations a-şi călca cuvântul; a nu-şi face datoria.

2. obligaţie; îndatorire, motiv de recunoştinţă;

to be under (an) obligation to smb. a fi obligat / îndatorat faţă de cineva, a datora recunoştinţă cuiva;

to lay / to put smb. under an obligation a îndatora pe cineva;

I don't want you to put me under an obligation nu vreau să-ţi fiu / să-ţi rămân obligat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It refers to the second obligation, which is not yet due.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Elinor could hardly keep her countenance as she assented to the hardship of such an obligation.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

It was painful, exceedingly painful, to know that they were under obligations to a person who could never receive a return.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

You could have your lawyer write a letter to remind the client of their obligation if a lack of payment to you goes on too long.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

He said, that as for sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible; that, although I had deprived him of his fleet, yet he owed great obligations to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Grant would have been in a greater danger of becoming worse in a more active and worldly profession, where he would have had less time and obligation—where he might have escaped that knowledge of himself, the frequency, at least, of that knowledge which it is impossible he should escape as he is now.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

His father's marriage, he said, had been the wisest measure, every friend must rejoice in it; and the family from whom he had received such a blessing must be ever considered as having conferred the highest obligation on him.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“On that understanding,” said my aunt, “though it doesn't lessen the real obligation, I shall be very glad to leave him.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is natural that obligation should be felt, and if I could feel gratitude, I would now thank you.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

You may receive a raise if you asked for one earlier, or you may send a check to cover a previously made obligation.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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