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PANG
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Traducere în limba română
pang substantiv
1. durere adâncă, mâhnire, chin; strângere de inimă;
the pangs of death chinurile morţii;
the pangs of conscience remuşcări, mustrările conştiinţei;
pangs of love rănile dragostei;
to feel the pangs of hunger a simţi chinurile foamei.
2. spasm.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
It took on this occasion a double dose to recall me to myself; and alas! six hours after, as I sat looking sadly in the fire, the pangs returned, and the drug had to be re-administered.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
Martin watched his long figure go down the outside steps, and, on turning to close the gate, noted with a pang the shoulders, which had once been broad, drawn in now over, the collapsed ruin of the chest.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
As it was, an interval occurred before I fully knew my own distress; an interval, in which I even supposed that its sharpest pangs were past; and when my mind could soothe itself by resting on all that was most innocent and beautiful, in the tender story that was closed for ever.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday have now passed in review before the reader; the events of each day, its hopes and fears, mortifications and pleasures, have been separately stated, and the pangs of Sunday only now remain to be described, and close the week.
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
No, let them be ever so happy together, it will not give me another moment's pang: and to convince you that I have been speaking truth, I am now going to destroy—what I ought to have destroyed long ago—what I ought never to have kept—I know that very well (blushing as she spoke).
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done; cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given mine, without experiencing afterwards the pang of remorse and the chill of reaction.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
The hunger pangs were sharp.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
Not half so proud as I am of you, nor with half the reason, she answered, looking me straight in the eyes for a moment with an expression in her own and a dancing, tremulous light which I had not seen before and which gave me a pang of quick delight, I know not why, for I did not understand it.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
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