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PLEASURE

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pleasure I. substantiv

1. plăcere; mulţumire, satisfacţie, bucurie;

to take / to find (a) pleasure in doing smth. a încerca o plăcere/ a-i place să facă ceva; a se complace în a face ceva;

I have much pleasure in informing you that sunt fericit/ am deosebita plăcere de a vă aduce la cunoştintă că;

it will be a pleasure to me/ it will give me great pleasure to oblige you voi fi foarte fericit/ ar fi pentru mine o mare plăcere/ aş fi nespus de măgulit de a vă îndatora;

it's a pleasure to hear him e o (adevărată) plăcere să-l asculţi;

I have not the pleasure of knowing him /of his acquaintance nu am plăcerea/ onoarea să-l cunosc;

with pleasure cu plăcere; bucuros; cu dragă inimă, cu cea mai mare plăcere.

2. petreceri, bucurii; plăceri; agrement;

life given up to pleasure sau life of pleasure viaţă închinată plăcerilor/ petrecerilor; viaţă de petreceri;

to take one's pleasure a se amuza, a se distra;

woman of pleasure prostituată;

man of pleasure om al plăcerilor, desfrânat.

3. voinţă, plac;

without consulting my pleasure fără a mă consulta, fără a-mi cere părerea;

at pleasure după plac;

at smb.’s pleasure după placul cuiva, după cum îi place/ convine cuiva;

office held during pleasure funcţie amovibilă;

(com.) what is your pleasure, madam? cu ce vă putem servi, d-nă?

pleasure II. verb A. tranzitiv

(rar) a face plăcere (cuiva).

pleasure II. verb B. intranzitiv

to pleasure in a-i plăcea, a găsi plăcere în.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The patting movement slowly and carefully changed to a rubbing of the ears about their bases, and the physical pleasure even increased a little.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

You can't sit with us, for our seats are reserved, and you mustn't sit alone, so Laurie will give you his place, and that will spoil our pleasure.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

To paint them, in short, was to enjoy one of the keenest pleasures I have ever known.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“But pray tell me, before we go farther, who it is that I have the pleasure of assisting.”

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

But it is pleasure added to do for him, your friend; it is to you that I come.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“I will teach it you with pleasure, as I learn it.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She has not often a gratification of the kind, and I am sure, ma'am, you would be glad to give her the pleasure now?

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

When Henry had the pleasure of seeing you before, he was in Bath but for a couple of days.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Mrs Croft always met her with a kindness which gave her the pleasure of fancying herself a favourite, and on the present occasion, receiving her in that house, there was particular attention.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

“With pleasure,” replied the other. “What shall it be?”

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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