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PRECIOUS

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precious I. adjectiv

1. preţios, scump;

my precious! scumpul meu!;

(peior.) a precious friend you have been! grozav prieten mi-ai fost!

2. preţios, afectat, rafinat, de un gust rafinat.

3. (întăreşte sensul substantivului) (fam.) grozav, straşnic, teribil;

do not be in such a precious hurry nu te grăbi aşa de tare.

precious II. adverb

foarte, grozav;

precious little of it grozav de puţin.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

So much the more precious, I thought.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She does not know how precious time is, or what a task we have in hand.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Is it the old pain, my precious?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

You’re precious near your end, my friend, but I don’t want you to go till I have had a word with you.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, do not waste the so-precious time, but come!’

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

Such a fortnight as it has been! he continued; every day more precious and more delightful than the day before!—every day making me less fit to bear any other place.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But as it was, they parted with looks on his side of grateful affection, and with some very precious sensations on hers.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“Right you were, sir,” replied Silver; “and precious little odds which, to you and me.”

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Whereupon I was at much pains to describe to him the use of money, the materials it was made of, and the value of the metals; that when a Yahoo had got a great store of this precious substance, he was able to purchase whatever he had a mind to; the finest clothing, the noblest houses, great tracts of land, the most costly meats and drinks, and have his choice of the most beautiful females.

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

Precious as was the company of her daughter to her, she desired nothing so much as to give up its constant enjoyment to her valued friend; and to see Marianne settled at the mansion-house was equally the wish of Edward and Elinor.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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