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Traducere în limba română
prudent adjectiv
prudent, precaut, circumspect; cuminte; prevăzător.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
After some further discourse, which I then conjectured might relate to me, the two friends took their leaves, with the same compliment of striking each other’s hoof; and the gray made me signs that I should walk before him; wherein I thought it prudent to comply, till I could find a better director.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
I was very unwilling to enter into it, as you may imagine, without the knowledge and approbation of his mother; but I was too young, and loved him too well, to be so prudent as I ought to have been.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brobdingnagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Yet as she was convinced that Marianne's affection for Willoughby, could leave no hope of Colonel Brandon's success, whatever the event of that affection might be, and at the same time wished to shield her conduct from censure, she thought it most prudent and kind, after some consideration, to say more than she really knew or believed.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
I thought it the most prudent method to lie still, and my design was to continue so till night, when, my left hand being already loose, I could easily free myself: and as for the inhabitants, I had reason to believe I might be a match for the greatest army they could bring against me, if they were all of the same size with him that I saw.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)