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RESIST
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resist verb A. tranzitiv
1. a rezista la (sau cu dat.), a se împotrivi la (sau cu dat.), a opune rezistenţă / împotrivire (cu dat.);
to resist disease a rezista la boală, a nu ceda în faţa bolii;
the enemy was resisted inamicul a fost respins;
thatch resists heat better than tiles acoperişul de paie rezistă la căldură mai bine decât olanele.
2. (mai ales cu o negaţie) a se stăpâni, a se reţine, a se abţine;
be can never resist making a joke nu se poate stăpâni să nu glumească.
resist verb B. intranzitiv
a opune rezistenţă, a rezista.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Nature resisted it for a while.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
I was with an equal—one with whom I might argue—one whom, if I saw good, I might resist.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
I can't resist them when I see Sallie buying all she wants, and pitying me because I don't.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
He could resist the call of the world no longer.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
They thanked her; but were obliged to resist all her entreaties.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
Buck did not like her, but he was feeling too miserable to resist her, taking it as part of the day’s miserable work.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
Mrs. Micawber was in such a dreadful state that I really couldn't resist giving my name to that second bill we spoke of here.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
In that case, as a Taurus, you may at first resist this—as you often do when forced to fix what seems out of joint—because you don’t like change.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
Harriet could not long resist so delightful a persuasion.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
Suddenly a feeling of fatigue came over him, and unable to resist it, he lay down for a little while, fully determined, however, to keep awake; but in another minute his eyes closed of their own accord, and he fell into such a deep sleep, that all the noises in the world would not have awakened him.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)