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RESPECTABLE
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Traducere în limba română
respectable adjectiv
1. onorabil, respectabil;
respectable society societate de oameni onorabli.
2. care impune respect / stimă.
3. (despre felul de a fi, despre caracter) corect, cuviincios.
4. considerabil, respectabil, destul de mult;
a respectable number of people un număr considerabil / mare de oameni.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The Coles were very respectable in their way, but they ought to be taught that it was not for them to arrange the terms on which the superior families would visit them.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
She might have made just as good a woman of consequence as Lady Bertram, but Mrs. Norris would have been a more respectable mother of nine children on a small income.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Just be a simple, honest, respectable boy, and we'll never desert you.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
It would have been next to impossible to suspect him of anything wrong, he was so thoroughly respectable.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
They are a very respectable family, Mr. Ferrars; and towards us have behaved in the friendliest manner.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
I know that you could be neither happy nor respectable, unless you truly esteemed your husband; unless you looked up to him as a superior.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
This circumstance was satisfactory: a private fear had haunted me, that in thus acting for myself, and by my own guidance, I ran the risk of getting into some scrape; and, above all things, I wished the result of my endeavours to be respectable, proper, en regle.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Very good humoured, unaffected girls, indeed, said Mrs Croft, in a tone of calmer praise, such as made Anne suspect that her keener powers might not consider either of them as quite worthy of her brother; and a very respectable family.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
I have no doubt of his being a very respectable young man.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
“Or if the poor child, his mother, had been alive, he would still have gone into the respectable business, would he?” said my aunt.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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