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SACRIFICE

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Traducere în limba română

sacrifice I. substantiv

1. sacrificiu, jertfă, ofrandă;

to make a sacrifice of a jertfi.

2. abnegaţie, renunţare (la ceva).

3. (sl.) pagubă, pierdere;

to sell at a sacrifice a vinde în pierdere.

sacrifice II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a sacrifica, a jertfi, a pune în joc.

2. (sl.) a vinde în pierdere.

sacrifice II. verb B. reflexiv

a se sacrifica, a se jertfi.

sacrifice II. verb C. intranzitiv

a aduce jertfe.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

That, perhaps, it was best for me; I had less to regret in sacrificing a friendship, feelings, hopes which must, at any rate, have been torn from me now.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

No sacrifice on any side worth the name.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I would sacrifice nothing for them.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Laurie added it, smiling at Amy's last and greatest sacrifice.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

If so, then certainly I delight in sacrifice.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

While I can have my mornings to myself, said she, it is enough—I think it is no sacrifice to join occasionally in evening engagements.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

“I did what I hope was right. Feeling sure that it was necessary for papa's peace that the sacrifice should be made, I entreated him to make it.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is rather from feeling how impossible it is, with all one's efforts, and all one's sacrifices, to make the accommodations on board such as women ought to have.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Justine, thus received in our family, learned the duties of a servant, a condition which, in our fortunate country, does not include the idea of ignorance and a sacrifice of the dignity of a human being.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I really could not face my acquaintance if I stayed away now; for, as I am known to be in the country, it would be taken exceedingly amiss; and it is a rule with me, Miss Morland, never to give offence to any of my neighbours, if a small sacrifice of time and attention can prevent it.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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