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SHORTNESS

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Traducere în limba română

shortness substantiv

1. scurtime, lungime mică.

2. (muz., gram.) scurtime, spaţiu redus.

3. statură mică, micime (a staturii);

shortness of waist statură mică.

4. slăbiciune, imperfecţiune;

shortness of memory memorie slabă; lipsă de memorie.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If you have been around rodents and have symptoms of fever, deep muscle aches, and severe shortness of breath, see your doctor immediately.

(Hantavirus Infections, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention)

After waiting at home every morning for a fortnight, and inventing every evening a fresh excuse for her, the visitor did at last appear; but the shortness of her stay, and yet more, the alteration of her manner would allow Jane to deceive herself no longer.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

He was the more confirmed in this opinion, because, he observed, that as I agreed in every feature of my body with other Yahoos, except where it was to my real disadvantage in point of strength, speed, and activity, the shortness of my claws, and some other particulars where nature had no part; so from the representation I had given him of our lives, our manners, and our actions, he found as near a resemblance in the disposition of our minds.

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

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