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SHY
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Traducere în limba română
shy1 I. adjectiv
1. (despre animale, păsări etc.) fricos, sperios, sălbatic; (despre cai) sperios, năzarnic, cu nălucă.
2. (despre persoane etc.) timid, sfios, sfiicios, ruşinos, sălbatic; rezervat.
3. bănuitor, precaut, circumspect;
to be shy of a) a se feri de (o persoană), a nu fi dispus să (faci ceva); b) (amer.) a fi lipsit de, a duce lipsă de, a nu avea destul.
shy1 II. verb intranzitiv
a sări în lături, a tresări, a se speria (Ia auzul unui sunet, al unei propuneri etc.).
shy1 III. substantiv
persoană timidă / fricoasă.
shy2 (fam.) I. verb A. tranzitiv
a azvârli / a arunca (o piatră etc. fig.).
shy2 (fam.) I. verb B. intranzitiv
a se arunca, a se azvârli.
shy2 (fam.) II. substantiv
aruncătură, azvârlitură;
to have a shy at a) a încerca să lovească cu ceva în; b) a lovi, a ţinti, a atinge (cu o glumă); c) a încerca să.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
What made you so shy of me, when you first called, and afterwards dined here?
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
I’ve often wondered why you never had a shy at my belt.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent, started when the bell rang, and colored when John's name was mentioned.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
His manner was nervous and shy, like that of a sensitive gentleman, and the thin white hand which he laid on the mantelpiece as he rose was that of an artist rather than of a surgeon.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I was very glad indeed to get upstairs to Agnes, and to talk with her in a corner, and to introduce Traddles to her, who was shy, but agreeable, and the same good-natured creature still.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
He was either less disposed for it than Charles had imagined, or he was too shy; and after giving him a week's indulgence, Lady Russell determined him to be unworthy of the interest which he had been beginning to excite.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
Evidently he thought that I was shying away from the "gonnegtion" mentioned at lunch, but I assured him he was wrong.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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