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SIN

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Traducere în limba română

sin I. substantiv

1. păcat;

(sl.) like sin violent, cu furie, foarte tare;

as black as sin negru ca păcatul;

as ugly as sin urât de mama focului, ca ciuma;

original sin păcat originar;

deadly / capital sin păcat de moarte;

to live in sin a) a trăi în păcat; b) a trăi în concubinaj;

to live in open sin a trăi pe faţă cu cineva; a fi colat cu cineva;

(prov.) it is no sin for a man to labour in his vocation nu există meserie proastă;

to fall into sin a cădea în păcat.

2. insultă (la adresa bunului simţ, artei, convenienţelor etc.); sacrilegiu;

sin against good taste atentat împotriva bunului gust.

sin II. verb intranzitiv

a păcătui;

to sin against propriety a păcătui împotriva convenienţelor;

liable to sin supus păcatului, păcătos.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Dead three weeks sin' of a stroke.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

There's nothing but sin everywhere—except here.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Surely to any man it is a sad sight, said Alleyne, to see these holy men, who have done no sin themselves, suffering so for the sins of others.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh! my sins, my sins!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I was guilty of sin.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

There's a deal of sin outside.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

With less sin I might have—But let me remember to whom I am speaking.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

But I thought—I implore you to remember the narrow construction which has been my besetting sin—that, in a case where there was so much disparity in point of years—

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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