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THIRST

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thirst I. substantiv

(şi fig.) sete;

got a thirst? (nu) ţi-e sete? bem ceva?

the thirst for / after knowledge sete de cultură.

thirst II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a-i fi sete, a fi însetat.

2. to thirst for / after a fi setos de, a fi însetat de.

thirst II. verb B. tranzitiv

to thirst to do smth. a dori fierbinte să facă ceva.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

If our impulses were confined to hunger, thirst, and desire, we might be nearly free; but now we are moved by every wind that blows and a chance word or scene that that word may convey to us.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Grey Beaver got the thirst.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The man upstairs waited a short time, but as his wife did not come back and his thirst grew ever greater, he said: “I must go into the cellar myself and see where Elsie is.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I spoke of my desire of finding a friend, of my thirst for a more intimate sympathy with a fellow mind than had ever fallen to my lot, and expressed my conviction that a man could boast of little happiness who did not enjoy this blessing.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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