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TOLERABLE
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Traducere în limba română
tolerable I. adjectiv
1. suportabil, tolerabil.
2. acceptabil; bunicel.
3. (înv.) destul de sănătos.
tolerable II. adverb (amer.) vezi tolerably.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
A woman is not to marry a man merely because she is asked, or because he is attached to her, and can write a tolerable letter.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
Could she believe Miss Crawford to deserve him, it would be—oh, how different would it be—how far more tolerable!
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Elinor could not help smiling at this display of indifference towards the manners of a person, to whom she had often had difficulty in persuading Marianne to behave with tolerable politeness; and resolved within herself, that if her sister persisted in going, she would go likewise, as she did not think it proper that Marianne should be left to the sole guidance of her own judgment, or that Mrs. Jennings should be abandoned to the mercy of Marianne for all the comfort of her domestic hours.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
It was, perhaps, one of those cases in which advice is good or bad only as the event decides; and for myself, I certainly never should, in any circumstance of tolerable similarity, give such advice.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
And turning round he looked for a moment at Elizabeth, till catching her eye, he withdrew his own and coldly said: She is tolerable, but not handsome enough to tempt me; I am in no humour at present to give consequence to young ladies who are slighted by other men.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
“This is my favourite place,” said she as they sat down on a bench between the doors, which commanded a tolerable view of everybody entering at either; “it is so out of the way.”
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
So very fond of you as Miss Crawford is, it is most natural that she should tell you enough of her own feelings to furnish a tolerable guess at mine.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
The grounds were declared to be highly beautiful, and Sir John, who was particularly warm in their praise, might be allowed to be a tolerable judge, for he had formed parties to visit them, at least, twice every summer for the last ten years.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
You do not know it I dare say, but two or three years ago I had a great passion for taking likenesses, and attempted several of my friends, and was thought to have a tolerable eye in general.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
Elizabeth passed the chief of the night in her sister's room, and in the morning had the pleasure of being able to send a tolerable answer to the inquiries which she very early received from Mr. Bingley by a housemaid, and some time afterwards from the two elegant ladies who waited on his sisters.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
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