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VIOLENCE

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Traducere în limba română

violence substantiv

1. violenţă; intensitate, forţă, vigoare, furie (a focului, vântului, a unei persoane).

2. violenţă, siluire, brutalitate;

to die by violence a muri de o moarte violentă, a nu muri de moarte bună, a fi asasinat;

to use violence a face uz de puterea fizică, a fi violent, a se purta cu violenţă;

to do violence to one's principles a-şi călea / viola principiile;

to do violence to one's conscience a-şi călca pe inimă, a merge împotriva voinţei sale, a acţiona împotriva propriei conştiinţe;

to do violence to the law a călca / a înfrânge legea.

3. (jur.) violenţă;

to commit acts of violence, to resort to violence a face uz de violenţă, a recurge / a se deda la acte de violenţă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I said I would have nothing to do with violence.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There were no signs of violence.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I trust, Aylward, said Sir Nigel gravely, as he rode up, that this doth not mean that any violence hath been offered to women.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

What object is served by this circle of misery and violence and fear?

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Besides, there were no marks of any violence upon her.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It advanced; the heavens were clouded, and I soon felt the rain coming slowly in large drops, but its violence quickly increased.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It is not violence that best overcomes hate—nor vengeance that most certainly heals injury.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It is true that there was that one hideous pool of blood, which told of violence.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The idea of wanting gratitude and consideration for Miss Woodhouse, whom she really loved extremely, made her wretched for a while, and when the violence of grief was comforted away, still remained powerful enough to prompt to what was right and support her in it very tolerably.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Such violence of affliction indeed could not be supported for ever; it sunk within a few days into a calmer melancholy; but these employments, to which she daily recurred, her solitary walks and silent meditations, still produced occasional effusions of sorrow as lively as ever.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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