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WILLED

Traducere în limba română

willed adjectiv

1. voit, voluntar;

strong-willed cu voinţă puternică;

self-willed voluntar;

ill-willed rău intenţionat.

2. sugestionat; sub înrâurirea altuia.

3. dispus (să facă ceva).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I had counted on my brother's love, but God has willed that it should be otherwise.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was James’s own fault. You know that yourself. He was too self-willed for the job.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His hands shot out—or at least he willed them to shoot out.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Catherine, weak-spirited, irritable, and completely under Lydia's guidance, had been always affronted by their advice; and Lydia, self-willed and careless, would scarcely give them a hearing.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Emma perceived that the nature of his gallantry was a little self-willed, and that he would rather oppose than lose the pleasure of dancing with her; but she took the compliment, and forgave the rest.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

And yet it was the single man who appealed confidently to force, whilst the huge multitude swayed and murmured like a mutinous fierce-willed creature brought face to face with a power against which it knew that there was neither argument nor resistance.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Thursday, predestined to hope and enjoyment, came; and opened with more kindness to Fanny than such self-willed, unmanageable days often volunteer, for soon after breakfast a very friendly note was brought from Mr. Crawford to William, stating that as he found himself obliged to go to London on the morrow for a few days, he could not help trying to procure a companion; and therefore hoped that if William could make up his mind to leave Mansfield half a day earlier than had been proposed, he would accept a place in his carriage.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

In the meat on the platter he saw the shining sun and traced its energy back through all its transformations to its source a hundred million miles away, or traced its energy ahead to the moving muscles in his arms that enabled him to cut the meat, and to the brain wherewith he willed the muscles to move to cut the meat, until, with inward gaze, he saw the same sun shining in his brain.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He had, when he so willed it, the utter immobility of countenance of a red Indian, and I could not gather from his appearance whether he was satisfied or not with the position of the case.

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

Wild was the wrestle which should be paramount; but another feeling rose and triumphed: something hard and cynical: self-willed and resolute: it settled his passion and petrified his countenance: he went on—During the moment I was silent, Miss Eyre, I was arranging a point with my destiny.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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