Editura Global Info / Dicţionar englez-român

WOE

Pronunție (USA):

(GB):

Traducere în limba română

woe I. substantiv

calamitate, nenorocire.

woe II. interjecție

vai!;

woe is me! vai de mine! vai mie!;

woe be to him! woe betide him! vai lui! blestem asupra lui! blestemat fie (el)!

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Woe worth me when Agatha the tire-woman sets eyes upon it!

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Yet, when I am dead, if he should appear, if the ministers of vengeance should conduct him to you, swear that he shall not live—swear that he shall not triumph over my accumulated woes and survive to add to the list of his dark crimes.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Woe is me!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Now woe worth me!

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Oh, friend John, it is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles; and yet when King Laugh come he make them all dance to the tune he play.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

First, because you are young and brave and can fight, and all energies may be needed at the last; and again that it is your right to destroy him—that—which has wrought such woe to you and yours.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA