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WORTHY
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Traducere în limba română
worthy I. adjectiv
1. (of, to) demn (de);
of praise, worthy to be praised vrednic / demn de laudă.
2. corespunzător, conform; cuvenit;
to receive a worthy reward a primi recompensa cuvenită.
3. venerabil, respectabil, onorabil;
a worthy man un om onorabil.
worthy II. substantiv
1. persoană demnă de respect / laudă.
2. (înv.) celebritate, somitate, om ilustru.
3. (înv.) erou.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Such an agreeable, worthy man as he seemed to be!
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
My dear Mina, why are men so noble when we women are so little worthy of them?
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
“Go whither, worthy sir?” asked one of the carriers.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I hope I shall be worthy of YOU, aunt.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
A worthy employment for a young lady's mind!
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
He must be that if he were ever to be worthy of breathing the same air with her.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
I think him every thing that is worthy and amiable.
(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)
And yet, as I looked carefully from man to man in the line which faced me, I could see that the English, although they were ten to one, had not the game entirely to themselves, but that other races had shown that they could produce fighting-men worthy to rank with the best.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Suppose I stole softly away, suppose I made my way down to the central lake, suppose I was back at breakfast with some record of the place—would I not in that case be thought an even more worthy associate?
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Think of that, you villain, you villain!—now, now, at this very moment, Alexis, a man whose name you are not worthy to speak, works and lives like a slave, and yet I have your life in my hands, and I let you go.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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