AFFLICTION

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Traducere în limba română

affliction substantiv

mâhnire, întristare; supărare; durere; suferinţă, boală; nenorocire, năpastă;

(fig.) the bread of affliction pâine amară.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I never cry unless for some great affliction.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Peggotty was so far sensible of HIS affliction, that he wrung his hand; but, otherwise, he remained in the same state, and no one dared to disturb him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It has been, it is a most cruel affliction.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I only said in reply, that from my heart I wished her well, and earnestly hoped that she might soon learn to think more justly, and not owe the most valuable knowledge we could any of us acquire, the knowledge of ourselves and of our duty, to the lessons of affliction, and immediately left the room.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

She knew (she said) how such a nature as mine would turn affliction to good.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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)

What it was, she had no idea as yet, but left it for time to tell her, and meanwhile, found her greatest affliction in the fact that she couldn't read, run, and ride as much as she liked.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The impending shadow of a great affliction, and a great disgrace that had no distinct form in it yet, fell like a stain upon the quiet place where I had worked and played as a boy, and did it a cruel wrong.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Colonel Brandon was now as happy, as all those who best loved him, believed he deserved to be;—in Marianne he was consoled for every past affliction;—her regard and her society restored his mind to animation, and his spirits to cheerfulness; and that Marianne found her own happiness in forming his, was equally the persuasion and delight of each observing friend.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

If the events I go on to relate, had not thickened around me, in the beginning to confuse, and in the end to augment, my affliction, it is possible (though I think not probable), that I might have fallen at once into this condition.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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