COUNTENANCE

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countenance I. substantiv

1. înfăţişare (a feţei), expresie, fizionomie, aer, mină; faţă, obraz;

play of countenance mimică;

to change one's countenance a se schimba la faţă;

his countenance fell făcu o mină plouată; rămase cu gura căscată;

to put a good countenance on the matter a privi chestiunea cu ochi buni;

to keep (one's) countenance a) a nu se trăda, a nu se clinti; a-şi păstra calmul / sângele rece; b) a se ţine să nu râdă, a-şi stăpâni râsul;

2. cumpăt, calm, sânge rece, linişte;

to lose countenance a-şi pierde cumpătul, a se buimăci, a se pierde, a se fâstâci;

to put smb. out of countenance a scoate pe cineva din sărite / pepeni / ţâţâni / fire;

in countenance liniştit; în apele lui;

out of countenance scos din sărite / fire.

3. (fig.) favoare, hatâr, protecţie, proptele, simpatie; sprijin moral, suport;

to lend one's countenance to a sprijini moraliceşte, a îmbărbăta, a încuraja;

in countenance în graţii, privit cu ochi buni, cu trecere;

to put in countenance a) a promova, a favoriza; b) a sprijini, a încuraja;

to give countenance to a) a încuraja, a îmbărbăta; b) a sprijini; a întări, a confirma (un zvon etc.);

to give oneself countenance a se stăpâni.

countenance II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a sprijini, a susţine (moraliceşte), a încuraja.

2. a vedea cu ochi buni, a permite, a îngădui;

I cannot countenance such conduct nu pot privi cu ochi buni o astfel de comportare.

3. (înv.) a simula.

countenance II. verb B. intranzitiv

(înv.) a se preface.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He seemed to be looking in her countenance for that explanation which her lips did not afford.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Do you think he had the Elliot countenance?

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It is her countenance that is so attractive.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

And Meg tried to keep her countenance, Amy looked so grave and important.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Omer looked at me, with a steady countenance, and shook his head.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Because I want to read your countenance—turn!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Elinor DID think the question a very odd one, and her countenance expressed it, as she answered that she had never seen Mrs. Ferrars.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I want to know, said she, with a countenance no less smiling than her sister's, what you have learnt about Mr. Wickham.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I see it in your countenance.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He did so, and they talked together for some time in their own language, whereof I understood not a syllable, neither could I observe by their countenances, what impression my discourse had made on them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

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