DESTINE

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Traducere în limba română

destine verb tranzitiv

to destine to / for (mai ales pasiv) a destina pentru (sau cu dat.), a sorti (cu dat.), a meni (cu dat.), a hărăzi (cu dat.), a predestina, a hotărî dinainte să / pentru / spre; a numi, a desemna pentru;

he was destined to become an actor era menit să se facă actor;

he was destined never to see her again nu-i era dat să o mai vadă vreodată.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

One other adventure was destined for him that day.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

My friend's fear or hope was not destined to be realized.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He saw his mistress once before the destined ceremony; but she was bathed in tears, and throwing herself at his feet, entreated him to spare her, confessing at the same time that she loved another, but that he was poor, and that her father would never consent to the union.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

Yet he could but agree to do what he might, and so went forth from the castle hall with his face flushed and his head in a whirl at the thought of the strange and perilous paths which his feet were destined to tread.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Elizabeth had heard soon after her arrival that Mr. Darcy was expected there in the course of a few weeks, and though there were not many of her acquaintances whom she did not prefer, his coming would furnish one comparatively new to look at in their Rosings parties, and she might be amused in seeing how hopeless Miss Bingley's designs on him were, by his behaviour to his cousin, for whom he was evidently destined by Lady Catherine, who talked of his coming with the greatest satisfaction, spoke of him in terms of the highest admiration, and seemed almost angry to find that he had already been frequently seen by Miss Lucas and herself.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

It is true, that while I worked, she would idle; and I thought to myself, If you and I were destined to live always together, cousin, we would commence matters on a different footing.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When she took in her history, indeed, her situation, as well as her beauty; when she considered what all this elegance was destined to, what she was going to sink from, how she was going to live, it seemed impossible to feel any thing but compassion and respect; especially, if to every well-known particular entitling her to interest, were added the highly probable circumstance of an attachment to Mr. Dixon, which she had so naturally started to herself.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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