HASTILY

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Traducere în limba română

hastily adverb

1. în grabă, grabnic; repede, fără zăbavă, în pripă.

2. nesăbuit, fără socoteală, fără chibzuinţă; precipitat, cu precipitare, imprudent;

to speak hastily a vorbi fără să se gândească;

they hastily engaged in the war au intrat în război în mod nesocotit.

3. nerăbdător, cu nerăbdare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I turned him hastily on some pretence, and held him in conversation until it was gone.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“That is a curious old chest, is not it?” said Miss Tilney, as Catherine hastily closed it and turned away to the glass.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

"The match must have been got up hastily," said Diana: "they cannot have known each other long."

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

"Not always," and something in Laurie's voice made Jo say hastily...

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Marianne coloured, and replied very hastily, "Where, pray?"

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

In this manner Lady Catherine talked on, till they were at the door of the carriage, when, turning hastily round, she added, I take no leave of you, Miss Bennet.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I looked hastily at the lantern.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

She hastily covered it.

(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing hastily done; nothing incomplete.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

“I am sure she ought to be very much obliged to you,” added Julia, hastily leaving the room as she spoke, from a consciousness that she ought to offer to stay at home herself.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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