NERVED

Traducere în limba română

nerved adjectiv

1. (în cuvinte compuse) cu nervii;

strong-nerved cu nervii tari / de oţel.

2. (bot.) cu nervuri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

She had nerved herself for the last culminating ordeal, and his remark was like a blow to her self-possession.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Time and again he nerved himself up to call, but under the doubts that assailed him his determination died away.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Oh, my friend John, but it was butcher work; had I not been nerved by thoughts of other dead, and of the living over whom hung such a pall of fear, I could not have gone on.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

This nerved me to get rid of Mary Anne, who went so mildly, on receipt of wages, that I was surprised, until I found out about the tea-spoons, and also about the little sums she had borrowed in my name of the tradespeople without authority.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But God be thanked, that soul-wail of my dear Madam Mina had not died out of my ears; and, before the spell could be wrought further upon me, I had nerved myself to my wild work.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then I told her, with my arms clasped round her, how I loved her, so dearly, and so dearly; how I felt it right to offer to release her from her engagement, because now I was poor; how I never could bear it, or recover it, if I lost her; how I had no fears of poverty, if she had none, my arm being nerved and my heart inspired by her; how I was already working with a courage such as none but lovers knew; how I had begun to be practical, and look into the future; how a crust well earned was sweeter far than a feast inherited; and much more to the same purpose, which I delivered in a burst of passionate eloquence quite surprising to myself, though I had been thinking about it, day and night, ever since my aunt had astonished me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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