RELIEF

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Traducere în limba română

relief¹ substantiv

1. uşurare, alinare, mângâiere, despovărare; calmare, potolire, domolire;

the medicine brought him some relief doctoria i-a adus o oarecare alinare / uşurare;

to feel some relief a simţi o oarecare uşurare / ameliorare;

to heave a sigh of relief a scoate un oftat de uşurare.

2. descărcare; reducere;

relief of the pressure reducere a presiunii;

relief from taxation degrevare, uşurare de impozite.

3. ajutor;

to go to smb’s relief a merge în jutorul cuiva / pentru a da ajutor cuiva;

relief of old people ajutorul bătrânilor;

parish relief ajutor parohial;

(out)door relief ajutor de domiciliu.

4. (mil.) despresurare (a unui oraş, a unei fortificaţii );

relief troops trupe de ajutor.

5. (mil.) schimbare (a gărzii etc.).

6. (mar.) schimb de cart.

7. (jur.) reparare;

he could get no relief nu a putut obţine câştig de cauză.

relief² substantiv

1. (arte) relief;

high relief alto rilievo;

low relief basorelief;

half relief mezzorilievo;

in relief în relief;

to stand out in (full / high / sharp) relief a ieşi puternic în relief / evidenţă, a se detaşa, a se remarca; a se individualiza;

to bring / to throw smth. into relief a scoate ceva în relief / în evidenţă / la iveală, a pune în evidenţă / în adevărata sa lumină;

to bring smth. out in bold / strong relief a scoate ceva puternic în evidenţă, a sublinia ceva cu tărie;

to give relief to one’s style a da culoare stilului.

2. (geogr.) relief.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Having one less thing on your list will be a relief as you enter 2020.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Mother will accept, I'm sure, and it will be such a relief to know that she has someone to take care of her.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Please circle the one percentage that most shows how much relief you have received.

(BPI - Relief Pain Treatments Provided, NCI Thesaurus)

I am afraid we think too differently for me to find any relief in talking of what I feel.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I could only clasp her hand. I could not speak; my emotion was too great for even the relief of tears.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“Oh! and that's a reason why you want relief and change—excitement and all that?” said she.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Marianne slowly continued—It is a great relief to me—what Elinor told me this morning—I have now heard exactly what I wished to hear.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I know that the sympathy of a stranger can be but of little relief to one borne down as you are by so strange a misfortune.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

“The better for him!” cried the little man, with a long sigh of relief.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Holmes’s face showed his amazement, and also his relief.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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