SHOULD

Traducere în limba română

should part. trec. de la shall.

1. auxiliar pentru formarea viitorului în trecut;

I said I should be at home next week am spus că voi veni acasă săptămăna viitoare.

2. auxiliar pentru formarea propoziţiunilor condiţionale;

we should come if we were invited am veni dacă am fi invitaţi;

I should like a drink tare aş bea ceva;

I should hardly think so n-aş crede.

3. exprimând o obligaţie sau o hotărâre;

we should be punctual trebuie să fim punctuali.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In the first place, no reason could be given why the young man should have fastened the door upon the inside.

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

In my education my father had taken the greatest precautions that my mind should be impressed with no supernatural horrors.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He wouldn’t have any visitors if he could help it, and he used to say that a woman should be happy in her own family circle.

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

It will be no use to us, if twenty such should come, since you will not visit them.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

For a dishonest one, obviously, or why should he drug his own stable-boy?

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

Should the letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the extent of my knowledge....

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Probably I should have told the whole story to the doctor, for I was in mortal fear lest the captain should repent of his confessions and make an end of me.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

At home I should undoubtedly have given vent to my anguish; but this new and elemental environment seemed to call for a savage repression.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

It was inevitable that they should go short on dog-food.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

Now, with the planets much closer to the star, their low-density atmospheres should evaporate into space over the next few billion years.

('Cotton Candy' Planet Mysteries Unravel in New Hubble Observations, NASA)

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