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1 sober
['səubə]1) (not drunk: He was still sober when he left.) trezen2) (serious in mind: a sober mood.) resen3) ((of colour) not bright: She wore a sober (grey) dress.) temen4) (moderate; not overdone or too emotional: His account of the accident was factual and sober.) zmeren•- sobering- soberly
- soberness
- sober up* * *I [sóubə]adjectivetrezen, ne pijan, iztreznjen; zmeren, spodoben, razumen, pameten, zdrave pameti; miren, umirjen, uravnovešen, nepretiran, hladnokrven, oprezen; resen, slovesen; razsoden; gol (o dejstvu); hladen, miren, nekričeč (o barvah); preprost, temen (o obleki)in sober earnest — čisto resno, brez šaleto appeal from Philip drunk to Philip sober — opozoriti koga, da je njegovo trenutno mnenje pogojeno od razpoloženjaII [sóubə]transitive verb & intransitive verbstrezniti (se) (tudi figuratively), spametovati (se); figuratively ublažiti (se), umiriti (se)to sober down — strezniti (se), spametovati (se), umiriti (se), ublažiti (se) -
2 earnest
['ə:nist]1) (serious or over-serious: an earnest student; She wore an earnest expression.) resen2) (showing determination, sincerity or strong feeling: He made an earnest attempt to improve his work.) resen•- earnestly
- in earnest* * *I [ɜ:nist]adjective ( earnestly adverb)resen, tehten; prepričan, iskrento be earnest with s.o. — goreče koga prositiII [ɜ:nist]nounresnostto be in earnest — resno misliti, ne se šalitiin good ( —ali full, sober, real, sad) earnest — popolnoma resno, brez šaleIII [ɜ:nist]nounara, nadav; slutnja
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