gift
/ɡɪft/ nom A1En français : présent, cadeau, don, talent
- Something given to another voluntarily, without charge. · She gave him a cell phone as a birthday gift.
- A talent or natural ability. · She had a gift for playing the flute.
- Something gained incidentally, without effort.
- The act, right, or power of giving or bestowing. · The office is in the gift of the President.
Pluriel gifts
Dans la bibliothèque
On this the truthful Traveler thought to himself, “If so great a reward be given for a lie, with what gift may not I be rewarded, if, according to my custom, I tell the truth?” The Ape quickly turned to him.
It is with a heavy heart that I take up my pen to write these the last words in which I shall ever record the singular gifts by which my friend Mr.
Mediocrity knows nothing higher than itself; but talent instantly recognizes genius, and MacDonald had talent enough for his profession to enable him to perceive that there was no humiliation in seeking the assistance of one who already stood alone in Europe, both in his gifts and in his experience.
A long series of sterile weeks lay behind us, and here at last there was a fitting object for those remarkable powers which, like all special gifts, become irksome to their owner when they are not in use.
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