Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - pleased
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Pleased
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~ adj 1 especially BrE happy or satisfied (I was so pleased when they said they'd be able to stay another week.) + abou (Are you pleased about the results?) pleased (with) (Di seems pleased with her new car. | pleased (that)) (I'm pleased you decided to come. | very/really pleased) (We asked our lawyer to check the contract, and we're really pleased we did. | be pleased to hear/see/report etc) (I'm pleased to hear about your new job.) 2 be pleased to help/assist to be very willing or happy to help (If there's anything we can do, we'd be pleased to help.) 3 (I'm) pleased to meet you spoken used as a polite greeting when you meet someone for the first time 4 pleased with yourself feeling unreasonably proud or satisfied because you think you have done something clever (She was looking very pleased with herself so I guessed she'd passed her driving test.) 5 not very pleased informal, often humorous rather annoyed (She wasn't very pleased when she found out about the dent in her car.)
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Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English. 1. If you are pleased, you are happy about something or satisfied with something. Felicity seemed pleased at the suggestion... I think he’s going to be pleased that we identified the real problems... They’re pleased to be going home... He glanced at her with a pleased smile. ADJ: usu v-link ADJ, usu ADJ prep/that/to-inf 2. If you say you will be pleased to do something, you are saying in a polite way that you are willing to do it. We will be pleased to answer any questions you may have... = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf c darkgreen]politeness 3. You can tell someone that you are pleased with something they have done in order to express your approval. I’m pleased with the way things have been going... I am very pleased about the result... We are pleased that the problems have been resolved... We were very pleased to hear this encouraging news. = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ, usu ADJ prep/that/to-inf c darkgreen]feelings 4. When you are about to give someone some news which you know will please them, you can say that you are pleased to tell them the news or that they will be pleased to hear it. I’m pleased to say that he is now doing well... = happy ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf 5. In official letters, people often say they will be pleased to do something, as a polite way of introducing what they are going to do or inviting people to do something. We will be pleased to delete the charge from the original invoice... ADJ: v-link ADJ to-inf c darkgreen]politeness 6. If someone seems very satisfied with something they have done, you can say that they are pleased with themselves, especially if you think they are more satisfied than they should be. He was pleased with himself for having remembered her name... PHRASE: v-link PHR, PHR with cl 7. You can say ‘Pleased to meet you’ as a polite way of greeting someone who you are meeting for the first time. CONVENTION c darkgreen]formulae ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
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1. довольный pleased smile —- довольная улыбка Id: (as) pleased as Punch —- очень доволен, рад-радешенек; преисполнен самодовольства ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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