entertain

Little by little, hopes I had entertained after our interview with the ship's commander were fading away.
Les espérances que j'avais conçues après notre entrevue avec le commandant du bord s'effaçaient peu à peu.
For a long time I had entertained the notion that events happening to a person during the years of his existence are more firmly within his possession than the structures of worldly accomplishment which he leaves behind.
J'avais amusé pendant longtemps la notion que les événements arrivant à une personne pendant les années de son existence sont plus fermement dans sa possession que les structures de l'accomplissement mondain qu'il laisse.
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