ADVENTURE

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adventure I. substantiv

1. aventură; întâmplare neobişnuită; păţanie, peripeţie;

(înv.) at (all) adventure la noroc; în chip nesăbuit.

2. întreprindere îndrăzneaţă, risc, aventură.

3. (mine) întreprindere minieră; mină.

adventure II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a risca, a pune în joc;

to adventure one's life a-şi pune viaţa în joc.

2. a întreprinde.

adventure II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se încumeta, a îndrăzni, a se aventura.

Have you been in it since your adventure?

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

I trust that Mrs. Watson has entirely recovered from all the little excitements connected with our adventure of the Sign of Four.

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

After going over the adventure of the night he suddenly said:—Your patient interests me much.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

There was the point from which all my adventures started.

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

It would have been a poor end of my adventures to get shot down by my own party in mistake.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I know not which of the three was the more astonished, for my mother had not heard of my adventures of the night.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Greater than his adventure in the world of thought was his love-adventure.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Didn't you say it was adventures you were after?

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I like adventures, and I'm going to find some.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

And after several such adventures, he left the walls alone.

(White Fang, de Jack London)