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BESIDE

Traducere în limba română

beside I. prepoziție

1. lângă, la; aproape de, în preajma (cu gen.), în apropiere de, nu departe de, la doi paşi de;

beside the river lingă râu, lângă apă;

walk beside me mergi lângă mine;

he passed beside the house a trecut prin dreptul casei.

2. pe o parte a (cu gen.), într-o parte a (cu gen.).

3. pe lângă, în comparaţie cu, pus alături de;

he is a dwarf beside Shakespeare este un pigmeu în comparaţie cu Shakespeare.

4. în afară, la o parte de; dincolo de;

she was beside herself with grief îşi ieşise din minţi de durere;

he was beside himself with joy nu-şi încăpea în piele de bucurie, nu mai putea de bucurie;

this repartee is beside the mark răspunsul îşi greşeşte ţinta, răspunsul este deplasat / nepotrivit / nelalocul lui;

your remark is beside the point remarca dumitale e nelalocul ei / nu e la subiect.

5. mai presus de, în afară de, dincolo de;

his honesty is beside the question cinstea lui este mai presus de orice îndoială.

6. v. besides (I, 1).

beside II. adverb

(rar) pe deasupra, mai mult încă, în plus, de altminteri, de altfel.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

However, my speech produced nothing else beside a loud laughter, which all the respect due to his majesty from those about him could not make them contain.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He walked on beside her, reflecting.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The sheets were made of blue cloth, and Dorothy slept soundly in them till morning, with Toto curled up on the blue rug beside her.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Of course it has the sort of excitement about it that the sportsman feels when he lies beside the water-course and waits for the big game.

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

Then said the maid: “What a clever Elsie we have!” and sat down beside her and began loudly to weep over the misfortune.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Here are their marks on the left—here, beside the laurel bushes.

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

‘I should much prefer to have it so,’ said he, raising up a square, black morocco case which he had laid beside his chair.

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

“But how are they to reach it?” asked the young archer beside him.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

On the Tuesday morning Captain Barrington was found dead beside his bed with his throat cut.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Gatsby walked over and stood beside her.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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