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BLUNDERING

Traducere în limba română

blundering adjectiv

1. nedibaci, nepriceput; greoi, care face greşeli / gafe / boacăne.

2. greşit, eronat.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The unfortunate delay can be apportioned between a blundering pilot and an intrusive sandbank.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Poor blundering thief that he was, always getting caught and punished, he had none the less been a faithful worker.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

All night he ran, blundering in the darkness into mishaps and obstacles that delayed but did not daunt.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

They ought to have told me, and not let me go blundering and scolding, when I should have been more kind and patient than ever.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It is always a joy to meet an American, Mr. Moulton, for I am one of those who believe that the folly of a monarch and the blundering of a minister in far-gone years will not prevent our children from being some day citizens of the same world-wide country under a flag which shall be a quartering of the Union Jack with the Stars and Stripes.

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

Now, amidst roars of laughter from the crowd and a shower of blows from the beaters-out, they dived madly back, with the ungainly haste of frightened sheep blundering through a gap in their hurdles.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

An indescribable character of faded gentility that attached to the house I sought, and made it unlike all the other houses in the street—though they were all built on one monotonous pattern, and looked like the early copies of a blundering boy who was learning to make houses, and had not yet got out of his cramped brick-and-mortar pothooks—reminded me still more of Mr. and Mrs. Micawber.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She had known better than the blundering gods.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“I don't, indeed, my dear boy,” he returned; “but I mean to say that they are managed and decided by the same set of people, down in that same Doctors' Commons. You shall go there one day, and find them blundering through half the nautical terms in Young's Dictionary, apropos of the “Nancy” having run down the “Sarah Jane”, or Mr. Peggotty and the Yarmouth boatmen having put off in a gale of wind with an anchor and cable to the “Nelson”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So Meg reclined, with rubbers well hidden, and Jo went blundering away to the dining room, which she found after going into a china closet, and opening the door of a room where old Mr. Gardiner was taking a little private refreshment.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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