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CAVE
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Traducere în limba română
cave I. substantiv
1. peşteră; vizuină; văgăună; grotă.
2. cavitate; depresiune.
3. (tehn.) cenuşar; laborator fierbinte.
4. (pol.) fracţiune, dizidenţă, grupare de opoziţie sau care s-a rupt de partid.
5. (geol.) carst, gol subteran, peşteră.
6. (fiz.) celulă.
7. (constr.) pivniţă.
cave II. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a scobi, a excava.
2. a aşeza, a pune într-o peşteră.
3. to cave in a dărâma, a face să se prăbuşească, a surpa.
cave II. verb B. intranzitiv
1. a se afunda, a se prăbuşi.
2. (pol.) a se separa, a face o fracţiune, a face dizidenţă.
3. (despre pământ) a se surpa.
4. to cave in a) (despre pământ) a se surpa; a se afunda; b) a se prăbuşi (şi fig.); c) (fig. fam.) a ceda, a bate în retragere.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
She rarely slept any more in the cave, spending most of her time on the meat-trail, and spending it vainly.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
And thereupon we all entered the cave.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
"There is no difficulty about that," said I. "They live in the caves on the other side of the central lake."
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His power and threats were not omitted in my calculations; a creature who could exist in the ice-caves of the glaciers and hide himself from pursuit among the ridges of inaccessible precipices was a being possessing faculties it would be vain to cope with.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
The Denisovan species of humans is only directly known from the same cave, where it was discovered in 2011; the cave is also the only site where both Nenderthal and Denisovan remains have been found.
(Fossil genome shows hybrid of two extinct species of human, Wikinews)
These two baby wolves! If I am lean like a starved cat, they are lean like cats that have never eaten and have died. Their eyes are sunk deep in their heads, bright sometimes as with fever, dim and cloudy sometimes like the eyes of the dead. Their cheeks are hollow like caves in a cliff. Also are their cheeks black and raw from many freezings.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
When he grew tired, he found his way back to the cave and slept.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
We also continually visited their caves, which were most remarkable places, though whether made by man or by Nature we have never been able to determine.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He rested for two days, and then ventured forth from the cave again.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Well, if you come to think of it there are eighteen cave openings on the hill-side above us.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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