Editura Global Info / Dicţionar englez-român

CLEVER

Pronunție (USA):

(GB):

Traducere în limba română

clever adjectiv

1. deştept, inteligent, isteţ, mehenghi; spiritual, plin de spirit, de duh;

a clever child un copil deştept, isteţ;

(peior.) you are too clever by half grozav de deştept mai eşti! deşteptule!

clever-clever prea deştept.

2. înzestrat, dăruit, talentat.

3. iscusit, dibaci, îndemânatic, capabil; abil; artistic, măiestru, măiestrit;

a clever piece of work o lucrare artistică / măiastră.

4. dibaci, abil, şiret, şmecher, rafinat.

5. (amer. fam.) simpatic; cumsecade; chipeş.

6. sprinten, agil, zglobiu, repede, iute, iute de picior.

7. (sl.) deştept, tare, valabil, haios, mişto, excepţional.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I presently perceived she was (what is vernacularly termed) trailing Mrs. Dent; that is, playing on her ignorance—her trail might be clever, but it was decidedly not good- natured.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Young women and young men, all sorts of young men, clever men, men who have done something or who are doing things, men of her own class, gentlemen.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Because they are not clever enough for you—gentlemen read better books.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

He is clever, oh, so clever! he know that his game here was finish; and so he decide he go back home.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Because, you clever boy, you'll not forget me then, while you are full of silent fancies.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He is handsome, young, clever enough, and very rich—ever so much richer than the Laurences.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It must be very clever, or he would not have brought it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Every thing he said, was clever.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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)

“I thought at first that you had done something clever, but I see that there was nothing in it after all.”

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

TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA