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DISCOLOURED

Traducere în limba română

discoloured adjectiv

1. decolorat.

2. pătat; murdar

3. palid.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

The boards round and the panelling of the walls were of brown, worm-eaten oak, so old and discoloured that it may have dated from the original building of the house.

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

They had spent the morning raking among the ashes of the burned wood-pile, and besides the charred organic remains they had secured several discoloured metal discs.

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

During the first twelve hours I thought of Mrs. Reed in her last moments; I saw her disfigured and discoloured face, and heard her strangely altered voice.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

With a slow smile he drew a folded and discoloured scrap of paper from his pocket.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

In half a minute he had reached the port scuppers and picked, out of a coil of rope, a long knife, or rather a short dirk, discoloured to the hilt with blood.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

It was a linen bag which contained within it a mass of old rusted and discoloured metal and several dull-coloured pieces of pebble or glass.

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

The tears were running down his puffed and discoloured cheeks, and his face was drawn with pain. A savage expression flitted across it.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Neither is reason among them a point problematical, as with us, where men can argue with plausibility on both sides of the question, but strikes you with immediate conviction; as it must needs do, where it is not mingled, obscured, or discoloured, by passion and interest.

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

How vividly I call to mind the damp about the house, the green cracked flagstones in the court, an old leaky water-butt, and the discoloured trunks of some of the grim trees, which seemed to have dripped more in the rain than other trees, and to have blown less in the sun!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was two storeys high; showed no window, nothing but a door on the lower storey and a blind forehead of discoloured wall on the upper; and bore in every feature, the marks of prolonged and sordid negligence.

(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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