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DRAUGHT

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Traducere în limba română

draught substantiv

1. curent de aer; tiraj;

(fig. fam.) to feel the draught a se afla într-o situaţie critică, a fi la ananghie, a fi strâmtorat (băneşte).

2. scurgere, tragere;

beer on draught bere din butoi.

3. înghiţitură, sorbitură, duşcă;

to drink at a draught a bea dintr-o sorbitură;

mend your draught! încă o duşcă!

4. aruncare a năvodului; peşti prinşi dintr-o aruncare a năvodului.

5. (med.) doză dintr-o doctorie lichidă; vezicătoare;

black draught purgativ.

6. (mar.) pescaj.

7. plural dame (joc);

to play (at) draughts a juca dame.

8. (mat.) epură.

9. (text.) năvădire.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I fear that you have felt the draught.’

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

He does not think of the draught.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

But she would not leave him alone, and urged him saying, If you will not eat anything, at least you might take a draught of wine; one drink counts for nothing, and at last he allowed himself to be persuaded, and drank.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The latter lay farthest in, and she was covered with a white sheet, the edge of which had been blown back by the draught through the broken window, showing the drawn, white face, with a look of terror fixed upon it.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“I know what would,” said the little old man; “it is the Water of Life. If he could have a draught of it he would be well again; but it is very hard to get.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

One day Frederick said. Kate! I am going to work in the fields; when I come back I shall be hungry so let me have something nice cooked, and a good draught of ale.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

When one of the chickens was swallowed down, and still her master did not come, Gretel looked at the other and said: What one is, the other should be likewise, the two go together; what’s right for the one is right for the other; I think if I were to take another draught it would do me no harm.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

And when she came home she drank, in her gladness of heart, a draught of wine, and as wine excites a desire to eat, she tasted the best of whatever she was cooking until she was satisfied, and said: The cook must know what the food is like.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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