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EIGHT

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eight I. numeral, adjectiv, pronume

opt;

eight-hour (working) day zi de lucru de opt ore;

eight and six (pence) opt şilingi şi şase penny;

we breakfast at eight dejunăm la ora opt;

the eight-thirty train trenul de opt şi jumătate;

to be eight (years old) a avea opt ani, a fi de opt ani;

a mother of eight mamă a opt copii;

eight times four are thirty-two opt ori patru fac treizecişidoi.

eight II. substantiv

1. opt; formaţie / echipă de opt;

the eight of spades optul de pică;

to take eight in gloves a avea numărul opt la mănuşi;

the Eights întreceri de canotaj între echipe de opt studenţi (de la Cambridge şi Oxford);

in eight în octavo, în 8.

2. (sport) opt (la patinaj).

3. o maşină de opt cilindri.

◊ (fam.) he’s had one over the eight a băut o picătură prea mult.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

But there are eight servants, and all of good character.

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

Altogether there are eight maids, the cook, the butler, two footmen, and a boy.

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

The bed was eight yards from the floor.

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

“If so, mention it, Twenty Eight.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In the dining-room, which lay at the back of the hall, we found eight boxes of earth.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

There will call upon you to-night, at a quarter to eight o’clock, it said, a gentleman who desires to consult you upon a matter of the very deepest moment.

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

Eight planets will be in earth signs at that time, so you’ll need to be practical and focused.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

This was a run of eight or nine miles.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

“What time was the funeral? Eight, was it not?” he asked eagerly.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And thus eight years had passed over their heads, when the king thought of his father; and he began to long to see him once again.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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