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EMBRACE
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Traducere în limba română
embrace I. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a îmbrăţişa, a strânge la piept.
2. (fig.) a se folosi de (un prilej).
3. (fig.) a îmbrăţişa, a primi (cu bucurie), a adopta (o teorie).
4. (fig.) a îmbrăţişa, a-şi alege; a studia (o specialitate).
5. (fig.) a îmbrăţişa, a cuprinde, a conţine, a include.
6. a înţelege dintr-o privire.
7. a mitui; a încerca să mitutască.
embrace I. verb B. intranzitiv
a se îmbrăţişa.
embrace II. substantiv
1. îmbrăţişare.
2. contact sexual.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
And it is not so much the embrace she gave me, that lives in my mind, though it was as fervent as could be, as what followed the embrace.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
No thought could be admitted of entering to embrace her.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
“My fair and dear lord,” said the knight, returning the warrior's embrace, “I have indeed come back to you, for where else shall I go that I may learn to be a gentle and a hardy knight?”
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Some eclipses are positive, and some do not bring welcome news, but all indications are that this particular solar eclipse of December 25 will open a new path for you and is one you will likely embrace.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
Then I resolved to wait, and at the last moment, when we entered on the final stretch, to take her in my arms and proclaim my love, and, with her in my embrace, to make the desperate struggle and die.
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
His wife was aroused by the quick movement, and turned to him with her arms stretched out, as though to embrace him; instantly, however, she drew them in again, and putting her elbows together, held her hands before her face, and shuddered till the bed beneath her shook.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
Buck knew no greater joy than that rough embrace and the sound of murmured oaths, and at each jerk back and forth it seemed that his heart would be shaken out of his body so great was its ecstasy.
(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)
They were taking leave of each other, and Agnes was going to embrace her and kiss her, when Mr. Wickfield stepped between them, as if by accident, and drew Agnes quickly away.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
"Oh, I know! you won't kiss the husband of Bertha Mason? You consider my arms filled and my embraces appropriated?"
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
Clasped in my embrace, I held the source of every worthy aspiration I had ever had; the centre of myself, the circle of my life, my own, my wife; my love of whom was founded on a rock!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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