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FLEET
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Traducere în limba română
fleet1 I. verb A. intranzitiv
1. (înv.) a pluti (la suprafaţă); a înota.
2. (şi to fleet away) a trece, a se scurge repede, a zbura; a fi trecător / fugar / efemer.
fleet1 I. verb B. tr. (rar)
1. a petrece (timpul).
2. a trece repede pe deasupra.
fleet1 II. substantiv
1. (mar.) flotă;
the fleet flota de război;
fleet of the desert corăbiile deşertului, caravană de cămile.
2. (mar.) flotilă;
a fleet of whalers o flotilă de baleniere.
3. parc de automobile / tancuri / locomotive etc.
fleet1 III. adjectiv
1. iute, sprinten;
(poetic) fleet of foot iute de picior.
2. (poetic) care se scurge repede, trecător, fugar, fugitiv, efemer.
3. (înv., dial., despre apă) puţin adânc.
fleet1 IV. adverb
(înv., dial.) la mică adincime.
fleet2 s.
1. golf mic, baie.
2. gârlă.
fleet3 verb tranzitiv
a scoate smântâna de pe / din, a lua caimacul de la /din.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I have been doing good work for the fleet up yonder.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I arrived at the fleet in less than half an hour.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Laurie didn't seem to know where to begin, but Jo's eager questions soon set him going, and he told her how he had been at school in Vevay, where the boys never wore hats and had a fleet of boats on the lake, and for holiday fun went on walking trips about Switzerland with their teachers.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
And theer's one curious thing—that, though he is so pleasant, I wouldn't fare to feel comfortable to try and get his mind upon 't. He never said a wured to me as warn't as dootiful as dootiful could be, and it ain't likely as he'd begin to speak any other ways now; but it's fur from being fleet water in his mind, where them thowts lays.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
“What used they to say in the fleet about it?”
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
6th, He shall be our ally against our enemies in the island of Blefuscu, and do his utmost to destroy their fleet, which is now preparing to invade us.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
I say that all prize-money should be divided equally among the whole fleet, and until you have such a rule, the smartest men will always be found where they are of least service to any one but themselves.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
He said, that as for sending me bound, his brother knew it was impossible; that, although I had deprived him of his fleet, yet he owed great obligations to me for many good offices I had done him in making the peace.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
As it was, the French got back the twenty thousand good seamen whom we had captured, and a fine dance they led us with their Boulogne flotillas and fleets of invasion before we were able to catch them again.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Lilliputians, I think, are hardly worth the charge of a fleet and army to reduce them; and I question whether it might be prudent or safe to attempt the Brobdingnagians; or whether an English army would be much at their ease with the Flying Island over their heads.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
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