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FLIGHT
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Traducere în limba română
flight I. s.
1. zbor, avânt;
(av.) flight without engine zbor fără motor;
(av.) flight on even keel zbor orizontal;
to take / to wing one’s flight a-şi lua zborul, a porni în zbor;
flight of fancy / imagination avânt al fanteziei / al imaginaţiei; rod al fanteziei.
2. fugă, retragere grabnică;
to be in flight from a fugi de;
to put / to turn to flight a pune pe fugă;
to take (to) flight a o rupe la fugă, a da bir cu fugiţii;
in full flight în plină derută.
3. parcurs, lungime sau distanţă de zbor.
4. stol, cârd.
5. (fig.) ploaie, grindină (de săgeţi, gloanţe etc.), salvă.
6. (av.) grup, escadrilă (de avioane).
7. cuibar, toţi puii (de pasăre) dintr-un cuib.
8. (fig.) scurgere, zbor, trecere (a vremii).
9. şir de garduri sau obstacole (la cursele de cai).
10. (şi flight of stairs / steps) (constr.) peron, şir de trepte (între două paliere / repausuri ale unei scări).
11. (constr.) etaj, cat.
12. (constr., hidr.) ecluze în trepte, şir de stăvilare pe parcursul unui canal.
13. pleavă (mai ales) de ovăz.
14. săgeată uşoară.
◊ (fam.) in the first flight în primele rânduri, în frunte.
flight II. verb A. intranzitiv
a zbura.
flight II. verb B. tranzitiv
1. a fugări.
2. a speria.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Because, from his bedroom window, he saw the flight of the boy, because he wished to overtake him and bring him back.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“The cause of her flight is too well understood,” I said.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
His god was preparing for another flight.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
How say you, old war-hound, will you not have a flight shot or two with this springald?
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me until it turned into a kind of frenzy.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
He confessed himself obliged to leave the regiment, on account of some debts of honour, which were very pressing; and scrupled not to lay all the ill-consequences of Lydia's flight on her own folly alone.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
There was too much wind to make the high part of the new Cobb pleasant for the ladies, and they agreed to get down the steps to the lower, and all were contented to pass quietly and carefully down the steep flight, excepting Louisa; she must be jumped down them by Captain Wentworth.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
The mechanism of the flight of birds he had watched and reasoned about with understanding; but it had never entered his head to try to explain the process whereby birds, as organic flying mechanisms, had been developed.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
“Tell Mr. Copperfield about the flight.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
“I' faith, it is a very long flight. Yet wood and steel may do more than flesh and blood.”
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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