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FOLK

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Traducere în limba română

folk s.

1. (înv.) popor, rasă.

2. (mai ales pl.) lume, oameni;

old folk bătrânii, cei bătrâni;

rich folk bogaţii, cei bogaţi;

my folks ai mei; rudele mele;

(fam.) the old folks at home părinţii, bătrânii, babacii;

(prov.) idle folks lack no excuses leneşul la toate zice că nu se poate;

(prov.) lazy folks take the most pains leneşul mai mult aleargă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He said the folk were not fit for us to know, when all father’s friends were to be there.

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

When half the folk in the country were dead it was then that the other half could pick and choose who they would work for, and for what wage.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There’s three folk come out since he went in, but I’ll swear he wasn’t one of them.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If these two folk passed away by road, it was this road.

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

"Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

It may have been about four o’clock, though with this crowd of folk and carriages it’s hard to swear to it.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I walked past it, and wondered what sort of folk they were who had come to live so near us.

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

These, I afterward learned, were the hunters, the men who shot the seals, and a very superior breed to common sailor-folk.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“It's a poor wurem, Mas'r Davy,” said Ham, “as is trod under foot by all the town. Up street and down street. The mowld o' the churchyard don't hold any that the folk shrink away from, more.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Well, I have drawn my circle, and I only wish I knew at what point upon it the folk that we are in search of are to be found.”

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

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