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GRAVEL

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Traducere în limba română

gravel I. substantiv

1. pietriş, prund(iş); nisip;

(amer. fam.) to scratch gravel a) a se căra, a o lua din loc; b) a-şi câştiga pâinea cu sudoarea frunţii; a lucra din greu pentru existenţă.

2. (mine, geol.) nisip aurifer; strat aurifer.

3. (med.) calculi renali, piatră, pietre la rinichi.

gravel II. verb tranzitiv

1. a prundi, a prundui, a presăra cu pietriş.

2. (fig. fam.) a încurca, a pune în încurcătură / în dilemă; a nedumeri.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

You drew some of the gravel from your pocket, and you threw it up at the window above you.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Mr. Collins and Charlotte appeared at the door, and the carriage stopped at the small gate which led by a short gravel walk to the house, amidst the nods and smiles of the whole party.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I advise you to go out: the air will do you good; go out for an hour on the gravel; you will have the shrubbery to yourself, and will be the better for air and exercise.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

My aunt, with every sort of expression but wonder discharged from her countenance, sat on the gravel, staring at me, until I began to cry; when she got up in a great hurry, collared me, and took me into the parlour.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

A change had come over him and he spoke gravely, and with decision. As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

His hand, trembling with his effort at self control, bore to his lips the last of his glass of ale. Daisy's voice got us to our feet and out on to the blazing gravel drive.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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