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KNEE

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knee substantiv

1. genunchi;

to hold smth. on one's knees a ţine ceva pe genunchi;

to bend / bow the knee to / before smb. a îngenunchea în faţa cuiva (în semn de omagiu);

to ask for smth. on one's (bended) knees a cere ceva în genunchi;

to go down / to fall / to drop on one's knees a îngenunchea, a cădea / a se pune/ a se arunca în genunchi;

to go down on one's knees to smb. a se arunca în genunchi în faţa cuiva;

to bring smb. to his knees a îngenunchea pe cineva, a-l pune pe cineva cu botul pe labe;

to learn smth. at one's mother knees a învăţa ceva în preajma mamei;

to be seated knee to knee a fi aşezat / a fi aşezat în imediata apropiere (a cuiva);

to ride knee to knee a călări alături;

to get off one's knees a se ridica din genunchi.

2. (fam.) genunchi bolnav;

to get a knee from football a-şi răni genunchiu la fotbal;

tennis knee luxaţie a genunchiului (de la tenis);

(despre cai) to break one's knees a se răni la genunchi.

3. (tehn.) genunchi; cot; frântură; colţar.

4. (metal.) flambaj.

5. (mar.) ciot pentru construcţia etravei, lemn cu curbură naturală; partea rotunjită a carenei unul vas care face racordul între fund şi bordajul lateral.

6. (mat.) punct unghiular / de rebrusment.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She dropped on her knees before Buck, with tears in her eyes, and put her arms around his neck.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

I felt my knees begin to tremble.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then out came my poor young master, whom I had dandled on my knee, and confessed it all to me.

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

Holmes turned over the leaves of the book upon his knee.

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

Wolf Larsen was still waiting an explanation, and I pointed down to my knees.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I had risen to my knees to pray for Mr. Rochester.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Her heart fluttered, her knees trembled, and her cheeks grew pale.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

“I won’t be taken away! Who dares say so?” cried Wilson, who was back, after another fall, upon his second’s knee.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would break it over my own knee.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

If it had not been for Tina on her knee.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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