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LAMB

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lamb I. substantiv

1. (zool.) miel;

ewe lamb mieluşea;

(fam.) my one ewe lamb singura mea comoară;

to bring forth lambs a făta miei;

(rel.) pascal lamb mielul pascal;

(as)gentle as a lamb blând ca un miel;

(fam.) he took it like a lamb n-a zis nici pâs, n-a protestat; nu s-a revoltat, nu s-a împotrivit;

like lamb and salad în perfectă ordine;

a wolf in lambs skin / clothing un lup în blană de miel / oaie.

2. carne de miel.

3. (fig.) om blând (ca un miel); (om) nevinovat, (om) inocent.

4. (sl.) speculant (de bursă) fără experienţă.

lamb II. verb intranzitiv

(despre oi) a făta.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I don't dare to ask you, Mr. Lamb, but if you should come, I don't think I shall have the heart to send you away.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

And close by them lay a lamb upon the floor, and behind them upon a perch sat a white dove with its head hidden beneath its wings.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

On the last night, in the evening, she kissed me, and said: If my baby should die too, Peggotty, please let them lay him in my arms, and bury us together. (It was done; for the poor lamb lived but a day beyond her.) Let my dearest boy go with us to our resting-place, she said, and tell him that his mother, when she lay here, blessed him not once, but a thousand times.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

News hath come that not one of the Company was left alive, and so, poor lamb, she hath—

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Isn't that an original idea?" cried Miss Lamb, who found Jo great fun.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"Do you think so? Oh, I'll be a lamb, if I can only have that lovely ring! It's ever so much prettier than Kitty Bryant's. I do like Aunt March after all."

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

We read a story of yours the other day, and enjoyed it very much, observed the elder Miss Lamb, wishing to compliment the literary lady, who did not look the character just then, it must be confessed.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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