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LEE

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Traducere în limba română

lee I. substantiv

(meteor.) parte expusă vântului; adăpost împotriva vântului;

under the lee sub vânt, în bătaia vântului;

cottage under the lee of the hill casă adăpostită de un deal de o colină.

lee II. adi.

sub vânt.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I managed to make my way forward, but there was little choice of sides, for the weather-rail seemed buried as often as the lee.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

There Miss Lee had lived, and there they had read and written, and talked and laughed, till within the last three years, when she had quitted them.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

When Lee laid down his arms my uncle returned to his plantation, where he remained for three or four years.

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

Close on the heels of these two famous cases came the tragedy of Woodman’s Lee, and the very obscure circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey.

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

In some way we struck up quite a friendship, this young fellow and I. He seemed to take a fancy to me from the first, and within two days of our meeting he came to see me at Lee.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Better get your rifles, you fellows,” Wolf Larsen called to our hunters; and the five men lined the lee rail, guns in hand, and waited.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Some years ago—to be definite, in May, 1884—there came to Lee a gentleman, Neville St. Clair by name, who appeared to have plenty of money.

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

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