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LETTER
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Traducere în limba română
letter1 I. substantiv
1. literă;
the letter of the law litera legii;
to the letter textual, literal, aidoma, întocmai;
(amer., sport) to win one's letter a avea dreptul de a fi membrul unei organizaţii sportive şi a-i purta iniţialele;
to be carried out to the letter a fi îndeplinit întocmai.
2. (poligr.) literă, caracter.
3. scrisoare, epistolă, răvaş, mesaj;
letter of advice aviz, înştiinţare, încunoştinţare;
letter of attorney procură;
letter of credit acreditiv, scrisoare de credit;
(pol.) letters credential, letters of credence scrisori de acreditare;
(jur.) letters of administration procură legală pentru administrarea averii unui mort;
letter of indemnity scrisoare de garanţie.
4. plural literatură beletristică; cultură, erudiţie;
man of letters om de litere; scriitor; învăţat, erudit.
letter1 II. verb tranzitiv
a însemna / a marca / a nota cu litere; a grava litere pe; a imprima litere pe (cotorul cărţii).
letter2 substantiv
1. persoană care dă voie / care permite.
2. persoană care închiriază / care dă cu chirie.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Oh, I wish he would cease tormenting me with letters for money?
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
“Here is the slip and here are four letters from him.”
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Clerval then put the following letter into my hands.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
My fingers, as you can see, are more used to iron and leather than to the drawing of strokes and turning of letters.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Elizabeth's last letter had communicated a piece of news of some interest.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
“Have you had any letter from Bath since I saw you?”
(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)
Should the letters not carry, then the Count shall not yet know my secret or the extent of my knowledge....
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
My dearest Mother: It is impossible to tell you how happy your last letter made us, for the news was so good we couldn't help laughing and crying over it.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
We never should have heard of the letter at all, I believe, unless I had asked for it myself.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
In six weeks or two months we shall be in London, and it is possible that this letter may not reach you much earlier than we do ourselves.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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