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LOOK-OUT

Traducere în limba română

look-out substantiv

1. băgare de seamă, vigilenţă; atenţie; veghe, supraveghere;

to be on the look-out a fi cu băgare de seamă, a fi vigilent;

to keep a good look-out a fi cu ochii în patru.

2. (mil.) punct de observaţie, observator.

3. observator, strajă, paznic, pândar

4. privelişte, perspectivă;

a wonderful look-out over the sea o privelişte minunată spre mare.

5. (fig.) punct de vedere, opinie;

that's my look-out asta-i treaba mea, asta mă priveşte.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

He knew too well my sympathy for the runaways to send me aloft as look-out.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

You may think that I read the papers with some attention during my sojourn in France, on the look-out for any chance of laying him by the heels.

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

But in other points, as well as this, I was growing very lenient to my master: I was forgetting all his faults, for which I had once kept a sharp look-out.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I shall write to Mrs. Partridge in a day or two, and shall give her a strict charge to be on the look-out for any thing eligible.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It was a likely place to sell a jacket in; for the dealers in second-hand clothes were numerous, and were, generally speaking, on the look-out for customers at their shop doors.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The police of the division have been instructed to keep a sharp look-out for straying children, especially when very young, in and around Hampstead Heath, and for any stray dog which may be about.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“To hell with a look-out,” I heard Wolf Larsen say when we had eaten and drunk our fill.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

We have been on the look-out for him, and there was some idea that he had got away to America.

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

“A sister of yours, Mr. Copperfield?” she cried, after a pause, and still keeping the same look-out.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

One cannot creep upon a journey; one cannot help getting on faster than one has planned; and the pleasure of coming in upon one's friends before the look-out begins, is worth a great deal more than any little exertion it needs.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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