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MARVEL

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marvel I. substantiv

1. minunăţie, lucru minunat, splendoare, frumuseţe; minune, miracol;

he's a perfect marvel e un om cu totul neobişnuit;

to work marvels a face minuni;

(fam.) it is a marvel to me that sunt grozav de uimit că.

2. pildă (vie), exemplu (viu), întruchipare;

he is a marvel of patience e întruchiparea însăşi a răbdării.

3. (înv.) mirare, uimire, minunare.

marvel II. verb intranzitiv

(at) a se minuna, a fi uimit, a se mira (de).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

And sometimes, sir knight, it is a marvel to myself.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Ruth occupied the only chair, and having done his duty, he went outside and stood by the gate, the centre of seven marvelling Silvas, who watched him as they would have watched a curiosity in a side-show.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It was the man with owl-eyed glasses whom I had found marvelling over Gatsby's books in the library one night three months before.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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