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NAVY
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Traducere în limba română
navy substantiv
1. marină de război / militară; forţe navale;
(amer.) Secretary for the Navy ministrul forţelor navale / marinei.
2. (fam.) vezi navy-blue.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
All that we had learned during that time was that our little army was no match for the French on land, and that our large navy was more than a match for them upon the water.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It is the same sort of thing, said Fanny, after a short pause, as for the son of an admiral to go into the navy, or the son of a general to be in the army, and nobody sees anything wrong in that.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Mr Shepherd laughed, as he knew he must, at this wit, and then added—I presume to observe, Sir Walter, that, in the way of business, gentlemen of the navy are well to deal with.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
“If you go into the Navy, as you are likely to do, you go as an officer, and it is you who do the ordering. If I go in, it is as one who was born to receive orders.”
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Here Anne spoke—The navy, I think, who have done so much for us, have at least an equal claim with any other set of men, for all the comforts and all the privileges which any home can give.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
She always watched them as long as she could, delighted to fancy she understood what they might be talking of, as they walked along in happy independence, or equally delighted to see the Admiral's hearty shake of the hand when he encountered an old friend, and observe their eagerness of conversation when occasionally forming into a little knot of the navy, Mrs Croft looking as intelligent and keen as any of the officers around her.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
The park would be open to him of course, and few navy officers, or men of any other description, can have had such a range; but what restrictions I might impose on the use of the pleasure-grounds, is another thing.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
Here was a fortune at once; besides which, there would be the chance of what might be done in any future war; and he was sure Captain Wentworth was as likely a man to distinguish himself as any officer in the navy.
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
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