Editura Global Info / Dicţionar englez-român

NEIGHBOUR

Pronunție (USA):

(GB):

Traducere în limba română

neighbour I. substantiv

1. vecin;

my next-door neighbour vecinul meu de alături;

good neighbours oameni care trăiesc în bună vecinătate / care se înţeleg bine.

2. semen, aproape; persoană sau lucru apropiat;

it is a duty to one's neighbour e o datorie faţă de aproapele (tău);

neighbour II. adjectiv

vecin, învecinat, apropiat, de alături.

neighbour III. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a fi vecin cu, a se învecina cu; a fi alături de.

2. a-şi apropia (ceva, pe cineva).

3. a alătura, a pune alături.

neighbour III. verb B. intranzitiv

a se învecina; a fi în vecinătate;

to neighbour upon a se învecina cu, a se mărgini cu;

the wood neighbours upon the lake pădurea se învecinează cu lacul.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I always say, we are quite blessed in our neighbours.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I fear that all our neighbours would tell you that, even if I were to attempt to deny it.

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

Ah, it bolted, and was cared for by one of your neighbours.

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

She had better have stayed at home, cried Elizabeth; perhaps she meant well, but, under such a misfortune as this, one cannot see too little of one's neighbours.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I do not think they improve at all as neighbours.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

A neighbour or two came in; my chair was evidently wanted.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I am monstrous glad of it, for then I shall have her for a neighbour you know."

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

And, although it be hard for a man late in life to remove old habits, I am not altogether out of hopes, in some time, to suffer a neighbour Yahoo in my company, without the apprehensions I am yet under of his teeth or his claws.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Every here and there, one of a different species rose forty or fifty feet clear above its neighbours, and which of these was the particular tall tree of Captain Flint could only be decided on the spot, and by the readings of the compass.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

A neighbour of ours, Dr.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA