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OBSCURE
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Traducere în limba română
obscure I. adjectiv
1. obscur, întunecos, întunecat; şters, spălăcit, mat;
to grow / to become obscure a se întuneca.
2. neclar, nedesluşit, nelămurit, vag, confuz, obscur;
obscure style confuz / obscur.
3. singuratic, izolat, ascuns, secret;
to live an obscure life a trăi retras, a duce o viată retrasă.
4. neobservat, necunoscut, puţin cunoscut, nedezvăluit, obscur.
5. (poetic rar) nocturn, de noapte.
obscure II. verb A. tranzitiv
1. a întuneca, a spălăci;
to steam with all lights obscured a naviga cu luminile stinse / camuflate.
2. a face nedesluşit/ neclar/ obscur/ confuz/ nelămurit (un sens, un argument, un fapt).
3. a pune în umbră, a întuneca, a eclipsa;
his fame was obscured by that of his brother faima sa a fost eclipsată de aceea a fratelui său.
4. a ascunde, a acoperi;
to obscure smth. from smb.’s view a ascunde ceva cuiva;
the clouds obscured the sun norii au acoperit soarele.
obscure II. verb B. intranzitiv
a se întuneca; a deveni obscur / neclar.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“But there is,” I objected. “It is still obscure to me.”
(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)
“Your discoveries seem to have left the business more obscure that it was before,” said I.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The light in the passage was obscured for a moment, and my aunt came out.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I suppose they were ten miles off from me, yet even at that distance one could observe how, from time to time, they twinkled or were obscured as someone passed before them.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Close on the heels of these two famous cases came the tragedy of Woodman’s Lee, and the very obscure circumstances which surrounded the death of Captain Peter Carey.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The disease, once relatively obscure, is on the rise: an estimated 390 million cases of dengue occur worldwide per year, with 96 million reporting symptoms that include high fever, joint pain, severe vomiting and respiratory distress.
(Mosquitos rendered infertile by biological engineering, SciDev.Net)
To-day I have much to do here, and I keep waiting till the sun is up high; for there may be places where I must go, where that sunlight, though snow and mist obscure it, will be to me a safety.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
This full moon will be in hard angle to Neptune in Pisces, so be sure to ask questions if you plan to take action on any home or family decision, for certain facts may be missing or obscured.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
That, also, is still obscure.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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