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OLD THING

Traducere în limba română

old thing substantiv

1. vechituri, lucu vechi.

2. v. old bean.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Dora was hardly less affectionate to my aunt than to me, and often told her of the time when she was afraid she was “a cross old thing”.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"It's just a crazy old thing," she said. "I just slip it on sometimes when I don't care what I look like."

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

"But, Captain Wentworth," cried Louisa, "how vexed you must have been when you came to the Asp, to see what an old thing they had given you."

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Mrs. Norris could not help thinking that some steady old thing might be found among the numbers belonging to the Park that would do vastly well; or that one might be borrowed of the steward; or that perhaps Dr.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I'm a crotchety old thing, and always shall be, but I'm willing to own that you are right, only it's easier for me to risk my life for a person than to be pleasant to him when I don't feel like it.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

“I'll be disagreeable! I'll make Jip bark at you all day. I shall be sure that you really are a cross old thing, if you don't go!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“Don't. I know she's a naughty, mischief-making old thing! Don't let her come here, Doady!” which was a corruption of David.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“But I hope your aunt will keep in her own room a good deal. And I hope she's not a scolding old thing!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is very hard, because we have not a kind Mama, that we are to have, instead, a sulky, gloomy old thing like Miss Murdstone, always following us about—isn't it, Jip?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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