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OVERTAKE

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Traducere în limba română

overtake, past overtook, part. trec. overtaken verb tranzitiv

1. a ajunge (din urmă);

it’s a job you could doubtlessly overtake with the other e o treabă pe care ai fi putut fără discuţie să o îndeplineşti în acelaşi timp cu celelalte.

2. (despre ploaie, furtună, noapte) a apuca, a surprinde.

3. (despre nenorocire) a-l ajunge, a (i) se întâmpla (un accident).

4. (auto) a depăşi (un alt vehicul).

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Then the cook sent three servants after them, who were to run and overtake the children.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

We were in time to overtake the major before he reached the corner.

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

He would know that he could overtake him.

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

“Only,” she added, “perhaps we may overtake the two young men.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

This morning I had hardly started when the doctor in his carriage overtook me.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I hope that before we get to Strasba we may see them; for if by that time we have not overtaken the Count, it may be necessary to take counsel together what to do next.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“He may yet overtake us.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We shall soon overtake her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You may suppose I am not able to walk as fast as you, with my short legs and short breath, and I couldn't overtake you; but I guessed where you came, and came after you.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Some woman came talking something or other about Lord St. Simon to me—seemed to me from the little I heard as if he had a little secret of his own before marriage also—but I managed to get away from her and soon overtook Frank.

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

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