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PORCH
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Traducere în limba română
porch substantiv
1. intrare; portic.
2. (amer.) verandă, terasă; prispă; balcon.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The family was on the porch, taking the cool of the afternoon, when White Fang arrived.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
Well, last Monday evening I was taking a stroll down that way, when I met an empty van coming up the lane, and saw a pile of carpets and things lying about on the grass-plot beside the porch.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When we got to the porch the Professor opened his bag and took out a lot of things, which he laid on the step, sorting them into four little groups, evidently one for each.
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
White Fang liked to lie at his feet on the wide porch when he read the newspaper, from time to time favouring White Fang with a look or a word—untroublesome tokens that he recognised White Fang's presence and existence.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
We talked for a few minutes on the sunny porch.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
A change had come over him and he spoke gravely, and with decision. As we walked across the moonlight gravel to the porch he disposed of the situation in a few brisk phrases.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
"I'm delighted to see you," said Gatsby standing on his porch. "I'm delighted that you dropped in."
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
She must have seen something of this in my expression for she turned abruptly away and ran up the porch steps into the house.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
It was nine o'clock when we finished breakfast and went out on the porch. The night had made a sharp difference in the weather and there was an autumn flavor in the air. The gardener, the last one of Gatsby's former servants, came to the foot of the steps.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)
There was something pathetic in his concentration as if his complacency, more acute than of old, was not enough to him any more. When, almost immediately, the telephone rang inside and the butler left the porch Daisy seized upon the momentary interruption and leaned toward me.
(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)