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PRESIDE
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Traducere în limba română
preside verb intranzitiv
a prezida;
to preside at / over a meeting a prezida o adunare;
he presides at the piano el este pianistul.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Miss Clarissa presided.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
All which he looked upon as if it were a dream or a vision; whereat I took great offence; for I had quite forgot the faculty of lying, so peculiar to Yahoos, in all countries where they preside, and, consequently, their disposition of suspecting truth in others of their own species.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Edmund, who had taken down the mare and presided at the whole, returned with it in excellent time, before either Fanny or the steady old coachman, who always attended her when she rode without her cousins, were ready to set forward.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
You are your mother's self in countenance and disposition; and if I might be allowed to fancy you such as she was, in situation and name, and home, presiding and blessing in the same spot, and only superior to her in being more highly valued!
(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)
I enlarged myself much on these, and many other particulars to the same purpose; but his honour was still to seek; for he went upon a supposition, that all animals had a title to their share in the productions of the earth, and especially those who presided over the rest.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Agnes made the tea, and presided over it; and the time passed away after it, as after dinner, until she went to bed; when her father took her in his arms and kissed her, and, she being gone, ordered candles in his office.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Mrs. Micawber having now raised her voice into a perfect scream, I was so frightened that I ran off to the club-room, and disturbed Mr. Micawber in the act of presiding at a long table, and leading the chorus of
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)