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PRISONER

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prisoner substantiv

1. deţinut, puşcăriaş, condamnat; (şi prisoner at the bar) acuzat, inculpat;

prisoner on bail acuzat eliberat pe cauţiune;

prisoner of state, state prisoner deţinut politic.

2. (şi prisoner of war) prizonier (de război).

3. (fam.) prizonier, persoană cure nu are libertate de acţiune;

he is a prisoner to his chair e pironit / ţintuit pe scaun.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It nearly came to our sharing the fate of the prisoners, but at last he said that if we wished we might take a boat and go.

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

But it was not our prisoner to whom Holmes was giving his attention.

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

“You are the prisoner of the man who took you, Sir Diego,” answered Sir Nigel.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Before our prisoner had recovered his balance the door was shut and Holmes standing with his back against it.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Well, that is just under ape-town, and that's the jumpin'-off place of their prisoners.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was again a prisoner, and the net of doom was closing round me more closely.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“If he has liberty, he may do anything. He may sink the vessel, or set fire to it. There is no telling what he may do. We must make him a prisoner.”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The prisoner lay with his face towards us, in a very deep sleep, breathing slowly and heavily.

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

They sailed many weeks, and traded with the Indians; but I knew not what course they took, being kept a close prisoner in my cabin, and expecting nothing less than to be murdered, as they often threatened me.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

When my Em'ly took flight, he said, in stern wrath for the moment, from the house wheer she was made a prisoner by that theer spotted snake as Mas'r Davy see,—and his story's trew, and may GOD confound him!—she took flight in the night.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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