ROAD

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Traducere în limba română

road substantiv

1. drum, cale; şosea;

he is on the road to fame e pe cale de a deveni celebru;

to be in ghe road, to get in smb.’s road a sta de-a curmezişul drumului, a împiedica, a sta în cale; a deranja;

get out of my road pleacă din drumul meu, dă-te la o parte din drumul meu, fereşte din calea mea;

on the road pe drum /cale;

to take the road a) a porni la drum; b) a vagabonda, a deveni vagabond;

(înv.) to take to the road a face tâlhării la drumul mare.

2. (amer.) cale ferată.

3. (mar.) radă.

4. plural incursiune, raid.

5. (mine) galerie în cărbune.

6. the road (teatru) provincia;

to be on the road a fi în turneu, a juca pe scenele teatrelor din provincie.

You would like a hero of the road then?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When I sat down by the side of the bed, he said that it did him a world of good to feel as if he was driving me on the Blunderstone road again.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The dust of the road arose in a cloud and screened the battle.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

As you see, you have an open road and nothing but blue skies.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

They walked back to the road.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

A drive of half a mile brought us to The Myrtles—a large, dark house standing back from the road in its own grounds.

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

This then must for every reason be our road.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You know a little, a very little, and you're on the right road now to know more.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

We closed the door behind us, lest when we should have lit our lamps we should possibly attract attention from the road.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

You can look into it from the road, you see.

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