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SETTING OUT
Traducere în limba română
setting out substantiv
1. plecare, îmbarcare.
2. trasare (a unei curbe).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I was robbed at first setting out, and have walked all the way, and have never slept in a bed since I began the journey.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
When, therefore, he suddenly announced his intention of setting out for the scene of the drama it was only what I had both expected and hoped for.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
When she heard this she started with rage; but her envy and curiosity were so great, that she could not help setting out to see the bride.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
And Jo tramped away, feeling that the pilgrims were not setting out as they ought to do.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
She met Miss Crawford within a few yards of the Parsonage, just setting out to call on her, and as it seemed to her that her friend, though obliged to insist on turning back, was unwilling to lose her walk, she explained her business at once, and observed, that if she would be so kind as to give her opinion, it might be all talked over as well without doors as within.
(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)
Mr. Gardiner would be prevented by business from setting out till a fortnight later in July, and must be in London again within a month, and as that left too short a period for them to go so far, and see so much as they had proposed, or at least to see it with the leisure and comfort they had built on, they were obliged to give up the Lakes, and substitute a more contracted tour, and, according to the present plan, were to go no farther northwards than Derbyshire.
(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)
Old times crowded fast back on me as I watched her bustling about—setting out the tea-tray with her best china, cutting bread and butter, toasting a tea-cake, and, between whiles, giving little Robert or Jane an occasional tap or push, just as she used to give me in former days.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
They did as they were desired; and by the time she judged it reasonable to have done with her boot, she had the comfort of farther delay in her power, being overtaken by a child from the cottage, setting out, according to orders, with her pitcher, to fetch broth from Hartfield.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
But hurried on by the precipitancy of youth, and having his imperial majesty’s license to pay my attendance upon the emperor of Blefuscu, I took this opportunity, before the three days were elapsed, to send a letter to my friend the secretary, signifying my resolution of setting out that morning for Blefuscu, pursuant to the leave I had got; and, without waiting for an answer, I went to that side of the island where our fleet lay.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
A merchant, who had three daughters, was once setting out upon a journey; but before he went he asked each daughter what gift he should bring back for her.
(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)
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