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SHAKING DOWN

Traducere în limba română

shaking down substantiv

1. scuturare (a fructelor).

2. (fam.) instalare.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

"I'm not! And if turning up my hair makes me one, I'll wear it in two tails till I'm twenty," cried Jo, pulling off her net, and shaking down a chestnut mane.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

She went, however, and they sauntered about together many an half-hour in Mrs. Grant's shrubbery, the weather being unusually mild for the time of year, and venturing sometimes even to sit down on one of the benches now comparatively unsheltered, remaining there perhaps till, in the midst of some tender ejaculation of Fanny's on the sweets of so protracted an autumn, they were forced, by the sudden swell of a cold gust shaking down the last few yellow leaves about them, to jump up and walk for warmth.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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