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Traducere în limba română
singular I. adjectiv
1. ciudat, bizar, straniu.
2. surprinzător, neobişnuit; original.
3. (gram.) singular.
4. singur, unic;
all and singular toţi şi fiecare în parte.
singular II. substantiv
(gram.) singular.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“There are some very singular points here,” said Holmes, smiling.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Our guide’s answer was a singular one.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
There are one or two very singular points about this room.
(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
What a rag-bag of singular happenings!
(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The other was a very different and even more singular figure.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
A most singular position at your age!
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
It is a natural protection to this singular country.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Your feelings are singular.
(Emma, de Jane Austen)
They beheld me with all the marks and circumstances of wonder; neither indeed was I much in their debt, having never till then seen a race of mortals so singular in their shapes, habits, and countenances.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
During the whole of this day, but especially from this period of it, Steerforth exerted himself with his utmost skill, and that was with his utmost ease, to charm this singular creature into a pleasant and pleased companion.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)