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SOMETHING

Traducere în limba română

something I. pronume

ceva;

something else altceva;

to be up to something a avea ceva în gând, a se pregăti de ceva;

he is something in the Record Office lucrează la biroul arhivelor;

he is something of a painter e şi el un fel de pictor;

I felt there was a little something wanting am avut impresia că lipsea ceva;

it is something to e mare lucru să;

to see something of smb. a se întâlni cu cineva din când în când;

there is something about it in the papers scrie ceva despre asta în ziare;

there is something in what you say este ceva în ceea ce spui;

to think oneself something sau to think something of oneself a se crede cineva.

something II. adverb

1. într-o oarecare măsură, întrucâtva; puţin;

(fam.) something like cam asemănător;

(fam.) something too much of this cam prea mult din asta.

2. aproximativ, aproape, cam;

it must be something like six o’clock să tot fie ora şase, trebuie să, fie aproximativ ora şase.

3. remarcabil, extraordinar grozav, minunat;

that’s something like a hit asta-i o adevărată lovitură.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

It's not something that they have in their own heads.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I shall first say something of the male nurseries, and then of the female.

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

Choose a topic you love and want to explore because learning something new could be just as refreshing as a trip.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I was a bit staggered at this, for I had imagined it was simply a new dress or something of the kind that she was after.

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

If it were a pig now—like that fat gentleman you are driving along at his ease—one could do something with it; it would at any rate make sausages.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

You are learning something every day.

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

It is a feeling, a sentiment, a something based upon illusion and not a product of the intellect at all.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

And they saw something that was alive but which could hardly be called a man.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

“Your Majesty has something which I should value even more highly,” said Holmes.

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

He has evidently some deep problem in his mind, for he keeps a little note-book in which he is always jotting down something.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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