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SPOONS
Traducere în limba română
spoons substantiv
plural (amer. sl.) bani, parale, biştari.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
The spoons were moved slowly: I saw each girl taste her food and try to swallow it; but in most cases the effort was soon relinquished.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
If Traddles ever for an instant missed the tea-spoons that were still to be won, I have no doubt it was when he handed the Beauty her tea.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
The spoons, forks, and other instruments, were all in the same proportion.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
She had to wash the cups every morning, and polish up the old-fashioned spoons, the fat silver teapot, and the glasses till they shone.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Behind her came a maid with a high pile of wooden plates, and a great sheaf of spoons, one of which she handed round to each of the travellers.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
They bristled with unknown perils, and he gazed at them, fascinated, till their dazzle became a background across which moved a succession of forecastle pictures, wherein he and his mates sat eating salt beef with sheath-knives and fingers, or scooping thick pea-soup out of pannikins by means of battered iron spoons.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
I am therefore willing to believe that she was in a fit when we found her under the boiler; and that the deficient tea-spoons were attributable to the dustman.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
She hastened to ring the bell; and when the tray came, she proceeded to arrange the cups, spoons, &c., with assiduous celerity.
(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)
“Exactly so,” replied Traddles, “all to be earned. Of course we have something in the shape of tea-spoons, because we stir our tea. But they're Britannia metal.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
I have known her to be thrown into fainting fits by the king's taxes at three o'clock, and to eat lamb chops, breaded, and drink warm ale (paid for with two tea-spoons that had gone to the pawnbroker's) at four.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
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