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STEEL

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Traducere în limba română

steel I. substantiv

1. oţel.

2. (lit.) fier, sabie, spadă;

to fight with cold steel a se bate cu arme albe.

3. amnar;

flint and steel cremene şi amnar.

steel II. adjectiv

de oţel.

steel III. verb tranzitiv

1. (metal.) a căli; a trata cu oţel, a oţeli.

2. (fig.) a căli, a întări, a oţeli, a împietri;

to steel one’s heart a-şi oţeli inima, a-şi face inima de piatră.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

She steeled herself to do it.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

My mother is ready for me at her writing-desk, but not half so ready as Mr. Murdstone in his easy-chair by the window (though he pretends to be reading a book), or as Miss Murdstone, sitting near my mother stringing steel beads.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Once in the hollow, he had got behind the horse and had struck a light; but the creature frightened at the sudden glare, and with the strange instinct of animals feeling that some mischief was intended, had lashed out, and the steel shoe had struck Straker full on the forehead.

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

Then I descended from the side of the coach, as the calèche was close alongside, the driver helping me with a hand which caught my arm in a grip of steel; his strength must have been prodigious.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He could not steel himself to call upon her.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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