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UPRIGHT

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Traducere în limba română

upright I. adjectiv

1. vertical, drept, perpendicular.

2. (fig.) cinstit, drept, integru.

upright II. adverb

direct, drept, vertical perpendicular, în picioare.

upright III. substantiv (fig.)

1. sprijin, reazem, suport, proptea.

2. coloană, columnă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

Each of the sisters leaned a little forward to speak, shook her head after speaking, and became upright again when silent.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She could soon sit upright on the sofa, and began to hope she might be able to leave it by dinner-time.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

He had not been there long before he began to feel so tired that his limbs seemed hardly able to support him, and he could not stand upright any longer; so again he lay down and fell fast asleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Any cylindrical, vertical, upright structure.

(Column, NCI Thesaurus)

I dared not address her openly; my difficulties in the then state of Enscombe must be too well known to require definition; and I was fortunate enough to prevail, before we parted at Weymouth, and to induce the most upright female mind in the creation to stoop in charity to a secret engagement.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

When I think of her great attachment to you, indeed, and the whole of her judicious, upright conduct as a sister, she appears a very different creature, capable of everything noble, and I am ready to blame myself for a too harsh construction of a playful manner.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Suddenly, however, as I sat writing, he ceased to give any answer at all to my inquiries, and on my turning towards him I was shocked to see that he was sitting bolt upright in his chair, staring at me with a perfectly blank and rigid face.

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

—or to feeling grateful to the upright and deserving creature who would have taken you as his gift.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Such an eye!—the true hazle eye—and so brilliant! regular features, open countenance, with a complexion! oh! what a bloom of full health, and such a pretty height and size; such a firm and upright figure!

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

With that she smoothed her dress, and sat, with her upright carriage, looking at the door.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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