ABODE

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Traducere în limba română

abode¹ substantiv

1. locuinţă, domiciliu, casă, reşedintă; cămin, sălaş; sediu;

to take up one's abode a se stabili, a se aşeza;

to make one's abode somewhere a) a se stabili undeva; b) a poposi undeva, a zăbovi undeva;

this is no abode for us nu e o locuinţă pentru noi; nu e cazul să stăm aici, nu e de stat aici.

2. şedere, stat, rămânere; domiciliere;

(jur.) place of abode domiciliu.

abode² past şi part. trec. de la abide.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Wickham indeed had gone to her on their first arrival in London, and had she been able to receive them into her house, they would have taken up their abode with her.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

After this the robbers never dared to go back to the house; but the musicians were so pleased with their quarters that they took up their abode there; and there they are, I dare say, at this very day.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Elinor found, when the evening was over, that disposition is not materially altered by a change of abode, for although scarcely settled in town, Sir John had contrived to collect around him, nearly twenty young people, and to amuse them with a ball.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

My father calmed me with assurances of their welfare and endeavoured, by dwelling on these subjects so interesting to my heart, to raise my desponding spirits; but he soon felt that a prison cannot be the abode of cheerfulness.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

He just looked in at the doors I opened; and when he had wandered upstairs and downstairs, he said I must have gone through a great deal of fatigue and trouble to have effected such considerable changes in so short a time: but not a syllable did he utter indicating pleasure in the improved aspect of his abode.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If it had ever been meant to be lived in, I might have thought it small, or inconvenient, or lonely; but never having been designed for any such use, it became a perfect abode.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In a very few weeks from the day which brought Sir John Middleton's first letter to Norland, every thing was so far settled in their future abode as to enable Mrs. Dashwood and her daughters to begin their journey.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Mr. Collins returned into Hertfordshire soon after it had been quitted by the Gardiners and Jane; but as he took up his abode with the Lucases, his arrival was no great inconvenience to Mrs. Bennet.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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