ABROAD

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Traducere în limba română

abroad adverb

1. pretutindeni, peste tot, oriunde;

there is a rumour abroad that umblă vorba că, circulă zvonul că, se zice că, se vorbeşte că;

(despre zvonuri) to get abroad a circula, a se lăţi.

2. afară din casă, plecat, departe (de casă); în oraş; în lume, în lumea largă;

the badger ventures abroad at dusk bursucul iese din vizuină pe înserat.

3. în străinătate, în ţări străine, peste graniţă; peste mări şi ţări;

from abroad din străinătate;

troops serving abroad trupe aflate în serviciu activ în afara Marii Britanii.

4. în greşeală;

to be all abroad a) a-şi greşi socotelile, a se înşela; b) a se pierde, a se fâstâci, a-şi pierde firea / cumpătul; c) a fi complet dezorientat; d) (sl.) a şovăi, a fi nehotărât. ◊ the schoolmaster is abroad învăţătura se răspândeşte tot mai mult.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Why not go abroad, as you planned, and forget it?

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

There were powers abroad in earlier days which no courage and no mechanism of his could have met.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“No motive,” said Mr. Wickfield, “for meaning abroad, and not at home?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Shortly after I had arrived, a big parcel from abroad came for the Professor.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I have more than half an expectation of our all going abroad.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

He has seen a great deal of the world; has been abroad, has read, and has a thinking mind.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

But abroad?

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

The international component of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) dedicated to advancing the mission of NIH by supporting and facilitating global health research conducted by U.S. and international investigators, building partnerships between health research institutions in the U.S. and abroad, and training the next generation of scientists to address global health needs.

(Fogarty International Center, NCI Thesaurus)

This same full moon, December 11, could bring other matters to a conclusion—a legal matter, work on a media project (publishing, Internet, or broadcasting), an answer to an application you might have sent for admission to a certain university, or an answer about a grant you might need to do research abroad.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

As the memory of past misfortunes pressed upon me, I began to reflect on their cause—the monster whom I had created, the miserable dæmon whom I had sent abroad into the world for my destruction.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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