ACTIVE SERVICE

Traducere în limba română

active service substantiv

(mil.) serviciu combatant; (amer.) serviciu activ;

in active service în serviciu activ / combatant.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

She could thoroughly comprehend the sort of fascination he must possess over Lady Russell's mind, the difficulty it must be for her to withdraw her eyes, the astonishment she must be feeling that eight or nine years should have passed over him, and in foreign climes and in active service too, without robbing him of one personal grace!

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

A large and still increasing family, an husband disabled for active service, but not the less equal to company and good liquor, and a very small income to supply their wants, made her eager to regain the friends she had so carelessly sacrificed; and she addressed Lady Bertram in a letter which spoke so much contrition and despondence, such a superfluity of children, and such a want of almost everything else, as could not but dispose them all to a reconciliation.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Soldiers, in active service, are not at all better off: and even in the quieter professions, there is a toil and a labour of the mind, if not of the body, which seldom leaves a man's looks to the natural effect of time.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

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