AFFAIR

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Traducere în limba română

affair substantiv

1. afacere, treabă, chestiune; combinaţie, daraveră, treb(u)şoară; plural afaceri, treburi, ocupaţii;

(fam.) mind your own affairs vezi-ţi de treabă;

it is an affair of a few days e o chestiune de (câteva) zile;

an affair of honour a) o chestiune de onoare; b) duel;

kid-glove affair recepţie, banchet;

to settle one's affairs a) a-şi aranja treburile; b) a-şi face testamentul;

to tend to one's affairs a-şi vedea / a se îngriji de treburile sale;

family affairs chestiuni familiare;

at the head of affairs în fruntea guvernului, la conducere;

as affairs stand (aşa) cum stau lucrurile;

in the present condition / state of affairs în starea actuală a lucrurilor;

I wash my hands of the affair mă spăl pe mâini (în această chestiune);

that is not my affair asta nu e treaba mea;

a man of affairs un om de afaceri;

public affairs treburi obşteşti;

world affairs probleme de politică internaţională;

foreign / external affairs politică externă;

foreign affairs debate dezbatere asupra politicii externe (în Camera Comunelor);

home / internal affairs politică internă;

Minister for Internal Affairs ministru al Afacerilor Interne, ministru de interne.

2. (mil.) ciocnire, luptă;

a disastrous affair o înfrângere dezastruoasă.

3. (fam.) poveste, chestie, istorie.

4. (presc. de la love affair) aventură amoroasă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

‘Remember, my boy, not one word to your parents about the affair until everything is settled. We will keep it as a little surprise for them.’

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

Pray do, sir, if it may help to clear this horrible affair up.

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

One does not like to speak of one’s domestic affairs to strangers.

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

I had almost forgotten in my own affairs how ill she was afterwards.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

My dear Mr. Copperfield, said Mrs. Micawber, of your friendly interest in all our affairs, I am well assured.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I will do Ambrose the justice to say that it was before he took charge of my affairs.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The affair happened immediately after his departure.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Seven at one blow, is my kind of affair.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

And do you really believe the affair to have been carrying on with such perfect secresy?

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

How came you to take an interest in the affair?

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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