ARCH

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Traducere în limba română

arch¹ I. substantiv

arc; arcadă; boltă, boltitură; încovoiere, încovoietură;

triumphal arch arc triumfal; arcul mare din faţa altarului;

arch of triumph arc de triumf.

arch¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a bolti, a clădi în formă de boltă sau de arc; a arcui, a da formă de arc / arcadă.

2. a încovoia, a îndoi.

arch¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se arcui, a se bolti, a forma o arcadă / o boltă; a se încovoia, a se îndoi.

arch² adjectiv

1. ştrengar; şiret, viclean; cochet.

2. isteţ, iscusit.

3. jurat, înveterat.

4. de căpetenie, principal, suprem, (mai) mare v. arch³.

arch³

(element de compunere) arhi-, mai marele, staroste (al);

archbishop arhiepiscop;

arch-liar mare mincinos, panglicar;

arch-rogue mare tâlhar.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The low arched door then opened, and the face came out.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He comes in last: I am not looking at the arch, yet I see him enter.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Oh! That arch eye of yours!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

An arch look expressed—“I understand you well enough;” but she said only, “Miss Fairfax is reserved.”

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

I do not know how I found the strength to do it at all, and I am afraid it was roughly done, but I managed to drag her down the bank and a little way under the arch. Farther I could not move her, for the bridge was too low to let me do more than crawl below it.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Little they recked of the brushwood men who crouched in their rags along the fringe of the forest and looked with wild and haggard eyes at the rich, warm glow which shot a golden bar of light from the high arched windows of the castle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The eyes—and it was my destiny to know them well—were large and handsome, wide apart as the true artist’s are wide, sheltering under a heavy brow and arched over by thick black eyebrows.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Elizabeth saw what he was doing, and at the first convenient pause, turned to him with an arch smile, and said: You mean to frighten me, Mr. Darcy, by coming in all this state to hear me?

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Everywhere upon the still surface I could see signs of life, sometimes mere rings and ripples in the water, sometimes the gleam of a great silver-sided fish in the air, sometimes the arched, slate-colored back of some passing monster.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was fond of wandering about the Adelphi, because it was a mysterious place, with those dark arches.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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