ATTIC

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Traducere în limba română

attic substantiv

1. (sau the attics) mansardă, pod (de casă), ultimul etaj (mansardat).

2. (arhit.) atic.

3. (fam.) cap, frunte, moacă, mir, scăfârlie, mansardă, scufiţă;

to have rats in the attic a avea / a-i intra gărgăuni în cap, a avea sticleţi în cap;

to be queer in one’s attic a i se deranja mansarda, a fi într-o ureche; a-i sări o doagă; a fi sonat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

A week had passed in this way, and no suspicion of it conveyed by her quiet passive manner, when she was found one morning by her cousin Edmund, the youngest of the sons, sitting crying on the attic stairs.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Yes, indeed was he; and he went up to the attics when all was burning above and below, and got the servants out of their beds and helped them down himself, and went back to get his mad wife out of her cell.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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