AUTUMN

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Traducere în limba română

autumn substantiv

1. toamnă.

2. (fig.) maturitate; amurg, declin.

3. (fig.) cules, recoltă; rod;

to come to one’s autumn a culege roadele nechibzuinţei sale, a culege ce a semănat.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

One autumn morning I was with my mother in the front garden, when Mr. Murdstone—I knew him by that name now—came by, on horseback.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was now growing dusk, and the autumn night was closing in, so I did not lose any time.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

In the autumn, new trials and experiences came to Meg.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

After an interval of some minutes, however, he began with, I shall always be very sorry that you went to the sea this autumn, instead of coming here.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You see her every day, and therefore do not notice it; but I assure you she is quite a different creature from what she was in the autumn.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

In spring and summer one got on better: sunshine and long days make such a difference; and then, just at the commencement of this autumn, little Adela Varens came and her nurse: a child makes a house alive all at once; and now you are here I shall be quite gay.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Autumn passed thus.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

It did seem, last autumn, as if there were an attachment between him and Louisa Musgrove; but I hope it may be understood to have worn out on each side equally, and without violence.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

I considered the past: I saw in my own behaviour, since the beginning of our acquaintance with him last autumn, nothing but a series of imprudence towards myself, and want of kindness to others.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

You have travelled; you have spent several years of your life at Ingolstadt; and I confess to you, my friend, that when I saw you last autumn so unhappy, flying to solitude from the society of every creature, I could not help supposing that you might regret our connection and believe yourself bound in honour to fulfil the wishes of your parents, although they opposed themselves to your inclinations.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

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