BARK

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Traducere în limba română

bark¹ I. substantiv

1. scoarţă, coajă (de copac);

(amer.) to talk the bark off a tree a-i face cuiva capul călindar (vorbind prea mult);

(amer.) a man with the bark on (om) necioplit;

to come / to go between the bark and the tree a se amesteca în treburile altuia (mai ales în familie), a se amesteca în conflictul dintre soţi.

2. (şi Jesuit’s bark/ Peruvian/ China bark) chinchină.

3. (sl.) piele, toval;

to peel / to take the bark off a jupui pielea.

bark¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a tăbăci.

2. a scoate coaja sau scoarţa (la copaci), a (des)coji.

3. (fam.) a jupui (pielea).

bark² I. verb tranzitiv

1. (at) a lătra (la), a bate;

the dogs are barking latră câinii;

to bark up the wrong tree a-şi îndrepta atacul unde nu trebuie; a se înşela, a greşi adresa.

2. (fig.) (at) a zbiera, a striga, a urla, a se răsti (la), a vorbi răstit (cuiva).

3. (fam.) a tuşi (răguşit).

4. (sl.) a face reclamă (strigând la intrarea prăvăliilor etc;) (cu dat.).

bark² II. substantiv,

1. lătrat, lătrătură; strigăt; răsteală;

(fam.) his bark is worse than his bite numai gura e de el.

2. ţăcănit, lătrat (de mitralieră etc,).

3. (fam.) tuse răguşită, tignafes.

bark³ s.

1. (mar.) barc, corabie cu trei catarge.

2. (poetic) navă / corabie cu pânze.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Toto ran over to the trees and began to bark at the birds sitting there.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Dogs asleep in the sun often whined and barked, but they were unable to tell what they saw that made them whine and bark.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

At this moment speech came to White Fang, rushing up in a great burst of barking.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It might have been quite heart-breaking, but for Dora, who was the stay and anchor of my tempest-driven bark.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They are both quiet persons, and I never saw the man angry, nor heard the dog bark.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

For a long time he remained there, turning over the leaves and dried sticks, gathering up what seemed to me to be dust into an envelope and examining with his lens not only the ground but even the bark of the tree as far as he could reach.

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

He never barked.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Yes, said the lord of the castle, if you will pass the night down there in the old tower, go thither; but I warn you, it is at the peril of your life, for it is full of wild dogs, which bark and howl without stopping, and at certain hours a man has to be given to them, whom they at once devour.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

He had never barked in his life, and he could not now learn to bark a welcome when his god approached.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

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