BAY

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Traducere în limba română

bay¹ substantiv

1. golf; baie.

2. (amer.) porţiune de preerie între păduri.

bay² substantiv

1. (constr.) travee; deschidere; arcadă.

2. (constr.) nişă; firidă; luminator.

3. (ferov.) staţie terminus pe o linie secundară.

4. (mar.) vas spital,

5. hală (de uzină).

bay³ I. substantiv

1. lătrat (prelungit).

2. ananghie, strâmtoare;

to be at bay a fi încolţit, a fi la ananghie;

to bring to bay a înghesui, a încolţi;

to hold / to keep smb. at bay a ţine pe cineva în şah;

to stand at bay a ţine piept, a se apăra cu îndârjire.

bay³ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a lătra la.

2. a urmări cu lătratul, a vâna.

3. a încolţi.

bay³ III. verb intranzitiv

a lătra.

bay⁴ I. adjectiv

murg.

bay⁴ II. substantiv

cal murg.

bay⁵ substantiv

1. (bot.) dafin, laur (Laurus nobilis);

bay leaves foi de dafin.

2. plural lauri, cunună de lauri.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Currents then carried the warm water into the bay and up to the fronts of the glaciers.

(Wind, Warm Water Revved Up Melting Antarctic Glaciers, NASA)

Mr. Micawber, said I, there is a sudden change in this fellow, in more respects than the extraordinary one of his speaking the truth in one particular, which assures me that he is brought to bay.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“There’s not a moment to be lost. Lorimer, order the bays to be harnessed in the curricle. Put the toilet things in, and tell William to have it round at the door as soon as possible.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Then, come in her friend to watch alongside of her bed; and then she know'd as the old boat warn't round that next pint in the bay no more, but was fur off; and know'd where she was, and why; and broke out a-crying on that good young woman's bosom, wheer I hope her baby is a-lying now, a-cheering of her with its pretty eyes!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Gatsby bought that house so that Daisy would be just across the bay.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

Across the courtesy bay the white palaces of fashionable East Egg glittered along the water, and the history of the summer really begins on the evening I drove over there to have dinner with the Tom Buchanans.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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