BELL

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

bell¹ I. substantiv

1. clopot, clopoţel; sonerie; talangă; plural zurgălăi;

to answer the bell, to attend to the bell a deschide (uşa), a se duce să deschidă;

(despre ton) as clear as a bell curat, cristalin;

as sound as a bell a) întreg, fără crăpături; b) sănătos, nevătămat, teafăr;

to bear the bells a fi în frunte, cel dintâi; (fig.) a fi în fruntea parăzii / bucatelor, a ocupa primul loc;

to carry away the bell a câştiga un premiu;

to bear the cap and bells a face pe bufonul, a juca rolul de bufon;

(sl.) to ring the bells a avea succes; a căpăta un rezultat foarte bun;

(glumeţ) by / with bell, book and candle definitiv (şi irevocabil); după toate regulile;

(fam.) to crack the bell a face o gafă; a-l lua gura pe dinainte;

to hang all one’s bells on one horse a lăsa întreaga moştenire unui singur fiu;

(fam.) to hang the bell about the cat’s neck a înfrunta o primejdie, a-şi lua tot riscul asupră-şi; a se grozăvi, a face pe grozavul;

(fam.) to lose the bell a fi înfrânt (într-o întrecere);

(fam.) to ring one’s own bell a-şi face reclamă singur.

2. (bot.) caliciu.

3. (mar.) jumătate de oră;

to strike the bells a suna jumătatea de oră.

4. (geol.) dom.

5. (tehn.) conul furnalului.

6. (tehn.) pâlnie.

bell¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a înzestra cu clopote.

2. a atârna un clopot, a lega talanga (la gâtul unei vaci etc);

(fam.) to bell the cat a-şi lua răspunderea într-o chestiune riscantă.

bell² I. substantiv

boncănit, boncăluit, muget / răget al cerbilor etc.

bell² II. verb intranzitiv

(despre cerbi etc.) a boncăni, a boncălui.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He waits downstairs, and runs up to show patients out when I ring the consulting-room bell.

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

There had been a ring at the bell.

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

I’ll be coughin’ blood before eyght bells. ’Ow can it be myde up to me, I arsk? ’Oo’s goin’ to do it? Gawd?

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Van Helsing had placed at hand a bell which either of them was to sound in case of any emergency.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

If you will have the goodness to touch the bell, Doctor, we will begin another investigation, in which, also a bird will be the chief feature.

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

Not one word in "The Ring of Bells," nor in "The Peri and the Pearl" has been changed.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Thereupon he rang the bell, went home, and without saying a word went to bed, and fell asleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Soon after they were gone he rang the bell: a message came that I and Adele were to go downstairs.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

And now the bell begins to sound, and Mr. Omer and another come to make us ready.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Meg was absent-minded, shy, and silent, started when the bell rang, and colored when John's name was mentioned.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

TE-AR MAI PUTEA INTERESA