BENCH

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Traducere în limba română

bench I. substantiv

1. bancă (pentru şezut); banchetă, laviţă;

to play to empty benches (teatru) a juca în faţa unei săli goale.

2. loc în parlament.

3. (şi the judge's bench) scaun judecătoresc;

the Bench (jur.) magistratura; Tribunalul, Curtea;

◊ sit on the bench a judeca (un proces);

to be raised to he bench a fi numit judecător sau episcop.

4. (tehn.) masă de lucru (de tâmplărie etc.);

testing bench banc de probă.

5. (geol.) terasă.

6. (arhit.) antablament, cornişă.

7. zid, val.

8. expoziţie.

bench II. verb tranzitiv

a expune (câini, la o expoziţie).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

At last Mr. Micawber's difficulties came to a crisis, and he was arrested early one morning, and carried over to the King's Bench Prison in the Borough.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

“That is no part of our bargain,” said the youth, “the bench is mine.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

There was a bench at the end of the path, and we all sat down while Holmes examined, one by one, the articles which Lestrade had handed to him.

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

My master, for his own interest, would not suffer any one to touch me except my nurse; and to prevent danger, benches were set round the table at such a distance as to put me out of every body’s reach.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

“This is my favourite place,” said she as they sat down on a bench between the doors, which commanded a tolerable view of everybody entering at either; “it is so out of the way.”

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Edmund urged her remaining where she was with an earnestness which she could not resist, and she was left on the bench to think with pleasure of her cousin's care, but with great regret that she was not stronger.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

The third night he sat down again on his bench and said quite sadly: “If I could but shudder.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

For being in one of the back rows of the King's Bench the other day, with a pen in my hand, the fancy came into my head to try how I had preserved that accomplishment.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then he became mad and blind with rage, and struck the window-seat with such force that he cleft it in two: and as the sparrow flew from place to place, the carter and his wife were so furious, that they broke all their furniture, glasses, chairs, benches, the table, and at last the walls, without touching the bird at all.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I see myself emerging one evening from some of these arches, on a little public-house close to the river, with an open space before it, where some coal-heavers were dancing; to look at whom I sat down upon a bench.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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