BITTEN

Traducere în limba română

bitten part. trec. de la bite.

1. muşcat;

(prov.) once bitten twice shy cine s-a fript cu supă suflă şi în iaurt.

2. (fam.) to be bitten with smth. a fi contaminat de ceva; contaminat, atins.

3. (fam.) îndrăgostit;

to be bitten with smb. a fi îndrăgostit lulea de cineva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It is the dry cough where the frost has bitten the lungs.

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

The tip had been cut off, not bitten off, but the cut was not a clean one, so I deduced a blunt pen-knife.

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

“I have an income,” I answered stoutly, and could have bitten my tongue the next instant.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The very small inconvenience of being bitten, my young friend, cannot, I am sure, weigh with you as against the glorious privilege of having your name inscribed in the deathless roll of zoology.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Do you mean to tell me that Lucy was bitten by such a bat; and that such a thing is here in London in the nineteenth century?"

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then he has bitten through his amber.

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

The man walked into the trap and was captured last night after a struggle in which Constable Downing was badly bitten by the savage.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A capsule designed to be bitten to release the active and/or inert ingredient(s).

(Biting Capsule Dosage Form, NCI Thesaurus)

The Witch did not bleed where she was bitten, for she was so wicked that the blood in her had dried up many years before.

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

Dave had bitten through both of Sol-leks’s traces, and was standing directly in front of the sled in his proper place.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

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