BOY

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Traducere în limba română

boy I. substantiv

1. băiat; tânăr, fecior; fiu; şcolar;

(fam.) be a good boy! sau come, there's a good boy! fii (băiat) cuminte;

my boy băiete, prietene, amice;

old boy a) (apelativ) prietene, amice, flăcăule, băiete, bătrâne; b) dracul, Michiduţă, Aghiuţă;

from a boy din copilărie, de când era copil;

he is a mere boy e doar un copil;

to be past a boy a nu mai fi copil;

(sl.) that 's the boy for me ăsta-mi place!

boys will be boys copiii tot copii, aşa sunt băieţii, aşa sunt copiii;

(fig). whipping boy ţap ispăşitor;

(sl.) yellow boy monedă de aur, guinee;

boy in buttons liftier (la hotel);

(amer.) lizzie boy bărbat muieratic;

(teatru) principal boy actriţă care interpretează principalul rol masculin dintr-o pantomimă;

(amer. univ. sl.) rah-rah boys chiulangii.

2. (pronominal) indică sexul masculin.

3. băiat de serviciu (indigen în Orient).

4. (mar.) mus.

5. (sl.) the boy şampanie.

6. (amer. fam.) (oh) boy! dumnezeule (doamne)! măiculiţă (mamă)!

boy II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a juca (un rol) (în vremea când băieţii jucau rolurile feminine).

2. a trata ca pe un copil.

boy II. verb B. intranzitiv

a se purta ca un băiat, ca un copil.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was patent to everybody that the boy was afraid.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

If you find you cannot, take my advice, my boy, and leave it to your deadliest enemy.

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

This I did when I was a boy, and I was no coward.

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

“Oh, Lord!” he said, shaking his head, “that's the school where they broke the boy's ribs—two ribs—a little boy he was. I should say he was—let me see—how old are you, about?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

They occur mostly in boys and are related to dermatofibrosarcoma protuberans.

(Giant cell fibroblastoma, NCI Dictionary)

When I went to the station to meet Van Helsing I left the boys behind me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

His sympathetic imagination was flashing upon his inner sight all the thousands of details of the boy's existence and of his narrow spiritual development into a thirty-thousand-dollar-a-year man.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

He now had a little daughter born to him; the child of his first wife was a boy, who was as red as blood and as white as snow.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

We have got the boy, sir.

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

Mercury is always a bad boy at the start and end of his retrograde period, even more so than how he behaves in the middle.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

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