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BRITANNIA
Traducere în limba română
Britannia substantiv
(poetic) Marea Britanie (de asemenea ca personificare a Marii Britanii sub forma unei femei - pe monede etc.).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
“She might almost personify Britannia,” said he, “with her complete self-absorption and general air of comfortable somnolence. Well, au revoir, Von Bork!”
(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“Exactly so,” replied Traddles, “all to be earned. Of course we have something in the shape of tea-spoons, because we stir our tea. But they're Britannia metal.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
“My dear,” said Mr. Micawber, “Britannia must take her chance. I am bound to say that she has never done much for me, and that I have no particular wish upon the subject.”
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Britannia, that unfortunate female, is always before me, like a trussed fowl: skewered through and through with office-pens, and bound hand and foot with red tape.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
Traddles, exactly the same simple, unaffected fellow as he ever was, sits at the foot of the large table like a Patriarch; and Sophy beams upon him, from the head, across a cheerful space that is certainly not glittering with Britannia metal.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
However vigorous the sapling, said Mrs. Micawber, shaking her head, I cannot forget the parent-tree; and when our race attains to eminence and fortune, I own I should wish that fortune to flow into the coffers of Britannia.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
What evenings, when the candles came, and I was expected to employ myself, but, not daring to read an entertaining book, pored over some hard-headed, harder-hearted treatise on arithmetic; when the tables of weights and measures set themselves to tunes, as Rule Britannia, or Away with Melancholy; when they wouldn't stand still to be learnt, but would go threading my grandmother's needle through my unfortunate head, in at one ear and out at the other!
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)