BUILD

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Traducere în limba română

build I. verb past şi part. trec. built, A. tranzitiv

1. a construi, a clădi, a zidi, a ridica, a înălţa;

(fig.) to build castles in the air a clădi castele în Spania.

2. (fig.) a crea, a făuri, a clădi.

3. (sl.) a face, a confecţiona (haine, arme); ◊

I'm built that way aşa sunt (făcut) eu;

I'm not built that way nu corespunde principiilor mele, nu pot să fac aşa ceva, eu nu sunt aşa, nu sunt un astfel de om.

4. to build in / into a zidi, a închide cu un zid;

to build up a) a construi, a ridica, a înălţa; b) (fig.) a întări, a întrema; c) a zidi cu cărămidă (o fereastră, o uşă); d) a zidi de jur împrejur; e) a monta (o maşină). f) a acumula, a aduna / a strânge laolaltă.

build I. verb past şi part. trec. built, B. intranzitiv

1. a clădi, a construi;

(fig.) to build on sand a clădi pe nisip / în aer.

2. a fi arhitect.

3. to build upon a se baza pe, a se bizui pe.

build II. substantiv

1. formă; construcţie, stil.

2. statură, conformaţie a corpului.

3. (sl.) croială (a hainei), fason, stil, formă, proporţie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

You would be building that difficult Mars and Uranus aspect into the DNA at the birth of your venture, so enjoy this weekend day in a light way, but sign no papers.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I have been good to the people, and they like me; but ever since this Palace was built, I have shut myself up and would not see any of them.

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

“There is some building going on there,” said Holmes; “that is where we are going.”

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

His room was on the second floor, at the farther end of the building, facing the same way as Lord Saltire’s.

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

He had to open the building and the room.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Just then, the moonlight crept round an angle of the building, and the light fell on the window.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It was an immense and solid building, erected at a vast expense.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I advise every body who is going to build, to build a cottage.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

Those are almshouses, built by some of the family.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

This apartment, to which she had given a date so ancient, a position so awful, proved to be one end of what the general's father had built.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

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