BUSH

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Traducere în limba română

bush¹ I. substantiv

1. tufă, tufiş;

bush of hair păr des;

to beat about the bush v. beat (I, B).

2. mari suprafeţe de pământ necultivat, acoperite de tufişuri (în Australia);

to take to the bush a deveni pribeag, hoinar.

3. coadă stufoasă de vulpe.

4. (înv.) ramură, mai ales de iederă (servind ca firmă la tavernele din vechea Anglie); firmă de tavernă; tavernă;

good wine needs no bush vinul bun nu are nevoie de reclamă.

bush¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a sădi cu tufişuri.

2. (agr.) a boroni.

bush¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

a creşte des.

bush²I. substantiv

1. (tehn.) bucşă, bucea, cămăşuială.

2. (mil.) bucşă de amorsare.

bush²II. verb tranzitiv

a pune, a vârî (o bucşă).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Holmes also suggested that we should wait, not inside the hut, but outside it, among the bushes which grew round the farther window.

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

Yes, it was laid across the bush.

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

Let them ride behind us, and let them leave their bows here among the bushes for it is not my wish that they should know that we are Englishmen.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

There was movement among the bushes at the far end of the clearing which I had just traversed.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Nothing of the sort, for not a soul appeared but a sanginary-looking boy asleep under the current bushes.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He gathered a half-blown rose, the first on the bush, and offered it to me.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The lodge which stood by the Brighton Road was so dainty with its trellis-work and its rose bushes that I was not the only visitor who declared that I had rather be the owner of it than of the great house amongst the trees.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I was pretty far down on the low, sandy spit that encloses the anchorage to the east, and is joined at half-water to Skeleton Island; and now, as I rose to my feet, I saw, some distance further down the spit and rising from among low bushes, an isolated rock, pretty high, and peculiarly white in colour.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Then said they: “There is nothing to be done here,” and they went home and told the cook that they had seen nothing in the forest but a little rose-bush with one rose on it.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I was shaken but not hurt by the fall; so I picked myself up and rushed off among the bushes as hard as I could run, for I understood that I was far from being out of danger yet.

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

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