CANE

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Traducere în limba română

cane I. substantiv

1. (bot.) trestie de mare; stuf (Calamus).

2. baston, băţ;

cane of wax baston de ceară roşie.

3. (şi sugar cane) (bot.) trestie de zahăr (Saccharum officinarum).

cane II. verb tranzitiv

1. a bate (cu băţul).

2. a împleti din stuf sau trestie (mobilă).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He then showed me the cane, and asked me what I thought of THAT, for a tooth?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"Bless me, what's all this?" cried the old lady with a rap of her cane as she glanced from the pale young gentleman to the scarlet young lady.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Within we were seated round the cane table, on which lay a sealed envelope.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You remember the great bristle of sharp canes down below where we found the skeleton of the American?

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when we came at last to the five thousand cheeses (canes he made it that day, I remember), my mother burst out crying.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Mr. Creakle then caned Tommy Traddles for being discovered in tears, instead of cheers, on account of Mr. Mell's departure; and went back to his sofa, or his bed, or wherever he had come from.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

But give me leave to ask you, Mr. What's-your-name; and here Mr. Creakle folded his arms, cane and all, upon his chest, and made such a knot of his brows that his little eyes were hardly visible below them; whether, when you talk about favourites, you showed proper respect to me?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He was always being caned—I think he was caned every day that half-year, except one holiday Monday when he was only ruler'd on both hands—and was always going to write to his uncle about it, and never did.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I hurried away to the parlour; and there I found Mr. Creakle, sitting at his breakfast with the cane and a newspaper before him, and Mrs. Creakle with an opened letter in her hand.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I saw him wink, solemnly, at his sister, as he rose and said, taking up the cane: Why, Jane, we can hardly expect Clara to bear, with perfect firmness, the worry and torment that David has occasioned her today.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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