CHASING

Traducere în limba română

chasing¹ substantiv

1. vânare, urmărire, goană, alungare, izgonire, punere pe fugă.

2. (sl.) depăşire a normei, întrecerea normei stabilită de muncitori.

chasing² substantiv

(tehn.) cizelare, gravare; ştemuire, batere cu ciocanul (a unui metal, pentru a scoate în relief figuri sau ornamente).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In my haste I thrust the key into my pocket, and dropped my stick while I was chasing Teddy, who had run up the curtain.

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

The scientists rated each session based on the number of minutes of courtship by the male – shown by sustained hovering near or actively chasing the females.

(Butterflies are genetically wired to choose a mate that looks just like them, University of Cambridge)

The legend of Erik the Red itself may mask what Barrett calls “ecological globalisation”: the chasing of natural resources as supply dwindles.

(Over-hunting walruses contributed to the collapse of Norse Greenland, University of Cambridge)

‘There are thirty-nine enormous beryls,’ said he, ‘and the price of the gold chasing is incalculable.’

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

At one end of the corridor we were all marshalled by Sherlock Holmes, the constables grinning and Lestrade staring at my friend with amazement, expectation, and derision chasing each other across his features.

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

Chasing an errant swarm of bees is nothing to following a naked lunatic, when the fit of escaping is upon him!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Derefore, pecause, he is chasing der appetite.

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

When Dorothy awoke the sun was shining through the trees and Toto had long been out chasing birds around him and squirrels.

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

On the second Saturday after Jo got out of the window, Meg, as she sat sewing at her window, was scandalized by the sight of Laurie chasing Jo all over the garden and finally capturing her in Amy's bower.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mrs. Price, Rebecca, and Betsey all went up to defend themselves, all talking together, but Rebecca loudest, and the job was to be done as well as it could in a great hurry; William trying in vain to send Betsey down again, or keep her from being troublesome where she was; the whole of which, as almost every door in the house was open, could be plainly distinguished in the parlour, except when drowned at intervals by the superior noise of Sam, Tom, and Charles chasing each other up and down stairs, and tumbling about and hallooing.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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