CLIFF

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Traducere în limba română

cliff substantiv

1. faleză; stâncă, coastă stâncoasă; mal abrupt.

2. ţărm stâncos.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He had waited, and then making his way round to the top of the cliff, he had endeavoured to succeed where his comrade had failed.

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

I was waked by the flapping at the window, which had begun after that sleep-walking on the cliff at Whitby when Mina saved me, and which now I know so well.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“Come hither, Alleyne,” said Sir Nigel, walking back to the edge of the cliff which formed the rear of their position.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

With their aid I am positive I could climb that detached pinnacle to the summit; but so long as the main cliff overhangs, it is vain to attempt ascending that.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We walked about on the cliff after that, and sat on the grass, and looked at things through a telescope—I could make out nothing myself when it was put to my eye, but I pretended I could—and then we came back to the hotel to an early dinner.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

These two baby wolves! If I am lean like a starved cat, they are lean like cats that have never eaten and have died. Their eyes are sunk deep in their heads, bright sometimes as with fever, dim and cloudy sometimes like the eyes of the dead. Their cheeks are hollow like caves in a cliff. Also are their cheeks black and raw from many freezings.

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

The large scarps were formed as Mercury’s interior cooled, causing the planet to contract and the crust to break and thrust upward along faults making cliffs up to hundreds of miles long and some more than a mile (over one-and-a-half kilometers) high.

(The Incredible Shrinking Mercury is Active After All, NASA)

Again I saw that grim face look over the cliff, and I knew that it was the precursor of another stone.

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

She wants to take him up to the seat on the churchyard cliff and show him the beauty of Whitby.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

But enough of such trifles, for we have our work before us, and it will be time to speak of this matter when we see the white cliffs of England once more.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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