CLING

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Traducere în limba română

cling, past şi part. trec. clung verb intranzitiv

1. (to) a se lipi (de); a se agăţa (de); a se ţine (de);

he clings to me like a bur / leech se ţine de mine ca scaiul, ca lipitoarea.

2. (şi to cling together) a se ţine laolaltă, la un loc, împreună; (despre zăpadă) a se cocoloşi.

3. (despre îmbrăcăminte) a fi colant, a se mula, a lua forma corpului, a fi strâns pe corp, a se lipi de corp.

4. (fig.) to cling to a se ţine de, a nu renunţa la, a rămâne credincios (cu dat.), fidel (cu dat. );

he clings to his usual arguments apelează într-una / ţine morţiş la obişnuitele sale argumente; o ţine una şi bună, nu se lasă de loc.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Dora, clinging to them both, and weeping, exclaimed, “O yes, aunts! Please take Julia Mills and me and Jip to Putney!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He clung on for a moment, long enough to drag the god over backward.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

A puff of wind caught me,—and I staggered across the moving deck to a corner of the cabin, to which I clung for support.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

She trembled a little, and clung to me; when I told her to come at once with me home she rose without a word, with the obedience of a child.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

The more we told of our troubles, the more—man, woman, and child—they clung to the shelter of their houses.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

They kissed their mother quietly, clung about her tenderly, and tried to wave their hands cheerfully when she drove away.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The gate was opened, and as the girl passed through, a shower of gold fell upon her, and the gold clung to her, so that she was covered with it from head to foot.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

“Over the cliff with him!” shouted half a dozen voices; but ere the archers could drag him from the rocks to which he clung Sir Nigel had ridden up and called upon them to stop.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I would have left the room without another word, but he clung to me, and tore the ruffle from my wrist in his attempt to hold me back, and to prevail upon me to promise to say nothing to you or Sir Lothian Hume.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She clung to her aunt, because she would miss her; she kissed the hand of her uncle with struggling sobs, because she had displeased him; and as for Edmund, she could neither speak, nor look, nor think, when the last moment came with him; and it was not till it was over that she knew he was giving her the affectionate farewell of a brother.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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