COMPASS

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Traducere în limba română

compass I. substantiv

1. cerc; circumferinţă; rază, cuprins, întindere.

2. (fig.) volum; diapazon; gamă; limite; sferă; cuprins; întindere, spaţiu; cadru;

voice of great compass voce cu registru mare;

in the compass of a year în cursul unui an;

to draw smth. up in(to) a narrow compass a reduce, a prescurta, a micşora ceva;

to be within one’s compass a fi de domeniul cuiva / de competenţa / de resortul cuiva; a sta în puterea cuiva;

to be beyond one’s compass a nu fi de domeniul / de competenţa / resortul cuiva; a nu sta în puterea cuiva;

to keep within compass a) a se abţine, a se reţine, a se stăpâni; b) a ţine în frâu;

to speak within compass a vorbi cumpătat, a nu depăşi limita (în vorbire);

within the compass of a lifetime în limitele vieţii omeneşti.

3. (şi mariner’s compass) busolă;

(av.) wireless compass radiosemicompas.

4. plural (şi a pair of compasses) compas.

compass II. verb tranzitiv

1. a atinge, a realiza, a înfăptui; a duce la bun sfârşit.

2. a cuprinde (cu mintea), a înţelege.

3. a plănui, a pune la cale, a urzi.

4. (înv.) a înconjura, a încinge; a ocoli.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Silver, as he sat, took certain bearings with his compass.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Imagination, fancy, and invention, they are wholly strangers to, nor have any words in their language, by which those ideas can be expressed; the whole compass of their thoughts and mind being shut up within the two forementioned sciences.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Him and these six was alone here; he killed 'em, every man; and this one he hauled here and laid down by compass, shiver my timbers! They're long bones, and the hair's been yellow.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Every here and there, one of a different species rose forty or fifty feet clear above its neighbours, and which of these was the particular tall tree of Captain Flint could only be decided on the spot, and by the readings of the compass.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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