CONTINENT

Pronunție (USA): (GB):

Traducere în limba română

continent¹ adjectiv

1. reţinut, discret, măsurat.

2. moderat,^- temperat, cumpătat; cast; înfrânat.

continent² substantiv

1. continent.

2. the Continent continentul european; (amer.) America de Nord; (ist.) cele 13 state care au format ulterior Statele Unite.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

To-morrow, she continued, I set out for the Continent.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

For decades, scientists have tried to understand the rate that asteroids hit the Earth by carefully studying impact craters on continents and by using radiometric dating of the rocks around them to determine the ages of the largest, and thus most intact, ones.

(Moon Data Sheds Light on Earth’s Asteroid Impact History, NASA)

Mrs. Fairfax said she should not be surprised if he were to go straight from the Leas to London, and thence to the Continent, and not show his face again at Thornfield for a year to come; he had not unfrequently quitted it in a manner quite as abrupt and unexpected.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I knew Mr. Rochester had been a traveller: Mrs. Fairfax had said so; but I thought the continent of Europe had bounded his wanderings; till now I had never heard a hint given of visits to more distant shores.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The arrangement lasted five years during which the boat went three times around the continent.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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