DOING

Traducere în limba română

doing substantiv

1. faptă, acţiune, operă;

all this in your doing toate acestea sunt opera dumitale, dumneata eşti cauza tuturor acestor lucruri.

2. plural acte, acţiuni, fapte, purtare, comportare;

valiant doings fapte eroice;

(peior.) fine doings these! frumoase isprăvi!;

I have heard of his doings am auzit despre purtarea lui.

3. plural larmă, vuiet, gălăgie, dezordine; tămbălău, petrecere.

◊ (pop.) to give smb. a doing a-i da cuiva bătaie de cap / de furcă;

the house wants a deal of doing casa are nevoie de o reparaţie serioasă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

What has the villain been doing here?

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

He told her of what he had been doing, and of his plan to write for a livelihood and of going on with his studies.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

“You infernal spies!” the man cried. “What are you doing there?”

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

You may be doing business or buying property together—something may come up, and your ideas will be good ones.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

It cost me much trouble to explain to him what I was doing; for the inhabitants have not the least idea of books or literature.

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

What was he doing there at all?

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

I feel that in saying this I am doing what my dear one would have approved.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It was a very lonely soul, I was to learn, that never unmasked, though at rare moments it played at doing so.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

“What were you doing for Lady Mithers?” asked Steerforth.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was as a cue to him, seeming to rouse him to do what he would never have dreamed of doing.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)