DOWNSTAIRS

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Traducere în limba română

downstairs I. adverb

1. jos (pe scări); la parter;

to go downstairs a coborî, a se da jos pe scară; a coborî la parter.

2. jos; la etajul de jos.

downstairs II. adjectiv

1. situat la etajul de jos.

2. treaz, sculat în picioare. v. down³ (I, 5 d).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In general, I board with the people downstairs, who are very agreeable people indeed.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The lady broke away, and I’ve got her in a cab downstairs.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

You must stop work now, and when you go downstairs just say that I wish to see Brunton.

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

I went downstairs with him, and as we were going there was a knock at the hall-door.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Then he went downstairs, said a few words to the man who was waiting in the hall, and the two of them went off together.

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

"Everything is out of sorts, somehow," she said to herself, going downstairs.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

As they went downstairs together, Charlotte said: I shall depend on hearing from you very often, Eliza.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

Soon after they were gone he rang the bell: a message came that I and Adele were to go downstairs.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The general attended her himself to the street-door, saying everything gallant as they went downstairs, admiring the elasticity of her walk, which corresponded exactly with the spirit of her dancing, and making her one of the most graceful bows she had ever beheld, when they parted.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

She was pleased, on taking leave, to find Miss Fairfax determined to attend her out of the room, to go with her even downstairs; it gave her an opportunity which she immediately made use of, to say, It is as well, perhaps, that I have not had the possibility.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

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