Dicţionar englez-român |
EVEN
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Traducere în limba română
even1 s. (poetic) v. evening.
even2 I. adjectiv
1. neted, plan; lin; uniform, egal;
even with the ground a) la nivelul pământului; b) una cu pământul;
of even date având aceeaşi dată.
2. (fig. despre caracter, fel de a fi) echilibrat, cumpănit; calm;
an even temper o fire calmă / echilibrată.
3. (înv.) sincer, direct (şi fig.).
4. (despre socoteli) soldat, încheiat, lichidat;
to be even with a fi chit cu, a nu mai avea nici o socoteală cu (şi fig.).
5. fără ezitări / şovăieli; fără fluctuaţii; în echilibru (şi fig.).
6. (despre lege, justiţie) drept, nepărtinitor; (înv., despre greutăţi) exact.
7. (despre cifre, cantităţi etc.) egal;
even chances şanse egale.
8. (despre numere) par, cu soţ;
odd and even fără soţ şi cu soţ.
9. (despre sume de bani) întreg; rotund;
even money sumă rotundă.
even2 II. adverb
1. chiar; întocmai;
even as întocmai ca;
even as if (întocmai) ca şi cum;
even so întocmai, chiar aşa.
2. încă; tocmai, chiar;
even now chiar acum;
even if / though chiar dacă;
even then chiar şi atunci, chiar şi în acest caz.
even2 III. verb tranzitiv
1. a netezi, a nivela, a uniformiza.
2. (to) a pune pe aceeaşi treaptă (cu); a egala (cu).
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Her health, and even the tranquillity of her hitherto constant spirit, had been shaken by what she had gone through.
(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Peggotty began to be less with us, of an evening, than she had always been.
(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)
"I know no more than the dead where even to look for them."
(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)
"Quite safe, dear. She is not hurt, and won't even take cold, I think, you were so sensible in covering and getting her home quickly," replied her mother cheerfully.
(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)
Even now I can't for the life of me understand why you should have worked it in so extraordinary a manner.
(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But as things fell out, my poor father died quite suddenly that evening, which put all other matters on one side.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
But even this he was not allowed to complete.
(White Fang, de Jack London)
And you can come up to-morrow evening, at seven, and let me know how you are getting on.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Even as she asked, he realized that she was making an effort to talk his talk, and he resolved to get away from it and talk hers.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
As it is, you were some hundreds of yards away and can tell me even less than Miss Smith.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)