EXPEDITION

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Traducere în limba română

expedition substantiv

1. expediţie (ştiinţifică, războinică);

amer. fig. to go on a fishing expedition a sonda terenul.

2. grabă, repeziciune, urgenţă, iuţeală, promptitudine.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Glowing with pleasure to find that he had still this interest in me, I told him how my aunt had proposed the little expedition that I had before me, and whither it tended.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then comes our expedition of to-day.

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

There were some members of a scientific expedition on the whale-ship Bedford.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It was a relief to me when at last, after a light dinner, we set out upon our expedition.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The very next day we did actually make our start upon this remarkable expedition.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is possible that I may have to ask your company and assistance upon a small expedition which will have be undertaken to-night, if my chain of reasoning should prove to be correct.

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

By the time his mother began leaving the cave on hunting expeditions, the cub had learned well the law that forbade his approaching the entrance.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“Why, she reminds me, Steerforth,” said I, “that I came out on this expedition to look about me, and to think a little.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Well, said Challenger, I admit that my mind will be more at ease when I am assured that the result of our expedition has been conveyed to our friends.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was such an early day that it came soon, even to me, who was in a fever of expectation, and half afraid that an earthquake or a fiery mountain, or some other great convulsion of nature, might interpose to stop the expedition.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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