FENCE

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Traducere în limba română

fence I. substantiv

1. gard, îngrăditură;

green (wire) fence gard viu (de sârmă);

to be on smb.’s fence a fi de partea cuiva;

to be on the other side of the fence a fi în lagărul opus, a fi de partea potrivnicului;

to be on the same side of the fence a fi în acelaş lagăr, a ocupa o poziţie analogă;

to come down / to descend on the right side of the fence a trece de partea învingătorului;

(amer.) to mend one’s fences, to look after one’s fences a) plural (fam., pol.) a-şi consolida situaţia politică (în vederea alegerilor); b) (fam.) a căuta să se împrietenească cu cineva sau să-şi îmbunătăţească relaţiile cu cineva;

(amer.) to make a Virginia fence, to walk like a Virginia a merge clătinându-se, a nu se ţine pe picioare;

(sl.) to rush one’s fences a acţiona prea pripit;

to stop to look at a fence a) (despre cai, în timpul curselor cu obstacole) a se opri dinaintea barierei; b) (fig.) a şovăi, a se teme de greutăţi;

to be / to sit on the fence a sta în două luntre; a fi nentru sau în expectativă.

2. scrimă; scrimă cu floretă; arta de a scrima;

master of fence a) scrimer dibaci; b) (fig.) om arţăgos.

3. (sl.) tăinuitor de lucruri furate; cumpărător al lucrurilor de furat.

4. (sl.) cuib sau gazdă de hoţi.

5. (tehn.) cutie de protecţie.

6. (mil. etc.) apărare, barieră, stavilă.

7. (înv.) fortificaţie, apărare.

fence II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a îngrădi, a împrejmui.

2. a proteja, a ocroti, a apăra.

3. a fortifica.

4. a interzice (vânătoarea sau pescuitul într-un anumit loc).

5. (despre cai) a lua (un obstacol).

6. a ascunde (lucruri de furat).

7. a para (o observaţie).

8. to fence about / in / round a înconjura, a îngrădi, a împrejmui;

to off / out a respinge, a alunga, a izgoni.

fence II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a scrima.

2. a răspunde echivoc în doi peri.

3. to fence with a question a se sustrage de la un răspuns, a răspunde la o întrebare printr-o altă întrebare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Then she climbed down from the fence and walked up to it, while Toto ran around the pole and barked.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Though possessed of half a dozen hats, it took him some time to find one, then there was a hunt for the key, which was at last discovered in his pocket, so that the girls were quite out of sight when he leaped the fence and ran after them.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I was an hour walking to the end of this field, which was fenced in with a hedge of at least one hundred and twenty feet high, and the trees so lofty that I could make no computation of their altitude.

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

The setting sun was glowing on the strange lady, over the garden-fence, and she came walking up to the door with a fell rigidity of figure and composure of countenance that could have belonged to nobody else.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Dorothy helped him over the fence, and they started along the path of yellow brick for the Emerald City.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Then they lifted him up and flew away with him to the Witch's castle, where he was placed in a small yard with a high iron fence around it, so that he could not escape.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Once more they could see fences built beside the road; but these were painted green, and when they came to a small house, in which a farmer evidently lived, that also was painted green.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

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