FLESH

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Traducere în limba română

flesh I. substantiv

1. carne, trup (şi fig.);

flesh and blood a) carne şi sânge; b) omul, firea omenească, natura umană; c) atr. în persoană, în carne şi oase; d) atr. plin de viaţă;

one’s (own) flesh and blood a) carne din carnea cuiva; copiii cuiva; b) persoane apropiate (ca păreri etc.); o apă şi un pământ;

all flesh tot ce trăieşte, toate vietăţile, toată suflarea;

(înv.) flesh and fell în întregime, cu totul;

(înv.) to be free of one’s flesh a face minuni de vitejie (în luptă);

to go the way of all flesh a-şi da obştescul sfârşit, a muri;

in flesh voinic, gras, plin, corpolent, rotofei;

in the flesh în carne şi oase, în persoană;

to lose flesh a slăbi, a pierde în greutate;

too much for flesh and blood to bear mai mult decât poate îndura omul;

to gain / to make / to put on flesh a se îngrăşa, a pune carne;

to pick up flesh a se îngrăşa din nou.

2. carne crudă (de mamifer, ca aliment);

wolves live on flesh lupii se hrănesc cu carne;

neither fish flesh, nor fowl nici cal, nici măgar; nici câine, nici ogar.

3. carne, pulpă, miez (de fructe).

4. pofte trupeşti, dorinţe sexuale.

flesh II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a deprinde / a obişnui / a învăţa (câinele, şoimul, la vânătoare) cu gustul sângelui.

2. a însângera, a umple / a înroşi de sânge.

3. a îngrăşa, a pune la îngrăşat, a hrăni.

4. (fig.) (on, upon) a-şi exersa (spada, pana etc.) (pe, cu).

5. (şi to flesh out) (tehn.) a curăţi de carne (pieile), a cărnosi, a descărna, a flaişui.

flesh II. verb B. intranzitiv

(fam.) a se îngrăşa, a lua proporţii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The basic life of him dominated him again, and his intelligence fled before the will of his flesh to live.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

Their faces are like the faces of people who have died of hunger, and their cheeks are black with the dead flesh of many freezings.

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

Her dear flesh was as anybody's flesh, as his flesh.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

It is because I am afraid, the flesh is afraid; and I am afraid in my mind because I do not wish to die.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

I love as my own flesh.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“I' faith, it is a very long flight. Yet wood and steel may do more than flesh and blood.”

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“Not for gold and silver.” said she, “but for flesh and blood.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

I had only one misfortune, that the rats on board carried away one of my sheep; I found her bones in a hole, picked clean from the flesh.

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

The Tin Woodman lay down on his bed from force of habit, for he remembered when he was made of flesh; but not being able to sleep, he passed the night moving his joints up and down to make sure they kept in good working order.

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

Yes, she is down in the morning-room again, and I have no doubt she will see you, but you must not ask too much of her, for she has gone through all that flesh and blood will stand.

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

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