FOOTSTEP

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Traducere în limba română

footstep substantiv

1. pas; urmă de pas; plural paşi;

I hear footsteps aud zgomot de paşi;

to follow in smb.’s footstep a merge / a călca pe urmele cuiva (şi fig.).

2. pedală; treaptă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I used to sit with folded hands watching him, and counting his footsteps, hour after hour.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He turned as he heard my footsteps.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

“She often reads to me out of those books; and she was in the middle of a very fine speech of that man's—what's his name, Fanny?—when we heard your footsteps.”

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Finally there was a creak from a chair, and the footsteps ceased.

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

How does the brain translate sounds — vibrations that travel through the air — into the patterns of neural activity that we recognize as speech, or laughter, or the footsteps of an approaching friend?

(Understanding how the brain makes sense of sound, National Science Foundation)

My footsteps seemed to tend so naturally to the shop door, after I had read these words from over the way, that I went across the road and looked in.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Footsteps enough, anyhow!

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

The room was the same, unchanged in any way since I came into it; I could see along the floor, in the brilliant moonlight, my own footsteps marked where I had disturbed the long accumulation of dust.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

She sat some time in a good deal of agitation, listening, trembling, and fearing to be sent for every moment; but as no footsteps approached the East room, she grew gradually composed, could sit down, and be able to employ herself, and able to hope that Mr. Crawford had come and would go without her being obliged to know anything of the matter.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

When the debates were heavy—I mean as to length, not quality, for in the last respect they were not often otherwise—and I went home late, Dora would never rest when she heard my footsteps, but would always come downstairs to meet me.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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