GALE

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Traducere în limba română

gale¹ s.

1. furtună; vânt puternic;

equinoctial gales furtuni echinocţiale;

(mar.) it is blowing half a gale of wind e o briză destul de afurisită.

2. (poetic) vântuleţ, zefir, boare.

3. veselie, voioşie.

4. (amer.) explozie de râs, hohote.

gale² s.

(bot.) ciumărea, iarba-ciumei (Galega officinalis).

gale³ s.

plată periodică a rentelor, impozitelor sau dobânzilor.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It must be something important which has brought you out in such a gale.

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

There is a high gale in that sky, and on this hill-top.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

When she turned it back to him, it was composed, and there was no hint of the gale in her eyes.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

And the winter darkness, when the north gales make their long sweep across the ice-pack, and the air is filled with flying white, and no man may venture forth, is the chosen time for the telling of how Keesh, from the poorest igloo in the village, rose to power and place over them all.

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

The gale had blown itself out next day, but it was a bitter morning when we started upon our journey.

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

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