GAME

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game¹ I. substantiv

1. joc; partidă;

the game of tennis tenisul;

a game at / of chees o partidă de şah;

a game at cards o partidă de cărţi;

athletic games jocuri sportive;

Olympian games (ist.) jocuri olimpice, olimpiadă;

Olympic games Olimpiadă, jocuri olimpice (moderne);

game of chance joc de noroc;

round game joc joc de societate;

losing game partidă pierdută;

winning game partidă câştigătoare;

the game is up partida e pierdută;

the game is not worth the candle mai mare daraua decât ocaua; n-are rost să faci aşa;

he has mistaken his game şi-a greşit socotelile; şi-a găsit naşul;

to play a good game a juca bine, a fi un bun jucător;

to play a poor game a juca prost, a fi un prost jucător;

two can play at that game a) urma alege; cine râde la urmă, râde mai bine; se întoarce roata; b) o să-ţi plătesc cu aceeaşi monedă;

to play the game a) a juca după reguli; b) a proceda cum se cuvine; c) (fig) a proceda nobil;

(sl.) keep the game alive! nu te lăsa! dă-i înainte!

to have the game in one's hands a fi sigur de succes, a fi stăpân pe situaţie.

2. distracţie, petrecere, desfătare, veselie, amuzament;

it was such a game! ne-am distrat grozav!

3. mod de a juca;

he plays a remarkable game joacă minunat.

4. pl. întrecere, jocuri.

5. glumă festă, renghi;

to have a game with smb. a prosti păcăli pe cineva;

to make game of smb. a-şi bate joc de cineva, a râde de cineva;

to speak in game a vorbi în glumă.

6. plan, proiect, urzeală, stratagemă, tertip, truc, şiretlic, scamatorie;

I know his (little) game ştiu la ce-l duce capul;

none of your games lasă trucurile, fără scamatorii, şmecherii;

he is up to every game e în stare de orice şiretlic.

7. (sl.) meseria de hoţ.

8. (sl.) găgăuţă nătâng, netot.

9. (al.) târfă, fleoarţă.

10. (înv.) intrigă amoroasă.

game¹ II. adjectiv

1. gata, dispus, hotărât; curajos;

I am game sunt gata;

to die game a muri bărbăteşte;

to be game for anything a fi gata la orice; a nu se teme de nimic;

are you game for? eşti dispus să?;

are you game for a shilling? (eşti dispus să) pariezi pe un şiling? pui un şiling la bătaie?

I am game to go sunt hotărât să plec

2. (sl.) deştept, isteţ.

game¹ III. verb A. intranzitiv

a juca (jocuri de noroc).

game¹ III. verb B. tranzitiv

(şi to game away) a pierde la joc.

game² s.

vânat;

fair game a) animale (sau păsări) al caror vânat e permis; b) (fig) obiectul unui atac legal / legitim;

large game vânat mare;

small game vânat mic;

winged game păsări (ca vânat).

game³ adjectiv

1. şchiop; schilod(it), paralizat;

game leg picior şchiop.

2. netrebuincios.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“SHE didn't,” rejoined Traddles; “but her eldest sister—the one that's the Beauty—quite made game of it, I understand. In fact, all the sisters laugh at it.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He is clever, oh, so clever! he know that his game here was finish; and so he decide he go back home.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

What sort of a game is that—eh?

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

"Well, I think Truth is a very silly play. Let's have a sensible game of Authors to refresh our minds," proposed Jo.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Forgotten were the days they had hunted together, the game they had pulled down, the famine they had suffered.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

It is, however, a game at which two may play.

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

In the first place, three of you came from South Africa on this game—you Williamson, you Carruthers, and Woodley.

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

There’s half the game won, nephew.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The game was hers, and only did not pay her for what she had given to secure it.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

They all rose up in preparation for a round game.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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