GHOST

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Traducere în limba română

ghost I. s.

1. duh, spirit, suflet;

to give up the ghost a-şi da duhul, a da ortul popii.

2. umbră, strigoi, stafie, nălucă, spectru;

ghosts of the past umbrele trecutului;

to raise a ghost a invoca / chema un spirit;

(teatru sl.) the ghost walks! se dă leafa!;

we want no ghost to tell us that! oricine ştie asta!

3. (fig.) umbră, ţâr, schelet, stafie.

4. (fig.) umbră, urmă, rămăşită, rest;

the ghost of a smile o umbră de zâmbet, un zâmbet abia schiţat;

there was not the shadow of a ghost in sight nu se vedea nici ţipenie de om;

not to have the ghost of a chance a nu avea nici cea mai mică şansă.

5. (lit.) negru, autor anonim, sclav literar folosit de altul care iscăleşte.

6. (fiz.) spectru secundar.

ghost II. verb A. tranzitiv

(rar) a scrie (ceva pentru altcineva, ca negru, ca autor anonim).

ghost II. verb B. intranzitiv

(for an author etc.) a sluji ca negru, ca sclav literar (pentru un autor etc.)

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Stand away from me,” she says, “I am a ghost that calls her from beside her open grave!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So I think: you have no ghost, then?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was young Jim Harrison himself, sir, said the landlord, though indeed I scarce knew him at first, for he looked like his own ghost.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The captain spun round on his heel and fronted us; all the brown had gone out of his face, and even his nose was blue; he had the look of a man who sees a ghost, or the evil one, or something worse, if anything can be; and upon my word, I felt sorry to see him all in a moment turn so old and sick.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Seen a ghost?

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

I thought it was his ghost at first; but when I looked again there he was still, with a kind of question in his eyes, as if to ask me whether I were glad or sorry to see him.

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

Renfield proceeded:—He came up to the window in the mist, as I had seen him often before; but he was solid then—not a ghost, and his eyes were fierce like a man's when angry.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

And that night the man says to me, 'What time start to-morrow, Charley?' It is like the voice of a ghost. I say, 'All the time you make start at five o'clock.' 'To-morrow,' he says, 'we will start at three o'clock.' I laugh in great bitterness, and I say, 'You are dead man.' And he says, 'To-morrow we will start at three o'clock.'

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

“Not the ghost of one,” replied Miss Mowcher.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Ghost! What, you are a baby after all!

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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