GLIMPSE

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Traducere în limba română

glimpse I. s.

1. licărire trecătoare, srăfulgerare slabă, scăpărare.

2. privire fugară, trecătoare;

at a glimpse a) la prima vedere; b) dintr-o privire, dintr-o ochire, dintr-o aruncătură de ochi;

to have / to get / to catch a glimpse of smth. a întrezări ceva, a vedea ceva pentru o clipă / în treacăt;

(lit.) glimpses of the moon peisaje nocturne, privelişti sublunare.

3. (fig. rar) amintire slabă.

glimpse II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (at, upon) a arunca o privire (la, cu dat.) a privi în treacăt (la); a arunca (pe furiş) o privire (asupra, cu gen.; la, cu dat.).

2. (poetic) a miji, a apărea.

glimpse II. verb B. tranzitiv

a întrezări, a întrevedea pentru o clipă / în treacăt;

he had glimpsed death aproape că văzuse moartea cu ochii.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

From the glimpse I had of them, I should say that I never saw such sums out of a school ciphering-book.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I wish I could get some glimpse of his mind or of the cause of his sudden passion.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It was the finest thing yet that he had seen in this small glimpse of that world.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

For a moment I caught this clear glimpse of them.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was there in an instant, and I caught a glimpse of it as she half drew it out.

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

She was always having a glimpse of him somewhere or other.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

As he did so I caught a glimpse of his face in the mirror over the mantelpiece.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A new study using data from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope provides a rare glimpse of conditions on the surface of a rocky planet orbiting a star beyond the Sun.

(A Rare Look at a Rocky Exoplanet's Surface, NASA)

I now caught my first fair glimpse of the woman.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Ambitious men caught glimpses of nobler ambitions than their own, and even worldlings confessed that his beliefs were beautiful and true, although 'they wouldn't pay'.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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