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GRUB
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Traducere în limba română
grub I. verb A. intranzitiv
1. a scurma, a scormoni, a râcâi.
2. a munci pe spetite; a studia cu înfrigurare; a toci.
3. a scotoci, a cotrobăi.
4. (sl.) a mânca, a hali, a potoli, a băga la ladă.
grub I. verb B. tranzitiv
1. a scurma (pământul).
2. a curăţa (pământul) de rădăcini; a desţeleni.
3. (şi to grub up) a dezgropa, a scoate afară.
4. (fig.) a descoperi (în arhive, cărţi).
5. (sl.) a hrăni, a da de mâncare la.
grub II. substantiv
1. larvă.
2. vierme; râmă.
3. mâzgălitor de hârtie, scrib, scriitor.
4. persoană murdară / neglijentă.
5. (sl.) mâncare, haleală, potol;
grub and bub mâncare şi băutură, haleală şi pileală.
6. (sl.) muncă (obositoare);
in grub ocupat.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
He had eaten his grub and died.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
We leave Anvig with little grub, and travel light and fast. There are three fresh dogs bought in Anvig, and we travel very fast.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
The woman sat on the grub- box, facing him.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
The white man give Yamikan much fine grub.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
So we give him our grub, which is not much, and we chop wood for his fire, and we take his strongest dogs and go on.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
"He would shake his head and say, 'Only do I care to eat the grub of the white man and grow fat after the manner of Yamikan.'"
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
All the time is there plenty grub in that place, and warm blankets, and a big fire.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
But the man with the one eye says, 'Never mind me. Give me your grub. You will get more grub at McKeon's cabin to-morrow. Send McKeon back for me. But do you go on.'
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
No grub.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)
But after that they give him much better grub, and they give him money, and they take him many places in white man's country, and he see many strange things which are beyond the understanding of Ebbits, who is an old man and has not journeyed far.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)