GUINEA

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Traducere în limba română

guinea substantiv

1. (înv.) guinee, monedă de aur de 21 de şilingi.

2. guinee, unitate monetară de o liră şi un şiling întrebuinţată curent (pentru fixarea onorariilor etc.) în profesiunile liberale, pentru subscriere la operele de binefacere etc.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Two guineas!” roared Merry, shaking it at Silver.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?

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

I would not take eight hundred guineas for them.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Well, I would not hedge a guinea of my money.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For this express reason, I had borrowed the half-guinea, that I might not be without a fund for my travelling-expenses.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He asked fifty guineas; I closed with him directly, threw down the money, and the carriage was mine.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Half a guinea if you do it in twenty minutes!’

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

“He’s a natural fighter and the other an excellent sparrer, but I don’t hedge a guinea.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She enclosed the half guinea (I was afraid she must have had a world of trouble to get it out of Mr. Barkis's box), and told me that Miss Betsey lived near Dover, but whether at Dover itself, at Hythe, Sandgate, or Folkestone, she could not say.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

In the course of that letter, I told Peggotty that I had a particular occasion for half a guinea; and that if she could lend me that sum until I could repay it, I should be very much obliged to her, and would tell her afterwards what I had wanted it for.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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