HARP

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Traducere în limba română

harp I. s. (muz.)

1. harpă, harfă;

to hang one’s harp(s) on the willows a trece de la bucurie la întristare.

2. (scoţ. agr.) vânturătoare.

3. vătrai.

4. (amer. sl.) apartamentul femeilor.

5. (amer. sl.) femeie; (peior.) muieret, muierile.

harp II. verb intranzitiv

1. a cânta la harfă.

2. to harp (up)on a insista prea mult asupra (unui subiect); a pisa (o problemă), a plictisi / a pisa cu, a bate (pe cineva) la cap cu;

(fam.) he is always harping on the same string spune mereu acelaşi lucru, pisează mereu / într-una acelaşi subiect.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“She is playing her harp,” said Steerforth, softly, at the drawing-room door, “and nobody but my mother has heard her do that, I believe, these three years.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Edmund spoke of the harp as his favourite instrument, and hoped to be soon allowed to hear her.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

However, I am to have my harp fetched to-morrow.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I regularly take walks outside Mr. Larkins's house in the evening, though it cuts me to the heart to see the officers go in, or to hear them up in the drawing-room, where the eldest Miss Larkins plays the harp.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was beginning to look brighter, when Fanny, observing a harp in the room, asked some questions about it, which soon led to an acknowledgment of her wishing very much to hear it, and a confession, which could hardly be believed, of her having never yet heard it since its being in Mansfield.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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