HISTORY

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history substantiv

1. istorie; ştiinţa istoriei; studiul istoriei;

ancient history a) istoria antică; b) (fam.) fapt(e) învechit(e), care nu mai prezintă interes;

natural history istoria naturală, ştiinţele naturii / naturale;

the lesson of history învăţămintele istoriei;

history repeats itself istoria se repetă;

to make history a fi destinat să intre / să rămână în istorie;

general / universal history istoria universală;

history of literature istoria literaturii.

2. istorie, istoric, trecut, poveste (a unei persoane, instituţii etc.);

a woman with a history o femeie cu trecut (bogat).

3. (înv.) piesă (de teatru) istorică.

The reader now understands, as well as I do, what I was when I came to that point of my youthful history to which I am now coming again.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So much so that they are history.

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

It seemed to have in it a whole history of the country.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

His history began with Walt and Madge.

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

At present it is not too much to say that it is of such weight it may have an influence upon European history.

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

Yes, I am fond of history.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Your friend Harriet will make a much longer history when you see her.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Some time elapsed before I learned the history of my friends.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

She sat an hour with me on Monday evening, and gave me the whole history.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

It was nine o’clock at night upon the second of August—the most terrible August in the history of the world.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)