HOLIDAY

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Traducere în limba română

holiday I. substantiv

1. sărbătoare; zi de repaus / odihnă / recreaţie;

it is all holiday(s) with him nu lucrează de loc, se odihneşte sau petrece mereu;

legal holiday sărbătoare legală;

to have a holiday a fi liber, a nu avea serviciu;

(fam. glumeţ) gone for a holiday a fost şi nu mai este, s-a dus;

Roman holiday distracţie pe socoteala altora.

2. concediu, permisie, vacanţă;

a month’s holiday o lună de concediu;

additional holidays concediu suplimentar;

(fam.) busman’s holiday concediu petrecut la muncă obişnuită / exercitându-şi profesiunea.

3. plural vacanţă (de vară).

holiday II. adjectiv atr.

1. de / pentru sărbătoare sau vacanţă; sărbătoresc.

2. (fig.) de ocazie, ocazional; de ochii lumii, de paradă; numai cu numele.

3. (fig., despre cuvinte etc.) pompos, ritos.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

As she spoke, Mrs. March came and took her place among them, looking as if her holiday had not been much pleasanter than theirs.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I must enjoy them now; don't recall either my mind or body to the school; I am out of it and disposed for full holiday.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

If you already have your children, would you like to surprise them with a holiday away where you can all enjoy one another?

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

We had had a holiday, had made presents to him in the morning, had made a speech to him through the head-boy, and had cheered him until we were hoarse, and until he had shed tears.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Luckily the visit happened in the Christmas holidays, when she could directly look for comfort to her cousin Edmund; and he told her such charming things of what William was to do, and be hereafter, in consequence of his profession, as made her gradually admit that the separation might have some use.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Well, we have tried not to waste our holiday, but each has had a task and worked at it with a will.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Some people see their work wind down as they move closer to the holidays, but that won’t be the case for you—just the opposite!

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

She repeated this several times next day, in the intervals of our arranging for the transmission of my clothes and books from Mr. Wickfield's; relative to which, and to all my late holiday, I wrote a long letter to Agnes, of which my aunt took charge, as she was to leave on the succeeding day.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Grant's very great kindness, it was impossible for him and his horses to be accommodated where they now were without material inconvenience; but his attachment to that neighbourhood did not depend upon one amusement or one season of the year: he had set his heart upon having a something there that he could come to at any time, a little homestall at his command, where all the holidays of his year might be spent, and he might find himself continuing, improving, and perfecting that friendship and intimacy with the Mansfield Park family which was increasing in value to him every day.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Well, we were hardly settled here, when he turned up again, saying he had come for a holiday, and was going to Switzerland.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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