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HOW
Traducere în limba română
how I. adverb
1. cum, în ce fel;
how do you do? ce mai faci?;
how d’ye do? ce mai faci?;
how are you? cum te simţi?;
how so? cum aşa?
how does one spell this word? cum se scrie acest cuvânt?;
how is it that? cum se face că?;
how can you? cum poţi? nu ţi-e ruşine?;
how the deuce / devil / dickens cum dracu, cum naiba;
how ever, how on earth cum oare, cum naiba.
2. cum, ce;
how now? ce înseamnă asta? ce mai este?;
(fam.) and how! şi încă cum!;
Mary answered him and how! Maria i-a răspuns şi încă cum!;
it was a swell party, and how! ce mai serată a fost!
3. (exclamativ) ce, cât de;
how funny! a) i-auzi ce caraghioslâc! ce nostim!; b) ciudat!;
how small the world is! cât de mică este lumea!
how I wish I could cât aş vrea să pot!
4. cât, ce preţ? cât de, cât de mult;
how is corn? ce preţ are grâul?;
how old is he? câţi ani are?;
how many times? de câte ori?
5. (introducând propoziţii indirecte) că;
he us told as how he had met her ne-a spus că a întâlnit-o;
I told him how there had been a great storm i-am spus că a fost o furtună mare.
how II. substantiv
(amer. fam.) that’s about the how of it cam aşa s-au petrecut lucrurile;
(fam.) the how, the when and the wherefore cum şi ce fel, aşa şi pe dincolo; toate amănuntele.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
I will explain how a confluence of events stacked up, one after another, to make October harder than usual for many people.
(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)
"We will go to the Emerald City and ask the Great Oz how to get back to Kansas again."
(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)
But then they're the only words I know—how to speak.
(Martin Eden, de Jack London)
However, when she had a while seen my behaviour, and how well I observed the signs her husband made, she was soon reconciled, and by degrees grew extremely tender of me.
(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)
Fragmentation changes how ecosystems function, reduces the amounts of nutrients retained and the amount of carbon sequestered and has other deleterious effects.
(Shrinking habitats have adverse effects on world ecosystems, NSF)
The team is providing critical information needed to document this effect and accurately predict where and how fast glaciers will give way.
(The Hidden Meltdown of Greenland, NASA)
The discovery could help scientists better understand how brown dwarfs generate magnetic fields.
(Powerful Auroras Found at Brown Dwarf, NASA)
At the same time, remote sensing scientists have a space-based way to track when vegetation greens up and how productive it is compared to drought or wet years. the health of vegetation.
(Tracking Deer by NASA Satellite, NASA)
Rosetta also will be the first spacecraft to witness at close proximity how a comet changes as it is subjected to the increasing intensity of the sun's radiation.
(Rosetta closing in on comet, NASA)
The researchers gathered data on how Gary and two other birds land on different surfaces, including natural perches and artificial perches covered in foam, sandpaper and Teflon.
(Researchers study birds to improve how robots land, National Science Foundation)