INSTEAD

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Traducere în limba română

instead I. prepoziție

instead of smth. în loc de ceva; drept ceva;

instead of this în loc de aceasta;

to stand instead of smth. a sta în locul a ceva;

instead of smb. în locul cuiva;

I acted instead of the chief during his illness l-am înlocuit pe şef cât timp a fost bolnav; am ţinut locul şefului pe timpul bolii sale;

instead of him, in his stead în locul lui;

instead of doing smth. în loc de a face ceva;

we have lunch in the garden instead of in the dining room luăm masa în grădină, nu în sufragerie;

by method of justice and peace instead of by arbitrary force prin metode drepte şi paşnice, în loc să se recurgă la forţa arbitrară.

instead II. adverb

în loc, în schimb;

if Mary can't come, take me instead dacă Mary nu poate veni, ia-mă pe mine în loc;

he is not allowed beer, and drinks water instead nu are voie să bea bere şi o înlocuieşte cu apă;

don't cry, laugh instead nu plânge, râzi mai degrabă; e mai degrabă de râs decât de plâns.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I wish every one would say Jo instead of Josephine.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

That morning we mapped out a small portion of the plateau, avoiding the swamp of the pterodactyls, and keeping to the east of our brook instead of to the west.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We do so wish that Charles had married Anne instead.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

In my fear I had forgotten that I was there to get the bull instead of to make him run.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Concentrate instead on putting in a stellar performance on current projects at the exclusion of everything else.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

He had come into the Transcontinental to learn magazine-literature, instead of which he had principally learned finance.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Instead of opening the door ourselves, we allowed the girl to do so.

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

The idea of murder was not in her mind, or she would have provided herself with some sort of weapon, instead of having to pick this knife off the writing-table.

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

On the other hand, instead of walking away at sight of them, he waited for them to come to him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The window at a little distance from which I know he is having his dinner, stands for him, and I eye that instead.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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