MARBLE

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Traducere în limba română

marble I. substantiv

1. marmoră.

2. plural colecţie de sculpturi de marmoră.

3. plural joc de copii cu bile.

marble II. adjectiv

(fig.) solid / durabil ca marmora.

marble III. verb tranzitiv

a da un aspect de marmoră (cu dat.).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The rock was harder than marble, and any attempt at cutting a path for so great a height was more than our time or resources would admit.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was quite mad, and had to be held by force; or, if she couldn't have got to a knife, or got to the sea, she'd have beaten her head against the marble floor.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

At length the three brothers came to a castle: and as they passed by the stables they saw fine horses standing there, but all were of marble, and no man was to be seen.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The marble basin was removed; in its place, stood a deal table and a kitchen chair: these objects were visible by a very dim light proceeding from a horn lantern, the wax candles being all extinguished.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

It was strange to reach the marble steps and find no stir of bright dresses in and out the door, and hear no sound but bird voices in the trees.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

I was on my way to get roaring drunk from sheer embarrassment when Jordan Baker came out of the house and stood at the head of the marble steps, leaning a little backward and looking with contemptuous interest down into the garden.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

The nature of Mr. Tostoff's composition eluded me, because just as it began my eyes fell on Gatsby, standing alone on the marble steps and looking from one group to another with approving eyes.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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