PLUCK

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Traducere în limba română

pluck I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a culege (fructe, flori).

2. a smulge (peri, pene).

3. a jumuli (o pasăre).

4. (fig.) a jumuli, a jupui, a înşela, a trage pe sfoară;

(fig.) to pluck a pigeon a jumuli pe un găgăuţă.

5. a atinge (o coardă).

6. a respinge, a trânti (la examen).

7. to pluck up courage a prinde curaj, a-şi lua inima în dinţi.

pluck I. verb B. intranzitiv

to pluck at a trage de, a se apuca de.

pluck II. substantiv

1. smucire, tragere; pişcătură.

2. măruntaie (de animal).

3. curaj, bărbăţie; vitejie.

4. respingere, cădere, nereuşită (la examen).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

In vain he tried to pluck it up with the other hand.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He couldn't—or at all events he didn't—defend me from Mr. Creakle, who was very severe with me; but whenever I had been treated worse than usual, he always told me that I wanted a little of his pluck, and that he wouldn't have stood it himself; which I felt he intended for encouragement, and considered to be very kind of him.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It befell, however, that a shepherd kept his sheep in the field and saw the flower, and as it was so pretty, plucked it, took it with him, and laid it away in his chest.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

In very sooth, my Lord Loring, they are ill men to trifle with, and it were easier to pluck a bone from a hungry bear than to lead a bowman out of a land of plenty and of pleasure.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I plucked at my hair.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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