PRIZE

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Traducere în limba română

prize¹ I. substantiv

1. premiu, recompensă bănească;

consolation prize premiu de consolare;

the Nobel prize premiul Nobel.

2. chilipir, pleaşcă; noroc neaşteptat;

the prizes of life succesele vieţii.

3. obiect dorit / râvnit.

4. câştig (la loterie);

the first /great / highest prize lozul cel mare;

to draw the first prize a câştiga lozul cel mare.

5. lucru productiv, fapt lucrativ;

(fam.) there are few prizes in this profession este puţin de câştigat în această meserie.

6. (mar.) priză, captură (de corabie).

7. (scoţ.) strigăt la prinderea sau uciderea vânatului.

prize¹ II. adjectiv

premiat;

prize novel roman premiat.

prize¹ III. verb tranzitiv

1. a lua, a confisca; (mar.) a captura (o corabie).

2. a preţui, a evalua, a socoti;

to prize smth. highly a preţui mult ceva, a da o înaltă apreciere unui lucru; a face mare caz de ceva.

prize² I. substantiv

1. (mar.) priză, captură, trofeu, pradă de război;

to make a prize of a ship a captura un vas;

to become a prize of a fi captuat;

to condemn as lawful prize a declara drept captură / priză legală;

an adjudecation of prize adjudecare a capturii / prizei;

(jur.) naval prize law drept maritim de priză.

2. (fam.) chilipir, pleaşcă.

prize² II. verb tranzitiv

a captura, a lua ca priză (un vas).

prize³ I. verb A. tranzitiv

to prize smth. up a ridica ceva cu ajutorul unei pârghii;

to prize smth. open a forţa / a deschide ceva cu ajutorul unei pârghii sau al unui cleşte;

to prize a horse’s month open a deschide cu forţa gura unui cal.

prize³ I. verb B. intranzitiv

to prize against smth. a exercita o apăsare asupra unui lucru.

prize³ II. substantiv

1. pârghie; apăsare cu ajutorul unei pârghii.

2. punct de sprijin (pentru o pârghie, pentru exercitarea unei apăsări).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I must shut up my prize.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

After March 9, you can reach for the prize golden apple on the tree.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

I have it not—but I know how to prize and respect it.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

What would I give to have such a prize!

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

She was to be their chosen visitor, she was to be for weeks under the same roof with the person whose society she mostly prized—and, in addition to all the rest, this roof was to be the roof of an abbey!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

The manuscript was privately dispatched, accompanied by a note, modestly saying that if the tale didn't get the prize, which the writer hardly dared expect, she would be very glad to receive any sum it might be considered worth.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Ye have indeed come too late, said the prince, seeing that the prize is about to be awarded; yet I doubt not that one of these gentlemen will run a course for the sake of honor with this cavalier of France.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Was it new for one, perhaps too busy to seek, to be the prize of a girl who would seek him?

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

You now are the celestial favorite, able to see progress in all your most-prized goals.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

Well done, sons! said the old man; you have made good use of your time, and learnt something worth the knowing; but I am sure I do not know which ought to have the prize.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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