RAG

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Traducere în limba română

rag¹ substantiv

1. cârpă, zdreanţă, petec, buleandră; fâşie, bucată, bucăţică; petec (de stofă, de haină, de îmbrăcăminte etc.); (text.) zdreanţă, deşeu, ruptură;

to clean smth. with a rag a şterge / a curăţa ceva cu o cârpă;

to tear smth. to rags a rupe / a sfâşia ceva în fâşii / bucăţi;

her dress is worn to rags rochia ei s-a făcut zdrenţe / bucăţi;

(fam.) to feel like a rag a se simţi (moale) ca o cârpă;

not a rag to one’s back nimic de pus pe spate, nici o haină, nici o zdreanţă;

(mar.) to spread every rag of sail a ridica toate pânzele.

2. plural zdrenţe, boarfe, bulendre; haine rupte / jerpelite / zdrenţăroase / vechi / uzate;

to go about in rags a fi îmbrăcat în zdrenţe;

to be all in rags a fi zdrenţăros / în zdrenţe;

all in rags and tatters zdrenţăros / în zdrenţe din cap până în picioare.

3. cârpe, zdrenţe; cârpe vechi de bumbac sau pânză (pentru fabricarea hârtiei);

to pick rags a aduna / a strânge cârpe vechi.

4. (peior.) fiţuică imundă, ziar cu reputaţie proastă.

5. (fig.) pic; umbră; idee; cantitate neînsemnată;

there is not a rag of evidence nu există nici cea mai mică dovadă.

6. (peior.) steag, pânză de corabie, batistă etc. ruptă / în zdrenţe.

7. piele albă (de la portocale etc.).

rag²(sl.) I. substantiv

1. glumă grosolană; veselie zgomotoasă;

to say it only for a rag a o spune (numai) în glumă.

2. vacarm / tărăboi studenţesc.

rag²(sl.) II. verb tranzitiv

1. a tachina, a necăji; a râde de (un coleg).

2. a tulbura (cursul unui profesor) făcând tărăboi.

rag³ I. substantiv

(constr.) piatră dură de construcţii; calcar dur; gresie monogranulară.

rag³ II. verb tranzitiv

a concasa, a măcina, a sfărâma (pietre, minereu, pentru sortare).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

The people in the streets walked fast, looked wild, their eyes fixed, and were generally in rags.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

He will have it all in his rag to-morrow, and sell an extra dozen among our neighbors.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I'm dreadfully in debt, and it won't be my turn to have the rag money for a month.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He was lonely, that was what was the matter with him; that was why he had snapped at the invitation as a bonita strikes at a white rag on a hook.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Little they recked of the brushwood men who crouched in their rags along the fringe of the forest and looked with wild and haggard eyes at the rich, warm glow which shot a golden bar of light from the high arched windows of the castle.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When my clothes were worn to rags, I made myself others with the skins of rabbits, and of a certain beautiful animal, about the same size, called nnuhnoh, the skin of which is covered with a fine down.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

Instead of being the warm center of the world the middle-west now seemed like the ragged edge of the universe—so I decided to go east and learn the bond business.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

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