RATTLE

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Traducere în limba română

rattle I. verb A. intranzitiv

1. a răsuna.

2. a face zgomot, a zăngăni, a zornăi, a hurui, a dudui.

3. a trece/ a înainta repede şi zgomotos;

the train rattled past trenul gonea huruind.

4. a bate toba, a pălăvrăgi, a trăncăni, a flecări; a vorbi repede.

rattle I. verb B. tranzitiv

1. a grăbi, a accelera (votarea unei legi etc.).

2. (sl.) a încâlci; a zăpăci, a buimăci, a năuci, a speria.

rattle II. substantiv

1. zgomot;

rattle of drums răpăit de tobe.

2. (med. fam.) the rattles a) anghină difterică; b) horcăit;

death rattle horcăit de moarte.

3. (fam.) flecăreală, trăncăneală;

(amer. sl.) to give smb. the rattle a năuci pe cineva cu vorba.

4. veselie; tărăboi; învălmăşeală.

5. guraliv, vorbăreţ, palavragiu, gură spartă.

6. (zool.) inel (din coada şarpelui cu clopoţei).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Umph? What a rattle I am! Mr. Copperfield, ain't I volatile?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The rattle of an approaching carriage made them all start and listen.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He was rattled and bustled by meeting this other fellow.

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

That new moon is on a mission, even now in February, to show you what you need to know about your partner, even if it turns out to rattle you a bit.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

When the Tin Woodman walked about he felt his heart rattling around in his breast; and he told Dorothy he had discovered it to be a kinder and more tender heart than the one he had owned when he was made of flesh.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

He is as good-natured a fellow as ever lived; a little of a rattle; but that will recommend him to your sex, I believe: and how do you like the rest of the family?

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Then it struck sharp on the inn door, and then we could hear the handle being turned and the bolt rattling as the wretched being tried to enter; and then there was a long time of silence both within and without.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

Again the latch rattled.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Oh, yes, I know that I have treated you real bad and that I should have spoken to you before I went; but I was kind of rattled, and from the time when I saw Frank here again I just didn’t know what I was doing or saying.

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

Whilst I was placing them in order I heard a rattling of china and silver in the next room, and as I passed through, noticed that the table had been cleared and the lamp lit, for it was by this time deep into the dark.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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