RETREAT

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Traducere în limba română

retreat I. substantiv

1. (mil.) retragere, repliere;

to sound / to beat the retreat a ordona retragerea;

to be in retreat a fi / a bate în retragere;

to cut off an army’s retreat a tăia retragerea unei armate;

to make good one’s retreats a) (mil.) a se replia / a se retrage în ordine; b) (fam.) a evada.

2. (mil.) (semnal de) stingere.

3. retragere / reintrare în matcă, descreştere (a apelor etc.);

retreat of the sea (from the coastline) regresiune a mării.

4. adăpost, azil, loc de retragere / refugiu; vizuină / cuib de hoţi;

to go into retreat for a fortnight a se retrage a se refugia / a evada (la ţară etc.) pentru două săptămâni.

retreat II. verb A. intranzitiv

1. (mil.) a se retrage, a bate în retragere.

2. (box, scrimă) a se desprinde, a se descleşta.

3. a se retrage, a se refugia (într-un colţ la ţară etc.).

retreat II. verb B. tranzitiv

(la şah) a retrage, a aduce înapoi, a fugi cu (o piesă ameninţată).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It tried to retreat before him.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

François followed him up, whereupon he again retreated.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

“My soul will retreat from my body first!” cried the little knight.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The sounds were retreating, and Anne distinguished no more.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

"I will not trust to THAT," retreating to her own room.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

I experienced a strange feeling as the key grated in the lock, and the sound of his retreating step ceased to be heard.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I recommend you to take yourself off, and be talked to presently, you fool! while there's time to retreat.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

She alone was sad and insignificant: she had no share in anything; she might go or stay; she might be in the midst of their noise, or retreat from it to the solitude of the East room, without being seen or missed.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He was in the midst of that when your return caused him to make a very hurried retreat—very hurried, since he had not time to replace the papers which would tell you that he had been there.

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

She retreated from the window, fearful of being seen; and as she walked up and down the room, endeavouring to compose herself, saw such looks of inquiring surprise in her uncle and aunt as made everything worse.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

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