RIBBON

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Traducere în limba română

ribbon I. substantiv

1. bandă, panglică, brâu, cordon, colier, fâşie (îngustă); şiret, şnur.

2. fâşie (de pământ); zonă; crâmpei (de cer);

ribbon of mist o perdea de ceaţă.

3. plural (fig., fam.) hăţuri;

to handle / to hold / to take the ribbon a) a ţine hăţurile; b) (fig.) a conduce, a guverna.

4. fâşii, bucăţi, fărâme; petice, zdrenţe;

torn to ribbon sfâşiat în bucăţi;

flag reduced to ribbon dapel ferfeniţit.

5. (tehn.) bandă plată, sârmă plată.

6. (mar.) linie de plutire vopsită.

ribbon II. verb intranzitiv

(despre drum) a şerpui.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

A dog, taken off its guard, its shoulder slashed open or its ear ripped in ribbons before it knew what was happening, was a dog half whipped.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

The ribbon around Toto's neck had also lost its green color and was as white as Dorothy's dress.

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

“See here! You have lost a bow. Will anybody be so good as find a ribbon; a cherry-coloured ribbon?”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I hear you have a charming collection of new ribbons from town.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

She had not heart enough even to make herself pretty as usual by putting on a blue neck ribbon and dressing her hair in the most becoming way.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

But I shall want the ribbon directly—so it had better go to Hartfield—at least the ribbon.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

"Any more than it's proper to wear all your bonnets and gowns and ribbons at once, that folks may know you've got them," added Jo, and the lecture ended in a laugh.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Mr. Micawber with more shirt-collar than usual, and a new ribbon to his eye-glass; Mrs. Micawber with her cap in a whitey-brown paper parcel; Traddles carrying the parcel, and supporting Mrs. Micawber on his arm.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I shall have a new ribbon for my hair, and Marmee will lend me her little pearl pin, and my new slippers are lovely, and my gloves will do, though they aren't as nice as I'd like.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"She took it out a minute ago, and went off with it to put a ribbon on it, or some such notion," replied Jo, dancing about the room to take the first stiffness off the new army slippers.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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