RIVER

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Traducere în limba română

river I. substantiv

1. râu, fluviu;

down the river în josul râului, în aval;

up the river în susul râului, în amonte.

2. (fig.) noian, potop; puhoi; torent; masă;

rivers of blood râuri de sânge.

river II. adjectiv

de râu; fluvial.

He travelled on the frozen surface of a great river.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

It takes a lot of water, and running strong, to sweep the outside edge of a river clear.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

He didn't come, and just at night I remembered what you said when Amy fell into the river.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

Already the canoes were departing, and some had disappeared down the river.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

"How shall we cross the river?" asked Dorothy.

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

“But there is a quiet spot near the river,” said one youth.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The current of the river is a slight one, the drop being not greater than eight inches in a mile.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When we came to land we saw no river or spring, nor any sign of inhabitants.

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

A habitable zone planet could have oceans, lakes and rivers.

(Potentially Habitable 'Super-Earths' Found Orbiting around Sun's near Neighbor, Editura Global Info)

My opinion of the coal trade on that river is, that it may require talent, but that it certainly requires capital.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)