ROCK

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Traducere în limba română

rock¹ substantiv

1. stâncă, promontoriu;

the Rock stânca Gibraltar;

(fig.) on the rocks la strâmtoare, fără bani;

to run upon/ to strike the rocks a) a suferi un accident: b) a se lovi de piedici de nebiruit:

to see rocks ahead a vedea primejdii în faţă.

2. (mineral.) rocă.

3. (amer.) piatră; piatră de pavaj.

4. (sl. amer.; mai ales pl.) bani.

5. (sl.) brillant.

6. bomboane.

rock²I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a balansa, a legăna;

to rock a child to sleep a legăna un copil pentru a-l adormi;

to rock to and fro a clătina încoace şi încolo;

rocked in security nepăsător, care nu bănuieşte pericolul.

2. a face să tremure; a face să vibreze;

the earthquake rocks the house cutremurul zguduie casa.

rock²I. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se legăna, a se clătina;

he rocked with laughter se tăvălea de râs.

2. a se zgudui.

rock²II. substantiv

legănare, balansare;

give the child a rock legănă copilul.

rock³ substantiv

(înv.) furcă de tors (pentru cânepă).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I spoke to him, but he made no answer, though his head was still rocking from side to side and he was not asleep.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Then do I know that they take the big cut-off, for it is there that Charley McKeon lives where the Black Rock stands by the trail.

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

He slid his head around a corner of rock, where began an unusually large bend in the stream, and his quick eyes made out something that sent him crouching swiftly down.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

“My love was founded on a rock.”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Round the rock he had drawn a circle, such as we had found shelter in last night.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

We crossed the ice, therefore, and ascended the opposite rock.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I climbed half-way up the rock before I shot him.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

All that was most firmly established in her mind was rocking.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

There was Holmes’s Alpine-stock still leaning against the rock by which I had left him.

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

The team found that the amount of water lost from within fractured mountain rock in 2011-2015 amounted to 10.8 cubic miles of water.

(Sierras Lost Water Weight, Grew Taller During Drought, NASA)

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