SACK

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Traducere în limba română

sack¹ I. substantiv

1. sac;

sack of coal sac de cărbuni.

2. geantă, taşcă (a poştaşului).

◊ to give the sack to smb. a concedia pe cineva, a da cuiva paşaportul;

to get / to have the sack a fi concediat.

3. haină largă (de damă) fără cordon.

sack¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. (şi to sack up) a pune / a turna în sac.

2. (sl.) a scoate din serviciu, a concedia.

sack² I. verb tranzitiv

1. a jefui.

2. a lăsa să fie jefuit (un oraş cucerit).

sack² II. substantiv

jaf;

to put to sack a jefui, a devasta.

sack³ substantiv

(înv.) vin sec;

Canary sack vin de Canare;

Sherry sack vin de Xeres.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

He paused to gaze at the squat moose-hide sack.

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

To do all this he must wait in California to fill the sack with money.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

The ant-king had come in the night with thousands and thousands of ants, and the grateful creatures had by great industry picked up all the millet-seed and gathered them into the sacks.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

The dead man was an episode that was past, an incident that was dropped, in a canvas covering with a sack of coal, while the ship sped along and her work went on.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He told Patty this, but bid her not mind it, and be sure not to say any thing to us about it, for Mrs. Hodges would be cross sometimes, and as long as so many sacks were sold, it did not signify who ate the remainder.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

When I had taken this commission on myself prospectively, Mr. Barkis relapsed into perfect silence; and I, feeling quite worn out by all that had happened lately, lay down on a sack in the cart and fell asleep.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

"You've got a fat sack of dust," Messner went on.

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

As he began to put himself into the sack heels first, “Wait a while,” said the gardener, “that is not the way.”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

To the feet was attached the sack of coal which the cook had fetched.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The student listened to all this and wondered much; at last he said, “Blessed be the day and hour when I found you; cannot you contrive to let me into the sack for a little while?”

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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