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SCARCE
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Traducere în limba română
scarce I. adjectiv
1. calic, econom.
2. rar, care se întâlneşte rar; (com.) căutat;
money is scarce sunt bani puţini.
3. sărac, prea puţin spornic.
◊ to make oneself scarce a se retrage, a se îndepărta, a pleca; a o şterge.
scarce II. adverb (poetic) vezi scarcely.
Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:
Then with a sudden dash, so swift and fierce that the eye could scarce follow it, he flew in upon his man and locked his leg round him.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It was young Jim Harrison himself, sir, said the landlord, though indeed I scarce knew him at first, for he looked like his own ghost.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
As soon as I was clear of the thicket, I ran as I never ran before, scarce minding the direction of my flight, so long as it led me from the murderers; and as I ran, fear grew and grew upon me until it turned into a kind of frenzy.
(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)
“Though I scarce understand this high, middle and low.”
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
His fears were soon set at rest, however, for we had scarce clicked the garden gate before the woman was out of the door of the cottage and running down the path to meet us.
(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But, indeed, lady, I am torn both ways, and can scarce grasp in my mind what it is that has befallen.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It would scarce pass in England, but they are quiet folk over the water.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
“It was my rough words which vexed you; but I have been thrown among men all my life, and indeed, with all the will, I scarce know how to temper my speech to a lady's ear.”
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But if you, fair sir, out of your kind charity would be pleased to go a matter of two bow-shots out of your way, you would do me such a service as I could scarce repay.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
For the matter of the ale, continued brother John, I had come in hot from the fields and had scarce got the taste of the thing before mine eye lit upon the bottom of the pot.
(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
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