SCRAMBLING

Traducere în limba română

scrambling¹ adjectiv

1. dezordonat, pe nimerite;

to do smth. in a scrambling fashion a face ceva fără metodă / dezordonat.

2. pripit.

scrambling² substantiv

încăierare, luptă; busculadă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

On the instant a score of the famished brutes were scrambling for the bread and bacon.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

“Dear woman!” I cried, scrambling to my feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

The carriages rocked and pitched like boats in a seaway, as they lumbered along, fifty abreast, scrambling and lurching over everything which came in their way.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He could escape into safety while the god was scrambling to his feet.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

We lived much as before, in reference to our scrambling household arrangements; but I had got used to those, and Dora I was pleased to see was seldom vexed now.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I daresay it is only a rat scrambling along the rafters of the adjoining schoolroom: it was a barn before I had it repaired and altered, and barns are generally haunted by rats.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Behind came Sir Nigel himself, with Lady Loring upon his arm, the pair walking slowly and sedately, as befitted both their age and their condition, while they watched with a smile in their eyes the scrambling crowd in front of them.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It is not a scrambling collection of low single rooms, with as many roofs as windows; it is not cramped into the vulgar compactness of a square farmhouse: it is a solid, roomy, mansion-like looking house, such as one might suppose a respectable old country family had lived in from generation to generation, through two centuries at least, and were now spending from two to three thousand a year in.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“I must apologise for calling so late,” said he, “and I must further beg you to be so unconventional as to allow me to leave your house presently by scrambling over your back garden wall.”

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

I felt myself disgraced and deserted forever, but didn't blame him a particle, and was scrambling my papers together, meaning to rush upstairs and shake myself hard, when in he came, as brisk and beaming as if I'd covered myself in glory.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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