SETTLING DOWN

Traducere în limba română

settling down substantiv

1. instalare (într-o casă).

2. căsătorie.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Ah, then, we’ll step over afterwards,” said the Colonel, coolly settling down to his breakfast again.

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

“Easy now, my beauties!” cried my uncle, settling down into his seat again, and looking back over his shoulder.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

When Saturn enters your fifth house of truelove for a preview of what is to come next year and beyond, you will get serious about finding the love of your life and settling down to make a life together.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

He had received a consignment of books upon philology and was settling down to develop this thesis when suddenly, to my sorrow and to his unfeigned delight, we found ourselves, even in that land of dreams, plunged into a problem at our very doors which was more intense, more engrossing, and infinitely more mysterious than any of those which had driven us from London.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The telegram which we eventually received came late one night just as I was thinking of turning in and Holmes was settling down to one of those all-night chemical researches which he frequently indulged in, when I would leave him stooping over a retort and a test-tube at night and find him in the same position when I came down to breakfast in the morning.

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

Now, although I had not received any express encouragement as yet, I fancied that I saw in the two little sisters, and particularly in Miss Lavinia, an intensified enjoyment of this new and fruitful subject of domestic interest, a settling down to make the most of it, a disposition to pet it, in which there was a good bright ray of hope.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

As for myself, I was settling down to my work with the enthusiasm which I used to have for it, so that I might fairly have said that the wound which poor Lucy left on me was becoming cicatrised.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

M. trusted D. C. was applying himself to business, and devoting himself wholly to his duties—not the least hint of my ever being anything else than the common drudge into which I was fast settling down.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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