SINKING

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Traducere în limba română

sinking substantiv

1. scufundare, cufundare, afundare (în apă, în noroi, în groapă etc.).

2. (mar.) scufundare a unei nave;

the sinking of the “Lusitania” torpilarea „Lusitaniei“.

3. slăbire, lăsare (a pământului).

4. sleire, slăbire (a forţelor).

5. coborâre (a vocii).

6. strângere (de inimă).

7. amortizare, stingere (a unei datorii).

8. plasare (de bani) în afaceri neproductive.

9. (mine) forare (de puţuri).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I had a horrible sinking in my heart, and from Van Helsing's face I gathered that he felt some fear or apprehension as to what was to come.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I picture Miss Larkins sinking her head upon my shoulder, and saying, “Oh, Mr. Copperfield, can I believe my ears!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was with a sinking heart that I reentered Holmes’s bedroom.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

For a while he watched it sinking in the deep clear water; then sprang up and danced for joy, and again fell upon his knees and thanked Heaven, with tears in his eyes, for its kindness in taking away his only plague, the ugly heavy stone.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

When the evening was over, she went to bed full of it, her nerves still agitated by the shock of such an attack from her cousin Tom, so public and so persevered in, and her spirits sinking under her aunt's unkind reflection and reproach.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Mrs Musgrove had little arrangements of her own at her own table; to their protection she must trust, and sinking into the chair which he had occupied, succeeding to the very spot where he had leaned and written, her eyes devoured the following words: I can listen no longer in silence.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

As the evening drew on, and the earth took its shadows from the sun sinking lower, the silence of the room grew more and more solemn to me.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

On the next day, still bundled up in my curious habiliments, I sat counting the time, flushed and heated by the conflict of sinking hopes and rising fears within me; and waiting to be startled by the sight of the gloomy face, whose non-arrival startled me every minute.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then I had a vague memory of something long and dark with red eyes, just as we saw in the sunset, and something very sweet and very bitter all around me at once; and then I seemed sinking into deep green water, and there was a singing in my ears, as I have heard there is to drowning men; and then everything seemed passing away from me; my soul seemed to go out from my body and float about the air.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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