SPECTACLE

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spectacle substantiv

1. spectacol, scenă; privelişte;

a sad spectacle un spectacol întristător;

to make a spectacle of oneself a se da în spectacol.

2. (pl.) ochelari;

a pair of spectacles (o pereche de) ochelari;

(fig.) to see through rose-coloured spectacles a vedea lucrurile în roz, a fi optimist.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

We found her, in her spectacles, sitting by the fire.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

No more than in any other city, replied Oz; but when you wear green spectacles, why of course everything you see looks green to you.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Beside it sat the dead man, leaning back in his chair, his thin beard projecting, his spectacles pushed up on to his forehead, and his lean dark face turned towards the window and twisted into the same distortion of terror which had marked the features of his dead sister.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

These I took out and fastened as strongly as I could upon my nose, and thus armed, went on boldly with my work, in spite of the enemy’s arrows, many of which struck against the glasses of my spectacles, but without any other effect, further than a little to discompose them.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

"Well, I sometimes think we are too quiet; but we run a chance of being busy enough now: for a little while at least," said Mrs. Fairfax, still holding the note before her spectacles.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Oh! my mother's spectacles.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

It was a pitiful spectacle.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

After which, he invited the company generally to the contemplation of that affecting spectacle.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Then I thought, as the country was so green and beautiful, I would call it the Emerald City; and to make the name fit better I put green spectacles on all the people, so that everything they saw was green.

(The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, de L. Frank Baum)

Always with her, here comes Peggotty, my good old nurse, likewise in spectacles, accustomed to do needle-work at night very close to the lamp, but never sitting down to it without a bit of wax candle, a yard-measure in a little house, and a work-box with a picture of St. Paul's upon the lid.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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