SPOKE

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Traducere în limba română

spoke¹ I. substantiv

1. spiţă (de roată, volan, cârmă etc.);

(fam.) to be at the lowest spoke of the wheel of chance a se afla la punctul cel mal de jos al roatei norocului.

2. treaptă, stinghie (de scară).

3. frână (de roată), lanţ de piedică (la roată);

(fig.) to put a spoke in smb.’s wheel a băga beţe în roată cuiva.

spoke¹ II. verb tranzitiv

1. a pune spiţe la.

2. a opri (roata) cu frâna.

spoke²part. trec. de la speak.

Her eyes spoke to us; that was all.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

All this time, her daughter Annie never once spoke, or lifted up her eyes.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

He spoke calmly, but I could see that he was deeply moved.

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

This is the garden path of which I spoke, Mr. Holmes.

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

“No, thank you,” Latimer spoke up.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He spoke to her, and then turned away.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

And besides, handsome as he was, there was a something in the turn of his features which spoke his not having behaved well to her.

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Eliza still spoke little: she had evidently no time to talk.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Then, again, the man who took the rooms spoke English well.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He spoke with such extraordinary animation that the empty sleeve flapped about in the air, giving him the strangest appearance.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)