SPONGE

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Traducere în limba română

sponge I. substantiv

1. (zool.) burete (Phplum Perifera); burete (de baie etc.);

to pass the sponge over a trece cu buretele peste; a da uitării, a ierta;

to throw up the sponge a se declara învins, a se da bătut.

2. materie buretoasă / spongioasă.

3. frecare / spălare / curăţare cu buretele.

4. parazit, lingău, linge-blide.

5. (sl.) beţiv, pilangiu.

sponge II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (şi to sponge down / over) a freca / a şterge / a spăla / a curăţi cu buretele.

2. (şi to sponge out) (fig.) a şterge; a da uitării.

3. (sl. amer.) to sponge it a ierta, a scuza.

4. (şi to sponge up) a absorbi, a se îmbiba cu (ceva).

sponge II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a absorbi; a se îmbiba.

2. a pescui / a aduna bureţi.

3. to sponge on smb. a stoarce pe cineva; a trăi pe socoteala cuiva.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

"Have you a sponge in your room?" he asked in a whisper.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

“As his patron, Sir Lothian, you should direct the sponge to be thrown up.”

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Planetary scientist Vlada Stamenković of the NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory and colleagues have developed a new chemical model of how oxygen dissolves in Martian conditions, which raises the possibility of oxygen-rich brines; enough, the work suggests, to support simple animals such as sponges.

(Simple animals could live in Martian brines, Wikinews)

I shall have to leave you in this room with this gentleman, for an hour, or perhaps two hours: you will sponge the blood as I do when it returns: if he feels faint, you will put the glass of water on that stand to his lips, and your salts to his nose.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

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