STAKE

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Traducere în limba română

stake I. substantiv

1. par, ţeapă.

2. arac.

3. jalon, pichet, ţăruş.

4. pripon (pentru cai).

5. stlâp, bulumac.

6. rug;

to perish at the stake a muri pe rug.

7. miză (la joc);

to lay the stakes a face jocul.

8. joc;

to be at stake a fi în joc;

our honour is at stake onoarea noastră e în joc.

9. importanţă, însemnătate.

10. premiu (la alergări de cai).

stake II. verb tranzitiv

1. a bate pari în; (şi to stake off / out) a îngrădi / a jalona cu pari.

2. a propti cu pari sau araci; a lega de par.

3. a pune în joc, a pune la bătaie, a risca;

to stake one’s all a pune totul la bătaie / în joc.

4. a trage în ţeapă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Lay all your stake, and if you lose through no fault of your own, the country will find you another stake as large.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The branch of wild rose on his coffin keep him that he move not from it; a sacred bullet fired into the coffin kill him so that he be true dead; and as for the stake through him, we know already of its peace; or the cut-off head that giveth rest.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

It took several strokes to regain the place she had lost, and when she got there, the other side had nearly won, for Kate's ball was the last but one and lay near the stake.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The third of these cases was that of the Musgrave Ritual, and it is to the interest which was aroused by that singular chain of events, and the large issues which proved to be at stake, that I trace my first stride towards the position which I now hold.

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

Take the papers that are with this, the diaries of Harker and the rest, and read them, and then find this great Un-Dead, and cut off his head and burn his heart or drive a stake through it, so that the world may rest from him.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Oh, my friends, you know as well as I do, that my soul is at stake; and though I know there is one way out for me, you must not and I must not take it!

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

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