STORM

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Traducere în limba română

storm I. substantiv

1. furtună, vijelie; uragan; vifor; furtună pe mare.

2. (fig.) izbucnire, furtună, vijelie, vifor;

storm of applause furtună de aplauze;

a storm in a tea-cup furtună într-un pahar cu apă;

a of arrows ploaie de săgeţi;

storm of shells ploaie de obuze.

3. (fig.) zbucium, tulburare; tumult.

4. (mil.) asalt;

to take by storm a lua cu asalt (şi fig.); a cuceri / a capta brusc, a lua pe sus;

to stand the storm a respinge asaltul; a rezista asaltului.

storm II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (mil.) a asalta, a ataca.

2. to storm out of a goni prin asalt.

storm II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a fi furtună.

2. (fig.) a bântui, a se dezlănţui.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

You have taken my confidence by storm, he continued, and now it is much at your service.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I can see it brewin’ an’ comin’ up like a storm in the sky.

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

Across the lower end lay the dense heap of men and horses where the first arrow-storm had burst.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The results showed that four coastal species were able to absorb the impacts of storms across a wide range of severity.

(Coastal birds can weather the storm, but not the sea, National Science Foundation)

But as the weather grew so bad and there was a storm of rain and wind, he could go no farther, and turned back to the mill and begged for shelter.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Another hour, still no one came, and anxious fears of delay in the storm, or accidents by the way, or, worst of all, a great grief at Washington, haunted the girls.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

I was conscious of the presence of the Count, and of his being as if lapped in a storm of fury.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I felt for your dear father very much in the storm of Tuesday afternoon and yesterday morning, but had the comfort of hearing last night, by Mr. Perry, that it had not made him ill.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Yes, these were characteristic sounds; they brought to her recollection a countless variety of dreadful situations and horrid scenes, which such buildings had witnessed, and such storms ushered in; and most heartily did she rejoice in the happier circumstances attending her entrance within walls so solemn!

(Northanger Abbey, de Jane Austen)

Thus went out to the world The High Priests of Mystery, The Wonder-Dreamers, The Yardstick of the Ego, Philosophy of Illusion, God and Clod, Art and Biology, Critics and Test-tubes, Star-dust, and The Dignity of Usury,—to raise storms and rumblings and mutterings that were many a day in dying down.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

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