STORY

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story¹ I. substantiv

1. poveste, povestire;

short story nuvelă; povestire scurtă;

a good / funny story anecdotă, snoavă;

to make a long story short ca să nu (mai) lungim vorba, (ca să vorbim) pe scurt.

2. istorie, poveste; legendă;

the story goes that se spune că, vorba merge că;

according to his story după versiunea lui;

always the old story mereu vechea poveste;

they all tell the same story ei toţi spun aceeaşi poveste / acelaşi lucru.

3. (fam.) chestiune, poveste;

that is another story now e cu totul altă poveste acum.

4. (fam.) minciuni, născocire, şiretlic, braşoave; zvon;

don’t tell stories nu spune minciuni.

5. (amer.) fapt; fapt divers (material pentru gazetă).

story¹ II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a povesti, a relata.

2. a ilustra cu poze istorice.

story¹ II. verb B. intranzitiv

a povesti.

story² I. substantiv

etaj, cat.

story² II. verb tranzitiv

a aşeza în etaje / straturi.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I feared now to hear my own story.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I will tell you my story, and then you will know.

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

“Very well: very well! Quite a long story. Ought to end “and they lived happy ever afterwards”; oughtn't it?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I will tell you the whole story another time.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

This 'ere is about the 'ole story.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

I have a story for you.

(AstrologyZone.com, de Susan Miller)

"So he is, dear old fellow!" said Laurie heartily, as Meg paused, looking flushed and earnest with her story.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

"But the story—how did you like it?"

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

You want me to tell the story.

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

There is my story, Mr. Holmes. Perhaps, if you loved a woman, you would have done as much yourself.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

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