TAKING DOWN

Traducere în limba română

taking down substantiv

1. coborâre (a unui tablou din perete etc.).

2. consemnare în scris (a unor fapte etc.) (v. take down).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Next to him stood a motorcycle policeman taking down names with much sweat and correction in a little book.

(The Great Gatsby, de F. Scott Fitzgerald)

She promises him then not to go there again, but two days afterwards the hope of getting rid of those dreadful neighbours was too strong for her, and she made another attempt, taking down with her the photograph which had probably been demanded from her.

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

Three women were got to help; and such scrubbing, such brushing, such washing of paint and beating of carpets, such taking down and putting up of pictures, such polishing of mirrors and lustres, such lighting of fires in bedrooms, such airing of sheets and feather-beds on hearths, I never beheld, either before or since.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Here the lecture began, but Jo heard very little of it, for while Professor Sands was prosing away about Belzoni, Cheops, scarabei, and hieroglyphics, she was covertly taking down the address of the paper, and boldly resolving to try for the hundred-dollar prize offered in its columns for a sensational story.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

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