TAKING OFF

Traducere în limba română

taking off substantiv

1. imitare (a gesturilor cuiva).

2. (av.) decolare;

taking off trials probe / încercări de decolare.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“No?” said my aunt, taking off her spectacles.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The charwomen are in the habit of taking off their boots at the commissionnaire’s office, and putting on list slippers.

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

He sat back on the bed with a bitter laugh, and finished taking off his shoes.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

She was soon back, and while noiselessly taking off her cloak, Laurie came in with a letter, saying that Mr. March was mending again.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

He was taking off my shawl in the hall, and shaking the water out of my loosened hair, when Mrs. Fairfax emerged from her room.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

They must be taking off some trouble from the good people she was with; they might at least relieve Mrs Harville from the care of her own children; and in short, they were so happy in the decision, that Anne was delighted with what she had done, and felt that she could not spend her last morning at Uppercross better than in assisting their preparations, and sending them off at an early hour, though her being left to the solitary range of the house was the consequence.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

Robert here entered, and Bessie laid her sleeping child in the cradle and went to welcome him: afterwards she insisted on my taking off my bonnet and having some tea; for she said I looked pale and tired.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Dora was at the breakfast-table to make the tea again, however; and I had the melancholy pleasure of taking off my hat to her in the phaeton, as she stood on the door-step with Jip in her arms.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I was casting my eyes with increasing complacency over these and many similar objects, when hasty footsteps were heard in the room outside, and Mr. Spenlow, in a black gown trimmed with white fur, came hurrying in, taking off his hat as he came.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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