THOUSAND

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Traducere în limba română

thousand I. numeral

1. mie;

a thousand and one a) o mie unu; b) (fig.) din belşug;

one in a thousand unul la mie; exceptional.

2. many thousands of times, a thousand times de mii de ori;

a thousand and one cares o mie şi una de griji; nenumărate griji.

thousand II. substantiv

mie; un număr mare, nedefinit;

by thousands cu miile;

thousands of mii şi mii de.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“Life or death! One thousand dollars if you take me ashore!”

(The Sea-Wolf, de Jack London)

He could have got several thousands for them very easily.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

Inquire where she would, she could not find out that Mrs. Grant had ever had more than five thousand pounds.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

Nothing of course to speak of—twenty thousand pounds, I think they say—but what is that?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

Further, he had no thousand dollars; nor had Hans or Pete.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

A concentration unit expressed as a number or quantity of objects in hundred thousands per unit of volume equal to one liter.

(Hundred Thousand Per Liter, NCI Thesaurus)

I picture Mr. Larkins waiting on me next morning, and saying, “My dear Copperfield, my daughter has told me all. Youth is no objection. Here are twenty thousand pounds. Be happy!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

My dear Dr. Van Helsing,— A thousand thanks for your kind letter, which has taken a great weight off my mind.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Biological molecules, such as proteins and DNA, can be made up of many thousands of atoms.

(Molecule, NCI Dictionary)

"And yet two thousand a-year is a very moderate income," said Marianne.

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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