TRAIL

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Traducere în limba română

trail I. verb A. tranzitiv

1. (along, after, behind) a trânti, a trage, a remorca (după sine);

she was trailing five children after her trăgea cinci copii după ea.

2. a urmări, a fila.

3. a lua urma (vânatului).

4. a păşi, a călca pe;

to trail grass a călca iarba.

◊ to trail one's coat a) a sfida; b) a căuta râcă;

(mil.) to trail arms a ţine arma în cumpănire.

trail I. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a se târî pe jos, a mătura pământul;

his coat was trailing poalele paltonului său mătură pământul.

2. (bot.) a se târî.

3. a se târî, a merge încet, a-şi trage paşii.

4. to trail along a se târî, a înainta cu greu;

to trail behind a se târî în urma (celorlalţi);

to trail away / off a se (în)depărta târându-şi paşii;

his voice trailed away / off in the distance vocea i se pierdu în depărtare;

(despre vânători, pescari etc.) to trail for a fi în căutare de / în căutarea (cu gen.).

trail II. substantiv

1. urmă (de om, de animal); pistă;

to be on the trail of a fi pe urmele (cu gen.);

to lose the trail a pierde urma;

to pick up the trail a regăsi urma;

false trail pistă greşită;

hot trail urmă proaspătă;

(lit.) to leave ruin in one's trail a lăsa prăpăd în urma sa.

2. dâră (de sânge, de fum, de lumină);

the steamer's trail of smoke dâra de fum a vaporului.

3. rând, şir, procesiune;

a long trail of tourists lungă procesiune de turişti.

4. cărare, potecă.

5. (bot.) lăstar târâtor.

6. (mil.) călcâiul afetului.

7. (av.) rămânerea în urmă a bombei (faţă de avion).

◊ (amer. fam.) to take the back trail a face calea întoarsă;

(mil.) to carry one's arm at the trail a ţine arma în cumpănire.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Now let us follow the trail.

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

That day they made forty miles, the trail being packed; but the next day, and for many days to follow, they broke their own trail, worked harder, and made poorer time.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

It was only nine o’clock, and we were off full cry upon the trail at once.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

We'll be "down, hull-down, on the old trail" from now on.

(The Lost World, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

His eyes were on the trail, but I happened to look a little to one side, and saw to my surprise the same tracks coming back again in the opposite direction.

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

As Walt finished and looked to his wife for approval, a man came into view around the turn of the trail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

Far and faint it was, in the remote distance, the cry of the hungry wolf-pack as it took the trail of other meat than the man it had just missed.

(White Fang, de Jack London)

For the pride of trace and trail was his, and, sick unto death, he could not bear that another dog should do his work.

(The Call of the Wild, de Jack London)

Joseph and the groom found marks on the bed outside the window, but the weather has been so dry lately that they found it hopeless to follow the trail across the grass.

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

"It's about time I heard from those triolets," Walt said, after a silence of five minutes, during which they had swung steadily down the trail.

(Love of Life and Other Stories, de Jack London)

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