TRAVELLER

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Traducere în limba română

traveller substantiv

1. călător, voiajor.

2. (şi commercial traveller) voiajor comercial, comis voiajor;

traveller in silk voiajor comercial care se ocupă cu plasarea mătăsurilor.

3. (tehn.) pod rulant, macara rulantă / mobilă.

4. (tehn.) roată / rolă alergătoare.

5. cursor (la rigla de calcul etc.).

6. (mar.) cerc de fier prevăzut cu un cârlig de care se fixează frânghiile unei vele.

◊ (fam.) to tip smb. the traveller a spune cuiva gogoşi, a duce / a prosti pe cineva;

(jur., înv.) bona fide traveller persoană care beneficiază de dreptul de a i se servi băuturi la orice oră, într-o zi de duminică, deoarece vine de la o distanţă de peste 3 mile.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

Her fellow-travellers the next day were not of a kind to make her think him less agreeable.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I come home, now, like a tired traveller, and find such a blessed sense of rest!

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

So Master Thumb stayed at home with his father and mother, in peace; for though he had been so great a traveller, and had done and seen so many fine things, and was fond enough of telling the whole story, he always agreed that, after all, there’s no place like HOME!

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Having lived three years in this country, the reader, I suppose, will expect that I should, like other travellers, give him some account of the manners and customs of its inhabitants, which it was indeed my principal study to learn.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

I entered. ‘Pardon this intrusion,’ said I; ‘I am a traveller in want of a little rest; you would greatly oblige me if you would allow me to remain a few minutes before the fire.’

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

John also rode in silence, but his eyes wandered slowly from one side of the road to the other, and he stared and pondered and nodded his head like a traveller who makes his notes and saves them up for the re-telling.

(The White Company, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

I knew Mr. Rochester had been a traveller: Mrs. Fairfax had said so; but I thought the continent of Europe had bounded his wanderings; till now I had never heard a hint given of visits to more distant shores.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I eliminated everything from it which could be the result of a disguise—the whiskers, the glasses, the voice, and I sent it to the firm, with a request that they would inform me whether it answered to the description of any of their travellers.

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

Whereas a traveller’s chief aim should be to make men wiser and better, and to improve their minds by the bad, as well as good, example of what they deliver concerning foreign places.

(Gulliver's Travels into several remote nations of the world, de Jonathan Swift)

After they had travelled along a little way, they met a needle and a pin walking together along the road: and the needle cried out, Stop, stop! and said it was so dark that they could hardly find their way, and such dirty walking they could not get on at all: he told them that he and his friend, the pin, had been at a public-house a few miles off, and had sat drinking till they had forgotten how late it was; he begged therefore that the travellers would be so kind as to give them a lift in their carriage.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

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