WANDER

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Traducere în limba română

wander verb A. intranzitiv

1. a pribegi, a rătăci, a călători.

2. (şi to wander about) a rătăci încoace şi încolo, a umbla din loc în loc.

3. (fig. ) a se abate, a devia, a se depărta;

you are wandering from the point te-ai depărtat de la subiect.

4. a bate câmpii, a vorbi vrute şi nevrute, a aiura;

his mind wanders aiurează.

5. (mai ales amer.) a se rătăci;

to wander out of one's way a pierde drumul.

wander verb B. tranzitiv

(mai ales amer.) a îndrepta / a călăuzi / a îndruma greşit, a duce pe un drum greşit.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

After he had wandered through three kingdoms, he came one evening to a wood, and lay down under a tree to sleep.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

Of all her wandering brood of brothers he had always been her favorite.

(Martin Eden, de Jack London)

Slowly his eyes wandered over the room, for the first time taking in its details.

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

He took off his coat and waistcoat, put on a large blue dressing-gown, and then wandered about the room collecting pillows from his bed and cushions from the sofa and armchairs.

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

All the evening his eyes wandered to my aunt's face, with an expression of the most dismal apprehension, as if he saw her growing thin on the spot.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Fanny felt the advantage; and, drawing back from the toils of civility, would have been again most happy, could she have kept her eyes from wandering between Edmund and Mary Crawford.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

I feared to wander from the sight of my fellow creatures lest when alone he should come to claim his companion.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You wander: your head becomes confused.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

The asteroid's loops around Earth drift a little ahead or behind from year to year, but when they drift too far forward or backward, Earth's gravity is just strong enough to reverse the drift and hold onto the asteroid so that it never wanders farther away than about 100 times the distance of the moon.

(Small Asteroid Is Earth's Constant Companion, NASA)

Dear, dear Norland! said Marianne, as she wandered alone before the house, on the last evening of their being there; when shall I cease to regret you!—when learn to feel a home elsewhere!

(Sense and Sensibility, de Jane Austen)

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