ALIGHT

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alight² adjectiv pred. adverb

1. (şi fig.) aprins, în flăcări, învăpăiat;

to go alight a izbucni în flăcări;

to catch alight a se aprinde, a lua foc;

to set smth. alight a da / a pune foc la ceva; a pune ceva pe foc;

to set the fire alight a aprinde focul.

2. (şi fig.) luminat;

eyes alight with desire ochi strălucind / aprinşi de dorinţă.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

It was a quarter to ten before we reached London Bridge, and half past before the four of us alighted on the Beckenham platform.

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

At my alighting, I was surrounded with a crowd of people, but those who stood nearest seemed to be of better quality.

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

When the Angel of Death alighted there, my child-wife fell asleep—they told me so when I could bear to hear it—on her bosom, with a smile.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

We could hardly believe our eyes when we alighted and found that it was really so.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

And when its song was over, it spread its wings and flew away before them, and they followed it until they reached a little house, on the roof of which it alighted; and when they approached the little house they saw that it was built of bread and covered with cakes, but that the windows were of clear sugar.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

We alighted at one of the entrances to the Square she had mentioned, where I directed the coach to wait, not knowing but that we might have some occasion for it.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

An elderly lady, though not very far advanced in years, with a proud carriage and a handsome face, was in the doorway as we alighted; and greeting Steerforth as My dearest James, folded him in her arms.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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