COACH

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Traducere în limba română

coach¹ I. substantiv

1. (ist.) diligenţă, poştalion, (trăsură / căruţă de) poştă;

(înv.) by coach prin poştă.

2. trăsură de casă, caretă, caleaşcă; trăsură de piaţă, birjă;

to call a coach a chema o trăsură; a face unei trăsuri semn să se oprească; a lua o trăsură;

to get into a coach a se urca într-o trăsură;

to alight from a coach, to get out of a coach a coborî dintr-o trăsură;

(glumeţ) to ride in the marrowbone coach a merge apostoleşte / pe jos;

(fig.) slow coach a) prost, nătâng, om greu de cap; înapoiat; b) mocăit, ticăit; c) persoană cu vederi învechite;

coach and pair trăsură cu doi cai;

to keep one’s coach a) a avea un echipaj (cal şi trăsură); b) a(-şi) ţine trena, a face lux; to ride in a coach a merge, a se plimba cu trăsura;

(fig.) to drive a coach and four / six through a călca (legea), a nu respecta (un decret, o decizie, o dispoziţie, o ordonanţă, o hotărâre pe motivul că textul e incorect sau neclar).

3. (ferov.) vagon (de pasageri / clasă).

4. autobuz (şi motor-coach) (interurban); autocar.

coach¹ II. verb tranzitiv

a transporta / a duce / a plimba cu trăsura; a aşeza într-o trăsură.

coach² I. substantiv

1. (univ., şcol.) repetitor, preparator, meditator (pentru examene).

2. (sport) antrenor, instructor.

coach² II. verb A. tranzitiv

1. a medita pentru examene.

2. (sport) a antrena.

3. a face repetiţii cu (la) (coregrafie).

coach² II. verb B. intranzitiv

1. a lua lecţii cu un meditator, instructor, antrenor.

2. a da lecţii, a fi antrenor.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

This gave me a fright, for if there is no one else in the castle, it must have been the Count himself who was the driver of the coach that brought me here.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

Why, the night coach will carry the news to London.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The coach is a mile off by this time; I am alone.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

I thought we never should have got into the coach.

(Pride and Prejudice, de Jane Austen)

I own she came often to my house, but always publicly, nor ever without three more in the coach, who were usually her sister and young daughter, and some particular acquaintance; but this was common to many other ladies of the court.

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

I labour under the same kind of astonishment to this day, having invariably observed that of all human weaknesses, the one to which our common nature is the least disposed to confess (I cannot imagine why) is the weakness of having gone to sleep in a coach.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It is used but little, and very different from the coach road from the Bukovina to Bistritz, which is more wide and hard, and more of use.

(Dracula, de Bram Stoker)

How they roared on the coach.

(Rodney Stone, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

A coach was allowed to Glumdalclitch and me, wherein her governess frequently took her out to see the town, or go among the shops; and I was always of the party, carried in my box; although the girl, at my own desire, would often take me out, and hold me in her hand, that I might more conveniently view the houses and the people, as we passed along the streets.

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

I was to go home next night; not by the mail, but by the heavy night-coach, which was called the Farmer, and was principally used by country-people travelling short intermediate distances upon the road.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

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