OCCUPATION

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Traducere în limba română

occupation substantiv

1. ocupaţie; profesie.

2. ocupare.

3. (mil.) ocupaţie.

4. uz temporar (al casei etc.); timpul ocupării.

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

“You must find it a trying occupation, sir!”

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

The prospect of such an occupation made every other circumstance of existence pass before me like a dream, and that thought only had to me the reality of life.

(Frankenstein, de Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

I had prepared an occupation for him; for I was determined not to spend the whole time in a tete-a-tete conversation.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

You have always a profession, pursuits, business of some sort or other, to take you back into the world immediately, and continual occupation and change soon weaken impressions.

(Persuasion, de Jane Austen)

“You are fresh from a night journey, I understand, which is in itself a monotonous occupation.”

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

After a time, Fanny found it not impossible to direct her thoughts to other subjects, and revive some interest in the usual occupations; but whenever Lady Bertram was fixed on the event, she could see it only in one light, as comprehending the loss of a daughter, and a disgrace never to be wiped off.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

He had still a small house in Highbury, where most of his leisure days were spent; and between useful occupation and the pleasures of society, the next eighteen or twenty years of his life passed cheerfully away.

(Emma, de Jane Austen)

Not but what myself and Micawber have our hands pretty full, in general, on account of Mr. Wickfield's being hardly fit for any occupation, sir.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

Of course (as St. John once said) I must seek another interest in life to replace the one lost: is not the occupation he now offers me truly the most glorious man can adopt or God assign?

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

This was a great deal better than to have to take up the pen to acquaint her with all the particulars of the Grants' intended journey, for the present intelligence was of a nature to promise occupation for the pen for many days to come, being no less than the dangerous illness of her eldest son, of which they had received notice by express a few hours before.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

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