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PAVEMENT

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Traducere în limba română

pavement substantiv

1. pavaj, caldarâm; îmbrăcăminte rutieră.

2. trotuar;

the outside of the pavement marginea trotuarului;

(fam.) to be on the pavement a fi fără adăpost / pe drumuri.

3. (amer.) şosea.

4. (mine) culcuş, vatră, talpă.

 Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze: 

I surprised you by beating upon the pavement with my stick.

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

I was thinking this, and wondering what would ultimately become of my box, which Mr. Barkis had put down on the yard-pavement by the pole (he having driven up the yard to turn his cart), and also what would ultimately become of me, when a lady looked out of a bow-window where some fowls and joints of meat were hanging up, and said: Is that the little gentleman from Blunderstone?

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

I kept to the pavement after that, Watson, but as I walked down Vere Street a brick came down from the roof of one of the houses, and was shattered to fragments at my feet.

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

Therefore I had better leave her sitting on a baker's door-step, out of breath, with no shape at all remaining in her bonnet, and one of her shoes off, lying on the pavement at a considerable distance.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)




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