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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)