UPSTAIRS

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Traducere în limba română

upstairs I. adverb

(în) sus (pe scară), la etaj(ul) superior.

upstairs II. adjectiv

situat la etajul superior.

upstairs III. substantiv

1. parte de sus a unei clădiri, etaj superior.

2. (fam.) cap, căpăţână; minte;

he^’s got nothing upstairs n-are nimic în cap;

he became a little balmy upstairs se cam scrânti (la cap).

Exemple de propoziții și/sau fraze:

I laughed and made my escape, still laughing as I ran upstairs.

(Jane Eyre, de Charlotte Brontë)

David, you and I will go upstairs, boy.

(David Copperfield, de Charles Dickens)

It was late when she came back, and no one saw her creep upstairs and shut herself into her mother's room.

(Little Women, de Louisa May Alcott)

The lady was on her bed upstairs if we cared to see her.

(His Last Bow, de Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

She was engaged at the moment in hanging some curtains in the upstairs front bedroom.

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

He is just come, my dear Fanny, and is taken upstairs; and I am so shocked to see him, that I do not know what to do.

(Mansfield Park, de Jane Austen)

“I should be very glad now to go upstairs,” said he.

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

He entered the house, but it was some little time before he came upstairs.

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

Then let him come upstairs, said Mrs Fox, and ordered the servant to prepare the wedding feast.

(Fairy Tales, de The Brothers Grimm)

At this triumph we were filled with hope and hurried upstairs without delay to the little room where he had slept so long and where his box had stood since the day of his arrival.

(Treasure Island, de Robert Louis Stevenson)

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