capacious

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Oversættelse

adj. rummelig; med en storslået eller generøs kvalitet.

Eksempelsætninger

a man of capacious mind

en mand med et stort sind

she rummaged in her capacious handbag.

hun rodede i sin rummelige taske.

Because this also can see, floor of false and inferior wood still has capacious vivosphere.

Fordi dette også kan se, har gulvet af falsk og ringe træ stadig en rummelig vivosfære.

Virkelige Eksempler

His capacious waistcoat was suggestive of a large heart underneath.

Hans rummelige vest antydede et stort hjerte nedenunder.

Kilde: Little Women (Bilingual Edition)

His flowing gown had two capacious sleeves.

Hans flydende kjole havde to rummelige ærmer.

Kilde: Journey to the West: One China, Two English Versions

Artists have a vision of humans as capacious; they don't view people as tools, and that attitude promotes habits of hope.

Kunstnere har en vision om mennesker som rummelige; de ser ikke på folk som redskaber, og den holdning fremmer vaner med håb.

Kilde: Newsweek

It is a capacious concept, one that takes in Presidents Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt and Dwight Eisenhower.

Det er et rummeligt koncept, et der omfatter præsidenter som Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt og Dwight Eisenhower.

Kilde: The Economist Culture

Meanwhile cans of gasoline were fetched from a dump close by, and emptied into the exceptionally capacious tanks.

I mellemtiden blev dåser med benzin hentet fra en losseplads i nærheden og tømt i de exceptionelt rummelige tanke.

Kilde: The Disappearing Horizon

Certainly there was no lack of craters, and there were some capacious enough to throw out a whole army!

Der var bestemt ingen mangel på kratere, og nogle var rummelige nok til at smide en hel hær ud!

Kilde: The Journey to the Heart of the Earth

I had also with me a somewhat old, but capacious hand-bag in which I had intended to place the manuscript of a work of fiction that I had written during my few unoccupied hours.

Jeg havde også med mig en ret gammel, men rummelig håndtaske, hvor jeg havde til hensigt at placere manuskriptet til en roman, jeg havde skrevet i mine få ledige timer.

Kilde: Not to be taken lightly.

The table was comfortably laid—no silver in the service, of course—and at the side of his chair was a capacious dumb-waiter, with a variety of bottles and decanters on it, and four dishes of fruit for dessert.

Bordet var behageligt dækket - naturligvis intet sølv i serveringen - og ved siden af hans stol stod en rummelig bakke med et udvalg af flasker og decanter på den, og fire fade med frugt til dessert.

Kilde: Great Expectations (Original Version)

Mrs. Penniman was silent a little, and her smile beneath the shadow of her capacious bonnet, on the edge of which her black veil was arranged curtain-wise, fixed itself upon Morris's face with a still more tender brilliancy.

Mrs. Penniman var stille et øjeblik, og hendes smil under skyggen af hendes rummelige hat, hvis kant hendes sorte slør var arrangeret som et gardin, fik sig selv til at feste på Morris's ansigt med en endnu mere øm klarhed.

Kilde: Washington Square

Many of them clung as tenaciously to their mother tongue as they did to their capacious farmhouses or their Dutch ovens; but they were slowly losing their identity as the English pressed in beside them to farm and trade.

Mange af dem holdt lige så nidkært fast i deres modersmål, som de gjorde til deres rummelige gårdhuse eller deres hollandske ovne; men de mistede langsomt deres identitet, da englænderne pressede sig ind ved siden af dem for at dyrke og handle.

Kilde: American history

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