aliflanke

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aliflanke

  1. on the other hand
    • E. L. Kearney (translator), La Aventuroj de Alicio en Mirlando (Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland) by Lewis Carroll, Chapter 4,
      Ĉu sekvas do (pensis ŝi) ke mi neniam fariĝos pli aĝa ol nun? Tio ja estus unuflanke tre agrabla: neniam fariĝi maljunulino! Sed aliflanke, devi ĉiam lerni la lecionojn, ho, mi ne ŝatus tion!
      ‘But then,’ thought Alice, ‘shall I never get any older than I am now? That’ll be a comfort, one way—never to be an old woman—but then (lit. on the other hand)—always to have lessons to learn! Oh, I shouldn’t like that!’
  2. on the other side
    • M. Inman (translator), Gulivero en Liliputo (Gulliver’s Travels, abridged version) by Jonathan Swift, Chapter 1,
      Aliflanke de la vojego, kaj precize kontraǔ la templo, staris turo
      Over against this temple, on the other side of the great highway there was a turret
    • Giuseppe Croatini (translator), La Aventuroj de Pinokjo (Le avventure di Pinocchio) by Carlo Collodi, Chapter 14,
      unu el ili prenis la marioneton ĉe la nazopinto, kaj la alia ĉe la mentono, kaj ili komencis tiri lin unu ĉi-flanken, la alia aliflanken por tiel igi lin malfermi la buŝon
      One of them grabbed the Marionette by the nose and the other by the chin, and they pulled him unmercifully from side to side (lit. one to this side, the other to the other side) in order to make him open his mouth. (Carol Della Chiesa translation)

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