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4.06.2024 | 6:49:36 | gen. | sit down for dinner | садиться ужинать (“We were just about to sit down for dinner when we heard this most incredible noise, we walked to the window and there was that car,” he said. – Мы как раз собиралист садиться ужинать (nsnews.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 10:26:50 | cliche. | change drastically | измениться коренным образом (The development industry is a profitable, but risky, business. That’s in large part because it takes many years between envisioning a major project and completing it — and market forces can change drastically within that time. (vancouversun.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 10:23:09 | bank. | get a mortgage | взять ипотеку (Much of the problem has to do with rising interest rates. The Bank of Canada’s decision two years ago to start hiking rates is making it harder to get a mortgage to buy a dwelling. And the cost of borrowing money is making it difficult for builders to afford the loans to construct new units, especially residential highrises. (vancouversun.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 10:23:09 | bank. | get a mortgage | взять ипотечный кредит (Much of the problem has to do with rising interest rates. The Bank of Canada’s decision two years ago to start hiking rates is making it harder to get a mortgage to buy a dwelling. And the cost of borrowing money is making it difficult for builders to afford the loans to construct new units, especially residential highrises. (vancouversun.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 10:20:11 | gen. | things are not looking good | дела идут неважно (for sb. – у кого-л. • Developers are regularly abandoning projects. Many buyers are staying on the sidelines. Despite governments pumping billions of dollars into stimulating building — and politicians making showy announcements of new housing targets — things are not looking good for the housing industry. (vancouversun.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 10:11:53 | gen. | go up | расти ввысь (Gleaming new condo towers are going up like never before. House and rental prices are exorbitant. Old houses are being torn down for multi-unit buildings. It all gives the impression the residential construction business is booming. (vancouversun.com)) |
3.06.2024 | 9:58:07 | gen. | boon | выгодное дело (For some small businesses that would be a cost, for some that would be a boon. • Improved transportation infrastructure over the Second Narrows of Burrard Inlet would be a massive boon for local economies, easing the daily journey of tens of thousands of daily commuters and reducing rush hour traffic dreaded by hordes of drivers. (nsnews.com)) |
3.07.2025 | 8:12:30 | fig. | boon | выигрыш (Volkswagen diesel scandal was a boon for Toyota. – обернулся выигрышем • Port Moody Mayor Meghan Lahti, on the other hand, was more enthusiastic. "I've definitely heard it from at least a couple of members of the community who think that that would be a very interesting thing to pursue," she told the Western Standard, referring to it as an "exciting opportunity." Like Drew, Lahti saw it as a potential boon for tourism in the region. |
3.06.2024 | 8:06:27 | traf. | get the brake and the accelerator mixed up | перепутать тормоз с акселератором (Choices: 1) New driver. 2) Very old driver. 3) Got brake and accelerator mixed up. (Sheldon once said that was why he didn't drive, On The Big Bang Theory). 4) Drunk or 'high.' 5) Medical emergency. (Twitter)) |
3.06.2024 | 7:29:54 | affect. | sweet little grandma | бабулька |
3.06.2024 | 7:09:48 | real.est. | spacious room | просторная комната (Looks like a Soviet housing block, but the rooms are likely more spacious than in current apartments, usually the case with older buildings.) |
3.06.2024 | 7:03:22 | energ.distr. | downed power line | обрыв линии электропередачи (Hoskins Road is closed between Arborlynn Drive and Davenport Place due to a downed power line. Please avoid the area. (Twitter)) |
3.06.2024 | 6:37:22 | police | knife-wielding man | вооружённый ножом мужчина (Knife-wielding man arrested in North Saanich) |
3.06.2024 | 5:29:19 | idiom. | run like hell | убегать сломя голову (Firemen who just survived the destruction of the South Tower on 9/11 are looking at the North Tower.
If the plane damage and fire caused the collapse, why aren’t they running away? The firefighters knew the fires could not bring down those towers. They didn’t know advanced incendiary material was detonated inside them. PhD scientists found the evidence in the WTC dust, and if the firefighters had known, they would have run like hell. |
3.06.2024 | 3:39:48 | humor. | scholar | школяр (flickr.com) |
3.06.2024 | 3:18:32 | gen. | get sb. used to | приучать к (Getting the tots used to the notion of vehicular transport. In my experience, using these transports can be tricky because smaller kids don't understand they're not supposed to stand up and do things while the transport is in motion. (Flickr) |
3.06.2024 | 3:04:21 | real.est. | housing co-op | кооператив (форма собственности жилья) |
2.06.2024 | 9:24:44 | port.facil. | docked | пришвартованный ((of a ship) tie up at a dock, especially in order to load or unload passengers or cargo. "the ship docked at San Francisco" (Oxford Dictionary) • A cargo of sawn timber or lumber is loaded on board the MV Aorangi (1924), a transpacific ocean liner and cargo ship docked at Vancouver Harbour in the city of Vancouver in the province of British Columbia (Twitter)) |
2.06.2024 | 9:15:49 | inf. | so long for now! | пока! (So long for now Seattle!) |
2.06.2024 | 8:29:13 | disappr. | doesn't cut it | это несерьёзно (критика • Just why can't he work? "I don't wanna" doesn't cut it. I see lots of Help Wanted signs. Is he too picky? Does he just want a "fun" job?) |
2.06.2024 | 8:22:03 | welf. | subsidized housing | субсидируемое жильё (for the thousands of people waitlisted to live in this kind of subsidized housing) |
2.06.2024 | 7:59:41 | inf. | catch | минус (т.е. недостаток • MacDonald said he was able to use his disability assistance cheques of $1,035 per month to live in these spaces (which he said cost about $750). He was able to access a shower, have a place to sleep, and store his belongings. However, MacDonald says there was a catch. “I was being bullied by a lot of men in there,” he said. “I tried to move to another one and the same thing happened. They’re just belittling me all the time, and they gang up on me,” he explained. In many of his experiences, he said he didn’t feel safe. “They really knew how to pick on me. They’d be just smashing on my door in the middle of the night.”(dailyhive.com) -- Но был и минус) |
2.06.2024 | 7:54:42 | inf. | take crappy jobs | браться за паршивую работу (MacDonald moved to Vancouver from Nova Scotia about seven years ago with aspirations to work in the film industry. He was able to do what he enjoyed as a wedding videographer and DJ, however, when the COVID-19 pandemic hit, gigs became harder to find. “I ended up taking some crappy jobs in construction and slowly lost motivation for the film industry over time,” he said. (dailyhive.com)) |
2.06.2024 | 7:22:33 | cliche. | wouldn't it be cool if ...? | вот было бы здорово, если бы ...! (+ simple past tense • Wouldn’t it be cool if the Don Valley was a like huge Stanley Park type place instead of a highway? (Twitter)) |
2.06.2024 | 6:26:51 | meteorol. | rainfall warning | штормовое предупреждение (термин не всегда применим, если речь идёт только об осадках без ветра • Rainfall warning issued for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as an “out-of-season” atmospheric river sets its aim at the region. (Twitter)) |
2.06.2024 | 6:25:03 | meteorol. | rainfall warning | предупреждение о сильных осадках (Rainfall warning issued for Metro Vancouver and the Fraser Valley as an “out-of-season” atmospheric river sets its aim at the region. (Twitter)) |
31.05.2025 | 8:06:50 | traf. | jump a curb | выехать на тротуар (также the curb – при указании конкретного места • Seyed Moshfeghi Zadeh pleaded not guilty to dangerous operation of a vehicle causing death and dangerous operation of a vehicle causing bodily harm in the July 6, 2021 crash. Zadeh has admitted he was driving a Ford Escape that ran a red light at the intersection of Hornby and Smithe streets. The SUV hit another car before jumping a curb and fatally striking 23-month-old baby Ocean and her father Michael Hiiva. (globalnews.ca) • Driver jumped the curb by the Gordon truck and went ham on the 2 Tesla’s, trees and van. (Reddit)) |
2.06.2024 | 6:02:58 | traf. | make a right hand turn | свернуть направо (This happened in front of me. Mercedes driver tried to squeeze through to make a right hand turn on Bute heading east on Alberni at a very slow speed. There was no room at all and instantly scraped the side of the black Kia? At the light. After said scraping, driver gassed it hard as possible across the intersection onto the sidewalk and proceeded to mow down bike racks, street signs, trees and cars. Can't believe no one was killed. (Reddit)) |
2.06.2024 | 5:54:26 | traf. | impaired driving crash | авария по вине водителя в нетрезвом состоянии (A suspect has been arrested after a suspected impaired driving crash. According to police, the incident began just before 10 p.m. on Friday, when a white Mercedes SUV sideswiped a grey Mazda driving east on Alberni Street in downtown Vancouver. The Mercedes then reportedly accelerated and jumped the south curb on Alberni, narrowly missing several pedestrians. The suspect driver then crashed into a bike rack, a street sign and collided with a tree, destroying it in the process, according to police. The Mercedes then crashed into three more cars until finally coming to a stop on the sidewalk, with the tree under the vehicle. |
2.06.2024 | 5:54:26 | traf. | impaired driving crash | ДТП по вине нетрезвого водителя (A suspect has been arrested after a suspected impaired driving crash. According to police, the incident began just before 10 p.m. on Friday, when a white Mercedes SUV sideswiped a grey Mazda driving east on Alberni Street in downtown Vancouver. The Mercedes then reportedly accelerated and jumped the south curb on Alberni, narrowly missing several pedestrians. The suspect driver then crashed into a bike rack, a street sign and collided with a tree, destroying it in the process, according to police. The Mercedes then crashed into three more cars until finally coming to a stop on the sidewalk, with the tree under the vehicle. |
2.06.2024 | 5:54:26 | traf. | impaired driving crash | ДТП, совершённое в состоянии алкогольного опьянения (A suspect has been arrested after a suspected impaired driving crash. According to police, the incident began just before 10 p.m. on Friday, when a white Mercedes SUV sideswiped a grey Mazda driving east on Alberni Street in downtown Vancouver. The Mercedes then reportedly accelerated and jumped the south curb on Alberni, narrowly missing several pedestrians. The suspect driver then crashed into a bike rack, a street sign and collided with a tree, destroying it in the process, according to police. The Mercedes then crashed into three more cars until finally coming to a stop on the sidewalk, with the tree under the vehicle. |
2.06.2024 | 5:35:43 | cliche. | address the situation | разобраться с этой ситуацией (to give attention to or deal with a matter or problem (Cambridge Dictionary) • “United Airlines is actively coordinating with health authorities to address the situation,” according to a statement from the airline. “Ensuring the health and safety of our passengers and crew remains our top priority.” (cnn.com)) |
2.06.2024 | 5:18:05 | cliche. | all should be okay | всё будет нормально (Facebook viewers were left divided over the clip as some did agree the house could be haunted. One user said: "Wow... you're haunted! I mean as long as they don't harm, and if you could tell them they're not allowed to scare your kids, all should be okay." (mirror.co.uk)) |
2.06.2024 | 5:18:05 | cliche. | all should be okay | всё будет в порядке (Facebook viewers were left divided over the clip as some did agree the house could be haunted. One user said: "Wow... you're haunted! I mean as long as they don't harm, and if you could tell them they're not allowed to scare your kids, all should be okay." (mirror.co.uk)) |
2.06.2024 | 5:13:52 | biom. | fingerprint-activated door | дверь с биометрическим замком (A woman has left social media divided after she claimed to have video evidence her house is haunted when her kids started asking about people in their rooms. Kayla Samson recently went viral after she shared a clip of a fingerprint-activated door seeming to open on its own. The mum captured the incident on a Ring home security camera after a string of bizarre incidents around her home. (mirror.co.uk)) |
2.06.2024 | 5:02:05 | fig. | leave divided | внести раскол (A woman has left social media divided after she claimed to have video evidence her house is haunted when her kids started asking about people in their rooms. Kayla Samson recently went viral after she shared a clip of a fingerprint-activated door seeming to open on its own. The mum captured the incident on a Ring home security camera after a string of bizarre incidents around her home. (mirror.co.uk)) |
1.06.2024 | 10:50:28 | gen. | cargo sitting idle | грузы простаивают (cargo containers sitting idle on rail tracks – грузовые контейнеры простаивают на рельсах ) |
1.06.2024 | 10:35:46 | tech. | random tasks | разнообразные цели (also used for other random tasks – для других разнообразных целей) |
1.06.2024 | 9:37:42 | gen. | by fax | по факсу (apply via e-mail or by fax – прислать заявление по электронной почте или по факсу) |
1.06.2024 | 9:34:10 | gen. | improving book | поучительная книга (Thank you, sir. I rather think I will spend the evening with an improving book.) |
1.06.2024 | 9:08:06 | inf. | last time I checked | насколько я помню ("Last time I checked, you were never the one in charge." ) |
1.06.2024 | 7:50:47 | gen. | no idea yet | пока не известно |
1.06.2024 | 7:41:23 | gen. | from the very beginning | изначально (Путин изначально не планировал ехать на похороны Елизаветы II • Это было понятно изначально.) |
1.06.2024 | 7:40:37 | gen. | from the very start | изначально (Путин: экономический блицкриг против России изначально не имел шансов • Это было понятно изначально.) |
1.06.2024 | 7:23:31 | gen. | in a matter-of-fact manner | без эмоций (In newspapers from the 1850s to the 1880s, he discovered numerous sightings of airships that were generally described as giant flying objects seen moving at high speed or silently hovering. The witnesses in the newspaper stories were generally respected citizens, and the accounts were written in a matter-of-fact manner, he noted, such as when an airship was observed flying over several states within a matter of hours. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
1.06.2024 | 7:23:31 | gen. | in a matter-of-fact manner | сухим языком (In newspapers from the 1850s to the 1880s, he discovered numerous sightings of airships that were generally described as giant flying objects seen moving at high speed or silently hovering. The witnesses in the newspaper stories were generally respected citizens, and the accounts were written in a matter-of-fact manner, he noted, such as when an airship was observed flying over several states within a matter of hours. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
1.06.2024 | 7:19:53 | gen. | high up in the mountains | высоко в горах (Rothmiller found accounts of how, in 1921, the Indian army was doing maneuvers high up in the mountains and found huge footprints in the snow of something barefoot headed into the snow banks, and they made photographs of the prints. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
1.06.2024 | 7:15:33 | gen. | a wide array of | разнообразные (Mike Rothmiller served ten years with the LAPD, including five years as a deep undercover detective. In the first half, he shared reports of a wide array of paranormal and unexplained occurrences that were written during the 1800s and early 1900s. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
1.06.2024 | 7:14:23 | gen. | a vast array of | разнообразные (I have taught mechanical engineering and construction to a vast array of nationalities and at all levels.) |
1.06.2024 | 7:11:22 | adv. | a wide array of choices | разнообразный выбор (Our menu offers a wide array of healthy choices.) |
1.06.2024 | 7:10:14 | police | serve ten years with the ... police department | прослужить десять лет в полиции (Mike Serra served ten years with the LAPD, including five years as a deep undercover detective.) |
1.06.2024 | 7:07:23 | mil. | serve a few weeks | прослужить несколько недель (вообще-то обычными глаголами в данном контексте являются serve или do...) |
1.06.2024 | 7:05:08 | gen. | host | поселить у себя (в доме или на участке • I bought it and put a callout on Craigslist and to my 5,000 Facebook friends: "Hello community, I'm looking for someone who has an unused backyard and would benefit from hosting me and my tiny house. In return, I can help you transition to a more sustainable life." Jim responded and I lived in his backyard for a year. (businessinsider.com)) |
1.06.2024 | 7:02:11 | gov. | sweeping powers | чрезвычайно широкие полномочия (In a secret government agreement granted without approval from lawmakers, the U.S. attorney general recently granted the National Counterterrorism Center sweeping new powers to store dossiers on U.S. citizens, even if they are not suspected of a crime. (wired.com) • Поскольку по Конституции США президент имеет чрезвычайно широкие полномочия и является главой исполнительной власти, то его роль в высшем руководстве страны чрезвычайно важна. (из рус. источников)) |
1.06.2024 | 6:52:16 | gen. | in an obvious manner | наглядно (I appreciate that the concept of the golden ratio was presented in such an obvious manner to me. -- был разъяснён мне так наглядно) |
1.06.2024 | 6:46:57 | gen. | I'm not trying to sneer or anything but | не сочтите за издёвку, но (introducing a sensitive question) |
1.06.2024 | 3:39:14 | crim.law. | timeline of events | хронология событий (In December of 2021, Regis was arrested and charged. His trial began on Monday, with the prosecutor laying out a series of facts agreed upon by both Crown and defence. Crown prosecutor Crichton Pike gave a timeline of events around Onotera's disappearance on Monday, explaining Regis's odd behaviour as his wife's family and friends grew increasingly alarmed that they could not reach her. |
1.06.2024 | 3:36:06 | crim.law. | count | статья обвинения (A Langley, B.C., man accused of killing and dismembering his wife has changed his plea to guilty on two counts. Obnes Regis was charged with manslaughter and indignity to human remains in the 2021 killing of his wife, Naomi Onotera. On Aug. 29, 2021, Onotera was reported missing by her mother. The 40-year-old's disappearance cast a shadow over the start of the school year at Surrey's Katzie Elementary School, where she worked as a teacher-librarian. She was also the mother to a girl under the age of two. |
1.06.2024 | 3:20:37 | fig. | coast | катиться по инерции (They largely coasted for years on voters too stupid to realize they were the provincial equivalent of the federal Conservatives, so they knew that with the federal Liberal brand becoming ultratoxic those same voters would be too stupid to realize they are not, in fact, related to the federal Liberals. The only move was to try and pivot with a rebrand which would dogwhistle to their base. (Reddit)) |
1.06.2024 | 3:13:43 | cliche. | at this rate | такими темпами (With technology going at this rate we'll all be driving holograms by the end of the year anyway. • Kevin Falcon might get his party wiped out at this rate. (Reddit)) |
1.06.2024 | 3:11:05 | gen. | things are going terribly | всё идёт ужасно (If the opposition parties weren’t both divided and useless Eby would be losing this election in a landslide. Things are going terribly and have been getting worse for years, which is why Trudeau’s approval rating is like 20%. (Reddit)) |
1.06.2024 | 2:57:42 | gen. | how late was? | на сколько опоздал? (Yikes. How late were you to work? -- На сколько ты опоздала на работу? • How late was the train? -- На сколько опоздал поезд?) |
1.06.2024 | 2:30:50 | police | leave peacefully | мирно разойтись (You have the option of leaving peacefully. Move back. -- У вас имеется возможность мирно разойтись. Отойдите. |
31.05.2024 | 9:25:33 | ichtyol. | eel-like | угревидный (*Couple spots 'bus-sized' creature in Loch Ness* Could Nessie be a giant eel? Corey Sturrock and his wife had been out for a walk when they spotted something very large in the water. (...) "I have been camping and walking on Loch Ness my whole life and I have never believed in the Loch Ness monster," said Corey. (...) He described the creature as 'eel-like' but also 'the size of a bus'. (unexplained-mysteries.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 9:01:56 | gen. | willing | согласен (+ infinitive • He said he wasn't willing to wait so he cancelled his membership. -- не согласен ждать) |
31.05.2024 | 8:25:07 | coal. | coal-mining region | ориентированный на угледобычу регион (В ориентированных на угледобычу регионах страны уровень травматизма работников превышает общероссийский показатель, например, в Кузбассе он выше в два раза. (Википедия) • The valleys of Rhondda Fawr, or 'large', and Rhondda Fach, or 'small', form one of the most famous coal-mining regions in Britain. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain)) |
31.05.2024 | 8:23:06 | coal. | coal-mining region | угледобывающий регион (The valleys of Rhondda Fawr, or 'large', and Rhondda Fach, or 'small', form one of the most famous coal-mining regions in Britain. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain) • Два года назад мы определили топ-7 угледобывающих регионов в России. Что изменилось за это время? Появились ли новые регионы добычи угля? (dprom.online)) |
31.05.2024 | 8:23:06 | coal. | coal-mining region | регион добычи угля (The valleys of Rhondda Fawr, or 'large', and Rhondda Fach, or 'small', form one of the most famous coal-mining regions in Britain. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain) • Два года назад мы определили топ-7 угледобывающих регионов в России. Что изменилось за это время? Появились ли новые регионы добычи угля? (dprom.online)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:56:36 | disappr. | ram down | силой навязать (Coun. Linda Watt led the charge, saying she was voted in by the citizens of West Vancouver, doesn’t represent the province and “I’ll continue to represent their best interests and vigorously oppose any entity that seeks to destroy the nature and character of our community.” Watt accused the province of moving at a “reckless pace” to ram down blanket rezoning that ignores decades of careful planning by local government. (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:56:36 | disappr. | ram down | навязывать силой (Coun. Linda Watt led the charge, saying she was voted in by the citizens of West Vancouver, doesn’t represent the province and “I’ll continue to represent their best interests and vigorously oppose any entity that seeks to destroy the nature and character of our community.” Watt accused the province of moving at a “reckless pace” to ram down blanket rezoning that ignores decades of careful planning by local government. (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:55:21 | disappr. | blanket | тотальный (Coun. Linda Watt led the charge, saying she was voted in by the citizens of West Vancouver, doesn’t represent the province and “I’ll continue to represent their best interests and vigorously oppose any entity that seeks to destroy the nature and character of our community.” Watt accused the province of moving at a “reckless pace” to ram down blanket rezoning that ignores decades of careful planning by local government. (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:52:31 | idiom. | lead the charge | выступить застрельщиком (в борьбе против чего-л. • Council lambasts top-down approach from the province – But after directing staff to prepare the rezoning bylaw in April, on Monday, May 27, council voted unanimously to reject it, with several councillors stating they don’t intend to have local zoning changes dictated by Victoria. Coun. Linda Watt led the charge, saying she was voted in by the citizens of West Vancouver, doesn’t represent the province and “I’ll continue to represent their best interests and vigorously oppose any entity that seeks to destroy the nature and character of our community.” (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:48:39 | disappr. | top-down | принудительный (Council lambasts top-down approach from the province – But after directing staff to prepare the rezoning bylaw in April, on Monday, May 27, council voted unanimously to reject it, with several councillors stating they don’t intend to have local zoning changes dictated by Victoria. (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:48:39 | disappr. | top-down | приказной (Council lambasts top-down approach from the province – But after directing staff to prepare the rezoning bylaw in April, on Monday, May 27, council voted unanimously to reject it, with several councillors stating they don’t intend to have local zoning changes dictated by Victoria. (nsnews.com)) |
31.05.2024 | 5:48:39 | disappr. | top-down | принудительно-приказной (Council lambasts top-down approach from the province – But after directing staff to prepare the rezoning bylaw in April, on Monday, May 27, council voted unanimously to reject it, with several councillors stating they don’t intend to have local zoning changes dictated by Victoria. (nsnews.com)) |
30.05.2024 | 8:28:31 | polite | would you care? | угодно ли вам? (+ infinitive: used to ask someone politely whether they want to do something (Longman) • Would you care to join us for dinner? • "Угодно ли вам со мною под венец?" (А.Н. Островский)) |
30.05.2024 | 7:47:06 | gen. | tongue-in-cheek | полушутя (If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious: "He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek." (Cambridge Dictionary) • People have always said that there is something otherworldly about Elon Musk and now he has come out and confirmed it... well, sort of. Speaking via webcam during an interview at Europe's Viva Tech event this week, Musk was quick to offer a tongue-in-cheek reply when the host quipped: "Some people believe you are an alien." "I am an alien," Musk replied. "You are? Now you are uncovered," the host replied. "Yes, I tell people I'm an alien but nobody believes me," Musk confirmed. (unexplained-mysteries.com)) |
30.05.2024 | 7:47:06 | gen. | tongue-in-cheek | полувсерьёз (If you say something tongue in cheek, you intend it to be understood as a joke, although you might appear to be serious: "He said that he was a huge fan of the president, although I suspect it was tongue in cheek." (Cambridge Dictionary) • People have always said that there is something otherworldly about Elon Musk and now he has come out and confirmed it... well, sort of. Speaking via webcam during an interview at Europe's Viva Tech event this week, Musk was quick to offer a tongue-in-cheek reply when the host quipped: "Some people believe you are an alien." "I am an alien," Musk replied. "You are? Now you are uncovered," the host replied. "Yes, I tell people I'm an alien but nobody believes me," Musk confirmed. (unexplained-mysteries.com)) |
30.05.2024 | 7:34:23 | gen. | task with | поставить задачу (перед кем-л. • Перед ним была поставлена задача ... – He was tasked with ... • More than 75 years ago, pilot Thomas Mantell, who saw action during Word War II as a member of the 101st Airborne Division, had been serving as a fighter pilot with the Kentucky National Guard when he had an unexplained encounter that cost him his life. The incident began on January 7th, 1948 when Kentucky State Police Highway Patrol started to receive calls at around 1:20pm in the afternoon about a strange object in the sky over Maysville. Mantell was part of a group that had been tasked with venturing out to investigate the phenomenon. When he, alongside his two wingmen, reached 15,000ft, they encountered an object described as "metallic" and "tremendous in size" that was moving at around half the speed of the planes. (unexplained-mysteries.com)) |
30.05.2024 | 7:24:50 | sport. | cheer | подбадривать криками (Dairy-loving daredevils threw caution to the wind Monday for one of Britain’s most extreme annual events: Cheese rolling. Cheered by several thousand spectators, scores of reckless racers chased 7-pound (3 kilogram) wheels of Double Gloucester cheese down the near-vertical Cooper’s Hill, near Gloucester in southwest England. |
30.05.2024 | 6:53:03 | gen. | rough-and-tumble | беспорядочный (о поведении, борьбе, игре, политической деятельности, потасовке и т.п. – refer to a situation in which the people involved try hard to get what they want, and do not worry about upsetting or harming others; involving noisy and slightly violent behaviour (Collins Dictionary) • The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns. Few competitors manage to stay on their feet all the way down the 200-yard (180 meter) hill. |
30.05.2024 | 6:53:03 | gen. | rough-and-tumble | бесцеремонный (о поведении, борьбе, игре, политической деятельности, потасовке и т.п. – refer to a situation in which the people involved try hard to get what they want, and do not worry about upsetting or harming others; involving noisy and slightly violent behaviour (Collins Dictionary) • The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns. Few competitors manage to stay on their feet all the way down the 200-yard (180 meter) hill. |
30.05.2024 | 6:53:03 | gen. | rough-and-tumble | сумбурный (о поведении, борьбе, игре, политической деятельности, потасовке и т.п. – refer to a situation in which the people involved try hard to get what they want, and do not worry about upsetting or harming others; involving noisy and slightly violent behaviour (Collins Dictionary) • The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns. Few competitors manage to stay on their feet all the way down the 200-yard (180 meter) hill. |
30.05.2024 | 6:53:03 | gen. | rough-and-tumble | грубый (о поведении, борьбе, игре, политической деятельности, потасовке и т.п. – refer to a situation in which the people involved try hard to get what they want, and do not worry about upsetting or harming others; involving noisy and slightly violent behaviour (Collins Dictionary) • The rough-and-tumble event often comes with safety concerns. Few competitors manage to stay on their feet all the way down the 200-yard (180 meter) hill. |
30.05.2024 | 6:03:20 | ufol. | cover up | засекретить (In the latter half, he shared his research about Mars -- he believes that plant life and past civilizations on the Red Planet have been covered up. Regarding Mars, Colbern asserted that evidence for plant life has been seen clearly in the Orbiter mission photos, as well as huge trees near the planet's south pole. In the rover photographs, there's what looks like foundations of buildings, as well as metallic junk and crash debris, he added. -- были засекречены (coasttocoastam.com)) |
30.05.2024 | 5:36:52 | med. | cramping | ущемление (... the condition is due to the cramping of a cranial nerve from osteoporosis and can be reversed with the proper nutrients) |
29.05.2024 | 10:51:15 | gen. | within an hour's drive from | в часе езды от (10 must visit places within an hour's drive from Edinburgh) |
29.05.2024 | 10:43:39 | cliche. | with just the clothes on one's back | остаться в чём стоял/а ("Everything I have is on me," says Harry. "Imagine your entire house being taken – like literally everything you have."Now left with just the clothes on her back, Tammy has a message for whoever took the Chevy. "They can have the car, we don't care. Just take it. We just want our passports so we can get home, and all our photos and sentimental belongings," says Tammy. (nsnews.com)) |
29.05.2024 | 10:42:25 | gen. | repeat the grade | остаться на второй год ("stay in a form (?) for a second year" и "have not get one's remove (?) – – – Ув. коллеги, где вы такое раскопали? 😏) |
29.05.2024 | 10:40:58 | busin. | balance | остающаяся сумма (при расчёте с подрядчиком • Normally a payment of one third is made on commencement, an equal installment after 20 days, and the balance on arriving at 45 days.) |
29.05.2024 | 10:36:34 | law | stand | оставаться в силе (Not so fast, the court said the Zeppelin victory stands. |
29.05.2024 | 10:35:49 | gen. | is still good | остаётся в силе (My offer of help is still good.) |
29.05.2024 | 10:33:34 | media. | is best known for his | особую известность ему принесли (Johann Strauss, a 19th-century Austrian composer, is best known for his waltzes.) |
29.05.2024 | 10:27:42 | construct. | constrained land area | ограниченная площадь (под застройку • “They are a country with very constrained land area for building, huge population, and massive demand for housing, and their government made the decision, like our government is now, to be involved in ensuring there was housing for middle-income families in Singapore.” (vancouversun.com)) |
29.05.2024 | 10:09:26 | gen. | depersonalize | обезличивать (авторство принадлежит |
29.05.2024 | 9:41:02 | gen. | local community | местное сообщество |
29.05.2024 | 9:39:22 | disappr. | parochial mentality | местечковость |
29.05.2024 | 9:36:49 | gen. | twinkle | поблёскивать (о звёздах • "All was still. The stars twinkled above. We were alone with Nature." (P.G. Wodehouse)) |
29.05.2024 | 9:36:49 | gen. | twinkle | мерцать (о звёздах • "All was still. The stars twinkled above. We were alone with Nature." (P.G. Wodehouse)) |
29.05.2024 | 9:35:17 | idiom. | on a fool's errand | по бессмысленному делу |