воскресенье, 16 ноября 2014 г.

Vocabulary 1

1) To lodge an objection - (заявить протест, выдвинуть возражение) to express firm disagreement with smth.
Synonyms: make a protest, to retort, to contradict, to take exception to, to express dissent. 
EX: Montmorency lodges an obgection.
2) Seedy - (потрепанный, нездоровый, слабый) dirty or in bad condition
Synonyms: weather-beaten, beat-up, unhealthy, indisposed, ailing. EX: We were all feeling seedy, and were getting quite nervous about it.
3) To impel - (побуждать, заставлять) to cause (someone) to feel a strong need or desire to do something
Synonyms: to induce, to urge, to instigate, to stimulate, to startle.
EX: ...I never read a patent medicine advertisement without being impelled to the conclusion that I am suffering from the particular disease...
4) Virulent - (смертельный, страшный (о яде, болезни)) extremely dangerous and deadly and usually spreading very quickly
Synonyms: fatal, killing, lethiferous, basilisk, deathly. 
EX: ...therein dealt with in its most virulent form.
5) Hay fever - (легкий приступ болезни) a medical condition caused by pollen (powder produced by flowers) that affects your nose and eyes as if you had a bad cold; 
Synonyms: allergy, slowly, inactively, sluggishly, torpidly.
EX: I remember going to the British Museum one day to read up the treatment for some slight ailment of which I had a touch - hay fever, I fancy it was.
6) Indolently - (без интереса, лениво) having or showing a disposition to avoid exertion; 
Synonyms:slowly, inactively, sluggishly, torpidly.
EX: I idly turned the leaves and began to indolently study diseases.
7) Distemper - (хандра, дурное расположение духа) bad humor or temper
Synonyms: blues, spleen, mope, mulligrubs
EX: I forget which was the first distemper. 
8) To plunge into - (погружаться, бросаться во что-либо) to fall or jump suddenly from a high place
Synonyms: immerse oneself in, dive, dip.
EX: ...I plunged into some fearful distemper
9) Devastating scourge - (истощающее бедствие) someone or something that causes a great amount of trouble or suffering
Synonyms: disaster, distress, calamity, affliction
EX: Malaria remains a devastating scourge on the lives and livelihoods to the millions of global citizens living in the tropics.
10) Premonitory - (предостерегающий) giving warning
Synonyms: warning, cautionary, admonitory
EX: I had glanced half down the list of "premonitory simptoms"
11) To be borne upon somebody - (становиться ясным, доходить до кого-либо) become clear
Synonyms: clear up, come to smb's mind
EX: It was borne upon me that I fairly got it.
12) To sift  something to the bottom - (изучить что-либо тщательно) examine carefully
Synonyms: 
EX: I determined to sift this encyclopedia to the bottom to find illnesses which I had.
13) To walk the hospitals - (проходить студенческую практику в больницах) go to the hospitals while passing student practice
Synonyms: 
EX: Students would have no need to walk the hospitals, if they had me.
14) To time a watch -  (засечь время) to measure the duration of a process with the help of a stopwatch.
Synonyms: start the clock, to time smb or smth, mark time
EX: I pulled out and timed the watch to feel my pulse.
15) A decrepit wreck - (старая развалина) a man who can hardly walk.
Synonyms: rinky-dink, rickety old man, pig-meat 
EX: I crawled out a decrepit wreck.
16) To clutch hold of smth - (схватить что-либо) to catch smth by your hands
Synonyms: catch hold of, make a clutch at, capture, get
EX: Then he opened me and looked down me, and clutched hold of my wrist.
17) A cowardly thing - (подлый номер) perfect stealth action
Synonyms: despicable act, vile joke
EX: Then he hit me over the chest when I wasn't expecting it - a cowardly thing to do, I call it.
18) To stuff up a head with smth - (забивать голову чем-либо) to fill someone's brain with certain kinds of thoughts. 
Synonyms: addle one's head/brain, put wrong/foolish ideas into one's head, fill one's head with 
EX: And don't stuff up your head with things you don't understand.
19) No tongue can tell - (не передать словами) when smb has a lot of emotions so he/she can't picture smth only with words
Synonyms: beyond words, no words can tell
EX: What I suffer in that way no tongue can tell.
20) Without further loss of time - (не теряя времени) not to waste any time on nonsense
Synonyms: no time lost, without losing any time
EX: I have known one clump on the head have more effect upon my liver, and make me do what was wanted to be done, without further loss of time.

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