Солярис Flashcards
кстати
1) by the way, incidentally
2) at the right time, with good timing [вовремя]
3) [очень кстати] - useful, handy, helpful, convenient
4) to the point, apropos, relevant [к месту]
5) decently, appropriately, properly (dated) [прилично, пристойно]
экипаж
1) crew (aviation, military, nautical)
2) horse-drawn carriage (equipage) (hist.)
плёнка
film, tape
новшество
innovation, novelty
высадка
1) landing, debarkation, disembarkation (navy, aviation)
2) transplanting
глиссер
speedboat
взвесь
suspension, dredge
(in the sense of particles being suspended in a gas or liquid)
коллоидный
glue-like, gelatinous
(relational from [коллоид] – colloid: a mixture in which one substance consisting of microscopically dispersed insoluble particles is suspended throughout another substance)
липкий
adhesive, sticky
обороты
скорость вращения (only in the plural; technical, aviation)
[У меня упали обороты и я начал терять высоту]
выскакивать/выскочить
1) to jump out, to leap out
2) to appear, come up (of a sore, pimple, etc.)
3) to drop out, fall out
ил
silt, clay, mud, ooze, sludge
пениться
to foam
[пена] - foam, froth, etc.
слизь
mucus, slime
комок
1) lump, wad
2) (fig.) spasm in the throat or chest
изгородь
light fence, barrier
[живая изгородь] - hedge (wall or fence of shrubs/bushes)
акация
acacia (shrub or tree)
гипс
1) gypsum
2) plaster cast (medicine)
трескаться/по
to crack, chap
[трещать/треснуть, треск]
[весёлым треском трещит затопленная печь]
расщелина
1) cleft, crevice, fissure (crack in rock or ice)
2) crack
выдавливать/выдавить
to squeeze out, press out
биоток
biocurrent, bioelectrical current
отверстие
1) opening, aperture, hole, perforation
комбинезон
overalls (clothing in which pants and torso are together)
разворачивать/развернуть
1) to unroll, unwind, unwrap
2) to show, display
3) to start (up)
4) to widen, expand, broaden
5) to deploy, extend, expand (into) (military)
6) to turn, swing about, make a U-turn
[развёртывать] - alt. imperfective
заседание
session, meeting
омерзительный
disgusting, loathsome, sickening, revolting
помрачение
1) darkening
2) exceeding, overshadowing (fig.)
3) obscuring (fig.)
4) saddening (fig.)
5) darkness, gloom
кора
1) bark (of trees)
2) crust (of the earth, planets)
[кора (больших полушарий) головного мозга] = cerebral cortex
добросовестный
conscientious, fair
порог
1) doorstep, threshold
2) rapid (i.e., in a river)
топтаться
1) shift one’s feet
2) hang about, idle about, loiter
3) dillydally, dawdle
[топтаться на месте] - to make no headway, mark time
разрозненный
1) odd, incomplete
2) separate, uncoordinated
втискивать/втиснуть
(coll.) to squeeze (in, into), to cram (in, into)
вырождаться/выродиться
1) to degenerate
2) to disappear, to be lost over time
куст
bush, shrub
рапорт
report
[доклад, донесение]
возражать/возразить
1) to object, to mind, to protest
[если ты не возражаешь,…] - if you don’t mind,…
предвзятый
biased, prejudiced
опровергать/опровергнуть
1) to refute, disprove
2) to deny, disclaim
повидать
(colloquial, perfective. imperfective [видать] has slightly different semantics)
1) to see, to get to see
2) to visit (fig.)
отпирать/отпереть
to unlock
perf. [отопру, отопрёшь]
рентгеновский
(relational) X-ray, radiographic
[рентген] - X-ray
подвергать/подвергнуть
to subject (to), expose (to) (что, чему)
завязать/завязнуть
1) to stick (in), sink (in)
2) to get stuck (in) (coll.)
not to be confused with [завязывать/завяз**а*ть] - to tie up, fasten
завещать
to bequeath, to will
[завещение]
паршивый
1) scabby, mangy
2) nasty, rotten, mean
избавление
1) cure
2) salvation (religion)
[избавлять, избавить]
щекотно
ticklish
[щекотать]
взъерошенный
rumpled, tousled, ruffled
[ерошить/взъ] - rumple, ruffle, etc.
люк
1) hatch, hatchway
2) port
паясничать
to clown around (coll.)
верёвка
rope, line
чернильница
inkwell, inkpot
[чернила]
пуск
launch
пучок
1) bundle, bunch, sheaf (any collection of things bound together)
зондировать/про-
1) to probe, search, sound (research)
2) to probe, find out beforehand
шорок
rustle (soft, crackling sound)
силовое поле
force field
отрезвлять/отрезвить
to sober up (literal and figurative)
[трезветь/от-] - synonyms?
[трезвый] - sober
вскрытие
1) opening, unsealing
2) dissection, autopsy
пристрастие
1) addiction, predilection (for), propensity
2) passion (for), weakness (for)
3) bias (towards), partiality (to/for)
калека
cripple (a crippled person)
подкладное судно
bedpan
[судно] - also a ship or vessel
морочить/об
to fool, trick, dupe
[морочить голову] - pull someone’s leg
проповедь
1) sermon, homily
2) propagation (of ideas), advocacy
кисель
1) the drink
2) a weak-willed person (coll.)
шантаж
blackmail
препарат
1) a prepared specimen; specimen mounted on a microscope slide
2) medicine, drug, preparation (prepared medical substance)
укол
1) prick, pricking
2) injection, shot
3) provoking remark (fig.)
видимость
1) visibility
2) outward appearance, semblance
виновник
culprit
хлам
1) trash, rubbish
2) craft, junk
смахивать
to look like, resemble, smack (of)
[смахивает на смерть]
рваться
1) to break, burst, be torn (intransitive)
2) to strive, long, be dying to do something
[рвущийся к чему]
достоевщина
1) contradictory feelings, mental instability, suffering and doom (as in Dostoevsky characters)
2) characteristics of socio-political psychological atmosphere; such atmosphere itself; moral and ideological phenomenon
блажь
whim, caprice, fancy, folly
киснуть/с
1) to turn sour (e.g., milk)
2) to become sad or depressed
[кислый]
[кис, кисла]
[скисать] - alt. imperfective
розга
birch rod, cane (for whipping)
высекать/высечь
1) to hew, carve, sculpt, cut
2) to whip (as a punishment)
намерен
(short adjective)
going to, intending to
[что ты намерен делать?]
стаскивать/стащить
1) to drag off, drag down, pull down, pull off
2) drag into, pull into
3) (perf. only, coll.) to steal, swipe, filch
альковный
1) alcove (relational)
2) romantic, erotic (about a plot, work, etc.)
опустошать/опустошить
1) to devastate, ravage, lay waste
2) to empty (coll.)
3) to drain someone’s spirit, have a devastating effect (on)
(also as a reflexive verb)
попросту
1) simply, merely, just
2) simply (without ceremony)
3) plainly, simply (put simply/directly)
горстка
1) handful
2) small group
вспышка
1) flash
2) outbreak
