05 Flashcards
blast from the past
something that reminds you of the past
shoot the breeze
to have a casual conversation
insubordinate
“In England in the 1640s, King Charles I dramatically invaded the meeting hall of Parliament in an attempt to arrest its insubordinate leaders.”
baş kaldıran
kafa tutan
{s} isyankâr
= disobedient to authority
surreptitious
“a deputy recklessly demanding to be arrested along with Robespierre, and his friends “surreptitiously…tugging at his coat-tails to force him to sit, so firmly in fact that his jacket has torn.”
gizlice yapılan
: acting or doing something clandestinely : STEALTHY
//a surreptitious glance
hedge one’s bets
“By midnight, and the end of 9 Thermidor, the Commune’s supporters were hedging their bets and returning home, while the Convention prepared its own assault.”
= To reduce the risk of making a mistake, by keeping one’s options open
= protect oneself against loss
= to protect yourself against loss by supporting more than one possible result or both sides in a competition:
“They’re hedging their bets and keeping up contacts with both companies.”
play out
“The Ninth of Thermidor played out the way it did because militant Parisians, in the chaos and confusion of the day, ended up supporting the Convention over the Commune.”
[bir olay, bir süreç] tamamlanmak, bitmek
[for a process] run out; finish
- develop in a particular way.
“the position of the sub-tropical jet stream across North America will determine how winter plays out” - happen; take place.
“this scenario plays out all across the country”
forfeit
“The Convention may have forfeited much of its claim to legitimate authority by its deliberate destruction of legal norms over the previous year, but it remained the elected government of France, chosen for the first time in European history by universal adult male suffrage.”
ceza olarak bir şeyin veya hakkın kaybedilmesi
: something forfeited or subject to being forfeited (as for a crime, offense, or neglect of duty) : PENALTY
//They were required to pay a forfeit.
superfluous
“At first glance, Tóibín’s undertaking seems superfluous, since there are already a number of great novels about Thomas Mann, and they have the advantage of being by Thomas Mann.”
Lüzumsuz
a : exceeding what is sufficient or necessary : EXTRA
b : not needed : UNNECESSARY
dissolute
“T. Mann was aware that Wilde’s life had been dissolute, as his had not”
Bozuk ahlaklı, ahlaksız
= Unrestrained by morality
: lacking restraint
especially : marked by indulgence in things (such as drink or promiscuous sex)
//leading a dissolute lifestyle //the dissolute and degrading aspects of human nature
waylay
“Lilla argued that modern liberalism has been waylaid by scoldingly self-righteous protesters, from queer activists to Black Lives Matter supporters, who value their own agenda above the common good.”
{f} (way.laid) yolunu kesmek; pusuya yatıp yolunu kesmek
2 : to temporarily stop the movement or progress of (someone or something)
//The barkeeper, Tony, would come out of his saloon and wait to waylay the men going home. He could always entice a man with a full pocket into his saloon.
— Meridel Le Sueur
//I can get waylaid by tangential thoughts and associations in mid-sentence, and this leads to parentheses, subordinate clauses, sentences of paragraphic length. I never use one adjective if six seem to me better and, in their cumulative effect, more incisive.
— Oliver Sacks
hold fast
“To claim, as Lilla does, that Mann held fast to some eternal principle of artistic freedom reverses the arc of his career and unlearns his hardest-won lessons.”
(Fiili Deyim ) sıkıca tutmak , tutunmak
dayanmak
“Bu ağaca sıkı dayanın. - Hold fast to this tree.”
horse around
aylaklık etmek
Low blow
Bel altı
heavy heart
“Important to remember: to most ordinary Russians, today’s news will have come as a big shock. They too have been told by their own leadership that war was out of the question. Only a few will protest openly, but many will go about their day today with a heavy heart.”
:a great deal of sadness
“It is with a heavy heart that I bring you this bad news.”
“I announced my decision to leave with a heavy heart.”
go about
“Important to remember: to most ordinary Russians, today’s news will have come as a big shock. They too have been told by their own leadership that war was out of the question. Only a few will protest openly, but many will go about their day today with a heavy heart.”
= begin or carry on with an activity.
“you are going about this in the wrong way”
