Disco Elysium Flashcards
1
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elysium
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The adobe of the blessed after death in classical mythology:
- Elysium was considered to be the “Heaven on Earth” for the ancient Greeks.
- He finds her in Elysium with Achilles.
Any place or state of perfect happiness, paradise:
- I’m going to take her away from here and start a new Elysium in Miami.
2
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primordial
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Первобытный, изначальный:
- A primordial world with no civilisation, so no need for an archaeologist.
- Fight or flight, man, it’s what propelled us out of the primordial ooze.
Исконный:
- And in other places, like Maryland, they’re trying to figure out what the primordial ancestor is.
3
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conscience
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Совесть:
- At least I have a conscience.
- Before I met you, I had no conscience.
Сознание:
- The lack of legal conscience in most citizens including doctors.
- Those despicable acts shocked the conscience of all humanity.
Сознательность:
- Last thing we need is your conscience dragging us further.
- Dimitri, you have no political conscience.
4
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to creep up
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To gradually become larger in number or amount:
- The sales figures keep creeping up.
- The number of missing people has crept up to 40.
To creep up on - to move towards someone quietly and slowly, especially because you want to surprise them; if something creeps up on you, it happens slowly or gradually so that you do not notice it happening:
- An awareness creeps up on you.
- It’s funny how old age suddenly creeps up on you.
5
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duke it out
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Драться:
- Our little swimmers are duking it out already.
- They’re shorthanded since we’re duking it out with Congress.
Спорить:
- You guys duke it out over who my boss is, but I’d like to get this one thing right.
- You two can stay here and duke it out as much as you want.
Разбираться:
- Okay, well, you two duke it out, and whoever wins, just meet me inside.
- Let them duke it out.
6
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vie
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Соперничать:
- You can’t vie with your father.
- Democratic politicians everywhere vie for the support of ethnic lobbies.
7
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inordinate
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Чрезмерный:
- Lack of physical evidence and the inordinate number of people who hate you personally or politically.
- How in the world does a child know a word like “inordinate”?
- This inordinate emphasis is indeed a reflection of a regression in this vital area.
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utterly
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Совершенно, крайне, абсолютно:
- I’m utterly, completely, stone-cold Negan.
- Yet your men approved utterly ineffectual in stopping it.
- I have become utterly consumed by these fantastic visions.
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faucet
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Кран (водопроводный):
- Turn on the faucet, out comes water.
- Where I lived, the faucet was always dripping.
- Many people drink water out of the kitchen faucet.
10
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elan
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Порыв, пыл:
- She performed with skill and elan.
- Elan means enthusiasm, liveliness and spirit - characteristics which the company believes signify its nature, its employees and its management.
- Idealism, rough elan, a spirit of tough good spread through us.
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discharge
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Выполнение, исполнение:
- We pledge our full cooperation to you in the discharge of your duties.
- The ongoing work of the Court demands that it be provided with sufficient resources to effectively discharge its functions.
Увольнение:
- This can involve very severe punishment, including discharge.
- I got away with it, got my discharge.
Разряд:
- A sharp electric discharge… would deactivate the circuits.
- It’s got a screen… with a discharge of two thousand volts.
Выгрузка, выброс, разрядка:
- Could have triggered a massive sympathetic discharge.
- Point-source polluters are those who discharge nutrients from a precisely localized source.
12
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projectile
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Снаряд:
- A projectile fell between trees near the bus station.
- NORAD confirmed, projectile came from beyond our atmosphere, inbound at 30,000 knots.
Пуля:
- The projectile entered and hit the spinal column and fragmented.
- A rubber spider and a projectile with a poisonous tip.
Метательный:
- Said projectile can be shaped in the form of a cylinder, whose end surfaces are matched with ball or ellipsoid hemispheres.
13
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grin
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Ухмылка:
- I hope that grin means you had a good day at the office.
- Well, that doesn’t look like the twisted grin of a girl who just squashed her first enemies.
- That would take the grin off your face.
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dizzy
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Головокружение:
- On his way to see a doctor, he felt dizzy and fell.
- I feel dizzy, I imagine things.
- The smoke in these places makes me dizzy.
15
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gust
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Порыв:
- As the sun ignited, It gave off a huge blast of solar wind, A radioactive gust of energy.
- A gust of warm air this time of year, most welcome.
Порыв ветра:
- A strong gust has come to this place.
- Specks of dust suspended in the air until a strong enough gust comes along and rearranges everything.
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sleeve
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Рукав:
- She gave me her sleeve… and she told me to blow my nose into it.
- This note was pinned to his sleeve.
- The men are wearing short sleeve shirts.
17
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exile
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Изгнание, ссылка:
- The same day that our young friend Clark went into exile.
- Nevertheless, he was forced to go into exile again.
Изгнать, сослать:
- We can’t exile the press.
- Caesar might well exile me from the city.
Изгнанник:
- He’s an eternal exile, who exists to wreak havoc.
- You’re just another exile.
- The exile is the primary target.
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slur
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Пятно:
- It’s a slur on the good name of Candleford.
Оскорбление:
- Don’t you dare use that name as a slur.
- There’s a slur I’ve never heard before.
- This is not a slur on your manhood.
Произносить нечленораздельно:
- He was slurring his words like a drunk.
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jaw
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Челюсть:
- Your jaw tensed and your eyes went empty like a cobra.
- He received a tremendous punch on the jaw from his opponent.
Подбородок:
- Blond, blue eyes, chiseled jaw.
- Seems you got the child’s jaw.
20
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twitch
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Подергивание:
- Too much of a twitch might indicate a brain tumour, stroke, liver disease, multiple sclerosis or tetanus.
- The twitch could be a miniseizure, unrelated to the diabetes.
Нервный тик:
- The twitch he has to hide when he bluffs.
- I’m developing some sort of weird twitch.
- And my eye’s starting to twitch.
Судорога:
- Lilith, has my twitch gone yet?
- Body was slowly and gently reawakening, limb by limb, muscle by muscle, twitch by twitch.
21
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profuse
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Обильный:
- Dilated pupils, profuse sweating.
Щедрый:
- I promise to be brief in my words but profuse in my thanks.
- We wish to convey our profuse thanks to the Ambassador of Brazil for his counsel and support in this regard.
22
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exquisite
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Изысканный, изящный:
- Elsa, this exquisite flower, Gentle lover, Preparing a dance for your young concubine of the Sultan.
- She had the most exquisite feet.
- He created such, you know, exquisite beauty there.
23
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temple
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Храм, монастырь:
- 1912: The first Sikh temple opens in Stockton, California.
- That was before you surrounded the temple.
- The temple is off-limits to men.
Висок:
- Gunshot wound to the right temple, appears self-inflicted.
- He was also kicked in the temple, which caused him to lose consciousness temporarily.
- No other bruises, except at the temple.
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squeal
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Визг (визжать):
- She squeals, she makes me squeal.
- He’ll find him and make him squeal.
- Nobody’s ever had tyre squeal on their first-ever driving lesson.
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**hiss**
**Шипение:**
* But all I hear is the soft hiss of treachery and betrayal.
* It's a bit like the hiss on radios in between stations.
* And he doesn't hiss when it's been righted.
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**erratic**
**Неустойчивый (поведение):**
* The case officer in question... has a history of erratic behavior.
* It's not quite the erratic behavior I was asking about.
**Беспорядочный, нестабильный, непредсказуемый (поведение):**
* The closer it gets, the more erratic and dangerous he'll become.
* The king's behavior is getting more erratic every day.
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**rapport**
**Взаимопонимание:**
* The show also starred Gordon Clapp, an unknown actor at the time, who developed a rapport with Adams.
* I have a great rapport with my students.
**Отношения:**
* Moreover, the mediator should have good rapport with the main extraregional actors.
* The organization has established a close rapport with the United Nations and its agencies and bodies.
**Связь:**
* You have established a rapport with the subject.
* You see, dear, Zoila and I had a certain rapport.
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**cadaver**
**Труп:**
* I like the part where he falls asleep on the cadaver.
* So I dissect out and remove the animal cadaver hearts.
* Not even one slipup about a cold cadaver?
29
**hangover**
**Похмелье:**
* It must have been some hangover.
* I think someone's flu just became a hangover.
* Not nearly as bad as a hangover.
**Пережиток:**
* They're a curio, a hangover from the old days.
* It was a hangover from when they used slaves.
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**legible**
**Разборчивый:**
* The information required on a transport document shall be legible.
* This information shall be easy to identify, legible and durable.
* I'm just betting that your copy's a little more legible than this one.
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**shrug**
**Пожимать плечами:**
* Don't just shrug like you're not sure what you want for supper, man.
* Don't shrug like you don't know.
**Пожимать:**
* Can you shrug anything other than your shoulders?
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**innocuous**
**Безобидный:**
* People give up information in the more innocuous questions, which you can later use in the more sinister ones, not vice versa.
* Some of them are quite innocuous, causing only inconveniences, such as iron and manganese.
* I'm sorry an innocuous statement of support affects you emotionally.
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**sinister**
**Зловещий:**
* Because Greek fire is far more sinister than your napalm.
* I think we should legalize all drugs, as sinister as that sounds.
**Злой умысел:**
* And of course you see some sinister point in all these Arthur Simpson activities.
34
**tersely**
**Лаконичный:**
* The IPCC simply and tersely tells us that this scenario is considered "very unlikely".
**Краткий:**
* (Tersely) Get in the party mood.
**Напряженный:**
* Nothing happens on the insurance market and it's quite tersely.
35
**booze**
**Выпивка, алкоголь, спиртное:**
* All he cares about is women booze and...
* He lived on raw meat and booze.
36
**mend**
**Исправить:**
* Criticism should be such that allow the mend.
* He could always mend everything even other people's lives.
**Чинить:**
* You could do carpentry on board - mend doors, tables.
* You know... mend fences and whatever.
**Штопать:**
* Without needles we can't mend clothes, let alone shoes.
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**pile**
**Куча:**
* Now he's just a pile of guts on the floor.
* A large pile of garbage that every night gets presented to us.
**Стопка:**
* I had to read the entire pile, but then it got to me.
* One more patient to add to my pile.
**Складывать:**
* It was almost 8 P.M. on a Friday, so Musk would soon be piling his boys and nannies into his private jet and then meeting drivers who would take him to his friends at the campsite.
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**mug**
**Кружка:**
* This mug was found on Emma's desk with the tea still in it.
* Coffee liqueur in a Chewbacca mug.
**Рожа:**
* I don't like your ugly mug.
* You should have seen his ugly mug.
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**smirk**
**Ухмылка:**
* It's not a smirk, he's just handsome.
* So the smile is positive, a smirk is often negative.
**Ухмыляться:**
* You smirk, but there are mysteries to be solved here.
* I just don't like the way that you smirk at it.
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**obscure**
**Скрыть:**
* He kicked the door in as he exited to try to obscure this fact.
* No better way to obscure a bullet wound than to cut out everything around it.
**Заслонять, затмевать:**
* Yet, those achievements should not obscure various difficulties that have permeated the system since its inception.
* The recent episodes of violence should not obscure the larger trend of improved security that has begun to assert itself with the surge in MNF-I forces.
**Непонятный, неясный:**
* I was just reading about this obscure European custom called knocking.
* Yet another delegation encouraged the Assembly to stop adopting resolutions on obscure and outdated subjects.
* The cause of the accident is still obscure.
**Завуалировать:**
* Shell companies, complex structures, intermediaries and nominees were said to be examples of techniques used to obscure information on beneficial ownership of corporate vehicles.
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**immense**
**Огромный:**
* We all recognize the immense potential in this field.
* Transparency International has made an immense contribution by focusing on corrupt leaders.
**Необъятный:**
* My soul is immense!
* Well, I was thinking... the ocean's not so immense.
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**puny**
**Ничтожный:**
* Aahh! Kneel before my slingshot, puny earthling!
* And when I'm finished, this city and all the puny humans will die.
* Do you believe your puny efforts can change the course of destiny?
* You dare threaten me, Thor, with so puny a weapon?
43
**cocky**
**Дерзкий, нахальный:**
* She started liking you because you're cocky.
* I don't like you when you're cocky.
* Pretty cocky for a guy who's done nothing but cost me money.
**Самоуверенный:**
* A cocky Morty can lead to some big problems.
* Commenting on the final product, Jackson stated: It's aggressive, cocky, very forward.
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**stir**
**Размешивать, шевелиться, двигаться, шелохнуться:**
* Transfer mixture into a dry bowl and stir until a thick cream.
* My spoon got stuck when I tried to stir it.
* Add oil, salt and basil and stir.
**Переполох, ажиотаж:**
* Something stirs in you as she's about to go.
* Experts noted that this created a stir in energy markets.
* The countless acts of violence around the world cause a momentary stir but do not produce tangible results.
45
**ought**
**Должен, следует, обязан:**
* Maybe I ought marry her then.
* A boy with a pretty name like that ought have one of these machines.
* You ought be nicer to people.
46
**wane**
**Ослабевать, уменьшаться, спадать:**
* By the late 1980s the group's popularity began to wane.
* For the next decade he was constantly in demand, but his popularity began to wane by the early 1940s.
* Following the introduction of talkies, her parts in films began to wane and she only performed in supporting roles.
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**perplex**
**Озадачивать, сбивать с толку:**
* The child thing never ceases to perplex me.
* That you think I am your mentor just continues to perplex.
* Her strange response perplexed me.
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**sparkling**
**Игристый, шипучий, газированный:**
* The sparkling version of Champagne continued to grow in popularity, especially among the wealthy and royal.
* We have some soft drinks, some fruit punch and some sparkling cider.
* I only enjoyed the part where I got to drink sparkling apple cider out of plastic champagne glasses.
**Сверкающий:**
* Her dark hair and sparkling eyes reminded me of Alyssa Milano.
* They called her "the sparkling diamond".
49
**vague**
**Расплывчатый, туманный, смутный:**
* The message I got was pretty vague.
* The Court also found her story about the escape from prison and travel to Sweden vague and improbable.
* In that regard, he would welcome an explanation of the term "intercultural communities", which seemed vague.
50
**fierce**
**Ожесточенный:**
* Fighting raged for several days, culminating in fierce battles on 12 July.
**Жестокий:**
* Late on that fateful day, a fierce storm... slammed into the upper part of the mountain without warning.
* The struggle was fierce and long and neither side gained any advantages.
**Яростный:**
* Everyone knows I've been a fierce critic of the current chief.
* Thror's love of gold had grown too fierce.
51
**etch**
**Гравировать:**
* Heat can etch fingerprints into the metal.
* Aquatint is a process of achieving tone by etching a metal plate.
**Запечатлевать:**
* Попытайтесь запечатлеть в памяти все, что видите.
* Such horrors etch themselves into young minds, with terrible consequences for children's values, identity and beliefs.
52
**pour**
**Лить:**
* I can drive a car. I can pour my own juice.
* At the end of your hour, I will pour you a glass of wine.
* Your prize is to pour yourself a glass of wine.
53
**forensic**
**Судебный, криминалистический:**
* Our forensic psychiatrist, Thomas Schaeffer.
* The forensic expert has concluded that these individuals were battle casualties.
* Okay, but like anything forensic, I need proof.
54
**lanky**
**Долговязый (худощавый, высокий):**
* Lanky, long brown hair, goatee.
* Assuming that your friend is quite lanky.
**Длинный:**
* Well, your arms are lanky.
55
**stilt**
**Свая:**
* They inhabit reed huts built on stilts above the water.
* The houses are built on stilts to prevent flooding during the rainy season.
**На ходулях:**
* The CHEKS programme sensitises students to the indigenous music of Barbados, fosters an awareness of the art of stilt walking.
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**concrete**
**Конкретный:**
* Tell them that this time we have concrete plan.
* Furthermore, concrete financing mechanisms are being sought.
**Бетон:**
* Like pouring wet concrete down kitchen pipes.
* And maybe we look at what's inside that concrete.
57
**pejorate**
**Ухудшать:**
* Slaves also pejorate the families that use them; the white children become proud, disgusted with labour; and being educated in ' idleness, are rendered unfit to get a living by industry.
* Will it be credited that the expulsion of the Jesuits has only tended to pejorate this ' essential branch of administration?
58
**qualm**
**Угрызение совести:**
* He did not have any qualm of conscience.
* We're vulnerable to qualms of conscience like anyone else.
**Сомнение:**
* He is the type that would do this without a qualm.
* A Khan has no qualms or regrets.
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**deceit**
**Обман:**
* Misdirection and deceit are my stock in trade.
* Should they be guilty of deceit or incompetence.
**Ложь:**
* In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.
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**slouch**
**Сутулиться:**
* Don't slouch, talk with confidence, and stop being so...
* I can't slouch, not with my back.
* You're no slouch when it comes to defensive driving.
**Не промах:**
* That's a three-time maxim cover girl, and her boyfriend's no slouch either.
* Well, morning's no slouch.
61
**pave**
**Прокладывать дорогу, мостить:**
* The road that we must pave towards a world of peace, prosperity and dignity for all has many pitfalls.
* He also suggests that the region is necessary to build a dam and pave the broad-gauge railway.
* You promised to pave a stretch of dirt road near my home.
62
**rotund**
**Полный, пухлый, толстый:**
* Unfortunately, rotund white male executives at the company number in the dozens.
* I'm really sorry I called you "rotund".
63
**shack**
**Хижина, лачуга:**
* Just a little shack in the woods really.
* Compared to this, your tree house is a shack.
64
**linger**
**Задерживаться, медлить:**
* You know, we don't have to linger on that.
* I promised my friends that did not linger long.
* Yet this can be a dangerous place in which to linger.
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**conceal**
**Скрывать, прятать, утаивать:**
* He's obviously doing everything he can to conceal his identity.
* Pakistan was using propaganda techniques to conceal its intention to impugn Indian sovereignty and territorial integrity.
* Bring only weapons you can conceal.
66
**rigidity**
**Жесткость, строгость:**
* The system has in the process lost its former relative rigidity.
* It also agreed that stability in the methodology should not imply rigidity.
* This resulted in greater structural rigidity and provided for a lower body without a loss of usable space.
**A condition that affects the body after death, in which it becomes stiff:**
* There's clearly rigor mortis on your face. Or wait... Is that an expression?
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**slant**
**Уклон:**
* Tuesday's programme has an academic slant.
* And considering Silver Horizon's slant towards historical fiction, I think it would be a perfect fit for me.
* Only difference between the two samples are slant and pressure.
68
**snitch**
**Стукач, доносчик, осведомитель, ябеда:**
* The snitch is at this table.
* Even if I did, I'm not a snitch.
* I knew he was a snitch.
**Стучать:**
* I won't snitch about your drug sideline.
* I won't snitch, so you can't do anything for me, I suppose?
69
**lobe**
**Доля, доля мозга:**
* Each lobe consists of a number of parallel ribs extending back to the main axis where the three lobes come together.
* One dead lobe means four alive ones.
**Мочка уха:**
* The scar extends through the lobe into the neck.
* Just beside the ear canal and on the edge of the lobe.
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**critter**
**Существо, зверь, тварь:**
* Can we make a mold of the bite marks so that we can figure out what kind of critter this is?
* Every time I'd come up with a crazy cartoon character on the drawing board, I'd find a critter in the ocean that was even crazier.
* That poor critter was probably eaten by a dog or a rat.
71
**jut**
**Выступ, выступать:**
* In some places, sandstones jut out as great monoliths, in other places, they are chaotically piled boulders.
* It juts out from the southerly end of the island in a southwestly direction, dividing Foxe Basin and Hudson Strait.
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swollen
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**voluntary**
**A voluntary action is done because you choose to do it, and not because you have to (добровольно):**
* Some 30,000 workers took voluntary redundancy.
* It's like it's not even voluntary anymore. You have worn that grin into your face and now it won't come off.
74
**hat rack**
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**ostentatious**
**Показной:**
* Then, okay, things start to make more sense when you see one 550,000-square-foot rectangle painted an ostentatious hue of "Unity of Body, Soul, and Mind" white.
* Alexander's nickname, "the Magnificent", reflected his ostentatious and luxurious lifestyle.
