Disco Elysium

Question 1

elysium

Answer 1

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.

Question 2

primordial

Answer 2

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.

Question 3

conscience

Answer 3

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.

Question 4

to creep up

Answer 4

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.

Question 5

duke it out

Answer 5

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.

Question 6

vie

Answer 6

Соперничать:

• You can’t vie with your father.
• Democratic politicians everywhere vie for the support of ethnic lobbies.

Question 7

inordinate

Answer 7

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.

Question 8

utterly

Answer 8

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.

Question 9

faucet

Answer 9

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.

Question 10

elan

Answer 10

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.

Question 11

discharge

Answer 11

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.

Question 12

projectile

Answer 12

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.

Question 13

grin

Answer 13

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.

Question 14

dizzy

Answer 14

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.

Question 15

gust

Answer 15

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.

Question 16

sleeve

Answer 16

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.

Question 17

exile

Answer 17

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.

Question 18

slur

Answer 18

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.

Question 19

jaw

Answer 19

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.

Question 20

twitch

Answer 20

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.

Question 21

profuse

Answer 21

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.

Question 22

exquisite

Answer 22

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.

Question 23

temple

Answer 23

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.

Question 24

squeal

Answer 24

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.

Question 25

hiss

Answer 25

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.

Question 26

erratic

Answer 26

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.

Question 27

rapport

Answer 27

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.

Question 28

cadaver

Answer 28

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?

Question 29

hangover

Answer 29

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.

Question 30

legible

Answer 30

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.

Question 31

shrug

Answer 31

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?

Question 32

innocuous

Answer 32

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.

Question 33

sinister

Answer 33

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.

Question 34

tersely

Answer 34

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.

Question 35

booze

Answer 35

Выпивка, алкоголь, спиртное:

• All he cares about is women booze and…
• He lived on raw meat and booze.

Question 36

mend

Answer 36

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.

Question 37

pile

Answer 37

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.

Question 38

mug

Answer 38

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.

Question 39

smirk

Answer 39

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.

Question 40

obscure

Answer 40

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.

Question 41

immense

Answer 41

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.

Question 42

puny

Answer 42

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?

Question 43

cocky

Answer 43

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.

Question 44

stir

Answer 44

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.

Question 45

ought

Answer 45

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.

Question 46

wane

Answer 46

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.

Question 47

perplex

Answer 47

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.

Question 48

sparkling

Answer 48

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”.

Question 49

vague

Answer 49

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.

Question 50

fierce

Answer 50

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.

Question 51

etch

Answer 51

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.

Question 52

pour

Answer 52

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.

Question 53

forensic

Answer 53

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.

Question 54

lanky

Answer 54

Долговязый (худощавый, высокий):

• Lanky, long brown hair, goatee.
• Assuming that your friend is quite lanky.

Длинный:

• Well, your arms are lanky.

Question 55

stilt

Answer 55

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.

Question 56

concrete

Answer 56

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.

Question 57

pejorate

Answer 57

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?

Question 58

qualm

Answer 58

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.

Question 59

deceit

Answer 59

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.

Question 60

slouch

Answer 60

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.

Question 61

pave

Answer 61

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.

Question 62

rotund

Answer 62

Полный, пухлый, толстый:

• Unfortunately, rotund white male executives at the company number in the dozens.
• I’m really sorry I called you “rotund”.

Question 63

shack

Answer 63

Хижина, лачуга:

• Just a little shack in the woods really.
• Compared to this, your tree house is a shack.

Question 64

linger

Answer 64

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.

Question 65

conceal

Answer 65

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.

Question 66

rigidity

Answer 66

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?

Question 67

slant

Answer 67

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.

Question 68

snitch

Answer 68

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?

Question 69

lobe

Answer 69

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.

Question 70

critter

Answer 70

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.

Question 71

jut

Answer 71

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.

Question 72

swollen

Question 73

voluntary

Answer 73

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.

Question 74

hat rack

Question 75

ostentatious

Answer 75

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.