Курмелев Movie - THE CONSTANT GARDENER Flashcards
стать достоянием общественности / предать огласке
To Make smth public
исчезнуть из поля зрения,
to go off the radar
являться соучастником / быть замешанным в чем-либо
?
покориться чьей-либо воле
to bend to one’s will
выражать сожаление
to convey regrets
использовать свои связи
to pull your strings
перевозить контрабандой запрещенный товар
to smuggle smth in as illicit goods
сдерживать / держать кого- либо в узде
to rein smb in
проводить вскрытие,
to conduct the postmortem
искупать вину
Expiate guilt
по чьему-либо
приказу / поручению / распор яжению / требованию,
at the behest of someone
остаться безнаказанным
To get away with smth(murder)
следить за / не спускать глаз с / присматривать за кем- либо,
to keep an eye on smb
привести убедительный довод
to make a valid point
злодейское убийство;
murder foul
using the most modern and recently developed methods, materials, or
knowledge
State of the art
an agreement between two or more countries, businesses, or people that
is only made for political or economic reasons
Arrangement
someone who is used in a scientific test to see how successful or safe a
new product, system, etc. is
Guinea pig [ˈgɪnɪ pɪg]
to state officially that someone who has been blamed for something is not guilty
To Exonerate from
completely new and different, especially in a way that leads to great improvements;
Revolutionary
to try to find out information about other people’s private lives, business, etc., in a way that annoys them,
poke into something
to protect someone against a disease by putting a weak form of the disease into their body using a needle
To inoculate
a clever but dishonest way to get money
A scam
always following the behavior and attitudes that most people in a society consider to be normal, right, and socially acceptable, so that you seem slightly boring.
conventional
