"Pet Sematary, Stephen King" part 2
Vocabulary 2
- Some words and expressions that are new to me from the first few chapters (9 chapters in part 1) of the novel:
Word | Translation | Synonyms | Antonyms | Example of usage from the book |
1. Vulnerable | Уязвимый, беззащитный | Helpless, sensitive, unprotected | Protected, safe, secure | Ellie cast a strange, vulnerable glance back over her shoulder… (p.21)
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2. «Psychological cold pocket people» | Эмоционально холодные люди, люди с закрытым внутренним миром | An emotionally distant person, an unfeeling person, a cold-hearted person | | It was simply one
of those psychological cold pocket people sometimes passed through…
(p.23)
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3. Tosspot | Пьяница, алкоголик | Drunkard, alcoholic | Teetotaler, abstainer, sober person | I guess Will was
the biggest tosspot this side of Bucksport. (p.27)
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4. Eye-watering hum | «Слезоточащий раздражающий гул», «жгучий гул вокруг» | Ear-splitting hum, deafening drone,overwhelming buzz | Gentle hum, quiet buzz, calm silence | Late mosquitoes cruised
around his face, making their eye-watering hum.
(p.28)
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5. | Дорога была грязной/вязкой/болотистой | The terrain was muddy, it was sticky and treacherous, the ground was mushy | The going was firm, the terrain was solid, the ground was dry | The going was
soupy here.
(p.28) |
6. | Бешено колотящийся, бьется как сумасшедшее | Thumping around, beating wildly, pounding heavily | Gently resting, softly beating, steadily pulsing | …his heart was
larruping around at a good speed in his chest.
(p.29)
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7. Chiseled | Высеченный (на чем-то), вырезанный | Carved, sculpted, shaped | Polished, crafted | There was nothing readable in the next two rows, and then, still a long way in from the center, chiseled roughly on a piece of sandstone, was Hannah the best dog that ever lived. (p.31)
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8. | Убитое кем-то, чем-то | Killed by, murdered by, defeated by | Saved by, protected by | To Louis it looked
like the skeletal remains of some long-dead monster, something slain by a
parfait good and gentle knight.
(p.33) |
9. Inevitably | Неизбежно, неминуемо | Unavoidably, necessarily, certainly | Possibly, perhaps, potentially | In this light it
was still more blond than the brown it was inevitably becoming.
(p.35)
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10. | Неуклюжий, неумелый | Clumsy, inept, awkward | Skillful, competent, proficient | A dog got them and ripped them open instead of just chasing them like the bumbling, easily fooled dogs in the TV cartoons… (p.37) |
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