"Pet Sematary, Stephen King" part 10
Vocabulary 10
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Word |
Translation |
Synonyms |
Antonyms |
Example of usage from the book |
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1. sprouting |
прорастающий, вырастающий |
germinating, shooting up, budding,
springing up |
withering, dying, shrinking,
receding |
Two or three days later,
laurine purinton left Ludlow for good, and folks in town who saw her before
she got on the train said she was sprouting two shiners and had cotton
stuffed up both bores of her pump. (p. 259) |
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2. sterile |
бесплодный |
infertile, barren, fruitless |
fertile, productive |
That isn't the worst of
it," he said. "I think I’m sterile, Rachel. (p. 263) |
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3. tattered |
изодранный, оборванный, потрёпанный, в лохмотьях |
ragged, frayed, threadbare,
shredded, torn |
new, pristine, intact,
whole, undamaged |
The pouches under his eyes
now resembled mailbags, and around his black silk skullcap, hair as fine and
white as tattered spider- webs flew randomly in the breeze. (p. 266) |
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4. swung |
распахнулся |
swayed, oscillated, dangled,
brandished, turned, veered |
stabilized, steadied, held still |
The right-hand gate swung in
with a faint screeing noise, and after a glance over his shoulder to make
sure he was… (p. 271) |
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5. divine |
божественный,
прекрасный |
godly, heavenly, celestia |
awful, dreadful |
Could he simply dismiss his son as... a sort
of divine abortion, when there was another recourse? (p. 275) |
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6. bereaved |
понесший утрату, скорбящий |
grieving, mourning,
sorrowing, |
joyful, celebrating, the
deceased |
…Books he'd read on the
subject of death told him that the bereaved's first strong impulse is to get
away from the place where it happened. (p. 278) |
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7. clung |
Привязаться, держаться |
gripped, clutched, held |
released, let go, detached,
separated |
"Ever since . . I
suppose we have clung to Rachel . . . always wanting to protect her. (p. 283) |
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8. creep off |
ускользнуть, уползти, сбежать |
slink off, sneak away, steal
away, slip away |
stride off, march away |
"What do you think I’m
going to do? Creep off to a bordello? Join the circus? What?" (p. 285) |
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9. blared |
грохотал, раздавался |
blasted, sounded, boomed |
whispered, murmured, beamed
softly |
…Her sled plastic contour
seats in the lower lobby while louis stood in line for their tickets and the
loudspeaker blared intelligence of arriving and departing flights. (p. 289) |
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10. solemnly |
серьезно, важно |
gravely, seriously, ceremoniously,
formally |
lightly, frivolously, cheerfully |
Ellie gazed at him solemnly
with her sibyl's eyes. (p. 292) |
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