"Pet Sematary, Stephen King" part 10

 Vocabulary 10


Word

Translation

Synonyms

Antonyms

Example of usage from the book

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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)

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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