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Subject: shave years off AmE Я снова к вам.=)She'd tried the upstairs first, undergoing an exciting little adventure that had shaved a few years off her age.
Контекст - кругом зомби, все плохо, девочка 19 лет бегает по особняку, пытаясь найти лекарство.
Попользовав Гугл, нашла массу статей с shave years off, но по-русски выразить не могу. Помогите, кто чем может, сами мы не местные, в художественной литературе не сильны=))) Много контекста для желающих продлить свои дни здоровым смехом:
She'd walked in maybe ten minutes ago, hoping that Rodrigo wasn't already dead, that Steve had found a boat, that Mr. Psycho Ashford and his sister weren't planning to blow up the island - and in just ten minutes, those hopes had been thoroughly stomped on. All she really wanted now was a goddamn bottle of medicine, because then she'd be one step closer to leaving.
She'd tried the upstairs first, undergoing an exciting little adventure that had shaved a few years off her age. All she'd found up there was a small, locked lab with a lot of
broken glass on the floor, from what appeared to be ruptured holding tanks. She'd seen the damage through an observation window, and had been about to leave when some poor, bloody guy in an environmental suit threw himself at the glass. It had been his dying act; the suit obviously hadn't done him much good, his head had practically exploded, coating the inside of his helmet with gore. It hadn't done her heart much good, either, scaring her
half to death, and the whole upstairs experience had been topped off by an emergency shutter lockdown, apparently triggered by the suit guy. She'd practically had to hurl
herself down the stairs to avoid being trapped.
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