English-Russian dictionary - terms added by user canaval: 8
| 28.12.2020 | 12:17:48 | fant./sci-fi. | vampiress | вампирша |
| 26.12.2020 | 14:47:25 | inf. | prethumbed | засаленный (I picked up a prethumbed newspaper nearby and scanned the headlines. • The civic spaces established in Britain by the 1850 Public Libraries Act enshrined pages prethumbed by one reader, and soon to be rethumbed by another. • When I moved here fourteen years ago with my prethumbed copy of Soggy Sneakers and my literary journalism dreams, I was struck by the idea that there could be wheat-free vegans and wondered what they ate.) |
| 26.12.2020 | 13:59:24 | idiom. | I would as soon | я предпочёл бы (в отрицательных предложениях обратите внимание на похицию not • I would as soon not make an enemy of you over this matter.) |
| 25.12.2020 | 16:54:53 | cloth. | canvas duster | хлопковый плащ |
| 25.12.2020 | 16:42:28 | idiom. | study in contrast | полные противоположности (Karrin and I are a study in contrasts.) |
| 25.12.2020 | 16:36:41 | gen. | keep on retainer | иметь на гонораре (платить человеку периодически, чтобы иметь возможность пользоваться его услугами. • If I were someone in this town using magic to kill people two at a time, and I didn't want to get caught, I'd make sure that I removed the only practicing wizard the police department kept on retainer.) |
| 25.12.2020 | 16:07:00 | gen. | be hard on | быть жёстким с (неаккуратно обращаться с чем-либо. • There was a pile of read and discarded paperbacks in a cardboard box on one side of my desk, the spines bent and the pages mangled. I'm terribly hard on books.) |
| 25.12.2020 | 15:50:23 | disappr. | some people | ну что за люди (I heard later that he'd hired a shyster psychic to come in and perform a ceremony with a lot of incense and black lights. Some people.) |