Title: Читаем вместе по-английски – Always. Занятие 10
Tags: Always

English: to hold hands
Translation: держаться за руки
Examples: An older couple with matching white hair hold hands as they take slow steps across the brick cobblestones.

English: cobblestones
Translation: брусчатка
Examples: An older couple with matching white hair hold hands as they take slow steps across the brick cobblestones.

English: to get to do
Translation: иметь возможность что-то сделать, удаваться
Examples: I was always grateful that he got to see it once more before his heart attack.

English: to pass as
Translation: сойти за, выдать себя за
Examples: In fact, when I was in school, she often passed as a mom who had children later in life.

English: to think of
Translation: считать, прикидывать, подумывать
Examples: People rarely thought of her as my grandmother.

English: unsteady
Translation: нетвердый, неустойчивый, непостоянный
Examples: But now her voice sounds weak and unsteady, and it troubles me.

English: What is it?
Translation: Что такое? Что случилось?
Examples: “What is it, love?” she asks tenderly.

English: at once
Translation: сразу, сразу же
Examples: I’m at once eleven years old again, in the old Craftsman in Iowa, lying on my stomach in the room my mother grew up in, on that old red-and-blue quilt with loops of soft white yarn in every corner.

English: to grow up
Translation: вырасти, воспитываться
Examples: I’m at once eleven years old again, in the old Craftsman in Iowa, lying on my stomach in the room my mother grew up in, on that old red-and-blue quilt with loops of soft white yarn in every corner.

English: quilt
Translation: стеганое одеяло, лоскутное одеяло
Examples: I’m at once eleven years old again, in the old Craftsman in Iowa, lying on my stomach in the room my mother grew up in, on that old red-and-blue quilt with loops of soft white yarn in every corner.

English: loop
Translation: петля
Examples: I’m at once eleven years old again, in the old Craftsman in Iowa, lying on my stomach in the room my mother grew up in, on that old red-and-blue quilt with loops of soft white yarn in every corner.

English: yarn
Translation: пряжа, волокно, шерсть
Examples: I’m at once eleven years old again, in the old Craftsman in Iowa, lying on my stomach in the room my mother grew up in, on that old red-and-blue quilt with loops of soft white yarn in every corner.

English: to pat
Translation: похлопать, похлопывать
Examples: Grandma is patting my back and I can taste the salt of my tears as they find their way down my freckle-dusted cheeks to the corners of my mouth.

English: freckle-dusted
Translation: усыпанный веснушками
Examples: Grandma is patting my back and I can taste the salt of my tears as they find their way down my freckle-dusted cheeks to the corners of my mouth.

English: batch
Translation: партия
Examples: A batch of chocolate-chip cookies is baking, and the comforting smell of butter and sugar wafts in the air.

English: chocolate-chip cookies
Translation: печенье с шоколадной крошкой
Examples: A batch of chocolate-chip cookies is baking, and the comforting smell of butter and sugar wafts in the air.

English: to bake
Translation: печь, выпекать
Examples: A batch of chocolate-chip cookies is baking, and the comforting smell of butter and sugar wafts in the air.

English: to waft
Translation: наносить, нестись
Examples: A batch of chocolate-chip cookies is baking, and the comforting smell of butter and sugar wafts in the air.

English: to disappear
Translation: исчезать
Examples: “Disappeared? Left the country? I did too. But he’s here, Grandma. He’s here in Seattle.

English: skinny
Translation: худощавый, исхудавший
Examples: I saw him yesterday and today, bearded and skinny.

English: oh dear
Translation: ой, батюшки
Examples: “Oh dear,” she says.

English: to wipe away
Translation: смахнуть
Examples: I wipe away a tear.

English: tear
Translation: слеза
Examples: I wipe away a tear.

English: to be supposed to do
Translation: быть должным (что-то) сделать
Examples: Grandma, what am I supposed to do?

English: to get married
Translation: (по-)жениться, выйти замуж
Examples: I’m getting married soon.

English: to deal with
Translation: иметь дело с, справляться с
Examples: How am I supposed to deal with this?

English: to gather information
Translation: собирать информацию
Examples: She’s silent for a moment as she always is when she’s gathering information, when she’s on the verge of saying something wise.

English: to be on the verge of
Translation: быть на грани чего-либо
Examples: She’s silent for a moment as she always is when she’s gathering information, when she’s on the verge of saying something wise.

English: to be not oneself
Translation: сам не свой
Examples: He’s not himself. Something must have happened to him.

English: to fade
Translation: постепенно исчезать, увядать
Examples: I know her memory has faded in the past years.

English: to be engaged to
Translation: быть помолвленным с (кем-либо)
Examples: Perhaps she’s forgotten momentarily that I’m engaged to Ryan.

English: so long ago
Translation: давным-давно
Examples: Cade left so long ago.

English: to mourn
Translation: горевать, оплакивать
Examples: I had to mourn him.

English: to move on
Translation: двигаться дальше, продолжать жить
Examples: I had to move on.

English: in one's mind eye
Translation: мысленным взором
Examples: She’s miles away, but I can see Grandma’s face in my mind’s eye: soft and freshly powdered, kind pastel-blue eyes, skin that smells of rose soap.

English: freshly powered
Translation: только что припудренный
Examples: She’s miles away, but I can see Grandma’s face in my mind’s eye: soft and freshly powdered, kind pastel-blue eyes, skin that smells of rose soap.

English: pastel-blue
Translation: небесно-голубой
Examples: She’s miles away, but I can see Grandma’s face in my mind’s eye: soft and freshly powdered, kind pastel-blue eyes, skin that smells of rose soap.

English: to smell of
Translation: пахнуть (чем-либо)
Examples: She’s miles away, but I can see Grandma’s face in my mind’s eye: soft and freshly powdered, kind pastel-blue eyes, skin that smells of rose soap.

English: as if
Translation: как будто
Examples: She’s silent, as if considering what I’ve just told her, remembering the man I pledged myself to, back when the door to the past was closed, when things were simpler.

English: to pledge oneself to
Translation: взять на себя обязательство
Examples: She’s silent, as if considering what I’ve just told her, remembering the man I pledged myself to, back when the door to the past was closed, when things were simpler.

English: in time
Translation: со временем
Examples: “Maybe you don’t now,” she says. “But in time, you will.”

English: discouraged
Translation: обескураженный
Examples: “I don’t know,” I say, discouraged.

English: to sort out
Translation: разобраться (в вопросе, недоразумении), утрясти (проблемы)
Examples: But you must sort out your past first, and that means facing it head-on.

English: to face something head-on
Translation: открыто противостоять, посмотреть в лицо, столкнуться с чем-либо лоб в лоб
Examples: But you must sort out your past first, and that means facing it head-on.

English: no matter
Translation: неважно, не имеет значения
Examples: “Sweetheart,” Grandma adds, “no matter what has happened or will happen, one thing is certain.”

English: to save one's life
Translation: спасти кому-либо жизнь / чью-то жизнь
Examples: “You told me that Cade saved your life once,” she continues.

English: to mutter
Translation: пробормотать
Examples: “Yes,” I mutter.

English: to ping
Translation: ударяться со стуком
Examples: Her words ping my heart, twisting like an acupuncturist’s needle in a way that hurts as much as it feels good and right.

English: to twist like
Translation: крутить(-ся), вертеть(-ся), вращать(-ся)
Examples: Her words ping my heart, twisting like an acupuncturist’s needle in a way that hurts as much as it feels good and right.

English: it's your turn to do something
Translation: ваша очередь что-то сделать
Examples: Now it’s your turn to save his.

English: hydrangea
Translation: гортензия
Examples: “They’re beautiful,” I say, receiving the large bouquet of flowers from Pike Place Market. Tulips, hydrangeas, and stock wrapped in white paper.

English: stock
Translation: левкой
Examples: “They’re beautiful,” I say, receiving the large bouquet of flowers from Pike Place Market. Tulips, hydrangeas, and stock wrapped in white paper.

English: wrapped in
Translation: завернутый в
Examples: “They’re beautiful,” I say, receiving the large bouquet of flowers from Pike Place Market. Tulips, hydrangeas, and stock wrapped in white paper.

English: to press one's nose to
Translation: уткнуться носом в
Examples: I press my nose to a lavender-colored blossom, which makes me think of home.

English: blossom
Translation: цветение, цветок, букет
Examples: I press my nose to a lavender-colored blossom, which makes me think of home.

English: to make someone think of home
Translation: напомнить кому-либо о доме
Examples: I press my nose to a lavender-colored blossom, which makes me think of home.

English: floral scent
Translation: цветочный аромат
Examples: On warm summer mornings, their soft floral scent would waft into my bedroom window.

English: to look around
Translation: оглядеться по сторонам
Examples: “Nice apartment,” Cade says, looking around.

English: roommate
Translation: сосед по комнате
Examples: “It’s not much,” I say. “But it does have a killer view, and Tracy’s a great roommate."

English: uncanny
Translation: сверхъестественный, необъяснимый, поразительный, уникальный, необыкновенный
Examples: We each have an uncanny ability to know when the other person needs her space.

English: to starve
Translation: голодать
Examples: "Starving,” he says.

English: to glance at
Translation: мельком взглянуть на
Examples: “Good,” I say, glancing at the clock.

English: davenport
Translation: изящный письменный столик, тахта, диван (большой)
Examples: Dinner was ‘supper,’ the couch was a ‘davenport.’

English: to go on and on
Translation: продолжать до бесконечности
Examples: I can go on and on.

English: oven
Translation: духовка
Examples: “Well,” I reply, opening the oven to have a peek, “it’s less cute when you say ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ on the playground in the sixth grade and every kid in school teases you about it for the rest of the year.”

English: peek
Translation: взгляд украдкой
Examples: “Well,” I reply, opening the oven to have a peek, “it’s less cute when you say ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ on the playground in the sixth grade and every kid in school teases you about it for the rest of the year.”

English: fiddlesticks
Translation: какой вздор!
Examples: “Well,” I reply, opening the oven to have a peek, “it’s less cute when you say ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ on the playground in the sixth grade and every kid in school teases you about it for the rest of the year.”

English: to tease
Translation: дразнить
Examples: “Well,” I reply, opening the oven to have a peek, “it’s less cute when you say ‘Oh fiddlesticks’ on the playground in the sixth grade and every kid in school teases you about it for the rest of the year.”

English: to take off
Translation: снимать (одежду)
Examples: He takes off his jacket and hangs it on a hook by the door.

English: basil
Translation: базилик
Examples: I select a few leaves of basil from the fridge as Cade nestles into a chair at the table, and suddenly I feel ill-prepared to pull off this meal.

English: to nestle into
Translation: удобно устроиться
Examples: I select a few leaves of basil from the fridge as Cade nestles into a chair at the table, and suddenly I feel ill-prepared to pull off this meal.

English: to oversalt
Translation: пересолить
Examples: What if I oversalted the meat?

English: wilted
Translation: увядший
Examples: Is the romaine in the salad a bit wilted?

English: to pour
Translation: лить, наливать
Examples: I realize that I’ve forgotten to pour the wine.

English: to find out
Translation: выяснять, обнаруживать
Examples: He eyes the label confidently. “I guess we’ll find out.”

English: corkscrew
Translation: штопор
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: to do one's best
Translation: стараться изо всех сил, делать все зависящее
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: to wind into
Translation: вплетать во (что-либо)
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: to tug
Translation: дергать изо всех сил
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: cork
Translation: пробка
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: to crack
Translation: треснуть
Examples: I find a corkscrew and do my best to carefully wind it into the bottle, but when I tug it upward, the cork cracks and then breaks.

English: darn
Translation: черт, черт побери, штопать
Examples: “Darn,” I say, stepping back.

English: to mess something up
Translation: что-то испортить
Examples: I think I messed this one up.

English: to fix
Translation: исправить, отремонтировать
Examples: “I can fix it,” he says. “Any chance you have a toothpick?”

English: toothpick
Translation: зубочистка
Examples: “I can fix it,” he says. “Any chance you have a toothpick?”

English: trick
Translation: трюк
Examples: My aunt taught me the trick to salvaging any cork conundrum.

English: to salvage
Translation: спасти
Examples: My aunt taught me the trick to salvaging any cork conundrum.

English: conundrum
Translation: головоломка, парадоксальная ситуация
Examples: My aunt taught me the trick to salvaging any cork conundrum.

English: utensil
Translation: утварь
Examples: I smile, digging through the utensil drawer until I find a box of toothpicks, left over from Tracy’s failed attempt at making mini-meatballs for a party last month.

English: drawer
Translation: (выдвижной) ящик (стола)
Examples: I smile, digging through the utensil drawer until I find a box of toothpicks, left over from Tracy’s failed attempt at making mini-meatballs for a party last month.

English: to get to work
Translation: приступить к работе
Examples: “Great,” he says, getting to work.

English: to wedge
Translation: заклинивать, загонять (в тесное помещение)
Examples: “So here’s how you do it: While the corkscrew is still in, you wedge in a toothpick at a forty-five-degree angle.”

English: angle
Translation: угол
Examples: “So here’s how you do it: While the corkscrew is still in, you wedge in a toothpick at a forty-five-degree angle.”

English: miraculously
Translation: чудесным образом
Examples: You tug at the corkscrew really carefully, and then”—he lifts the cork, miraculously intact, out of the bottle—“voilà.

English: intact
Translation: целый, невредимый, неповреждённый
Examples: You tug at the corkscrew really carefully, and then”—he lifts the cork, miraculously intact, out of the bottle—“voilà.

English: confused
Translation: сбитый с толку, в замешательстве
Examples: “Are you listening to it?” I ask, a little confused.

English: to crackle
Translation: потрескивать
Examples: But one of my friends who works in the industry told me that a good wine, especially a French red, will crackle a little after it’s poured.

English: snap
Translation: щелканье
Examples: Snap, crackle, pop … grenache blend.

English: to wink
Translation: подмигнуть
Examples: He winks. “Stick with me, kid, and I’ll keep you in stitches.”

English: to stick with
Translation: держаться (кого-то)
Examples: He winks. “Stick with me, kid, and I’ll keep you in stitches.”

English: to get tired of
Translation: избавиться от
Examples: “I never get tired of watching the ferries,” I say.

English: vessel
Translation: судно
Examples: “Yeah,” I say, pointing to the vessel streaming through the water at a slug’s pace ahead.

English: bossy
Translation: властный, начальственный
Examples: “That’s Bertha,” I say. “She’s bossy.”

English: to squint
Translation: коситься, щуриться
Examples: “Maeve is sweet,” I say, squinting to make out another ferry in the distance. “And Eleanor is sassy.”

English: sassy
Translation: дерзкий, нахальный
Examples: “Maeve is sweet,” I say, squinting to make out another ferry in the distance. “And Eleanor is sassy.”

English: hilarious
Translation: веселый, забавный
Examples: Cade looks at me as if I’ve said something either hilarious or bizarre, or both.

English: bizarre
Translation: экстравагантный, невероятный
Examples: Cade looks at me as if I’ve said something either hilarious or bizarre, or both.

English: to confide
Translation: доверять (кому-либо)
Examples: He makes me want to confide in him.

English: the works
Translation: полный джентльменский набор, все тридцать три удовольствия
Examples: “Sure,” he says. “Let’s make a day of it. Ferry, beach, dinner—the works.”

English: to top off
Translation: пополнить
Examples: “Okay,” I say, smiling, topping off each of our glasses.

English: to flip on
Translation: включить (радио, телевизор)
Examples: I flip on the radio, and a band I don’t recognize is playing.

English: to rub
Translation: тереть
Examples: He rubs his forehead.

English: How so?
Translation: Как же это? В каком смысле?
Examples: How so? – Their tour bus wasn’t big enough. Their album cover took eleven thousand go-rounds to get right.

English: album cover
Translation: обложка альбома
Examples: Their album cover took eleven thousand go-rounds to get right.

English: go-rounds
Translation: неудачная попытка
Examples: Their album cover took eleven thousand go-rounds to get right.

English: lead singer
Translation: солист
Examples: The lead singer refuses to perform unless a certain type of bottled water from France is waiting for him before a show. That kind of stuff.

English: bottled water
Translation: бутилированная вода
Examples: The lead singer refuses to perform unless a certain type of bottled water from France is waiting for him before a show. That kind of stuff.

English: to fall through
Translation: терпеть неудачу
Examples: And then we found out that someone from SNL was a fan, and they were this close to being booked for one of the spring shows last year, but the lead singer claimed he hated SNL, so that fell through.

English: to throw up one's arms
Translation: вскинуть руки
Examples: I throw up my arms. “Who hates SNL?”

English: to bargain for
Translation: быть готовым, ожидать (чего-либо), ожидать (чего-либо), быть готовым (к чему-либо)
Examples: It was one part of the job I didn’t bargain for.

English: to handle
Translation: справляться с (чем-либо), иметь дело с (чем-либо)
Examples: James handles most of it. He doesn’t let it get to him the way it gets to me.

English: to get to someone
Translation: задеть, раздражать
Examples: James handles most of it. He doesn’t let it get to him the way it gets to me.

English: visionary
Translation: провидец, мечтатель
Examples: So you’re more of the visionary and he’s the operations guy?

English: smoke alarm
Translation: датчик дыма
Examples: I’d like that,” I say with a smile, just as the smoke alarm begins to sound.

English: to billow
Translation: вздыматься, клубиться, валить
Examples: I rush to the oven, where smoke is billowing out of the door. “Oh no!”

English: to disarm
Translation: обезоружить, усмирить, утихомирить
Examples: Cade leaps up and attempts to disarm the smoke alarm, but after a few tries it continues to let out an ear-piercing sound.

English: ear-piercing
Translation: пронзительный (о звуке)
Examples: Cade leaps up and attempts to disarm the smoke alarm, but after a few tries it continues to let out an ear-piercing sound.

English: damn
Translation: черт, черт побери
Examples: Damn, this thing is wired in.

English: to yank out
Translation: выбить, выдернуть
Examples: “Can you just yank it out?” I ask, reaching for an oven mitt, then pulling our now-charred dinner out of the oven.

English: oven mitt
Translation: прихватка, рукавица
Examples: “Can you just yank it out?” I ask, reaching for an oven mitt, then pulling our now-charred dinner out of the oven.

English: charred
Translation: обгорелый, обугленный
Examples: “Can you just yank it out?” I ask, reaching for an oven mitt, then pulling our now-charred dinner out of the oven.

English: to break free
Translation: вырываться, освободиться
Examples: With a single tug, he breaks the smoke alarm free from its place in the wall.

English: severed
Translation: отрубленный, отрезанный
Examples: Severed wires dangle from the ceiling.

English: to dangle
Translation: помахать, помахивать
Examples: Severed wires dangle from the ceiling.

English: ceiling
Translation: потолок
Examples: Severed wires dangle from the ceiling.

English: to torture
Translation: мучить
Examples: Don’t torture me with what might have been.

English: chirp
Translation: писк
Examples: The smoke alarm suddenly lets out a single chirp from where it sits on the kitchen counter.

English: to hover over
Translation: нависнуть над
Examples: We both hover over the device as if it quite possibly has a brain of its own.

English: device
Translation: прибор, приспособление
Examples: We both hover over the device as if it quite possibly has a brain of its own.

English: quite possibly
Translation: не исключено
Examples: We both hover over the device as if it quite possibly has a brain of its own.

English: battery-powered
Translation: с питанием от аккумуляторной батареи
Examples: “It’s not even battery-powered,” I say.

English: alien
Translation: пришелец
Examples: Cade nods. “It could be an alien.”

English: to chirp
Translation: пищать
Examples: It chirps again, and we both laugh.

English: limb
Translation: конечность
Examples: Maybe it’s like when someone loses a limb, but they can still feel the pain.

English: to chuckle
Translation: хихикать
Examples: “You’re funny,” he says, chuckling.

English: to get rid of
Translation: избавиться от
Examples: How do we get rid of this thing?

English: couch cushion
Translation: диванная подушка
Examples: We could stuff it under the couch cushions.

English: seared
Translation: бессердечный, чёрствый, высохший
Examples: He surveys the seared disaster in the nine-by-eleven dish on the stove.

English: stove
Translation: плита
Examples: He surveys the seared disaster in the nine-by-eleven dish on the stove.

English: to sling over
Translation: перевесить, повесить через (плечо)
Examples: As I slip on a sweater and sling my purse over my shoulder, he grabs his coat and the chirping smoke alarm.

English: little fella
Translation: мальчуган, малыш
Examples: “We have a nice home for you, little fella,” he says.

English: dumpster
Translation: мусорный бак
Examples: “We have a nice home for you, little fella,” he says. “And it’s called a dumpster.”