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broom |
miotła |
I swept the floor with a broom. This broom is useless, its handle is broken. |
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burst |
pękać, wybuchać, rozrywać się |
The water pipe burst during the winter. She burst into laughter and hugged him. When I told my mum I was pregnant she burst into tears. |
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church-goer |
praktykujący (chodzący do kościoła) |
My friend is really church-goer. |
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cram |
zakuwać |
I had to cram for a test. |
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dough |
ciasto (przed upieczeniem) |
She had a little dough at one point, not much. Dough may be held for 36 hours before the next step. And then he told her to add a little water to the dough. My wife's got enough dough for us to live on. |
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envelope |
1. koperta; 2. powłoka; |
He quickly opened the envelope. (On szybko otworzył kopertę.) What does it say on the envelope? After a time, she looked back down at the envelope. He was back in a few minutes with an envelope. |
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flame |
1. płomień;
2. paszkwil; 3. bluzgi (np. w emailu) (informal); 4. miłość, ukochany, ukochana (informal); |
We may not be able to go out, but the flame was set. Back outside, she was met by a wall of flame. She saw flames inside the house on the first floor. He turned to see flames some 100 feet away and started to run. |
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frenzy |
szał, szaleństwo; |
The nature of its frenzy will be just the same. The house will be in a frenzy over the next several days. Frenzy al- most made him strong enough to break away from her. |
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furniture |
meble; [UNCOUNTABLE] |
Why is there no furniture in here? (Dlaczego nie ma tutaj mebli?) I'll have to get my own furniture. But he is also asked to make old furniture look new. They are still trying to figure out what to do with all the furniture. |
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helmet |
hełm, kask; szyszak (typ hełmu); |
He had taken his helmet off to get a better view. He took a shot from a helmet to the back. No helmet will make up for those three key areas. |
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molehill |
kretowisko |
"They are trying to make it into a little molehill." I may be making a mountain out of a molehill. Or will the mountain, in the end, once again turn out to be a molehill? What happened here is that a molehill became a mountain. |
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moss |
mech |
And meantime, he really would stay out of the mosses. I walked out onto the mosses and tried my link. Mosses appear at the base of trees and on the ground. This she covered with soft mosses brought up from below. |
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obscure |
1. niejasny (trudny do zrozumienia);
2. mało znany (np. pisarz); 3. niewyraźny, nieokreślony (np. uczucie); 4. mroczny (np. jaskinia); |
They talk in an obscure jargon. Official policy has changed for obcsure reasons. It is an obscure island in the Pacific. I had an obscure feeling that something would go wrong. A new way of looking at the old and the obscure. |
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play dough |
plastelina |
Kids of a certain age put everything into their mouths, even regular play dough. We will get started on the next page by showing you how to make a childhood favorite - play dough. Find out here how to get play dough out of carpet. Use water to mix real pastry, icing sugar or play dough. |
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prom |
1. bal (na zakończenie roku szkolnego) (American English);
2. deptak, promenada (British English informal); 3. koncert na promenadzie, koncert promenadowy, koncert na otwartym powietrzu (British English); |
Do you want to know who I went to the prom with? So for a lot of people, the prom is a big deal. They left the prom early and went to her house. These students need history more than a prom, if you ask me. |
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proverb |
przysłowie |
Do you know any Russian proverbs? It is a popular English proverb. He likes to use Latin proverbs. |
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pub crawl |
robić rundkę po pubach (czasow.); włóczenie się od baru do baru (rzecz.); |
It is essentially a pub crawl made into a game. Where would you choose to go on a Christmas pub crawl?
Are we talking about gangs of university students going on a pub crawl? Book Amsterdam's most famous pub crawl and party like never before. |
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rake |
grabie |
I could borrow a rake from my parents. He was looking as if he had stepped on a rake. |
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slab |
płyta (kamienna, betonowa); kawał (mięsa, ciasta); stół w kostnicy; |
Back into the body of the boy on the slab. Each slab will form an entire floor of the building. But I bit into my slab until it was half gone. It took all the children together to move the slab. |
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spanner (British English) wranch (American English) |
klucz (do nakrętek), klucz płaski; |
The last time she was holding a spanner for him. "Well if you are right, we sure put a spanner in the works." |
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superstition |
przesąd, zabobon |
After what had just happened how could anyone believe in superstition? I saw he was not himself quite free from the superstition. I never once heard him tell a superstition on any of his programs. And it might even have been a matter of superstition. |
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venue |
miejsce (np. spotkania, koncertu); |
Another break comes from the location of the first game. But, he said, the company is also looking at other locations. A college had recently been moved to a location up the road. |
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vice |
występek (zwłaszcza związany z narkotykami, prostytucją, hazardem); zły nawyk; wada, defekt;
wice;
imadło (rzecz.) |
In the face of death and human vice, God alone can help. He'd probably been moved to vice because he still looked young enough to have some.
I had never seen the vice president in better form. No one knew who the vice president was going to be.
It seemed to him as though his heart were in a vice. |
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wheelborrow |
taczka |
Finally he finished loading the cut grass onto his wheelbarrow. |
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wind |
owijać, nawijać, nakręcać |
Wind the clock once per week. The nurse wound the bandage around my arm. The driver wound down his window and said... |
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pumpkin |
1. dynia;
2. koteczku, skarbie (American English); |
The woman, though, had put down the pumpkin and was running across the field. I'll do almost anything with a pumpkin at this point. I asked Pumpkin if there was anything more, but she said no. On the other hand, no one expected Pumpkin to stay only five minutes. |
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torch; flashlight; |
1. latarka (American English); 2. latarka (British English); 3. flesz; |
He had been on the road following the torch for 84 days. Find someone who has read in bed using a torch. I turned the torch on. Did you bring a flashlight? |
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vocational |
zawodowy |
Is your school one of what used to be called vocational schools? In high school he was given vocational training, along with the rest of his friends. I see somebody who may have gone to vocational school. Instead, it is looking for ways to help turn vocational education around. |