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Communication Lesson: Hard words 12
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Swedish |
Swedish |
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,"the exam looked deceptively easy"to look deceptively like somebody, I had first seen the place on a moist afternoon when distances are deceptively diminished. |
trügerisch, jdm/einer Sache täuschend ähnlich sehen,überraschend; gentle, mild → trügerisch, täuschend; |
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Being kidnapped was an ordeal for the child. |
Qual , schwere Prüfung, → Tortur |
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a deep ravine (usually with a river running through it) Schlucht f |
A river ran along the bottom of the gorge.He gorged himself on fruit at the party |
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a teacher granted tenure on a faculty. |
The status of holding one's position on a permanent basis without periodic contract renewals, die Amtszeit |
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ambiguity, leading a life of alleged moral ambiguity |
vagueness or uncertainty of meaning, die Doppeldeutigkeit |
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bestaendig,Continuing without interruption. |
For Jove had not bedeviled her ears, and she heard from the lips of each blessed Shade an incessant flow of quotation from his own works. |
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brechen-Vertrag, uebertreten, verstossen |
an increased workload that The film exploited his image and infringed his copyright.on his personal life. |
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brutto, grobes Fehlverhalten |
gross misconduct, He flashes into one gross crime or other |
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dispense, to dispense justice |
rcht sprechen, abgeben, verwalten |
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eilig, speditiv |
He rang for the elevator, and was swiftly transported to his own floor. |
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elfenbein |
a hard smooth ivory colored dentine that makes up most of the tusks of elephants and walruses |
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erratic |
schwankend, sprunghaft, unberechenbar |
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fondness, fondness for sweet things |
vorliebe, zaertlichkeit |
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gist, the gist of the prosecutor's argument"; "the heart and soul of the Republican Party"; "the nub of the story" |
the central meaning or theme of a speech or literary work, meaning |
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indispensable, the routine but indispensable ceremonies of state. |
Obligatory; unavoidable, Not to be dispensed with; essential. |
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leichtglaeubig |
He was rid of Jacob--he was bound for the Indies, where a gullible princess awaited him. |
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pad, padding the long road into town. helipad, pad a lecture with jokes; pad an expense account. |
To go along (a route) on foot, gepolstert, To lengthen or increase, especially with extraneous or false information: |
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t → erhalten, bekommen; result, votes also → erzielen; knowledge → erwerben |
He obtained a large sum of money, they obtained the release of the hostages |
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