Разберём-ка забавное видео с Чарли Ханэмом.
Посмотрела его утром и решила поподробнее остановиться на лексике, раз есть немного свободного времени. Итак, найденные вкусняшки:
1. - Where were you?
- I was all over the place, but …
2. I had a series of pretty significant health issues
Какие еще прилагательные можно использовать с “health issues”?Mental/public/sexual/specific/seniors’/general
3. strep throat – ангина
4. And then I got bitten by a mosquito and CONTRACTED dengue fever
Syn: catch
Contracted the disease/polio
5. It was kind of CONFOUNDING (поражать, ставить в тупик, приводить в смущение) cause I kind of PRIDE MYSELF ON having IMPECCABLE personal hygiene.
Confounding factor/effect
Impeccable (perfect) manners/service/logic/qualifications
6. I don’t know the INS AND OUTS of dengue fever.
Ins and outs of (all the exact details of a complicated situation, problem, system) the matter/business
7. I went camping and I got a deer TICK that BURROWED into my leg
Tick – клещ
8. The PERINEUM is that sweet piece of NO MAN’S LAND between the anus and the SCROTUM.
no man's land – нейтральная зона,
perineum and scrotum переводите сами, полезные слова, которые каким-то образом обходили меня стороной до 28 лет.
9. I realized I was UNDER SIEGE from YELLOW JACKETS.
Under siege from – под осадой
yellow jackets – ocы
10. So I TOOK OFF RUNNING, as any, you know, heroic figure would. I took off sprinting through the forest
Took off running – бросился бежать
11. I realized at that moment I was actually inside a RECURRING nightmare. I for many years had had this recurring dream that I was sprinting FOR MY LIFE naked in a forest.
Recurring (повторяющиеся) events/charges/costs/problems