pondělí, 20. května 2024, 06.08
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: CLOTHES
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camouflage clothing

krycí, maskovací oblečení

The photos are of variable quality, but often interesting; the same can be said of the colour plates, which show an extraordinary range of service-specific camouflage clothing and insignia, but are sometimes rather stylised in appearance. BNCB

Soldiers usually wear camouflage clothing to hide them against their enemy. Lingea

Nowadays it is very expensive to buy camouflage clothing and moreover it can be also bought only in specialized shops. WASP

cap and gown

univerzitní uniforma, akademický úbor (talár a baret)

Led by a forlorn figure dressed in Victorian night cap and gown, dozens of unhappy protesters braved heavy rain to tour the banks' London headquarters with their own yuletide messages. BNCB

Hands clapping and bodies swaying, an estimated 9,000 sang along as Calloway (85), clad in the ceremonial cap and gown, belted out the tune in his gravely voice. BNCB

It may well be, in any case, that we now have a high enough proportion of school-leavers in cap and gown. BNCB

casual clothing

neformální oblečení

Staff at the BICC wiring division headquarters on Merseyside crossed their divide when Riley recommended casual clothing for a discussion day he had arranged in the Lune Valley. BNCB

Meanwhile, staff at the Credit Card Centre paid £2 each to wear casual clothing for work. BNCB

Then there's rainwear, and we have a deal on other casual clothing in the States, an arrangement with a bank, for cars, non-alcoholic beer and a breakfast food, various commercials, company days, a three&rehy;book deal with a publisher, and so on. BNCB

click one´s heels

srazit paty (together - k sobě)

The chief of police rose to his feet, bowed to us, and then clicked his heels together with such vigour that one of the constables drroped his rifle. IE

Introductions were accompanied by a considerable amount of clicking of heels and kissing of hands, formalities she was unused to in an English drawing-room. IE

Soldiers were told to click their heels together. WebC

clothes basket

koš na prádlo, prádelní koš

Children used to take the clothes basket. BNCB

Put into the clothes basket and then pick it up on our way home from school. BNCB

And I Oh I I can't remember any anyway we used to take the clothes basket. BNCB

clothes designer

oděvní/módní návrhář

There are alcoves for exchanging intimate gossip, and a small shop where Sola, a local clothes designer, shows her wares. BNCB

Lola Taiwao is a clothes designer, and last spring she and her partner opened their own boutique, Culture Trend. BNCB

`Credibility' now meant working with the right video producer, clothes designer and hair stylist. BNCB

clothes horse/hanger

sušák, věšák na sušení prádla

They had erected a little shelter, an old curtain spread across one corner of the balcony and held up by a clothes horse and a chair. BNCB

When I wash the garment I just shake out the water and hang it over a clothes horse or the back of a chair. BNCB

 She wants to be known as a workhorse and not a clothes horse. BNCB

clothes line

prádelní šňůra

We had very little experience in clothing design at that stage, although we had run a small experiment with Habitat called Clothes Line. BNCB

Place a block of wood over the plastic tube and knock into the ground, occasionally placing the clothes line pole into the tube to check the tube is vertical. BNCB

Behind the house, a rotting clothes line stretched, a forked hazel bough still holding it aloft. BNCB

clothes peg

kolíček na prádlo

Virtually everyone sings with a clothes peg on their nose and a space Cockney accent, no-one is very happy and Mr Synthesiser is given a free rein. BNCB

When having a clothes peg on your nose, your will be speaking in a funny way. Lingea

Clothes pegs are mainly used to attach clothes to the clothes line. Wasp

clothing industry

oděvní průmysl

The clothing industry, including flax, had flourished because it supplied both the Tsarist and the Red Armies which trampled through Belorussia. BNCB

We needed an effective and interesting way of telling our jobseekers about training and job opportunities in the clothing industry. BNCB

Exports from the Clothing industry showed a decline and the Textile industry continued to suffer. BNCB

clutch bag

dámská kabelka

Maggie remembers one dress: it was plum velvet with lace all round the neck and cuffs, clutch bag to match. BNCB

She dropped her clutch bag and George frowned as she strained to pick it up. BNCB

Rayleen raised her eyebrows to the heavens and reached into her clutch bag for a pack of cigarettes. BNCB

coat hanger

ramínko na šaty

A better tool than a wire coat hanger has yet to be developed. BNCB

She hung it up carefully on a big wooden coat hanger and began to brush hard at the dried mud. BNCB

And if I've hung his coats up once I've hung up, I've hung them up a hundred times, he's got a coat hanger on the back of the coat hook on the back of the door. BNCB

collar stud

knoflíček do límce

When he started to dress in front of the fire the two older girls turned away and when he looked for a collar stud the boy ran to attend. BNCB

Jack Carbery had put on his blue serge suit for the occasion and sat in the middle of a few friends, his collar stud gleaming, and the apple in his throat bobbing about like a cork on water as he drank. BNCB

Meanwhile here was he, the magistrate, in tight breeches, dirty cravat and too tight a collar stud, dressed as Scrooge. BNCB

combat trousers

kapsáče

She pulled some of the letters from the thigh pocket of her combat trousers. BNCB

It's in Kent, one of these paintball guns and combat trousers action games for bored executives. BNCB

It is in fashion to wear combat troseurs. Lingea

come into fashion

přijít do módy

There's always a danger these days that an artist can come into fashion and then go out again. BNCB

 Boar has come into fashion in recent years as farmers diversify to beat the recession. BNCB

He then paid tribute to the Alresford Society, pointing out that when they started pushing for environmental improvements in the 1970s, it was before conservation had come into fashion. BNCB

cool one´s heels

čekat

The youths were left to cool their heels overnight in a police cell. CIDI

Saturn's brakes are well and truly on today as you are left to cool your heels with nothing special to do and no particular place to go. BNCB

The threat comes from the experienced Pakistani politicians who have been cooling their heels for the last four and a half years. IE

coolie hat

kuželovitý slamák

I am enjoying myself playing with the autopilot, either adjusting the trim with the `;coolie hat'; on top of the cyclic or playing disconnect, move and reset as an alternative. BNCB

A decrepit old man, supported by a young boy in a huge coolie hat, was tapping his way down the alley, patterned robes trailing in the rainwater. BNCB

Large lapel buttons have been selling across the country depicting a white man in front of three other men: an Oriental wearing a coolie hat, a Sikh in a turban and a black man clutching a spear. BNCB

corduroy trousers

manšestrové kalhoty

He wasn't the least bit fashionable, but he certainly had style, the way he shuffled around in sneakers and sweatshirts, hair pointing in all directions, corduroy trousers rumpled and baggy. BNCB

 With his highly polished boots and gaiters, corduroy trousers and tweed jacket, he looked the epitome of authority. BNCB

The stitching of the rent in his corduroy trousers was his own work, the runs in his pullover were his cat's. BNCB

costume jewellery

bižuterie

But they did escape with some cash and costume jewellery which did not have any great value but which was important sentimentally to me. BNCB

Mrs Hatton and her mother were both in black, smart unseasonable black relieved with a great deal of showy costume jewellery. BNCB

But costume jewellery had the distinct advantage of not pretending to be anything other than what it was. BNCB

court shoes

lodičky

Cinderella's Slippers will cover your favourite pair of court shoes in the fabric of your choice for shoes that perfectly match your wedding dress or going away outfit. BNCI

She dressed carefully, green herring-bone tweed suit, pinch-waisted, court shoes, very plain, and a complicated face, the tricky little eyeliner triangles at the lid-corners almost smudged by the swaying train. BNCI

With low-heeled black court shoes, and delicate gold hoop earrings, she felt as confident as she could be, in the circumstances. BNCI

cowboy boots

kovbojské boty

And, dressed in cowboy boots, tight jeans and a black T-shirt, she could easily pass for someone half her age. BNCB

But one sacrifice Antonia could never see herself making was to exchange her jeans and cowboy boots for the frumpy frocks and sensible shoes of a Tory wife. BNCB

Model Nikki is on target for a very strange tan in fringed bikini, cowboy boots, bandana and six-shooter. BNCB

cowboy hat

kovbojský klobouk

A tall man with a droopy moustache, cowboy hat, neckerchief and walking staff, he looked like a scout for the Seventh Cavalry. BNCB

She was dismayed to see these strangers accosting her when she expected to see an old man in a cowboy hat with a black and white photograph face. BNCB

The press photographs show the artist in cowboy hat with a shotgun, surrounded by skulls and horns. BNCB

crew neck

výstřih ke krku

Available in purple and pumpkin, is the crest logo crew neck top, with matching stonewashed short. BNCI

For a soldier he was casually, almost comfortably dressed, a heavy pullover and an old-fashioned thin tie just showing over the crew neck, pressed trousers and polished shoes. BNCI

Men's stripy yarn dyed crew neck shirt finished with a twin-stitched band at the neck and a breast pocket. BNCI

crumpled clothes

zmačkané, nevyžehlené oblečení

Christina went upstairs to her bedroom, peeled off her sticky, crumpled clothes, and jumped into a tepid shower. BNCB

He ran into the room a few minutes later and began to tear off his crumpled clothes. BNCB

In accordance with his instructions it had been left as it was, forlorn, unwashed, the crumpled clothes. BNCB

cut one´s coat according to one´s cloth

kupovat jen to, na co si můžeš dovolit

He talks a lot of tommy rot about not making ends meet, but what I say is you've got to cut your coat according to your cloth. BNCB

The school won't charge you this time, but you must cut your coat according to your cloth. BNCB

She spends money like water, I wish she cut her coat according to her cloth. BNCB

cut-offs

ustřižené džínsy

She put on her sunglasses to decrease her visibility, but she could still see something of herself; brown knees, frayed cut-offs. BNCB

Cut-offs for clinical variables were taken from the predictive models of Farr et al. BNCB

 MEL SMITH looked a treat --; matted unwashed hair, dirty denim cut-offs revealing pale chubby legs. BNCB