pátek, 3. května 2024, 04.17
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