pondělí, 6. května 2024, 05.08
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: SIGHTSEEING
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hot spring

horký pramen

1. Taking a bath in a hot spring is extremely relaxing. WebC

2. People have used the hot spring water in therapeutic baths for more than two hundred years to treat rheumatism and other ailments. WebC

3. Native Americans had a tradition of declaring a hot spring to be a neutral zone, devoted to peace and healing. WebC

house and grounds

dům a přilehlé pozemky

1. The house and grounds are the ideal setting for such an occasion. The Seymour House also lends itself perfectly to small business meetings and retreats. WebC

2. Both the original designs for house and grounds and subsequent additions are recorded in detail in the archives of the Society for the Preservation. WebC

3. The house and grounds were opened to the public in 1988. WebC

housing developments

vývoj v oblasti výstavby bytů

1. Agriculture Secretary Dan Glickman today announced loan guarantees for 28 rural rental housing developments in 14 states. WebC

2. The purpose of this study is to measure the extent to which single-family home prices over-react, if at all, to nearby public housing developments. WebC

3. The figures shown do not include any additional pupils expected to arise from new housing developments in the area. WebC

housing estate

sídliště

1. It is planned to develop a housing estate for about 9000 people. WebC

2. Zebon Copse is a housing estate which was begun in the late 1980's, and which now consists of nearly a thousand homes. WebC

3. Living in the outskirts is the central theme of this exhibition, based on a housing estate project in west Vienna, in Hadersdorf. WebC

hunting trophy

lovecká trofej

1. Large hunting quotas in the past have lead to a high proportion of male lions (the preferred hunting trophy) being removed from the National Park population. WebC

2. Like a hunting trophy, modern photography stops nature in its tracks, allowing us to hold in place forces that could not otherwise be controlled. WebC

3. The man hung the laptop on his bar wall like a hunting trophy, police said. WebC

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illegal trading

nezákonné obchodování

1. The alleged illegal trading that prosecutors are investigating at a few mutual fund firms might be more widespread and costly to investors than thought. WebC

2. In places where alcohol is illegal, such as Saudi Arabia, it may also be the subject of illegal trading. WebC

3. The purpose of market regulation is to keep a market fair and orderly, by surveilling and identifying potentially illegal trading. WebC

impregnable fortress

nedobytná pevnost

1. The city of Troy was an impregnable fortress, no one could breach the city walls. WebC

2. It was on this desolate mesa that Herod the Great built an impregnable fortress as a retreat from his potentially rebellious subjects. WebC

3. This bay has the strongest tides in Europe which helped Le Mont Saint Michel to be an impregnable fortress. WebC

in plain clothes

v civilu

1. Are they in uniforms, or in plain-clothes? WebC

2.  Strittmatter agreed that uniformed officers should be able to carry them into the courthouse, but they did not reach a consensus about officers in plain clothes. WebC

3. When an officer in plain clothes meets a Field Officer, whom he recognizes, he will take off his hat to him.  WebC

in the middle of nowhere

daleko od civilizace

1. He's stuck in the middle of nowhere with no friends and a new school where bullies are determined to make his life a misery. WebC

2. I guess all roads end in the middle of nowhere, otherwise how would you know you were there? WebC

3. “It’s basically out in the middle of nowhere,” Silhan explained. WebC

in the rear of

v zadní části

1. Passengers and cargo are carried in the rear of the fuselage. WebC

2. Separate conveyors in the rear of the turret allow the loading of ground ammunition. WebC

3. In the rear of the hypostyle hall, a darkened area contains three contiguous chapels for the barques of Karnak triad, as well as a few small rooms. WebC

in the sticks

zapadákov, díra, tam, kde lišky dávají dobrou noc

1. You're pretty much out in the sticks here, so apart from making your own fun in the hay or getting naughty in the nearby woods there's not a lot on. WebC

2. Accurately capturing childhood in the sticks or "the fields of our years of boredom", Lavinia Greenlaw seizes on moments of escapism. WebC

3. One of the reasons I picked you was that you didn't have that typical guy fantasy of living in the sticks! WebC

in the suburbs

na předměstích

1. There is no reason to be pessimistic about the ability of wildlife to survive and thrive in the suburbs. WebC

2. Hotel Carindale is your city hotel in the suburbs. WebC

3. Office workers in the suburbs would not have much choice where to eat lunch and would have problems buying things and solving other practical problems. WebC

industrial town

průmyslové město

1. The industrial town of Qiqihar is situated in the very north of China, in the province of Heilongjiang, Manchuria. WebC

2. Louis de Geer’s move to Sweden in the 17th century led to the development of Norrköping as an industrial town. WebC

3. Durgapur was developed as a major industrial town of India in the 1950s. WebC

inner city

vnitřní město, centrum

1. I had decided to teach in an inner-city school. WebC

2. Some groups have worked to close the gap by acquiring computers for inner-city schools. WebC

3. The study was set in an inner-city ED with approximately 75,000 patients annually, most of them indigent. WebC

insist on

trvat na něčem

1. Mumbai prostitutes insist on free condoms. WebC

2. Why does my child insist on watching the same videos over and over? WebC

3. A good rule of thumb is to always insist on both anterior and posterior intact dentition adjacent to the tooth being restored. WebC