Sunday, 19 May 2024, 9:20 AM
Site: OpenMoodle
Course: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Glossary: SIGHTSEEING
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cramped apartments

stísněné, přeplněné byty

1. People had just moved in from cramped apartments and/or tin caravan "trailer homes"; everything was new and open for opportunity. WebC

2. The cramped apartments are fully restored and allow you to learn about the lives of former residents. WebC

3. It is not exactly a glamorous and luxurious home style. Still, to Americans in the 1800s, after living in cramped apartments, a bungalow seemed like a mansion. WebC

cross the bridge

přejít most

1. There are not more than 1000 people and nobody takes more than 100 seconds to cross the bridge. WebC

2. Pedestrians and cyclists are invited to cross the bridge. WebC

3. To visit Granville Island watch for signs that tell you where to turn as you cross the bridge. WebC

cross the street

přejít ulici

1. Look both ways when you cross the street. WebC

2. School buses wait for children getting off the bus to cross the street in front of them before leaving the bus stop. WebC

3. A car is stopping so they can cross the street. WebC

crumbling walls

drolící se zdi

1. They needed to repair the crumbling walls of their draughty homes, too. BNCB

2. He looks down into the gardens hidden everywhere behind the patched and crumbling walls . BNCB

3. They were threaded with narrow winding lanes and the lanes were bounded with crumbling walls and lattices of dry palm fronds. BNCB

cultural event

kulturní akce

1. The Prague Heritage Fund will be launched in the summer with a major cultural event. BNCB

2.   There will be a major civic and cultural event...to celebrate the presentation of a scheme which we believe will combine political realism with a new sense of hope, purpose and confidence. BNCB

3.  The trial is a cultural event. Yet even as a cultural event, the motive forces of the popular trial are still sex, death and violence. Times

cultural heritage

kulturní dědictví

1. Japanese collectors find it easy to appreciate prints, because works on paper are very much part of their own cultural heritage. BNCB

2. Despite this interesting parallel with our own cultural heritage, the emphasis and indeed the trust which the Zande appear to place in witchcraft as a prime mover seems bizzare and even absurd. BNCB

3. Over the past few decades, however, the approach to conservation and protection of our cultural heritage has changed. BNCB

curative waters

léčebné prameny

1. In the eleventh century a particularly entrepreneurial abbot began the exploitation of the curative waters of Cauterets to the south, and the monks built roads and bridges and cleared the woods in their expanding domain. BNCB

2. Visitors paid two shillings per week each to walk several circuits of these paths after taking their curative waters. BNCB

3. In the United States, the most famous curative waters are those at Hot Springs, Arkansas.  WebC