středa, 26. června 2024, 22.33
Stránky: OpenMoodle
Kurz: Angličtina pro pokročilé (APP)
Slovník: FOOD

plate warmer

ohřívač talířů

The Eclipse is exceptionally easy to control, with mains electric ignition, a slow cooking facility, a plate warmer (in the grill area) and an oven timer which you can pre-set to switch the oven on and off at times convenient to you (perhaps while you're busy entertaining guests before the meal). BNC

deep plate

hluboký talíř

Frankie groped around on the shelves until his fingers encountered a deep plate. BNC

Before this there was a very deep plate of vegetable soup. BNC

Turn the pudding out into a deep plate or a dish with room to hold some of the juice reserved for pouring over it. BNC

dessert plate

dezertní talířek

We washed six place settings (one side plate, one dinner plate, one pudding bowl, one dessert plate for each setting, plus one large serving platter and three serving dishes), cutlery (eight pieces for each place setting), six champagne, red wine and white wine glasses, a roasting tin, four saucepans, four serving spoons, a carving knife and fork, six coffee cups and saucers and a cafétière, both by hand and using a Bosch SMS 6032 dishwasher to compare use of water and detergents and the end results. BNC

Dessert plate (with chocolates), £22.50, and matching jardinière (with silver sweets), £29.50; both by Paloma Picasso, from Villeroy & Boch at Liberty. BNC

Nicolo watched as Caroline spooned the last bit of tiramisu from her dessert plate. BNC

finish one's dinner

dojíst oběd

Having finished his dinner the candidate retired to the spick and span little room no bigger than a cubbyhole they had placed at his disposal and, when he had put his thoughts and his speeches in good order, stepped out for a breath of air, a short stroll which led him -- as he had known it would -- to the newly painted door of Odette Adeane. BNC

ask sbdy to dinner

pozvat někoho na večeři

It was during the second week that Carol asked him to dinner at her parents' place. BNC

blue plate dinner

oběd s více chody na jedné míse

dressed up like a dog's dinner

vyšňořený, vyparádění

farewell dinner

večeře na rozloučenou

After returning to Going, we arrange a meeting point for the group for a farewell dinner, and even a small gift! BNC

Several senior broadcasters, including Sir David Attenborough, Sir Paul Fox and former BBC managing director Bill Cotton, have indicated they might not attend a farewell dinner tomorrow for former director-general Sir Michael Checkland because of the row. BNC

There's a weekly farewell dinner and you can expect a welcoming drink on arrival. BNC

dinnertime

obvyklý čas večeře nebo oběda

As dinnertime approaches, we cheer up. BNC

The school day always began with prayers at nine o'clock, followed by a scripture lesson, and there was invariably arithmetic in some form or another until dinnertime. BNC

And I've packed you a currant teacake for a "biting on," though you should be at Dudley afore dinnertime." BNC

dinner party

večírek s večeří

Predictably, it shot to the top of the dinner party list of mandatory topics and was talked relentlessly into the ground on every conceivable broadcasting medium. BNC

About six months after the dinner party she realised that, for the first time in her life, she had turned down a decent journalistic commission in order to start work for a crazy old lady off Ladbroke Grove, whose garden specialised in old roses, and who was insistent about sterilising soil before new plantings. BNC

Haslam recalls a time when Sir Peter Allen, then the ICI main board director responsible for plastics, predicted at a small dinner party at the ICI guest house at Welwyn Garden City that the market price for polythene would drop from the current 4s a pound to 1s 6d a pound within six months. BNC

kettle-holder

látková chňapka k uchopení horké konvice

wine and dine (sb)

napájet, hostit

Our hosts wined and dined us very well. (Oxford Idioms)

dinner dress/gown

večerní šaty

At the Watford Gaumont, which I managed, people would come in dinner dress and they would have the same seat every week. BNC

She was in a dinner dress, with a coat thrown over it. BNC

dinner jacket/suit

smoking

This has always seemed to make sense, despite the Scots' own tendency to be caught with a wardrobe of empty coat-hangers and crumpled piles, and one's fear on behalf of England is that they are running out of time in which to find a dinner jacket. BNC

In the midst of this unrelenting wave of depression, I found myself, dressed in a borrowed dinner jacket, on the M11 headed for Cambridge, where I was about to make my first (and last) appearance as an after-dinner speaker. BNC

And a third, whose immaculate dinner jacket couldn't conceal hands scarred and stained from rebuilding a Mini Cooper, wanted to become the world's first professional classic rally driver. BNC

different kettle of fish

něco úplně jiného, jiná věc, to je o něčem jiném

You may be able to read French well, but speaking it fluently is a different kettle of fish entirely. (Oxford Idioms)