Town & Country

ostrůvek (uprostřed vozovky, na němž přecházející může počkat)

1. If the signal starts flashing “Don't Walk”, finish moving to a median safety island (if one exists) or the other side of the street or highway. (Google)

2. Any pedestrian who has partly completed his cross during the constantly lighted WALK may continue to a sidewalk or safety island. (Google)

3. Accidents always happen on the safety island. (Google)

přímořské město

Khanh Hoa province is famous for Nha Trang city, a seaboard town on the main road 1A. (Google)

Begin with a visit to Galway, a seaboard town with its colourful streets and numerous authentic pubs. (Google)

It is possible to define Pompeii as a seaboard town whose inhabitants had daily contact with the sea. (Google)

přímořské letovisko

From the top you could see right over the seaside resort out into the countryside beyond. (BNC)

Even English seaside resorts, which had been made popular through royal patronage, saw relatively few visitors. (BNC)

Atlantic City 's vast beach and boardwalk made it the American seaside resort of the nineteenth century. (BNC)

chata, chalupa, místo přechodného pobytu

1. Some of these tourists even purchased a second home in Arizona for their part-time residence. (Google)

2. Renting your second home is a great way to generate extra income. (Google)

3. In general, it's harder and more expensive to get a loan for a second home than for your main home. (Google)

shazovat listí

1. Tall beech trees shed leaves over a disused tennis court, near well-kept lawns and bright hydrangeas. (BNC)

2. Do you know why trees shed leaves? (Google)

3. Shed leaves are recycled and converted into manures that acts like food to the plants. (Google) 

chov ovcí

1. For several reasons (some of them government imposed), fewer cattle are now kept on the crofts in Shetland, and the accent is more on sheep-rearing. (BNC)

2. Sheep rearing continues to be an important activity for employment and livelihood. (Google)

3. In the past sheep-rearing was the main means of existence for most Bedouin. (Google)

výloha

1. Leonard was actually looking in a shop window when he first saw them, noticing Marianne, naturally, first! (BNC)

2. It jumps out of the shop window, attacks your aesthetic sense and begs to be admired. (BNC)

3. At that moment I glimpsed myself in a shop window and was pleased with what I saw. (BNC)

nákupní centrum (venkovní i vnitřní)

Up to 65 protesters were reported to have been burned to death when security forces set fire to a shopping centre in which they were seeking refuge. (BNC)

Both public and private services, such as hospitals and shopping centres, are increasingly concentrated in large, sometimes inaccessible sites. (BNC)

I ended up dining in a Pizza Hut in the basement of the shopping centre, the only customer in the place. (BNC)

nákupní středisko

1. The first is to build the new shopping mall or supermarket immediately adjacent to the town centre. (BNC)

2. There's a night club with live music, sauna, shopping mall, hairdressing salon and an amazing roof-garden swimming pool. (BNC)

3. From café to museum, from shopping mall to concert hall, Nuremberg seems to have a little of everything, and a whole way of life! (BNC)

ospalá vesnička

Why can't the Grove be a sleepy little village where the locals can be alone without busloads of sightseers? (Google)

After two months of non-stop traveling, we take refuge in Ginestas, a sleepy little village in the Languedoc region of Southwestern France. (Google)

This sleepy little village contains one gas station, a post office, a food market and the surprisingly modern Hualapai River Lodge and Restaurant. (Google)

pomalé životní tempo

1. Tropical birds have a slow pace of life. (Google)

2. Sometimes the complaint appears in comments about the slow pace of life overseas. (Google)

3. Frustration mounted over the slow pace of life. (Google)

pomalá doprava

Finally, after nudging them toward the schoolroom, she begins her own journey through the sluggish traffic to her office. (Google)

Best of all, I found I could flash through London's notoriously sluggish traffic like a minnow through whales. (Google)

Likewise, both businesses and households are affected by sluggish traffic on the ground and in the air, reducing the number of workers and job sites within easy reach of any location. (Google)

chudinská čtvrť

In the more notorious slum districts, there appears to have been little or no respect for the law. (BNC)

On March 22-23 protest meetings and marches condemning the murder were reported to have taken place across the country, with one soldier being reported killed and several people wounded in the Policarpa slum district of Bogotá. (BNC)

Cohabiting with Sien made him a denizen of the slum district she knew intimately. (BNC)

půvab malého města

Park City, Utah is a ski destination with small town charm and big mountain world class skiing. (Google)

South Australia's capital city combines small town charm and big-time attractions in its setting of an oasis of green. (Google)

Weatherford, Oklahoma with almost 10000 people offers all the amenities of a larger city while still maintaining its small town charm. (Google)

kamera na měření rychlosti

Speed camera records showed about 11% of drivers exceeding the speed limit in July 1990 compared with over 20% before the campaign. (BNC)

A front seat car passenger is recorded baring his backside at a speed camera in Northumberland. (BNC)

Police are introducing a 'bike speed camera' to catch cyclists going at more than 10mph along a seafront prom, even though they cannot prosecute offenders. (BNC)

rychlostní limit

The Interstate speed limit in the States is a strictly enforced 65 mph. (BNC)

These guys seem to think all speed limits are there to be broken and they just do n't believe they will ever be caught. (BNC)

In Britain the legal speed limit was 12 mph but since they broke down frequently speed was of little consequence. (BNC)

rozrůstající se město (rozlehlé - s negativním podtextem)

Moscow is a huge and sprawling city organized in a set of concentric circles with the Kremlin at the center. (Google)

Within the sprawling city of Athens it is easy to imagine the golden age of Greece when Pericles had the Parthenon built. (Google)


Tehran is a sprawling city at the foot of the Alborz mountain range with an immense network of highways unparalleled in Western Asia.

kropit ulici

1. Thereby the cost of having the commoners sprinkle the street was reduced.(Google)

2. The Contractor may be required to flush or sprinkle the street to prevent dust nuisance.(Google)

3.  "Come on, we'll sprinkle the street--and I don't want anybody to get in our way neither." (Google)

metač

The officer 's historical role as a street cleaner occasionally required a measure of dexterity and imaginatio. (BNC)

Altecean street cleaners were piling the litter with their long rakes. (BNC)

Friend the Under-Secretary of State for the Environment presented an award to the best street cleaner in London. (BNC)

pouliční osvětlení

1. As a rule, good street lighting protects both drivers as well as pedestrians from accidents..(Google)

2.  Street lighting reduces night time accidents and helps to reduce crime and the fear of crime. (Google)

3. Street lighting helps make people feel safe and helps to reduce car crashes and crime. (Google)

metař

1. Charlie has taken a street sweeper's job to earn the money to pay off the cruel landlord who would otherwise put a blind girl and her mother out onto the streets. (BNC)

2. The English representative on the board asked her whether she'd like to work for the company in Switzerland, as resident copywriter. She replied: `No, thank you. I'd rather be a street sweeper.' (BNC)

3. Whether you are a king or a street sweeper, we all have to dance with the Grim Reaper, (...) (BNC)

posetý odpadky

Places that are strewn with litter and rotting rubbish attract vermin and disease. (Google)

The route from the Henley College into the town is strewn with litter. (Google)

Some streets are completely strewn with litter, no matter how often clean up crews come by or police drive by. (Google)

strniště

1. There is a little wood to one side of the lawn, and a large stubble field to the other. (BNC)

2. The stubble field had more poppy plants per unit of area, more plants flowering, and more bare ground than the old field. (Google)

3. Spring harrowing is less effective than in autumn due to remaining straw in the stubble field. (Google)

kukuřice

1. Sweet corn grows best when planted in several short rows instead of one long row. (Google)

2. Injury to sweet corn from hail storms is always a possibility. (Google)

3. Eating sweet corn is one of the great joys of summer. (Google)

plovárna, bazén

1. For initial lessons students go to a swimming pool in York. (BNC)

2. Every town in Iceland has a swimming pool, usually geothermally heated and part of social normality. (BNC)

3. He loved the swimming pool, revelled in the spacious gardens, and enjoyed the fact that other little ones were staying there. (BNC)