Word Combinations

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 400.

Unit 2.SEPARATING

WORDS AND PHRASES TO REMEMBER

Letter No.3

Re: Counterweights on Crankshaft

Dear Sirs.

Reports have been received of a few cases of counterweights, which worked loose after more than 10,000 hours in service.

In order to prevent this we have changed our instructions as follows:

1. Tightening torque: 250 Nm

2. Retightening of counterweights should be effected 200 service hours after commissioning a new engine or after a possible dismantling of the counterweights.

Subsequent (последующий) retightening in normal service should take place at intervals of 5,000—8,000 service hours.

Yours faithfully,

B & W ENGINEERING

to work loose—ослабнуть

to tighten — подтягивать, затягивать

to commission an engine — ввести в эксплуатацию

torque — крутящий момент

p.106 JC1 Usually by this time of the year they had acquired tans; but when they met their elder daughter's plane on her return from a year in England they were almost as pale as she, though Judith was too dazzled by the sunny opulent jumble of her native land to notice. (Opulent =пишний; jumble= суміш, тиснява)

p.107 JC2. Wait a few days, let her recover from jet lag, had been one of their formulations, in that string of gray dialogues — over coffee, over cocktails, over Cointreau — that had shaped the strategyoftheir dissolution, while the earth performed its annual stunt of renewal unnoticed beyond their closed windows.

p. 108 JC3. Then, the party over, they, the two of them who nineteen years before would push her in a baby carriage along Fifth Avenue to Washington Square, were to walk her out of the house, to the bridge across the salt creek, and tell her, swearing her to secrecy.

p.108 JC4. "No," he said, meaning he had no better plan, and agreed to hers, though to him it showed an edge offalse order, a hidden plea for control, like Joan's long chore lists and financial accountings and, in the days when he first knew her, her too-copious lecture notes.

p.109 JCSo haunted, he had become obsessed with battening down the house against his absence, replacing screens and sash cords, hinges and latches — a Houdini making things snug before his escape. (Batten= забивати дошками)

p.109 JCJudith sat on the porch, a princess returned from exile. She regaled them with stories of fuel shortages, of bomb scares in the Underground, of Pakistani workmen loudly lusting after her as she walked past on her way to dance school.

p.111 JCThe boy sat down as if to rebukehis father's distraction with the example of his own good manners. He said quietly, "The separation."

p.112 JCPerhaps his younger sister's being credited with knowing set him off.

p.112 JCJohn was not mollified. "What do you care about us7" he boomed.

p.113 JCJudith said, "Be mature," and dismissed a plume of smoke.

p. 113 JCA little stiltedly, perhaps trying now to make too much of the moment, Richard led the boy to the spot in the field where the view was best, of the metallic blue river, the emerald marsh, the scattered islands velvety with shadow in the low light, the white bits of beach far away. "See," he said. "It goes on being beautiful. It'll be here tomorrow." Stiltedly =неприродно, бундючно, пишномовно

p.114JCYou were having your way, making a general announcement.

p.115 JCIt was as when, in the movies, an assassin grimly carries his missionthrough the jostle of a carnival — except the movies cannot show the precipitous, palpable slope you cling to within. You cannot climb back down; you can only fall.

Jostle= сутичка, давка, штовханина; рrecipitous = стрімкий, крутий, прямовисний; palpable = відчутний на дотик ; slope = нахил, схил