Unit 2.2

Date: 2015-10-07; view: 426.

Phrasal verbs:

48.carry on sth / with sth / doing sth - continue

49.check in / out

50.get back

51.get in - to arrive at a particular time (of a train/ship/plane) *The train got in late.

52.get to Р to arrive at a place

53.lift off Р (of a spacecraft or a helicopter) to leave the ground and rise into the air

54.look round / around - to visit a place or building, walking around it to see what is there

*Let's look round the town this afternoon.

55.pull over - to move to the side of the road in order to stop or let sth pass

56.set out - to leave a place and begin a journey

57.stop off - to stop during a journey in order to do sth

*The driverХs home was nearby, so they stopped off for a tea there.

58.stop over - to stay somewhere for a night or for a few days during a long journey, especially in order to rest or visit someone

The Foreign Minister will stop over in Paris on his way to the conference for talks with French officials.

A stopover is a short stay in a place in between parts of a journey.

He is planning a holiday in Europe next year with a two-day stopover in Singapore.

59.take off - to leave the ground and start flying

60.achievement /əˈtʃiːvmənt/

61.advanced - having the most modern and recently developed ideas, methods, etc

62.available - that you can get, buy or find

63.award /əˈwɔːd/ - a prize such as money, etc. for sth that sb has done

64.at dawn /dɔːn/ - на рассвете

65.to be accused of doing sth Р blamed for

66.to break sth / for sth - to stop doing sth for a short time; to interrupt sth so that it ends suddenly

*We broke our journey in Oxford (=stopped in Oxford on the way to the place we were going to).

67.a child born to / of parents

*He was born of/to German parents.

68.environmentalist /ɪnˌvaɪrənˈmentəlɪst/ - a person who is concerned about the natural environment and wants to improve and protect it

69.delay - if there is a delay, sth does not happen until later than planned or expected

*a delay of two hours / a two-hour delay

*Report it to the police without delay (=immediately).

hold-up - a situation in which sth is prevented from happening for a short time; delay

70.desert /ˈdezət/ - пустынЯ

deserted /dɪˈzɜːtɪd/ - 1) with no people in it *deserted streets 2) left by people who do not intend to return *a deserted village, deserted wives

71.to land Р 1) to come down through the air onto the ground or another surface

2) to arrive somewhere in a plane or a boat

72.legendary /ˈledʒəndri/

73.merchant /ˈmɜːtʃənt/ - торговец

74.navy - the part of a country's armed forces that fights at sea, and the ships that it uses

75.overland /ˈəʊvəlænd/ (adj, adv) - across the land; by land, not by sea or by air

*to travel overland

76.to parachute /ˈpærəʃuːt/ (out of sth / to sth)

*She regularly goes parachuting.

77.petrol (BrE) = gas, gasoline (AmE)

*to fill a car up with petrol

78.plant /plɑːnt/ - a factory or place where power is produced or an industrial process takes place

79.recruit /rɪˈkruːt/ - a person who joins an organisation, a company, etc

80.to receive an honour /ˈɒnə/

81.to sail Р to travel on water

82.tip - a small piece of advice about something practical

83.treasure - a highly valued object

84. varied /ˈveərid/ (adj) Р 1) of many different types

*It is essential that your diet is varied and balanced.

2) not staying the same, but changing often

*He led a full and varied life.