1. just before you die your whole life flashes before your eyes
- перед смертью вся жизнь проносится перед глазами
They say that just before you die your whole life flashes before your
eyes, but that’s not how it happened for me.
2. Some things are better left buried and forgotten- Кто старое помянет, тому глаз вон
Some things are better left buried and forgotten, as my mom would say.
3. get away with everything- все сходит с рук
And we’re popular
because we can get away with everything.
4. Happiness is found when one is not looking- Счастье придет, когда его
не ждешь
She pockets a
fortune cookie and breaks it open when we get outside. “Happiness is found
when one is not looking ,” she reads...
5.to be kind of music-obsessed-быть помешанным на музыке
Lindsay’s kind of
music-obsessed, so she makes us a playlist for the ride to Kent’s house...
6.scream one’s head -вопеть
что есть мочи
Thomas Jefferson and the football
field and the metal bleachers where we sit and scream our heads off every
homecoming.
7. to howl at the top of lungs-рыдать навзрыд
Elody’s howling at the top of her
lungs. She has the lowest tolerance out of all of us.
8. fight turns into an all-out
brawl-ссора перестает в
настоящий скандал
Ally and I decide to go on a mission
to save Lindsay before her fight with Patrick turns into an all-out brawl.
9.hook up with smb-подцепить кого-л.
или связаться встречаться с кем-то
One of
them, Rachel Kornish, supposedly hooked up with Matt Wilde not long ago.
10. a mouth drops open-челюсть отвисает
Ally
catches on first and her mouth drops open. “What the…?”
11. to rip someone’s head off-оторвать кому-нибудь голову
...and she looks ready to rip
someone’s head off.
12.freak( n.)-чудак
The music doesn’t stop, but as
everyone in the room starts to pick up on the fact that Juliet Sykes—bedwetter,
freak, and all-around psycho
freak(v.)-чудиться,дурачиться
freak out (phr. v.)-приходить в возбуждение (из-за наркотиков)
freak(adj.)-необычный,причудливый
13.to be covered with sweat-быть в
поту
I’m covered with sweat even though
my room is cold.
14.to sue for copyright infringement- подать
в суд за нарушение авторских прав
We should sue for
copyright infringement.
15.to
mink at smb-подмигивать кому-либо
I’m
concentrating so hard on not looking at him I almost miss it when Mr. Daimler
winks at me and smiles.
16.to be
not close to on key-не попадать в
ноты
Music thumps from
the living room. Ally and Elody are out there singing their heads off to “Like
a Prayer.” Ally’s not even close to on key.
17.
time is falling away-время
утекает
...time ticking
and then falling away, lost forever...
18. Dizziness-головокружение
Syn: giddiness,vertigo,swim(разг.)
19.to
make any sense-иметь смысл
“That story
doesn’t make any sense.”
20.to
change the subject-сменить
тему разговора
“Can we change
the subject?” Lindsay brakes for just a
second before yanking the car out onto the wet road.
