Wham! - Last Christmas (lyrics текст и перевод песни)
Перевод на английский: Дружок (Олег Митяев)
Old pal . Flocks of cars multiply, day by day And they're moving increasingly slow. Here in Moscow, it's blizzard again, All schoolkids were advised to stay home. And between us it's hardly three miles, A short ride, but with this public transport All the streets around are occupied, And I can't get to you through the jam. . It's been snowing now For the last three days. Without me, old pal, How you're doing there? . Well, it's not that I'm put off by snow, To be honest, it's only a nuisance. Any minute I'm ready to go, To just walk all the way to your place...
7 случаев, когда OLD нельзя переводить как "старый"...
Сегодня по-быстрому про старое доброе OLD и как с его помощью резко поднять свой спикинг на TOEFL с 14 до 88 баллов. Иногда английское слово OLD не имеет отношения к возрасту и старости. Например: 1. BIG OLD = «большущий / здоровый» Здесь OLD - это просто модификатор. Типа, VERY BIG: • When I was 10, I went to a store and bought a BIG OLD bottle of apple wine and drank it by myself until I threw up. 2. Для разнообразия можете использовать BIG HONKING: Тоже "большущий / здоровый": • I couldn't...