Title: Eat Pray Love book Lesson 4_eng

English: savvy
Russian: ушлый, поднаторевший, искушенный
Example: To which the savvy observer might inquire: "Then why did you come to Italy?"

English: to inquire
Russian: спрашивать, интересоваться, вопрошать
Example: To which the savvy observer might inquire: "Then why did you come to Italy?"

English: Tandem Exchange
Russian: промежуточная станция
Example: Giovanni is my Tandem Exchange Partner.

English: innuendo
Russian: намек, двусмысленность, намек с сексуальным подтекстом
Example: That sounds like an innuendo, but unfortunately it's not.

English: unfortunately
Russian: к сожалению
Example: That sounds like an innuendo, but unfortunately it's not.

English: patient
Russian: терпеливый
Example: We speak first in Italian, and he is patient with me; then we speak in English, and I am patient with him.

English: thanks to
Russian: благодаря
Example: I discovered Giovanni a few weeks after I'd arrived in Rome, thanks to that big Internet cafe at the Piazza Barbarini, across the street from that fountain with the sculpture of that sexy merman blowing into his conch shell.

English: merman
Russian: тритон, морской человек, житель морских глубин; (шутл.) русал
Example: I discovered Giovanni a few weeks after I'd arrived in Rome, thanks to that big Internet cafe at the Piazza Barbarini, across the street from that fountain with the sculpture of that sexy merman blowing into his conch shell.

English: conch shell
Russian: раковина (в которую трубит Тритон)
Example: I discovered Giovanni a few weeks after I'd arrived in Rome, thanks to that big Internet cafe at the Piazza Barbarini, across the street from that fountain with the sculpture of that sexy merman blowing into his conch shell.

English: bulletin board
Russian: доска объявлений
Example: He (Giovanni, that is – not the merman) had posted a flier on the bulletin board explaining that a native Italian speaker was seeking a native English speaker for conversational language practice.

English: appeal
Russian: призыв, просьба
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: the same
Russian: тот же самый, одинаковый
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: request
Russian: просьба
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: word-for-word
Russian: слово в слово, точь-в-точь, дословно, буквально
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: in every way
Russian: всесторонне, во всех смыслах, как ни посмотри
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: right down to
Russian: вплоть до, с точностью до
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: typeface
Russian: гарнитура шрифта
Example: Right beside his appeal was another flier with the same request, word-for-word identical in every way, right down to the typeface.

English: keen
Russian: сильный (о чувствах); чуткий, обостренный
Example: Using my keen intuitive powers, I e-mailed both men at the same time, asking in Italian, "Are you perhaps brothers?"

English: at the same time
Russian: в то же самое время, одновременно
Example: Using my keen intuitive powers, I e-mailed both men at the same time, asking in Italian, "Are you perhaps brothers?"

English: dark
Russian: смуглый
Example: Tall, dark and handsome identical twenty-five-year-old twins, as it turned out, with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes that just unstitch me.

English: identical twins
Russian: однояйцевые близнецы, идентичные близнецы
Example: Tall, dark and handsome identical twenty-five-year-old twins, as it turned out, with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes that just unstitch me.

English: as it turned out
Russian: как оказалось
Example: Tall, dark and handsome identical twenty-five-year-old twins, as it turned out, with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes that just unstitch me.

English: liquid eyes
Russian: глаза с поволокой
Example: Tall, dark and handsome identical twenty-five-year-old twins, as it turned out, with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes that just unstitch me.

English: to unstitch
Russian: распороть, разрывать
Example: Tall, dark and handsome identical twenty-five-year-old twins, as it turned out, with those giant brown liquid-center Italian eyes that just unstitch me.

English: in person
Russian: лично
Example: After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

English: to wonder
Russian: интересоваться
Example: After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

English: to adjust
Russian: адаптировать
Example: After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

English: somewhat
Russian: в какой-то степени
Example: After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

English: celibate
Russian: давший обет безбрачия
Example: After meeting the boys in person, I began to wonder if perhaps I should adjust my rule somewhat about remaining celibate this year.

English: for instance
Russian: например
Example: For instance, perhaps I could remain totally celibate except for keeping a pair of handsome twenty-five-year-old Italian twin brothers as lovers.

English: except for
Russian: за исключением
Example: For instance, perhaps I could remain totally celibate except for keeping a pair of handsome twenty-five-year-old Italian twin brothers as lovers.
Which was slightly reminiscent of a friend of mine who is vegetarian except for bacon, but nonetheless…

English: slightly
Russian: слегка
Example: Which was slightly reminiscent of a friend of mine who is vegetarian except for bacon, but nonetheless…

English: reminiscent
Russian: напоминающий
Example: Which was slightly reminiscent of a friend of mine who is vegetarian except for bacon, but nonetheless…

English: to compose
Russian: составлять
Example: I was already composing my letter to Penthouse:

English: flickering
Russian: мерцающий, трепещущий
Example: In the flickering, candlelit shadows of the Roman cafe, it was impossible to tell whose hands were caress –

English: candlelit
Russian: освещенный свечой
Example: In the flickering, candlelit shadows of the Roman cafe, it was impossible to tell whose hands were caress –

English: to caress
Russian: ласкать, ласкать с сексуальными намерениями
Example: In the flickering, candlelit shadows of the Roman cafe, it was impossible to tell whose hands were caress –

English: Tandem Exchange Partner
Russian: языковой партнер для изучения родного языка другого человека
Example: Giovanni is my Tandem Exchange Partner.