Title: Eat Pray Love book Lesson 4_rus

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian: благодаря
English: thanks to
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.

Russian: тритон, морской человек, житель морских глубин; (шутл.) русал
English: merman
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.

Russian: раковина (в которую трубит Тритон)
English: conch shell
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.

Russian: доска объявлений
English: bulletin board
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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Russian: смуглый
English: dark
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.

Russian: однояйцевые близнецы, идентичные близнецы
English: identical twins
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.

Russian: как оказалось
English: as it turned out
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.

Russian: глаза с поволокой
English: liquid eyes
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.

Russian: распороть, разрывать
English: to unstitch
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.

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

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

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

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

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

Russian: например
English: for instance
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.

Russian: за исключением
English: except for
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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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