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bequeath something to somebody to officially arrange for someone to have something that you own after your death She bequeathed her collection of paintings to the National Gallery. stoical not showing emotion or not complaining when bad things happen to you plunder Jays fly little more than half a mile before they deposit their plunder, but that’s quite far enough for the beech.
infestation If insects, rats etc infest a place, there are a lot of them and they usually cause damage: be infested with The kitchen was infested with cockroaches. I’ve often heard it said that mild winters cause plagues of biting flies or catastrophic bark beetle infestations. overwinter to live through the winter, or to make it possible for something to live through the winter These birds generally overwinter in tropical regioin. in a predicament a difficult or unpleasant situation in…
draw up 퍼올리다 Draw water from a well Now an armada of organisms does a tidy job of breaking down the vegetative remains, whereupon the nutrients enter the next tree whose turn it is to draw up the released elixirs of life from the soil.
make someone’s blood run cold make somebody feel horror or extreme fear The thought of Eloise getting her claws into the child made his blood run cold. Not that they’ve actually hurt anyone: their mere presence close to villages or, worse still, primary schools is enought to make some people’s blood run cold.
miss out on to not have the chance to do something that you enjoy and that would be good for you Prepare food in advance to ensure you don’t miss out on the fun! And so the grizzly bear population declines and tourists miss out on a trip of a lifetime.
be strewn with something to scatter things around a large area The street was strewn with broken glass. The landscape around it was strewn with boulders, which underscored the barrenness of this high plateau. boulder – a large rounded piece of rock hold out to continue to successfully defend a place that is being attacked The revels held out for another night but then fresh forces arrived. For a moment I was speechless as I thought about how long this…
out of the picture if someone is out of the picture, they are no longer involved in a situation Injury has effectively put Woods out of the picture as far as international matches are concerned. But even leaving industry out of the picture, we’d still be left with the impact of having nothing but remnant or replanted forests.
give in to pressure do what people want you to do He eventually gave in to pressure and resigned. Instead the forest agencies give in to pressure and offer displaced pasture residents a home. commandeer – to take someone else’s property for your own use, especially during a war : The local hotel was commandeered for the wounded.
with bated breath feeling very anxious or excited He waited for a reply to his offer with bated breath. We waited with bated breath for the flowers and then the fruit. run out of steam to no longer have the energy or the desire to continue doing something, especially because you are tired I usually just let her yell until she runs out of steam. That’s impressive because most of our native trees in Germany – the beech, for instance…
plume of smoke/dust/gas/spray etc a cloud of smoke, dust etc which rises up into the air A black plum of smoke rose above the city Plumes of black smoke are also a regular sight near homes in isolated areas outside the villages – a sign that people here still burn their garbage. rough and ready Not perfect, but good enough for a particular purpose The tests are only a rough and ready guide to a pupil’s future development. We don’t…