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the ravages of something the damage caused by something a building hat has survived the ravages of time The old tree (birches don’t live much past a hundred) has already experienced the ravages of time – or I should say of woodpeckers. dire extremely serious or terrible The country is in dire need of food aid If we did that, we’d have to say that dogs are in dire need of a pair of glasses.
smack your lips to make a short loud noise with your lips before or after you eat or drink something to show that it is good He drained his glass and smacked his lips appreciatively. What better idea than to smack your lips and enjoy this product from the cecum fresh from the anus, ingest it anew, and extract valuable calories during its journey through the small intestine? revolting extremely unpleasant (= disgusting) The food was revolting So it is…
at this juncture a particular point in an activity or period of time At this juncture I suggest we take a short break Incidentally, the parent-child relationship in our family improved markedly at this juncture, because we were no longer constantly getting on each other’s nerves. break out into a sweat/break out in a sweat to start sweating to become very nervous or frightened Drops in stock market prices have investors breaking out into a sweat Barli returned, but then…
It is customary (for somebody) to do something something that is customary is normal because it is the way something is usually done (= usual) In some cultures it is customary for the bride to wear white. Gourmets advance a similar argument every year at Christmas when it’s customary to load the table with tasty crustaceans, and Der Spiegel (the print sister magazine to Spiegel Online) has reported on this, as well.
lose no time in doing something do something immediately Murdock lost no time in taking out a patent for his invention. Yeti lost no time adopting fourteen piglets, even though their own mothers were still around. threading your way through/into something etc to move through a place by carefully going around thing that are blocking your way She came towards me, threading her way through the crowd. When the sun shines, the danger comes from agile hawks threading their way…
malleable In your own backyard, a much more malleable rule applies, which states that under some circumstances culturally manipulated landscapes are also worthy of protection, particularly when the original landscape has completely disappeared. blow somebody away to make someone feel very surprised, especially about something they like or admire It just blows me away, the way everyone’s so friendly round here. We were blown away by the United States. be out of the question if something is out of the…
reprehensible reprehensible behavior is very bad and deserves criticism I find their behavior morally reprehensible Firefighters put their lives on the line every time they go out to make sure people and property are safe, which make it all the more reprehensible that there are very a few who, to ensure their jobs are secure, start fires themselves when things slow down. toil/work/labour in obscurity work without being well-known After years of working in obscurity, his paintings are now hanging…
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.