recharge your batteries informal to get back your strength and energy again:
I'm going to spend a week in the mountains to recharge my batteries.
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Terms and Concepts
carpentry the skill or work of a carpenter
moving it about with your fingers or something such as a cloth:
Can you rub some sun cream on my back for me?
The air was pretty cool yesterday.
So I didn't think we'd be ablet to swim.
But the water was suprisingly warm.
pretty adv spoken very: Dinner at Nobu's sounds pretty good to me.
Did you hear about Tomoya and Saki?
They decided to part ways.
It's a sad thing to see after four years together.
part written to separate from , or end a relationship with them
You're moving out to the country?
I prefer to live in the city, myself.
Living in a rural setting would bore me.
move out to leave the house where you are living now in order to go
and live somewhere else
bore to make someone feel bored, especially by talking too much about
something they are not interested in: a film that will bore its young audience
setting the place where something is or where something happens,
and the general environment
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earchshattering surprising or shocking and very important
item single, usually short, piece of news in a newspaper or magazine,
or on television
figure sb/sth <-> out to think about a problem or situation until you find
the answer or understand what has happened [syn] work out
go figure AmE spoken said to show that you think something is strange or
difficult to explain
fraught with problems/difficulties/danger etc full of problems etc
no kidding spoken used to say that you understand and agree with what
someone has just said
linguistic misunderstanding
linguistic related to language, words, or lingustics
misunderstanding a problem caused by someone not understanding a question,
situation, or instruction correctly
issue a subject or problem that is often discussed or argued about,
especially a social or political matter that affects the interest of a lot of people
at issue the problem or subject at issue is the most important part of
what you are discussing or considering
melancholy very sad: The music suited her melancholy mood.
malevolent a malevolent person wants to harm other people [syn] evil
momentous a momentous event, change, or decision is very important
because it will have a great influence on the future
tedious something that is tedious continues for a long time and is not interesting
[syn] boring
parsimonious extremely unwilling to spend money
1977: Two Boeing 747s collide on a fog-shrouded runway at Tenerife in the Canary Islands,
killing 583 people in the worst accident in aviation history. Sixty-one people survive.
The planes - Pan Am flight 1736 originating in Los Angeles and KLM Royal Dutch Airlines flight
4805, a charter from Amsterdam - crashed into each other on Los Rodeos Airport's single runway.
Visibility on the ground was poor, limited to 1,000 feet or so, but many other factors led to
the disaster. Muddled instructions, malfunctioning runway lights and an overcrowded airport
played roles, too, but perhaps the major factor was pilot error, specifically the bad
judgment exercised by the Dutch captain. (…)
Despite the various factors feeding into the disaster, the official inquiry laid the entire blame on
van Zanten. The veteran pilot's most egregious sin, caused either by impatience or
miscommunication, was to take off without having received clearance from the tower.
Had van Zanten waited, the worst aviation accident in history would never have happened.
Rest in peace.
egregious an egregious mistake, failure, problem etc is extremely bad and
noticeable
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