We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings.
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 13 March 2025
Just now, right now
To die of shame
To die of grief
Chest complaint, bottom of the heart, secret thoughts
Once, one time, one day
To assume the defence of s.o.
To defend one’s country
To become famous
Collective memory
Famous, celebrated, well-known
To defend the faith
To pull the wool over s.b.’s eyes, to deceive s.b. with a smokescreen
The armed wing
A grain of sand
To shed tears
Orgasm
Strong fear
Artificial intelligence
A keen intellect
To quote s.th. as an example
To remind s.b. of s.th.
To mention s.b. favourably
To retain a good impression of s.o., to speak well of s.o.
Centenary
That is his habit
That is of considerable importance
He is innocent of . . .
There and back, back and forth, up and down
To be in vain
To go one’s own way, to go one’s way
To go far away, go to distant lands
To ruin, thwart s.th., to scatter s.th. in all directions
To be in vain, be of no avail, pass uselessly
To pace the floor, walk up and down
To be in vain, futile, useless
To die unheard
To fall victim to, become a victim of s.th. or s.o.
Their days of glory are past
He attended to a task, he went to do s.th.
He passed away
To go up in smoke, fall through, come to nought, dissolve into nothing
To melt away uselessly, futilely, be spent in vain, be wasted
To be scattered in all directions, they were scattered to the four winds
Coming and going
Liege lord, feudal lord
The responsible man, the man in charge, the man directly concerned with the matter
Pensioner
Influential
Courageous, brave, intrepid
Significant, important
Three-dimensional
Double-edged
Of noble descent
Endowed with
Dangerous, perilous, important
Wealthy
Significant, important
Rough, rugged, adverse, inconvenient, bad, poor
Intelligent
Connected with, related to
Valuable
Deceitful, double-tongued, insincere, two-faced
Wealthy, rich
Significant, meaningful, telling
Significant
Considerable, notable
Enough to shake the thirst
To have a good taste
Dubious persons, people of ill repute
People of distinction, important people
The influential people, the competent people, those concerned with the matter
To save this book to your Kindle, first ensure [email protected] is added to your Approved Personal Document E-mail List under your Personal Document Settings on the Manage Your Content and Devices page of your Amazon account. Then enter the ‘name’ part of your Kindle email address below. Find out more about saving to your Kindle.
Note you can select to save to either the @free.kindle.com or @kindle.com variations. ‘@free.kindle.com’ emails are free but can only be saved to your device when it is connected to wi-fi. ‘@kindle.com’ emails can be delivered even when you are not connected to wi-fi, but note that service fees apply.
Find out more about the Kindle Personal Document Service.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Dropbox.
To save content items to your account, please confirm that you agree to abide by our usage policies. If this is the first time you use this feature, you will be asked to authorise Cambridge Core to connect with your account. Find out more about saving content to Google Drive.
