Brave New 2.2

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an imitation or representation of a cock crowing
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cock-a-doodle-doo
at the mere sight of those gaily-coloured images of cock-a-doodle-doo
incapable of being dissolved or broken; permanent;
Pol. nierozerwarlny
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indissoluble
they wedded indissolubly before the child can speak
Pol. gdzieś (tam) w pobliżu, coś koło tego
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thereabouts
Not so very long ago (a century or thereabouts)
Pol. pierwiosnek
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primrose
Primroses and landscapes they are gratuitous.
If you describe something as_____, you mean that it is unnecessary, and often harmful or upsetting;
Pol. nieuzasadniony, nieptrzebny
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gratuitous
Primroses and landscapes they are gratuitous.
something obscene or indecent
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smut
The smut that was really science fell with a crash into the boys' eye-avoiding silence
obviously or exceptionally culpable or wrong; flagrant;
Pol. rażący, ordynarny, grubiański
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gross
days of gross viviparous reproduction
Pol. katastrofa, wypadek
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crash
his father and mother (crash, crash!) happened to leave the radio turned on.
Pol. mrugnięcie oka
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wink
To Little Reuben's wink and snigger
Pol. chichot
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snigger
To Little Reuben's wink and snigger
Sb who never gets tired of doing sth;
Pol. niezmordowany, niestrudzony
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indefatigable
"Silence, silence," the trumpet mouths indefatigably repeated at intervals down every corridor
having a hissing sound
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sibilant
All the air of the fourteenth floor was sibilant with the categorical imperative.
Pol. chodzić na paluszkach
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tiptoe
Fifty yards of tiptoeing brought them to a door which the Director cautiously opened
Pol. z zamkniętymi okiennicami
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shuttered
They stepped over the threshold into the twilight of a shuttered dormitory.
a large bedroom where several people sleep, for example in a boarding school
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dormitory
f a shuttered dormitory
Pol. wszczepić, wpoić (coś w kogoś)
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inculate sth into sb
Pol. być pokrytym skorupą/warstwą czegoś
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encrust sth
drops that adhere, encrust, incorporate themselves with what they fall on

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