Answer — Exercise 2
06 - Preparation·Cutting Edge Intermediate - Student's Book
Domanda
check the meaning of the key phrases below.
Risposta
- to find a body: to find the body of a dead person
- a great tragedy: a very sad event (when something will be wasted, lost or harmed)
- to go shooting: to take part in the sport of shooting animals and birds with guns
- to sink in a bog: to go down below the surface of water, mud, etc., in this case, an area of low wet muddy ground, known, as a bog
- to chase someone: to quickly follow someone in order to catch them
- snarling dogs: if an animal snarls, it makes low angry sounds and shows its teeth
- to see a ghost: to think that you see the image of a dead person
- a letter of introduction: an important part of polite social interaction in the 18th and 19th centuries. A person would not interact socially with others unless they had been properly introduced, in person or by letter. A person of lower social status would request a patron of higher social status to write a letter of introduction to a third party.
- French windows: a pair of doors made mostly of glass, usually opening onto a garden
- to go insane with grief: to become mentally ill because of the extreme sadness you feel after someone you love has died
- a cure for bad nerves: A cure is something (often a medicine) that solves a problem or illness. If someone has bad nerves, they are easily worried and frightened.
- to have a nervous breakdown: to experience a mental illness in which someone becomes extremely anxious and cannot deal with the things they usually would
- to knock someone off their bicycle: to cause someone to fall off their bicycle by getting in their way or hitting them with a vehicle you are driving