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perspiring

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three perspiring males
perspire

عرق کردن

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cajoled

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خر کردن؛ زبان بازی کردن

he settled disputes and cajoled them all into good temper

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a peculiar-looking man

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عجیب و غریب

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“What the hell are you doing with this pack of females?” demanded McGrath. “Starting a harem.”

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اندرونی؛ حرمسرا

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“Never a hog for regular work, were you

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با حرص و آز صرف كردن

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Anthony ignored this aspersion.

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توهین

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Jimmy chuckled.

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to laugh quietly: He sat chuckling over a funny book.
آرام خندیدن

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If there’s any trouble brewing, Anthony Cade is sure to be in it sooner or later, I know that,

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در شرف رخ دادن

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You’ve an absolute instinct for rows

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قیل و قال

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When can we have a yarn together?

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yarn
نخ بافندگی: yarn
نخ تابیده: spun yarn, yarn, lisle, whipcord
داستان افسانه امیز: yarn

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cackling

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صدای مرغ درآوردن

I’ve got to take these cackling hens to see Rhodes’s grave.

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They’ll come back bumped black and blue with the ruts in the road, and clamouring for bed to rest the bruises on

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♦ noun
a deep track made by a wheel etc in soft ground: The road was full of ruts.
شیار؛ جای چرخ

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They’ll come back bumped black and blue with the ruts in the road, and clamouring for bed to rest the bruises on

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verb - clamor
مصرانه تقاضا کردن: clamor, clamour
غریو کشیدن: clamor, clamour

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Flock

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Anthony rejoined his flock of sheep
گله

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most skittish of the party, instantly attacked him

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چموش

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cried Miss Taylor coquettishly

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adjective - coquettish
طناز: coquettish
عشوه گر: coquettish

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when their dignity was ruffled,

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verb - ruffle
موجدار کردن: ruffle
گره زدن: tie, knit, knot, ruffle, cadge, loop
تاه کردن: ruffle, fold, lap, ply, ruff
بر هم زدن: bash, disturb, ruffle, faze, unsettle, overset
چروک کردن: ruff, shrink, pucker, ruffle

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The last task was rendered easier for him

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verb - render
ارائه دادن: give, present, render, bring forward, exhibit, hold forth
دادن: give, give, grant, admit, impute, render
تحویل دادن: deliver, hand over, surrender, render

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read a tender meaning into his most innocent remarks

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adjective - tender
حساس: sensitive, susceptible, delicate, touchy, tender, sentient
لطیف: subtle, delicate, soft, soft, fine, tender
ترد: crisp, crispy, brittle, tender, frangible, fragile
مهربان: kind, merciful, gentle, compassionate, friendly, tender
نازک: thin, fine, slim, tender, soft, tenuous
باریک: thin, narrow, slender, tenuous, capillary, tender

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Kind hearts are more than coronets

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noun - coronet
تاج: crown, crest, corona, miter, rostrum, coronet
نیم تاج: diadem, coronet
پیشانی بند: headband, coronet, frontlet, crown

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wishing fervently it was lunch time.

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adjective - fervent
ملتهب: fervent
با حرارت: fervent, hot, earnest, adust, ebullient, strenuous
باحمیت: fervent
پرشور وشعف: fervent

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“I might recite ‘The boy stood on the burning deck’ at a pinch

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noun - pinch
تنگنا: bottleneck, pinch, impasse, warpath, fix, strait
نیشگون: pinch
مضیقه: pinch, pressure, difficulty, difficult situation
موقعیت باریک: pinch

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fro like a dog

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● عقب،پس (فقط در این عبارت به کار می‌رود: پیش و پس،عقب و جلو to and fro)

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said Anthony briskly.

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quickly, briskly, energetically

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said Anthony briskly.
quickly, briskly, energetically
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Mrs. Caldicott’s eyes gleamed
verb - gleam سوسو زدن: flicker, gleam, gleam, shimmer, glimmer, blink نور دادن: gleam noun - gleam نور ضعیف: gleam, starlight پرتو انی: gleam سوسو: flicker, gleam تظاهر موقتی: gleam
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she remarked with the air of one springing a mine:
verb - spring پریدن: jump, vault, bounce, skip, fly, flight لی لی کردن: hop, hip, skip, spring جهش کردن: lunge, rebound, spout, spring, spurt جهیدن: bound, spring قابل ارتجاع بودن: spring حالت فنری داشتن: spring
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Mr. and Mrs. Caldicott sailed off triumphantly to the hotel
adverb - triumphantly فاتحانه: triumphantly غالبانه: triumphantly, victoriously
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the lady’s back complacent with successful forethought Complacent
adjective - complacent از خود راضی: cocky, overbearing, smug, complacent, assuming, presuming عشرت طلب: complacent تن اسا: complacent, self-affected خود خوشنود: complacent
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the lady’s back complacent with successful forethought Forethought
precaution, caution, reserve, prudence, discretion, forethought دوراندیشی: foresight, forethought اندیشه قبلی: forethought مال اندیشی: foresight, forethought,
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Miss Taylor kept by his side, and resumed her catechism.
noun - catechism تعلیم و دستور مذهبی: catechism پرسش نامه مذهبی: catechism کتاب سوال و جواب دینی: catechism
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Miss Taylor kept by his side, and resumed her catechism.
noun - catechism تعلیم و دستور مذهبی: catechism پرسش نامه مذهبی: catechism کتاب سوال و جواب دینی: catechism
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he was all trussed up ready for the cooking pot
بستن
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Very nice little shindy. We potted some of the beggars Beggars
noun - beggar گدا: beggar, pauper, mendicant, beadsman, lazar گرفتار فقر و فاقه: beggar
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Make it strong, James,” he implored.
التماس کردن
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McGrath poured out his own drink, tossed it off with a practised hand and mixed a second one. Tossed
verb - toss پرت کردن: launch, toss, fling, hurtle, shy, throw انداختن: drop, throw, cast, put, launch, toss بالا انداختن: s
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McGrath poured out his own drink, tossed it off with a practised hand and mixed a second one. Practised
با تجربه
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Are you in earnest about that, old son
جدی و ساعی؛ کوشا
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Are you in earnest about that, old son
جدی و ساعی؛ کوشا
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Chucking this job of yours if you could get another?”
انداختن؛ پرتاب کردن
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I can be jolly useful in a revolution
شنگول؛ سرحال
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They can’t dun you for bills after seven years, can they, Jimmy?”
ازار دادن
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There was quite an appreciable pause before Anthony answered
محسوس
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There was quite an appreciable pause before Anthony answered
محسوس
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Population, chiefly brigands
راهزن یاغی
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you’d have been hung up by the heels and bastinadoed or something equally unpleasant
چوب زدن
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strictures
noun - stricture تنگی: stricture, constriction, desolation, drought, drouth جراحت: wound, sore, lesion, suppuration, stricture, lymph باریک بینی: subtlety, stricture ضیق: narrowness, niggardliness, stinginess, strictur
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strictures
noun - stricture تنگی: stricture, constriction, desolation, drought, drouth جراحت: wound, sore, lesion, suppuration, stricture, lymph باریک بینی: subtlety, stricture ضیق: narrowness, niggardliness, stinginess, strictur
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villain
آدم رذل The biggest villain unhung.
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intrigue
he’s been a perfect king of intrigue نقشه؛ توطئه
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Proportion
You’ve no sense of proportion, Jimmy قیاس
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Proportion
You’ve no sense of proportion, Jimmy قیاس
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Rebuke
Jimmy accepted the rebuke and hastened on. سرزنش
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Hasten
Jimmy accepted the rebuke and hastened on. عجله کردن
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toughs
beat up the toughs a rough, violent person; a bully. آدم کله شق
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Scrap
I’d like to have seen that scrap. آلبوم عكس خرت و پرت
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morganatic
not even suitable for a morganatic alliance ازدواج کننده با پست تراز خود
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squared
Nicholas squared his ministers, and I suppose he thought that was all that mattered⁠—but he forgot to reckon with the populace وفق دادن جور در اوردن
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Reckon
Nicholas squared his ministers, and I suppose he thought that was all that mattered⁠—but he forgot to reckon with the populace روی چیزی یا کسی حساب کردن ارزیابی کردن تسویه حساب
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aristocratic
They’re very aristocratic and reactionary in Herzoslovakia اشرافی، اعیانی
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discontent
There were mutterings and discontent, and the usual ruthless suppressions, and the final uprising which stormed the palace, murdered the king and queen, and proclaimed a republic. نارضایتی؛ ناخشنودی
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ruthless
There were mutterings and discontent, and the usual ruthless suppressions, and the final uprising which stormed the palace, murdered the king and queen, and proclaimed a republic. بی رحمی؛ سنگدلی
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Proclaimed
There were mutterings and discontent, and the usual ruthless suppressions, and the final uprising which stormed the palace, murdered the king and queen, and proclaimed a republic. اعلام کردن
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Proclaimed
There were mutterings and discontent, and the usual ruthless suppressions, and the final uprising which stormed the palace, murdered the king and queen, and proclaimed a republic. اعلام کردن
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queer
I got a queer-looking parcel which had been following me all over the place for the Lord knows how long. عجیب غریب همجنس. باز
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Hoax
I hope to God it’s not a hoax حقه
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mythical
A thousand pounds in the hand is worth a lot of mythical gold.” افسانه امیز
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gnash
Done, and just to make you gnash your teeth I’ll tell you that I would have gone for a hundred! ندان ها را به هم ساییدن
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gnash
Done, and just to make you gnash your teeth I’ll tell you that I would have gone for a hundred! ندان ها را به هم ساییدن

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