💫Word of the day: schadenfreude
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Though his face was indistinct in the darkness, Fitzroy could sense the schadenfreude in Ringier’s expression”
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Though his face was indistinct in the darkness, Fitzroy could sense the schadenfreude in Ringier’s expression”
🌿🥚Easter in English and Russian
I don’t practice religion myself, but I find it an endlessly mesmerizing cultural phenomenon ⛪️🕍🏛
And Easter is one of the most beautiful holidays of the year, so I love to celebrate it✨ Coming from a religious family I learned a lot about the traditions, and it’s really interesting to compare the names (and, thus, the attitudes) between the cultures:
Resurrection - Воскресение
Holy week - Страстная неделя
Palm Sunday - Вербное воскресенье
Spy Wednesday - Великая среда (день договоренности на 30 серебренников)
Maundy Thursday (Sheer Thursday) - Чистый четверг (день Тайной Вечери)
"Maundy" is an English simplification from the Latin word mandatum, or commandment, reflecting Jesus' words "I give you a new commandment."
The Last Supper - Тайная вечеря
Good Friday - Страстная пятница (день распятия)
Holy (Great) Saturday - Страстная (Великая) суббота (день ожидания воскресения)
Resurrection (Easter) Sunday - Светлое воскресенье
I don’t practice religion myself, but I find it an endlessly mesmerizing cultural phenomenon ⛪️🕍🏛
And Easter is one of the most beautiful holidays of the year, so I love to celebrate it✨ Coming from a religious family I learned a lot about the traditions, and it’s really interesting to compare the names (and, thus, the attitudes) between the cultures:
Resurrection - Воскресение
Holy week - Страстная неделя
Palm Sunday - Вербное воскресенье
Spy Wednesday - Великая среда (день договоренности на 30 серебренников)
Maundy Thursday (Sheer Thursday) - Чистый четверг (день Тайной Вечери)
"Maundy" is an English simplification from the Latin word mandatum, or commandment, reflecting Jesus' words "I give you a new commandment."
The Last Supper - Тайная вечеря
Good Friday - Страстная пятница (день распятия)
Holy (Great) Saturday - Страстная (Великая) суббота (день ожидания воскресения)
Resurrection (Easter) Sunday - Светлое воскресенье
💫Word of the day: reverberate
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“His every footstep reverberated through the palace halls”
✨Example from The Dark Forest:
“His every footstep reverberated through the palace halls”
💫Word of the day: burgeon
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “After the first two sophons appeared, burgeoning evidence demonstrated that additional sophons were constantly reaching the Solar System and coming to Earth, a process that continues even now.”
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “After the first two sophons appeared, burgeoning evidence demonstrated that additional sophons were constantly reaching the Solar System and coming to Earth, a process that continues even now.”
Про локализацию названий фильмов🤦🏻♀️ на скриншоте даже не мем, просто кусочек новостного поста🤷🏻♀️
💫Word of the day: snatches
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Then he heard a car pull up to the porch and caught snatches of conversation.”
*snatch как глагол - хватать, так что snatches – наши обрывки и урывки
✨Example from The Dark Forest: “Then he heard a car pull up to the porch and caught snatches of conversation.”
*snatch как глагол - хватать, так что snatches – наши обрывки и урывки
🍃Word of the day: ravine (pronounced not with i, but with long ee) - овраг
and one more: creek - ручей🏞️
🌿Example from the book (Dandelion Wine, for a change) : “And then I wanted to call back what the ravine was like, especially on those nights when walking home late across town, after seeing Lon Chaney’s delicious fright The Phantom of the Opera, my brother Skip would run ahead and hide under the ravine-creek bridge like the Lonely One and leap out and grab me, shrieking, so I ran, fell, and ran again, gibbering all the way home. That was great stuff.”
and one more: creek - ручей🏞️
🌿Example from the book (Dandelion Wine, for a change) : “And then I wanted to call back what the ravine was like, especially on those nights when walking home late across town, after seeing Lon Chaney’s delicious fright The Phantom of the Opera, my brother Skip would run ahead and hide under the ravine-creek bridge like the Lonely One and leap out and grab me, shrieking, so I ran, fell, and ran again, gibbering all the way home. That was great stuff.”
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