Фразовые глаголы самой мужественной недели в году

23 февраля, отмеченное повышенным уровнем тестостерона, неумолимо наступает, поэтому пора поговорить о фразовых глаголах, пришедших в повседневный английский из армейских гарнизонов или прямо с передовой. Squad, atten-shun!

• Boot up – собраться в спешке; мгновенно приготовиться

Примечание: Глагол to boot up также используется в компьютерной сфере в значении «загружаться».

Пример: I had 15 minutes to boot up and dash of my condo for my first audition. (Raquel Welch)

• Roll back – сдерживать, отбрасывать, низводить, откатываться на прежний уровень

Синоним: to hold in, to keep back, to restrain

Пример: Tory plans to cut 'further and faster' would wreck recovery and roll back Labour's many successes. (Alistair Darling)

• Blow away – разгромить, нанести сокрушительное поражение, потрясти, изумить

Синоним: to make matchwood of smb, to defeat, to beat down

Пример: There has been nothing more impactful on my life and meaningful to me than the introduction of Christ. That, hands down, blows away every joke I've ever written. (Georgia Salpa)

I'm from Canada, and New Zealand feels like you took all the best bits of Canada and squished them onto a tiny island like Hawaii. I was absolutely blown away by the beauty of the South Island. (Evangeline Lilly)

• Camp out – разбить лагерь, ночевать под открытым небом

Синоним: to sleep in the open

Пример: I'd like to go on a hardcore safari in Africa, something off the beaten track with anti-poaching people and camping out in the savannah. (Dominic Monaghan)

• Bug out – в спешке собраться и перебраться в другое место

Синоним: to re-deploy, to move

Пример: Every James Brown cut makes a party get crazy. He's the god of all music. I always play different wild remixes of his songs when I see that people start bugging out of the club. (Afrika Bambaataa)

• Get it on – приходить в восторг, быть охваченным энтузиазмом

Синоним: to become filled with energy or excitement, to go mad

Пример: There's something about that relationship between actor and audience. Whether on Broadway or in a fine local playhouse, there's no greater drug. Every time I get to do TV, film and a play in the same year, I get it on. (Roger Bart)

• Dig in – окапаться, засесть; перетерпеть, стойко переносить трудности; укореняться, закрепляться

Синоним: to settle down, to bury oneself in; to weather away, to endure, to suffer, to bear; to take roots

Пример: Find your place on the planet. Dig in, and take responsibility from there. (Gary Snyder)

• Call up – призывать; вызывать, заставлять появиться; будить воспоминания

Синоним: to draft; to call, to appeal, to summon; to remind

Пример: I did not want to avoid service. I did realize reservists could be called up, and that it was something that I wanted to do. (Richard Blumenthal)

• Fall back – отступать, отставать, терять темп

Синоним: to retreat, to drag, to drop behind, to fall behind

Пример: Plus, I've always felt that, if the worst came to the worst in my career, I could always fall back to doing voices on the radio. (Rob Brydon)

• Join up – поступать на военную службу; присоединиться

Синоним: to enlist

Пример: I wasn't a good student in high school. I wanted to go to college, but they weren't exactly beating down my door to offer me admission, and it's so expensive in the U.S. If you join up for a period, the army will pay your school and provide a stipend. (Kevin Powers)

• Take up arms – взяться за оружие, восстать против, сопротивляться, противостоять

Синоним: to rise against, to rebel, to oppose, to revolt

Пример: Remember that whatever may be said by a lady or her friends, it is not part of conduct of a gallant or generous man to take up arms against a woman. (Sam Houston)

• Finish off – одержать победу; завершить, добить, прикончить, расправиться

Синоним: to complete, to accomplish, to crown with

Пример: To finish off this whole Olympics by finally getting the gold medal, it's the best feeling in the world. (Shawn Johnson)

Проверьте себя: Our goal is not to crush the opposing political upheaval at any price, but to make it realize that it is illegal to take up arms

1. and join in the army.
2. and roll back the economy of the country.
3. to overthrow a democratically elected government.

Правильный ответ на нашу предыдущую «проверку» – вариант B.

Squad, dismissed!