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English General / Conversation / Greetings / Letters Translation Glossary

English term		English translation
back?		who reached the finish
backwall		away from the jewel case	Regi2006
Entered by: Regi2006
backward		hesitant, reticent, reserved
badly used your profession and your life		did not employ his profession/skills and personal energy well
bae scrolls		boyfriend or girlfriend reads
bang at it		fully involved in (drug dealing)+ committed to (working away at...)	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
bath or bathe		bath (UK) / bathe (US)
Batsquatch		quatch seems to be always used to be funny
BE BUILT or TO BE BUILT		will be built
Be considerate and i give the decision to you.		think about it (consider it) and you can make the decision yourself
Be he never so silly, his very silliness		However silly he is (although he is very silly), it will be precisely his silliness...
be it		whether they are
Be it through whistle blowers or immunity		[explanation]
be notified to		notify something to someone	Sheila Wilson
Entered by: Sheila Wilson
be sympathetic		respect and not harm the conversion (as an end result)
bear they their back bones never so stiffly on the throne		however stiffly upright they sit on the throne
bearing down		that came to us
bearing witness [...]		A silent reminder [...]	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
beat		Government Optimistic it Will Beat Cemex
beat a couple of leagues and thence east to a stake and mound		he was way ahead of everyone else
beau nasty		finely dressed, but dirty
because why		because(,)... why...?	BdiL
Entered by: BdiL
become stronger		the sentence needs a lot of work
been done him		done to / committed against him
been read		Has anyone (already) read this book?
before I took over		before I took up this position/started this job	Yvonne Gallagher
Entered by: Yvonne Gallagher
before you say nothing		multiple interpretations
being bombarded		bombarded OK (plus other options)
being from Irvine		UC Irvine was his training base at that time
beyond or outside		through Semen Gresik or through other avenues
beyond the child´s scope		over his head
black and white and blue / black, white, and blue / black-white-blue		black, white and blue	Sheila Wilson
Entered by: Sheila Wilson
black-jack country		Backwoods out-of-the-way place	Lara Barnett
Entered by: Lara Barnett
bland and limitless		insipid / conventional and wide open / nondescript
Blast the boat! let it go!		Damn/To hell with the boat. Let it go*
bleachers		open-air stands
block		A pulley or system of pulleys mounted in a case, used to direct or increase the lifting power of the rope(s) running through it	Tony M
Entered by: Tony M
bluescope		a prefabricated house produced by the company bluescope
bobbing for a whale		fishing for a whale (with hook, line and float)
boisterous		the word is normally associated with people, not inanimate objects

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