tailieunhanh - british english a to zed phần 7

Tham khảo tài liệu 'british english a to zed phần 7', ngoại ngữ, ngữ pháp tiếng anh phục vụ nhu cầu học tập, nghiên cứu và làm việc hiệu quả | 244 pergola pergola n. trellis Pergola in America evokes the image of a rustic garden house to escape into out of the rain or for children to play house in or adolescents to daydream in. Technically it means an arbor or bower. But in Britain especially in the country it is the name for a trellis running in a straight line and usually constructed of slim tree trunks as uprights and branches as crosspieces and Y-shaped supports all still wearing their bark and forming a frame for the training of climbing roses. period return. See return. perish . destroy Perish is of course in both countries an intransitive verb. The transitive use is very rare in America and is now heard only in dialect. In Britain one still is perished by or with cold thirst etc. This does not mean one has died of it but merely been distressed or at least made seriously uncomfortable. When heat or cold perishes vegetation it does mean destroy. Perishing can be used in Britain as an adverb as in perishing cold. It s perishing cold which means terribly cold is another British way of saying bloody cold. perks n. pl. fringe benefits Inf. Shortening of perquisites. Gaining currency in America. permanent way roadbed Railroad term. It means the roadbed or the rails themselves. The epithet permanent derives from the earliest days of railroad construction when the gangs laid temporary trackage and then later put in the permanent tracks after the right of way had consolidated. perry n. pear cider A fermented pear juice drink in Britain. See also cider scrump. personal allowance Income tax term. personal exemption personal call See also pay for the call caller. person-to-person call Perspex perspex n. plexiglass peterman n. Slang Also in America called a peteman. safe cracker petrol n. A petrol station is a filling station. gasoline petrol bomb Inf. Molotov cocktail petty n. Slang. A lavatory. Heard mostly in the North of England. Slang john pewter n. Slang booty Slang. Used in this context pewter means .