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1 uphold
past tense, past participle - upheld; verb1) (to support (a person's action): His family upholds (him in) his present action.) podpirati2) (to confirm (eg a claim, legal judgement etc): The decision of the judge was upheld by the court.) potrditi3) (to maintain (eg a custom): The old traditions are still upheld in this village.) vzdrževati* * *[ʌphóuld]transitive verbdržati pokonci (kvišku), dvigniti kvišku; vzdrževati (običaj); zadržati (vrednost); potrditi, odobriti (sklep, sodbo); podpiratiuphold a cause — podpirati, braniti (neko) stvar -
2 facelift
1) (an operation to smooth and firm the face: She has had a facelift.) plastična operacija obraza2) (a process intended to make a building etc look better: This village will be given a facelift.) obnova -
3 approach
[ə'prəu ] 1. verb(to come near (to): The car approached (the traffic lights) at top speed; Christmas is approaching.) (pri)bližati se2. noun1) (the act of coming near: The boys ran off at the approach of a policeman.) prihod2) (a road, path etc leading to a place: All the approaches to the village were blocked by fallen rock.) dostop3) (an attempt to obtain or attract a person's help, interest etc: They have made an approach to the government for help; That fellow makes approaches to (= he tries to become friendly with) every woman he meets.) poskus(i) približanja, prizadevanje•- approaching* * *I [əpróuč]1.transitive verbpribližati; ogovoriti koga, obrniti se na koga; predlagati;2.intransitive verbpribližati se; mejiti na kaj; narediti prvi korakII [əpróuč]nounbližanje, dostop, pot, vhod; zbliževanje; poskus; ukrep; stališče; način obdelave; (golf) igra okoli jamiceit was his nearest approach to crying — malo je manjkalo, pa bi se bil zjokal -
4 common
['komən] 1. adjective1) (seen or happening often; quite normal or usual: a common occurrence; These birds are not so common nowadays.) običajen2) (belonging equally to, or shared by, more than one: This knowledge is common to all of us; We share a common language.) skupen3) (publicly owned: common property.) javen4) (coarse or impolite: She uses some very common expressions.) prostaški5) (of ordinary, not high, social rank: the common people.) poprečen6) (of a noun, not beginning with a capital letter (except at the beginning of a sentence): The house is empty.) obči2. noun((a piece of) public land for everyone to use, with few or no buildings: the village common.) občinsko zemljišče- commoner- common knowledge
- common law
- common-law
- commonplace
- common-room
- common sense
- the Common Market
- the House of Commons
- the Commons
- in common* * *I [kɔmən]adjective ( commonly adverb)skupen, javen; navaden, poprečen, obči; prostaški, plebejski, vulgarento make common cause with — podpirati kaj, delati za isto stvarslang common or garden — zelo vsakdanji, šablonskimusic common chord — trozvokgrammar common gender — dvojni spolII [kɔmən]nounobčinsko zemljišče, občinski pašnik; juridically dohodek od zemljišča -
5 formerly
adverb (in earlier times: Formerly this large town was a small village.) prej* * *[fɔ:məli]adverbprej, pred nekaj časa, nekoč -
6 people
['pi:pl]1) (persons: There were three people in the room.) osebe2) (men and women in general: People often say such things.) ljudje3) (( noun singular) a nation or race: all the peoples of this world.) narod•* * *I [pi:pl]noun(plural people) ljudje; (plural peoples) narod(i) ( the ŋs of Europe evropski narodi); (s svojilnimi pridevniki) domači, svojci, družinathe people — preprosti ljudje, ljudske množiceII [pi:pl]transitive verbobljuditi, naseliti ( with) -
7 some
1. pronoun, adjective1) (an indefinite amount or number (of): I can see some people walking across the field; You'll need some money if you're going shopping; Some of the ink was spilt on the desk.) nekaj2) ((said with emphasis) a certain, or small, amount or number (of): `Has she any experience of the work?' `Yes, she has some.'; Some people like the idea and some don't.) nekaj; nekateri3) ((said with emphasis) at least one / a few / a bit (of): Surely there are some people who agree with me?; I don't need much rest from work, but I must have some.) nekaj4) (certain: He's quite kind in some ways.) neki2. adjective1) (a large, considerable or impressive (amount or number of): I spent some time trying to convince her; I'll have some problem sorting out these papers!) precej2) (an unidentified or unnamed (thing, person etc): She was hunting for some book that she's lost.) neki3) ((used with numbers) about; at a rough estimate: There were some thirty people at the reception.) približno3. adverb((American) somewhat; to a certain extent: I think we've progressed some.) do neke mere- somebody- someday
- somehow
- someone
- something
- sometime
- sometimes
- somewhat
- somewhere
- mean something
- or something
- something like
- something tells me* * *[sʌm]1.adjectiveneki, nekak, nekateri, en; katerikoli, kakršenkoli; slang velik, silen, pomemben, odličen; (pred samostalnikom v množini) nekaj, neko število, nekoliko, malo (od njih), kakih, okrog, približnoat some time or other — enkrat pač, kadarkoli, prej ali slejin some way or other — na ta ali na oni način, tako ali takoto some extent — do neke mere, nekakosome few — maloštevilni, majhno številosome girl! — čedno dekle!some people — nekateri (ljudje), nekaj ljudiit is some five years since we saw each other — kakih pet let je, kar sva se (zadnjič) videlashall I give you some more tea? — naj vam dam še malo čaja?I call that some poem! — to (pa) je pesem!that's some hat! — to (pa) je klobuk (in pol)! to je kolosalen klobuk!as you say, it did cost some money — kot pravite, je to (res) stalo nekaj (= precéj) denarjathat will take you some time — to vam bo vzelo nekaj časa;2.pronounkaterikoli, neki, nekateri; American slang precéj, kar veliko, kar mnogo, še večsome... some — eni... drugisome of these days — te dni, v kratkem, kmalusome accepted, some refused — nekateri so sprejeli, drugi odkloniliif you have no money, I will give you some — če nimaš denarja, ti ga jaz nekaj dammay I have some of this cake? — lahko dobim nekaj tega kolača?he ran a mile and then some — tekel je eno miljo in nato še naprej;3.adverbnekaj; precéj, zelothat's going some! — to mi je všeč! to je sijajno! -
8 street
[stri:t]1) (a road with houses, shops etc on one or both sides, in a town or village: the main shopping street; I met her in the street.) ulica2) ((abbreviated to St when written) used in the names of certain roads: Her address is 4 Shakespeare St.) ulica•- street directory
- be streets ahead of / better than
- be up someone's street
- not to be in the same street as* * *[stri:t]1.nounulica, cesta; obsolete deželna cesta; vozišče, cestišče; ljudje na cesti ali prebivalci določene ulicestreets ahead, streets better figuratively colloquially daleč boljši (močnejši)not in the same street with figuratively colloquially neprimerno slabši, ki se ne da primerjati z; (borza) zaključen po zaprtju borzeman in the street — človek z ulice, poprečen, navaden človckwoman of the streets — pocestnica, prostitutkathis is not up my street colloquially to se me ne tiče; to ni zame, to mi ne ležito go on the streets figuratively iti na cesto, postati prostitutkato have the key of the street — biti na cesti, biti brezdomecto live in the street — biti stalno na poti, nikoli ne biti domato walk the streets figuratively biti pocestnica, prostitutkadon't walk in the street! — ne hodi po vozišču (cestišču)!to turn s.o. out into the street — postaviti koga na cesto, vreči koga iz stanovanja;2.adjectiveuličen, cestenstreet sale — prodaja na cesti (ulici); (borza) kratkoročen, v prostem prometu, poborzni -
9 stretch
[stre ] 1. verb1) (to make or become longer or wider especially by pulling or by being pulled: She stretched the piece of elastic to its fullest extent; His scarf was so long that it could stretch right across the room; This material stretches; The dog yawned and stretched (itself); He stretched (his arm/hand) up as far as he could, but still could not reach the shelf; Ask someone to pass you the jam instead of stretching across the table for it.) raztegniti, stegniti (se)2) ((of land etc) to extend: The plain stretched ahead of them for miles.) raztezati se2. noun1) (an act of stretching or state of being stretched: He got out of bed and had a good stretch.) pretegovanje2) (a continuous extent, of eg a type of country, or of time: a pretty stretch of country; a stretch of bad road; a stretch of twenty years.) kos; obdobje•- stretchy
- at a stretch
- be at full stretch
- stretch one's legs
- stretch out* * *I [streč]1.nounraztezanje, raztegovanje, stegnjenje, natezanje; (pre)napenjanje, napetost, napor; prekoračenje; razpetina, razpon; neprekinjen odsek poti, daljava; ploskev, prostrana ravnina, ravni del dirkališča; neprekinjeno časovno razdobje (doba), nepretrgan čas; slang kazen, bivanje v kaznilnici, čas kazni v kaznilnici, v zaporu; nautical daljava, prejadrana pri enem potegu (kretnji) (pri jadranju proti vetru); sprehodat a stretch, at one stretch — brez prekinitve, naenkraton the stretch — napenjajoč vse sile; v veliki naglici, figuratively v veliki napetostia stretch of the imagination — prenapeta, prebujna domišljijaa fine stretch of country — lep košček zemlje, lepe pokrajineto be on the stretch — biti napet, v napetostiit is a good stretch from the village to the town — je lep, precejšen kos poti od vasi do mestato do a stretch British English odslužiti, izdržati kazen (enega leta)to give a stretch — natezati se, pretegniti seit takes a stretch of imagination to believe that — treba je precéj napeti svojo domišljijo, da to verjamešto work 8 hours at (on) a stretch — delati nepretrgano 8 ur;2.adjectiveraztegljivII [streč]1.transitive verbraztegniti, raztezati, razvleči, (raz)širiti; iztegniti (roko itd.) (često out); pretegniti (noge itd., o.s. se); nategniti (vrv itd.), peti, razpeti (platno itd.); z natezanjem izgladiti; figuratively nategovati, silo delati, iti predaleč (v čem), prenapenjati, pretiravati, po svoje krojiti (pravico, zakon); commerce prekoračiti (kredit); slang obesiti, usmrtiti;2.intransitive verbraztezati se, (raz)širiti se, segati; nategniti se; raztegniti se (rokavice), dati se raztegniti; potovati (to do); figuratively pretiravati, lagati; colloquially viseti, biti obešenstretched — iztegnjen, po dolgemto stretch one's arms — iztegniti, pretegniti si roketo stretch s.o. on the ground — z udarcem zrušiti koga na tlato stretch a point figuratively iti predaleč, pretiravati (v čem)I will stretch a point in your favour — potrudil se bom, da vam bom šel na rokoto stretch s.o. on the rack history razpeti koga za mučenje (na natezalnici)to stretch the truth — pretiravati, lagatito stretch away out of sight — razprostirati se, kakor daleč sega oko
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