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1 chicken out
(to avoid doing something because of cowardice: He chickened out at the last minute.) ustrašiti se -
2 get out of
(to (help a person etc to) avoid doing something: I wonder how I can get out of washing the dishes; How can I get him out of going to the party?) izvleči (se) -
3 shirk
[ʃə:k](to avoid doing, accepting responsibility for etc (something one ought to): She shirked telling him the bad news that night.) izogibati se- shirker* * *[šə:k]1.nounzmuzne, zabušant, kdor se nepošteno izmika delu ali dolžnostim;2.intransitive verbnepošteno se izmikati (izmuzniti) delu, dolžnostim, zabušavati; izogibati se (pogledom) -
4 do
[du:] 1. 3rd person singular present tense - does; verb1) (used with a more important verb in questions and negative statements: Do you smoke?)2) (used with a more important verb for emphasis; ; [ðo sit down])3) (used to avoid repeating a verb which comes immediately before: I thought she wouldn't come, but she did.)4) (used with a more important verb after seldom, rarely and little: Little did he know what was in store for him.)5) (to carry out or perform: What shall I do?; That was a terrible thing to do.) narediti6) (to manage to finish or complete: When you've done that, you can start on this; We did a hundred kilometres in an hour.) končati; narediti7) (to perform an activity concerning something: to do the washing; to do the garden / the windows.) narediti8) (to be enough or suitable for a purpose: Will this piece of fish do two of us?; That'll do nicely; Do you want me to look for a blue one or will a pink one do?; Will next Saturday do for our next meeting?) zadostovati; ustrezati9) (to work at or study: She's doing sums; He's at university doing science.) ukvarjati se10) (to manage or prosper: How's your wife doing?; My son is doing well at school.) uspevati11) (to put in order or arrange: She's doing her hair.) urejati12) (to act or behave: Why don't you do as we do?) delati, početi13) (to give or show: The whole town gathered to do him honour.) izkazati14) (to cause: What damage did the storm do?; It won't do him any harm.) povzročiti15) (to see everything and visit everything in: They tried to do London in four days.) ogledati si2. noun(an affair or a festivity, especially a party: The school is having a do for Christmas.) proslava- doer- doings
- done
- do-it-yourself
- to-do
- I
- he could be doing with / could do with
- do away with
- do for
- done for
- done in
- do out
- do out of
- do's and don'ts
- do without
- to do with
- what are you doing with* * *I [du:]1.transitive verbnapraviti, storiti, početi, delati, (iz)vršiti, narediti; končati, urediti, prirediti; pospraviti; uspe(va)ti; zadostovati; (s)kuhati, (s)peči; popiti; povzročiti; trgovati; slang varati; theatre igrati; prehoditi; ogled(ov)ati si; prevesti; familiarly pogostiti; odsedeti (kazen);2.intransitive verbdelati, ravnati; postopati; ukvarjati se; počutiti se; zadovoljiti; uspevati, napredovatito do s.o.'s bidding — izpolniti ukaz kogaI have done my best — potrudil sem se, kar se dato do good — prijati, dobro (komu) storitito do a guy — popihati jo, zbežatito do s.o. an ill turn — zagosti jo komuto do s.o. injustice — storiti komu krivicoto do justice — odkrito priznati; colloquially s slastjo pojestihow do you do — dober dan, pozdravljenito make do — prebijati se, shajati s svojimi sredstvicolloquially nothing doing — s tem ne bo ničto do s.th. on the Q. T. — delati kaj na skrivajto do sums — reševati (računske) naloge, delati računecolloquially to do the talking — imeti glavno besedoslang to do time — sedeti v ječito do s.o. a good turn — narediti komu uslugoto do o.s. well — privoščiti sito do well — dobro igrati; imeti uspeh, dobro se počutitiwell-to-do — premožen, bogatdo well and have well — kdor si dobro postelje, dobro spithat won't do — to ne gre, to ni dovoljone must do at Rome as the Romans do — kdor se z volkovi druži, mora z njimi tulitiwhat can I do for you? — s čim vam lahko postrežem?II [du:]nounslang sleparstvo; zabava, družbaIII [dou]nounmusic do, nota C -
5 shrink
I [ʃriŋk] verb1) (to (cause material, clothes etc to) become smaller: My jersey shrank in the wash; Do they shrink the material before they make it up into clothes?) skrčiti (se)2) (to move back in fear, disgust etc (from): She shrank (back) from the man.) odskočiti3) (to wish to avoid something unpleasant: I shrank from telling him the terrible news.) nerad kaj napraviti•- shrunken II [ʃriŋk] noun((slang) a psychiatrist.) psihiater* * *I [šriŋk]nounskrčenje, zoženje, uskočenje; zgrozitev, oplašitevII [šriŋk]1.intransitive verbumakniti se, odmakniti se, odskočiti ( from od, pred); uskočiti se, skrčiti se (tkanina pri pranju), zmanjšati se; zapreti se vase; figuratively plašiti se, bati se, zgroziti se, zlesti vase (od strahu), nerad, proti svoji volji napraviti;2.transitive verbpustiti, da se kaj uskoči, skrči, stisne; dekatirati (blago); zožiti, skrajšati, zmanjšatito shrink back — ustrašiti se, zgroziti se ( from ob, pred)to shrink from doing s.th. — nerad kaj napravitithey shrank under his glance — videti je bilo, da bi se pod njegovim pogledom najrajši udrli v zemljoto shrink on a hoop — napeti, montirati obroč (na kolo)
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