The Deal (1)

hatred

nienawiść

makeup exam

resit

retake

The professor offered a makeup exam to anyone who scored below a C.

egzamin poprawkowy

fathom

She can't fathom why it's necessary.

She couldn't fathom why so many students had failed the test.

pojąć / zrozumieć

flunking an important exam

He was flunking three courses because he never showed up to class.

oblewanie

slackers

It wasn't just the slackers who struggled — even the top students were lost.

leniuchy / obibocy

pang of sympathy

I felt a pang of sympathy when I saw how devastated she looked.

ukłucie współczucia

lay into her

Her parents would lay into her if they ever found out about her grade.

dać jej ostro / zaatakować ją

krytykować kogoś w złości

ramblings of nonsense

He dismissed (odrzucać) her carefully written essay as ramblings of nonsense.

bzdury / brednie

tyrant

Nobody wanted to impress the Tyrant, but everyone feared her red pen.

tyran

to shuffle out of the room

When the bell rang, students closed their laptops and shuffled out of the room.

wychodzić powoli / człapać

missile

The moment he walked in, her gaze locked on him like a missile.

pocisk / rakieta

clammy

Her palms went clammy the second he sat down next to her.

lepki / wilgotny

strut through

He never strutted through campus like he owned the place — that's what surprised her.

kroczyć dumnie przez

quad

They always met by the fountain in the quad between classes.

dziedziniec

mindless pile of mush

One smile from him turned her into a mindless pile of mush.

bezmyślna kupa mazi

drooling

Her roommate had caught her drooling over his photo more than once.

śliniący się / zachwycony

on-again/off-again relationship

Their on-again/off-again relationship was exhausting everyone around them.

związek na przemian zrywany i nawiązywany

douche_bags

Most of the guys on that team were total douche_bags, except for him.

dupki / idioci

palant, dupek, kretyn, buc, ignorant (określenie na arogancką, wredną osobę, zazwyczaj mężczyznę)

case in point

You gave us a case in point.

dobry przykład, trafny przykład

BMOC

big man on campus

Everyone expected him to act like a BMOC.

Wielka Ryba na Kampusie

popularny student