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Перевод: freshen
[глагол] свежеть; освежать; опреснять; телиться; фришевать
Тезаурус:
- A piece of upholstered furniture is one of the most expensive items to replace - so freshen up a tired sofa by draping it with interesting fabric.
- Time to use the washroom, freshen up, take breakfast and a cab to the centre of London's West End.
- In the closing moments of their final interview Porfiry wonders if there's a storm coming - "and it would be no bad thing", he says, "to freshen the air"; which is a literal rephrasing of the metaphorical "All you want now is air, air, air!" with which he presses home his argument for confession and acceptance of suffering, and for life.
- A few drops of tangy lemon oil in the bath will freshen up a hot and clammy patient.
- They buy a cot, a changing table, a convertible buggy/pram, a baby seat to go in the back of the car, a changing mat, a night-light, a sterilizing unit, five large bottles plus teats, five small bottles plus teats, five baby-grows (newborn size), three undervests (newborn size), three pairs of socks (newborn size), a mobile with four fluffy ducks dancing around a clockwork mechanism that plays the Brahms Lullaby , a wallpaper frieze with chickens on it which Paul has to put up in the nursery, a van-sized packet of newborn nappies, a tub of cream to put on the kid's bottom, a bucket of white emulsion to freshen up the nursery walls, a lampshade with more chickens on it to brighten up the nursery light, a parasol to go on the buggy and a breast pump for expressing milk.
- To freshen the palate we finished with summer fruits in a delicate sugar basket with a strawberry coulis - a mouthwatering combination.
- Try opening windows to freshen the air, rather than reaching for sprays and toilet blocks
- "Better freshen up," he said, wheeling round and staggering into a bathroom next door.
- What the sea does once a year to freshen individual lives our railways are doing every day for the national life, in a way less picturesque but none the less effective.
- Glover grinned: "I ran him at Ayr just to freshen him up.
- Full of confidence, Pliny tried to calm down the overwrought Pomponianus, and to demonstrate his own unconcern, went off to freshen up in the local baths, and subsequently sat down to eat a hearty meal.
- In Svidrigailov's America there is no air to struggle for, and no rain to soften hearts and freshen cities and give the excluded (or self-excluding) man occasion for jokes about fear and death.
- Might freshen the place up a bit, thought Nelly, stepping out into the storm.
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