IS16. Halloween Morning
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Sunday, Ashburnham, Massachusetts /ˌmæsəˈtʃusəts/
R: The weather outside is frightful this Halloween morning. Ghosts, goblins and Jack-o-lanterns smothered in snow. This after a ... weekend across the North-East.
John Wolfskio (Peterborough, New Hampshire resident): No, I don't like it at all. I wish I would .. .. from this out.
R: At least five people have died, more than four million residents in five states were without power Sunday. Heavy snow and ice brought power lines and tree branches crashing down. As the driver says after a tree fell on his car, you just kept going.
Joel Rosenblatt (York, Pennsylvania resident): A loud clump, you see this huge tree on your hood, you keep driving and .. when over the roof.
R: The October storm brought nearly two feet of snow on parts of Massachusetts. More than a foot fell on parts of New Jersey and New York.
Gov. Andrew Cuomo ((D) New York): Mother Nature has thrown us a few curve balls, er, over the past few months but we're managing it
R: Travelers too are snowed in with Airlines catch up a weekend of cancelations and roads remain tortuous. Interstate 95 was closed in Pennsylvania Sunday after a thirty car are piled up on icy pavement. Well, the snow has stopped falling some communities were asking trick or treaters to wait a few days before heading out. I'm Rick Winston, reporting.
Comprehension Check
1. What is the weather like in Massachusetts this Halloween morning?
2. How many people died because of it?
3. How many residents were left without power?
4. What happened with one driver on the road?
5. What influence does this have on transport services?
6. Do you think weather patterns have recently changed if compared with how they used to be? What reasons for that can you think of?
Wordlist
Frightful unpleasant or bad [= awful, terrible]
frightful adjective BrE /ˈfraɪtfl/ ; NAmE /ˈfraɪtfl/ (old-fashioned, especially British English)
1. (informal) used to emphasize how bad something is (synonym awful, terrible)
It was absolutely frightful!
This room's in a frightful mess.
They’re making a frightful noise.
2. very serious or unpleasant (synonym awful, terrible)
a frightful accident
1) ужасающий, внушающий страх, страшный
2) уст. встревоженный
3) скандальный; отвратительный, гадкий
4) разг. безобразный, уродливый (о внешних признаках)
Ghost - the spirit of a dead person that some people think they can feel or see in a place
ghost noun BrE /ɡəʊst/ ; NAmE /ɡoʊst/
1.[countable] the spirit of a dead person that a living person believes they can see or hear
Do you believe in ghosts (= believe that they exist)?
the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her
He looked as if he had seen a ghost (= looked very frightened).
2. [countable] the memory of something, especially something bad
The ghost of anti-Semitism still haunts Europe.
3. [singular] ghost of something a very slight amount of something that is left behind or that you are not sure really exists
There was a ghost of a smile on his face.
You don't have a ghost of a chance (= you have no chance).
4. [singular] a second image on a television screen that is not as clear as the first, caused by a fault
Word Origin Old English gāst (in the sense ‘spirit, soul’), of Germanic origin; related to Dutch geest and German Geist. The gh- spelling occurs first in Caxton, probably influenced by Flemish gheest.
Extra examples
A priest was called in to exorcize the ghost.
He looked as pale as a ghost as he climbed out of the wrecked car.
I don’t believe in ghosts.
The ghost of a hanged man is said to haunt the house.
You look as if you’ve seen a ghost!
dark, cold nights when ghosts walk
Do you believe in ghosts?
He looked as if he had seen a ghost.
It was the ghost of her father that had come back to haunt her.
We used to sit around the campfire telling ghost stories.
Idioms
be a shadow/ghost of your former self - to not have the strength, influence, etc. that you used to have
When his career ended, he became a shadow of his former self.
give up the ghost - испустить дух 1. to die; 2. (humorous) (of a machine) to stop working
My car finally gave up the ghost.
goblin noun BrE /ˈɡɒblɪn/ ; NAmE /ˈɡɑːblɪn/ - (in stories) a small ugly creature that likes to trick people or cause trouble
jack-o’-lantern noun BrE /ˌdʒæk ə ˈlæntən/ ; NAmE /ˈdʒækə læntərn/ - a pumpkin (= a large orange vegetable) with a face cut into it and a candle put inside to shine through the holes
To smother to completely cover the whole surface of something with something else, often in a way that seems unnecessary or unpleasant
smother verb BrE /ˈsmʌðə(r)/ ; NAmE /ˈsmʌðər/
1. smother somebody (with something) to kill somebody by covering their face so that they cannot breathe
synonym suffocate
He smothered the baby with a pillow.
to be smothered to death
2. smother something/somebody with/in something to cover something/somebody thickly or with too much of something
a rich dessert smothered in cream
She smothered him with kisses.
Try our rich orange sorbet smothered in fluffy whipped cream and nuts.
snow smothered the trails
3. smother something to prevent something from developing or being expressed
synonym stifle
to smother a yawn/giggle/grin
The voices of the opposition were effectively smothered.
4. smother somebody to give somebody too much love or protection so that they feel restricted
Her husband was very loving, but she felt smothered.
5. smother something to make a fire stop burning by covering it with something
He tried to smother the flames with a blanket.
Word Origin Middle English (as a noun in the sense ‘stifling smoke’): from the base of Old English smorian ‘suffocate’.
resident noun BrE /ˈrezɪdənt/ ; NAmE /ˈrezɪdənt/
1. a person who lives in a particular place or who has their home there
a resident of the United States
There were confrontations between local residents and the police.
2. (formal) a person who is staying in a hotel
The hotel restaurant is open to non-residents.
3. a doctor working in a hospital in the US who is receiving special advanced training
compare registrar
clump noun BrE /klʌmp/ ; NAmE /klʌmp/
1. a small group of things or people very close together, especially trees or plants; a bunch of something such as grass or hair
a clump of trees/bushes - заросли
2. the sound made by somebody putting their feet down very heavily (хлоп)
I heard the heavy clump of feet on the stairs - топот
Word Origin Middle English (denoting a heap or lump): partly imitative, reinforced by Middle Low German klumpe and Middle Dutch klompe; related to club ‘to hit someone with a stick or heavy object’.
Extra examples
great clumps of rhododendrons, заросли
situated in a clump of trees, заросли
He tore out a clump of her hair. клок
I tripped over a clump of grass in the darkness. - пучок
There was a clump of bushes at the edge of the lawn. заросли
They planted trees in clumps around the park. кучками
hood American English the metal covering over the engine on a car [= bonnet British English]
(North American English) (British English bonnet BrE /ˈbɒnɪt/ ; NAmE /ˈbɑːnət/) the metal part over the front of a vehicle, usually covering the engine
Curve ball in baseball, a throw that is difficult to hit because the ball moves in a curve
curve noun BrE /kɜːv/ ; NAmE /kɜːrv/
1. a line or surface that bends gradually; a smooth bend
the delicate curve of her ear
a pattern of straight lines and curves
(especially North American English) a curve in the road
(especially North American English) The driver lost control on a curve and the vehicle hit a tree.
to plot a curve on a graph
(specialist) the unemployment-income curve (= a line on a graph showing the relationship between the number of unemployed people and national income)
2. (also curve ball) (North American English) (in baseball) a ball that moves in a curve when it is thrown to the batter
(figurative) One of the journalists threw the senator a curve (= surprised him by asking a difficult question).
Tortuous a tortuous path, stream, road etc has a lot of bends in it and is therefore difficult to travel along
tortuous adjective BrE /ˈtɔːtʃuəs/ ; NAmE /ˈtɔːrtʃuəs/ [usually before noun](formal)
1. (usually disapproving) not simple and direct; long, complicated and difficult to understand - неискренний, непрямой, нечестный
synonym convoluted
tortuous language
the long, tortuous process of negotiating peace
2, (of a road, path, etc.) full of bends - извилистый
synonym winding
a tortuous mountain track
Word Origin late Middle English: via Old French from Latin tortuosus, from tortus ‘twisting, a twist’, from Latin torquere ‘to twist’.
Extra examples
Her explanation was somewhat tortuous.
We went by a rather tortuous route.
Do they actually understand all the tortuous laws and regulations they have to administer?
the long, tortuous process of negotiating peace in the region
Pile a large amount of something arranged in a shape that looks like a small hill
Trick or treat - if children go trick or treating, they dress in COSTUMEs and go from house to house on HALLOWEEN saying “trick or treat” in order to get sweets
a traditional activity at Halloween, in which children dress in costumes and visit houses. At each house they say 'Trick or treat?' This means that they threaten to play a 'trick', or joke, on the people in the house unless they are given a 'treat', e.g. sweets or money. The practice of 'trick or treat' began in the US in the 1930s but is now common in Britain also.
To head out - to go or travel towards a particular place, especially in a deliberate way
Minnesota /ˌmɪnəˈsoʊt̮ə/
Interstate 95 (I-95) is the main Interstate Highway on the East Coast of the United States, running largely parallel to the Atlantic Ocean and U.S. Highway 1, serving areas between Florida and New England inclusive.
I-95 — межштатная автомагистраль в Соединённых Штатах Америки, длиной 1919,74 мили. Проходит по территории пятнадцати штатов. Является самой длинной межштатной автомагистралью, проходящей с севера на юг.