aloft - ve vzduchu, nahoře

adjective, formal - in the air, off the ground

 

aloft - ve vzduchu, nahoře

adverb, formal - in the air, off the ground

 

Prague - Praha

noun - the capital of the Czech Republic

 

opening - úvodní

adjective - the one at the beginning, introductory

iris - duhovka

noun - the coloured part of the eye

 

humanity - lidstvo

noun - all the people in the world

 

last - poslední

adjective - the one at the end, final

January - leden

noun - the first month of the year

 

have more holes than Swiss cheese - mít plno nesrovnalostí, mít spoustu nedostatků, mít hodně mezer

verb - to contain many faults, inconsistencies, or weaknesses; to be badly constructed or easy to disprove because of numerous gaps or errors

 

cured - nakládaný, konzervovaný, sušený, uzený

adjective - (of meat or other types of food) treated (salted, dried, smoked...) so that it can be preserved for a long time

 

outing - odhalení homosexuality

noun - a situation in which it is made public that a person is gay when this information was supposed to be private

 

ghostwriter - skutečný autor (píšící pro někoho jiného)

noun - a person who writes a book or an article for another person, under whose name it is going to be published

quarantine - karanténa

noun - a period of time when a person or an animal that may be carrying a disease is kept away from others

venetian blind - žaluzie

noun - a covering for a window made up of strips of plastic or metal that can be turned to let in light