perennial - věčný, neustálý, trvalý

adjective - existing for a long time

make it - stihnout dorazit

verb - to be able to get somewhere

 

striper - mořčák pruhovaný

noun, informal - the striped bass

 

candy striper - dobrovolník v nemocnici, dobrovolnice v nemocnici

noun, American English, informal - a volunteer worker in a hospital (usually a young female)

 

voluntarily - dobrovolně

adverb - because you want to do it and not because you have to

 

carrion - mršina

noun - the decaying flesh of dead animals

upended - vzhůru nohama, obrácený na záda

adjective - turned upside down

upend - obrátit (vzhůru nohama), otočit (vzhůru nohama), obrátit se (vzhůru nohama)

verb - to turn something upside down, to turn upside down

 

draconian - drakonický, velmi přísný

adjective - very strict (esp. in connection with laws)

 

auto - auto, automobil

noun, American English - a car

domineering - despotický, panovačný

adjective - trying to control other people without considering their feelings

bossy-boots - panovačný (člověk)

noun - someone who likes giving orders and tells people what they should do

 

alimony - výživné, alimenty

noun, American English - money that someone has to pay to their former wife or husband regularly after they get divorced, especially when they have had children together

 

maintenance - výživné, alimenty

noun, British English - money that someone has to pay to their former wife or husband regularly after they get divorced, especially when they have had children together

 

maintenance - udržení, zachování

noun - the act of making something continue in the same way or at the same standard