au-pair - pečovatel(ka) o děti, chůva

noun - a person, usually a woman, from a foreign country who lives with a family and takes care of the children and receives a small wage

 

disappearance - zmizení

noun - the act of becoming invisible, the act of ceasing to exist

 

someone - někdo (významný či důležitý)

pronoun - an important person

pollinate - opýlit, opylovat

verb - to transfer pollen from one plant to another and fertilize it

 

state-owned - státní, státem vlastněný

adjective - not private, owned by the government

 

represent - reprezentovat, zastupovat, zastoupit

verb - to speak officially for someone, to act on someone's behalf

 

thing - záležitost, věc (abstraktní)

noun - a concept or a quality

 

magma - magma

noun - incredibly hot liquid material that is below the earth's surface

 

in the first place - v prvé řadě, především, vůbec

phrase - to begin with, a phrase used to refer to something that should have been said at the beginning

 

duration - trvání, délka, doba (čeho)

noun - the length of time that something lasts

 

take a picture - vyfotit, fotit, udělat fotku, fotografovat

verb - to make a photograph of something or someone

 

twiddle - pohrávat si (s něčím), točit, kroutit

verb - to turn something back and forth, especially when you are nervous etc.

 

punk - punk (styl hudby)

noun, informal - a music genre popular in the last 1970s and early 1980s

fine - vybraný, kvalitní, vytříbený, luxusní

adjective - of good quality, better than average

 

hang on - viset na (bedlivě poslouchat)

verb, informal - to listen carefully