Ready for C2 - Unit 1. Part 2 Listening 1 p. 4 Я к вам с новой подборкой классных слов и выражений. На этот раз из раздела Аудирование. Ready for C2 - Unit 1. Part 1 🔵to condone - to accept or allow behaviour that is morally wrong without criticising it (потворствовать, оправдывать) to condone violence / corruption / bad behaviour I don’t condone what she did, but I understand why she acted that way. 🔵to lament [ləˈment] (f) - to express sadness or regret about something (сожалеть, оплакивать) to lament the fact to lament the lack/absence/decline etc of something Many people lament the decline of meaningful conversation. Experts often lament the erosion of critical thinking. 🔵to splurge on (inf) - to spend a lot of money on something unnecessary or indulgent (тратиться, раскошелиться) to splurge on clothes / gadgets / a holiday I don’t usually spend much, but I sometimes splurge on travel. 🔵to stray (into) - to move away from the main topic or area, often unintentionally (отклоняться от темы) to stray from the point At times, the lecture strays into unnecessary detail. 🤩 to have arrived (да-да, это прямо устойчивое выражение) - to have achieved success, status, or recognition ("состояться", добиться успеха) When she published her first book, she felt she had arrived. People wear brand clothes to project a sense of having arrived, mixed with a certain vibe of aspiration. 💔 as much as we are loath to admit it - although we don’t want to admit it (как бы нам ни было неприятно это признавать) As much as we are loath to admit it, social media shapes our opinions. 🔵to compartmentalise things - to separate different aspects of life or thoughts so they don’t affect each other (разграничивать) Many people try to compartmentalise work and home life. Life today is rigidly compartmentalized into work and leisure. 🔵upstanding - honest, moral, and respectable (порядочный, уважаемый) an upstanding citizen He is known as an upstanding member of the community. decent and upstanding 🔵peripheral (characters) - not central (второстепенный) Sometimes peripheral characters reveal the main theme more clearly. The romance is peripheral to the main plot of the movie.