MILITARY

• Air Force - ВВС
• allocate means
• Armed Forces - Вооруженные силы
• be assigned to
• CIA (Central Intelligence Agency)
• Coast Guard - береговая охрана
• combat operations
• combat operations - боевые действия
• company - рота
• company officers - младшие
• eliminate penetration
• enlist - поступать на военную службу
• enlisted personnel - сержанты и рядовые
• field officers - старшие
• grade - чин
• launch air-to-surface missiles
• lure into a target for destruction
• Marine Corps - корпус морской пехоты
• NASA (National Aeronautics Space Administration)
• national emergency
• Nave - ВМС
• non-commissioned officers - сержанты
• order to active duty
• platoon - взвод
• private - рядовой
• re'cruit - новобранец
• regiment - полк
• suffer heavy losses

LAW

• resolve disputes
• income tax law breach an agreement
• claim - иск plaintiff - истец
• defendant - ответчик
• cross-examine witnesses
• defamation/ libel - клевета
• remain in custody - оставаться под стражей
• attroney - адвокат, поверенный
• barrister - адковат высших судов
• courtroom
• draw up a wil/ contract
• empower - уполномочить
• immigration procedures
• make formal accusation
• pay for legal services
• solicitor - юрисконсультант

MEDICINE

• anesthesia (local, general, spinal)
• bening // malignant
• blood transfusion service
• cast (my leg was in a cast)
• crutches
• donor // recipient
• prescirbe a suitable course of treatment
• routine check-up
• seizure - приступ
• start antibiotics
• state run/ private hospitals
• suture - накладывать швы
• urine smaple

ECONOMICS

• amended
• be specified in the enclosed appendix
• contingencies - непредвиденные обстоятельства
• corroborate - подтверждать, подкреплять
• economics - экономика
• economy - хозяйство
• general/ limited partnership
• gross/ net weight - обший/ чистый
• highly competitive situation
• legally bound
• make a claim on
• minor infringements
• profitablility
• terms of payment
• trade agreement
• under the present contract
• within the guarantee period

AIRLINE LINGUO

• Crotch watch: The required check to make sure all passengers have their seat belts fastened. Also: “groin scan.”
• Crumb crunchers: Kids. “We’ve got a lot of crumb crunchers on this flight.”
• Deadheading: When an airline passenger flies as a passenger for company business.
• Gate lice: The people who gather around the gate right before boarding so they can be the first on the plane. “Oh, the gate lice are thick today.”