21 сентября 2018
Не секрет, что американский английский отличается от истинного, британского. Если в Англии мы пойдем в shop, то в Америке это уже будет store. Конечно, вас поймут, если вы используете «неродное» слово для этого региона. Но если вы знаете американские аналоги английских слов, то вы будете намного быстрее пониматься все вокруг и отлично ориентироваться на местности. Мы выбрали самые популярные слова, которые вы можете встретить везде: в аэропорту, магазине, ресторане и просто прогуливаясь по городу.
British English — American English
Быт
- bin – trash can – мусорное ведро
- lift – elevator — лифт
- flat – apartment – квартира
- autumn – fall – осень
- cooker – stove – кухонная плита, печь
- tap – faucet – водопроводный кран
- postal code, postcode – zip code – почтовый индекс
- dustbin – garbage can, trash can – бак для мусора
- rubbish – garbage, trash – мусор
- surname – last name, family name – фамилия
- holiday – vacation – каникулы, отпуск
- queue – line – очередь
- cinema – movie theater – кинотеатр
- film – movie, film – фильм
- mobile phone, mobile – cellular phone, cell phone – мобильный телефон
- bill – check — счет
- book a seat – reserve a seat – забронировать место
Одежда
- trainers – sneakers – кроссовки
- trousers – pants – штаны
- pants (трусы мужские и женские) – underpants (мужские трусы)
- purse (кошелёк) – purse (женская сумочка)
Город
- shop – store – магазин
- car park – parking lot – парковка
- taxi – cab – такси
- pavement – sidewalk – тротуар
- pharmacy – drugstore – аптека
- crossroads – intersection – перекрёсток
- underground, tube – subway – метро
- railway – railroad – железная дорога
- single ticket / a single – one-way ticket – билет в одну сторону
- petrol – gasoline, gas – бензин
Еда
- biscuit — cookie – печенье
- chips – French fries – жареный картофель
- crisps, potato crisps – chips, potato chips – чипсы
- sweets – candies – конфеты
- tin – can – консервная банка
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Would you consider ice cream to be a «sweet»?
- Sweet (BE) (n. countable) -> AE = a candy; «With the money, he bought mints, caramels, and other sweets.»
- Sweet (n. countable) -> an item (often with a high sugar content) that is served as the final course of a meal. «The main course was fish and the sweet was ice-cream.»
- Sweet (n. countable/uncountable) -> the final course of a meal (usually consisting of a dish with a high sugar content.) «We will be having fish as mains, and, for the sweet, ice-cream.»
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- Sweet (BE) (n. countable) -> AE = a candy; «With the money, he bought mints, caramels, and other sweets.»
- Sweet (n. countable) -> an item (often with a high sugar content) that is served as the final course of a meal. «The main course was fish and the sweet was ice-cream.»
- Sweet (n. countable/uncountable) -> the final course of a meal (usually consisting of a dish with a high sugar content.) «We will be having fish as mains, and, for the sweet, ice-cream.»
But the context of the news story is not specifically about desserts; it is more encompassing.
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But the context of the news story is not specifically about desserts; it is more encompassing.
Yes, I know. Try definition 2. above.
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Yes, I know. Try definition 2. above.
Definition 2 is no different from Definition 3, except that the latter is both countable and uncountable.
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Yes, I know. Try definition 2. above.
That definition doesn’t cover many of the items mentioned in the article or shown in the accompanying photo. The subject matter is quite broad; the authors needed a term that would embrace everything discussed in the article. «Sweets» is not 100% successful in my view (a candied rose is a bit more than a sweet in the sense of AmE candy, and ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert), but I can’t think of a better term.
(There’s a misspelling in the article. The word is «confectionery», not «confectionary».)
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That definition doesn’t cover many of the items mentioned in the article or shown in the accompanying photo. The subject matter is quite broad; the authors needed a term that would embrace everything discussed in the article. «Sweets» is not 100% successful in my view (a candied rose is a bit more than a sweet in the sense of AmE candy, and ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert), but I can’t think of a better term.
(There’s a misspelling in the article
. The word is «confectionery», not «confectionary».)
How about «sweet foods»?
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Definition 2 is no different from Definition 3, except that the latter is both countable and uncountable.
One definition is for an item, the other is a course of a meal. Someone may have several 2s in their 3 Otherwise we’d have compaints that the dictionary wasn’t specific enough.
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«Sweets» is not 100% successful in my view (a candied rose is a bit more than a sweet in the sense of AmE candy, and ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert), but I can’t think of a better term.
I think «sweet treats» might work. It covers both sweets/candies and desserts, and anything else made with sugar! The problem with «sweet foods» is that we don’t really regard sweets/candies as proper food. (e.g. As in «Don’t eat those sweets or you won’t be able to eat your dinner!» )
Episode 1 (A Tudor Treat: 16th century)
Their final lavish sugar banquet includes candied roses (believed to cure gonorrhea), a sweet candied root that was considered to be a Tudor aphrodisiac; sugar plates and goblets, gorgeously decorated marzipan and a spectacular model banqueting house made entirely of sugar.
BBC — The Sweet Makers: A Tudor Treat — Media Centre
Episode 2 (A Georgian Treat: 18th and 19th centuries)
They’ll be crafting everything from towering jellies made from boiled calves feet to glasses of Parmesan ice cream costing more than the average daily wage. And their final dessert course includes an edible landscape.
BBC — The Sweet Makers: A Georgian Treat — Media Centre
Episode 3 (A Victorian Treat: 19th and 20th centuries)
Running their own workshop, every treat the team make across four days is used to stock their sweet shop, from jars of beautiful boiled sweets to their own version of fruit pastilles and an enormous Easter Egg.
BBC — The Sweet Makers: A Victorian Treat — Media Centre
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That definition doesn’t cover many of the items mentioned in the article or shown in the accompanying photo. The subject matter is quite broad; the authors needed a term that would embrace everything discussed in the article. «Sweets» is not 100% successful in my view (a candied rose is a bit more than a sweet in the sense of AmE candy, and ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert), but I can’t think of a better term.
(There’s a misspelling in the article
. The word is «confectionery», not «confectionary».)
What do you mean by «ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert»? Do you mean it does not have to follow a meal, and it can be consumed as a snack?
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What do you mean by «ice cream is not necessarily a sweet in the sense of dessert»? Do you mean it does not have to follow a meal, and it can be consumed as a snack?
Yes, I mean it’s not necessarily part of a meal. It can be eaten outside a meal (but I don’t see it as food, so for me it can’t be a snack).
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In my youth children used to be given pocket money to be spent as they wished. Sometimes they would go to a sweet-shop where they might buy chocolates or chocolate bars, ice creams or sweets (US candies). None of these were regarded as part of a meal, and adults would say «If you eat too many sweets you’ll spoil your appetite».
“If eating cake is wrong, I don’t want to be right.”
Lorelai Gilmore, a character in television series “Gilmore Girls”
This post is a special treat for those with a sweet tooth. Read it for candy-related vocabulary and more…
Sweets & candy
Sweets (British English) are small sweet things such as toffees, chocolates, and mints (see the slideshow below); a sweet is 1 small sweet thing. In American English, the word candy is used:
I have no more desire to eat sweets.
Don’t eat sweets between meal times.
I can’t eat candy shaped like animals.
On Halloween, kids dress in scary costumes and go door-to-door asking strangers for candy.
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Note that candy is a variable noun, which means it can be both countable and uncountable. Compare:
Do you want a piece of candy? (uncountable noun meaning sweets and other confections (sweet foods) collectively)
I gave her a large box of candies.
A sweet (British English) is something sweet, such as fruit or a pudding, that you eat at the end of a meal, especially in a restaurant. In American English, the word dessert /dɪˈzɜː(r)t/ is used:
The sweet was a mousse /muːs/ flavored with coffee.
The dessert was a mousse flavored with coffee.
Of course, dessert is used in British English too, but sweet is not used in American English to mean something sweet that you eat at the end of a meal.
Biscuit vs. cookie
Confectionery /kənˈfekʃ(ə)n(ə)ri/ (written English) is sweet foods such as sweets and chocolates:
The company’s primary focus is pralines /ˈprɑːliːn,ˈpreɪliːn/, but they also sell marzipan /ˈmɑːzɪpan,ˌmɑːzɪˈpan/, solid chocolates, and other confectionery.
The company operates in four main areas: foodstuffs, confectionery, chocolates and biscuits.
Note that in British English, a biscuit /ˈbɪskɪt/ is a small flat cake that is crisp and usually sweet (= cookie in American English). In North America, a biscuit is typically a soft, leavened quick bread (any bread, as muffins or cornbread, leavened with baking powder, soda, etc. so that it may be baked as soon as the batter or dough /dəʊ/ is mixed).
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Sweet idioms
- Tough cookie – someone who is strong enough to deal with difficult or violent situations: 1) She’s a tough cookie. She’ll get through it. 2) You’re one tough cookie, pal.
- To have your cake and eat it (disapproval) – to have all the benefits of a situation when, in fact, having one thing means that you cannot have the other: 1) To many it sounds like he wants to have his cake and eat it. 2) He wants to stay with his wife but still see his girlfriend – talk about having your cake and eating it!
- A piece of cake – something that is very easy: 1) The interview was a piece of cake. 2) It should be a piece of cake to somebody like you.
- The icing/frosting on the cake – an extra good thing that happens and makes a situation or activity even better: 1) The third goal was the icing on the cake. 2) The fact that this technology has such huge commercial and economic potential is just frosting on the cake.
- To sell/go like hot cakes – to be sold very quickly or in large quantities: 1) Romantic comedies used to sell like hot cakes. 2) My muffins are going like hot cakes.
- Like taking candy from a baby – very easy to do: 1) Taking the money from the safe will be like taking candy from a baby, since I know the combination. 2) If you think that this game will be as easy as taking candy from a baby, you’re seriously underestimating your opponents.
- Like a kid in a candy store (= like a child in a sweet shop (British English)) – enjoying yourself far too much and not controlling your behavior in any way: 1) Sam loves football so much that he’s like a kid in a candy store any time he steps into the stadium. 2) There were so many options that I was like a kid in a candy store.
- To have a sweet tooth – to like sweets/candy very much: 1) You’ve eaten the whole cake! You must have a very sweet tooth! 2) I don’t have much of a sweet tooth.
- To sugar/sweeten the pill – to make something unpleasant easier to accept: 1) Plans to improve public services are a way of sugaring the pill of increased taxation. 2) The bosses are giving everyone an extra bonus this year, but I suspect it’s a way of sweetening the pill with the massive layoffs that are scheduled.
- To give someone some sugar – to give someone a kiss, usually on the cheek: 1) Her daddy tapped himself on the cheek and told his daughter to give him some sugar. 2) Give me some sugar, honey. – Here you go, daddy.
Related: “Food Idioms & Phrasal Verbs“
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sweets
[swiːts]
n
1) конфеты, сласти
English-Russian combinatory dictionary > sweets
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сладости, сладкое (блюдо), наливка, ликер
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3) Сленг: милая , жареный картофель, милый
5) Табуированная лексика: яички, сексапильная девушка
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Табуированная лексика:яички
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сласти, конфеты
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конфетки
конфеты
сладость
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сласти
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[‘swiːts]
сущ.
сласти, конфеты
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конфетки
конфеты
сладость
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Синонимический ряд:
1. candy (noun) bonbon; candy; candy bar; comfit; confection; confectionery; hard candy; sweetmeat
2. sweethearts (noun) beloved; beloveds; darlings; dears; flames; honeys; loves; sweethearts; trueloves; turtledoves
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прекрасное — прекрасной [шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]
Hamlet: «What, the fair Ophelia?» Queen: «Sweets to the sweet: farewell!» (Scattering flowers.) (W. Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’ act V, sc. 1) — Гамлет: «То есть как: Офелия?!» Королева (разбрасывая цветы): «Нежнейшее — нежнейшей. Спи с миром!»
‘Tell me what you think of that.’ He… handed the sample to Monty. ‘Parma violet?’ said that gentleman, with a glance at the label. ‘The young lady should be the best judge of this. Allow me, Miss. Sweets to the sweet.’ (D. L. Sayers, ‘Hangman’s Holiday’, part II, ch. II) — — А что вы думаете об этом? — он… дал Монти цветок. — Пармская фиалка? — спросил Монти, взглянув на ярлык. — Пожалуй, юная леди может лучше судить о цветах. Разрешите преподнести это вам, мисс. Прекрасное — прекрасной.
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Табуированная лексика:сексапильная девушка
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sweets and savouries
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The following is from a travel guideboook. I’m particularly curious about the meaning of «sweets.» In the context of a coffee house, it is unlikely to refer to candy or dessert. What could it mean?
The 1369 Coffee House is… Both branches serve mostly caffeine drinks and sweets – with sandwiches at lunch.
I speculate sweets here refers to cakes, cookies, etc. But this sense of sweets is not found in the dictionary.
(Taken from the comments)
The whole passage is as follows:
The 1369 Coffee House is as community-based as Starbucks is corporate. The original Inman Square branch has a more interesting cross section of ages and ethnicities but Central Square has sidewalk seating. Both branches serve mostly caffeine drinks and sweets – with sandwiches at lunch. This is from an Eyewitness Travel Guide.