Is more common to swim, to ∼ one’s eyes [a

go for a swim or go swimming: wound] промывать

Let’s go for a quick swim in the pool. глаза [рану]

◊ She goes swimming every morning

before breakfast.

What you wear for this activity is

called a swimming costume in

BrE and a bathing suit in NAmE.

▪ When you lie in the sun in order to

go brown you sunbathe.

Black or white? Black or regular?

N. Schur: Black needs no explanation; white in Britain means ‘mixed with hot milk’. Americans who

don’t want it black add cream or milk (cold in either case) to their coffee.The British hostess or waitress usually holds the pot of coffee in one hand and the pitcher (jug, in Britain) of hot milk in the other, and inquires, Black or white? The British system would appear to be universal outside North

America. An American hostess might ask, With or without? instead of, Black or regular?

In the early 1980s the GLC (Greater London Council, abolished in 1985) banned “black coffee” from the canteens on the grounds that “black is a political term”. From then on it had to be “coffee without milk”, so as not to give offense to colored minorities.

block n OALD, 8^th ed. building large building НБАРС 3. 1) жилищный

2 [C] (BrE) a tall building that 4 [C] (NAmE) the length of one side массив 2) преим. амер.

contains flats or offices; buildings of a piece of land or group of квартал; walk three

that form part of a school, hospital, buildings where one street crosses it ~s пройдите три

etc. which are used for a particular to the next: His apartment is three квартала; he lives

purpose: a tower block ◊ a block blocks away from the police station. two ~ from us он

of flats ◊ an office block ◊the 5 [C] (especially NAmE) a large area живёт в двух

university science block of land кварталах от нас;

LDOCE, 4^th ed. 3 large building LDOCE, 5^th ed. 2 streets/area to do the ~s австрал.

a large building divided into c) AusE a large piece of land прогуливаться 3)

separate parts: [+of] a block of flats | (городская) площадь

an office block | an apartment block | 4) многоквартирный

the school science block дом (тж. ~ of flats)

OALD 3 [C] a group of buildings

with streets on all sides: She took the

dog for a walk around the block.

N. Schur: A block of flats is an apartment house; an office block is an office building. In America,

block is used to describe an area, usually rectangular, bounded by four streets. In the next block, to a Briton, would mean in the next apartment house or office building. In giving directions, the British equivalent would be beyond the next turning. It appears, however, that the influence of American visitors is having an increasing effect in bringing block, in the American sense, into British usage.