Stepping Stone 4, 5B

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• fall apart collapse, break up/rasa ihop
• hit the road get moving, start a journey/ge sig iväg
• sweat it out work hard, keep on/kämpa
• mile unit of length, 1.609 kilometres/1609 meter
• adopt choose, take on/adoptera
• noon midday/kl. 12 på dagen
• bake feel very hot/steka sig
• 113-degree heat 45 degrees Celsius/45 graders värme
• circle go around/cykla runt
• hum low mechanical sound/surr
• slide (slid, slid) move smoothly and quickly/glida
• dim badly lit, quite dark/dunkel
• coolness pleasant low temperature/svalka
• diner cheap restaurant/enkel restaurang, "sylta"
• glare look at in an angry way/stirra
• coin piece of metal money/mynt
• bottle glass or plastic container for liquid/flaska
• snap speak sharply/fräsa
• roadhouse bar/pub on a country road/enkel krog vid landsvägen
• estimate guess, calculate roughly/beräkna
• lean thin, skinny/mager
• sour unfriendly, in a bad mood/butter
• steaming boiling, giving off steam/kokande
• overheated too hot/överhettad
• can, could afford have enough money/har, hade råd
• pull up stop, park/stanna till
• flurry short sudden period of intense activity/uppståndelse, förvirring
• jot down write down, make a note of/anteckna
• surly unfriendly, rude/vresig
• amble walk slowly and in a relaxed way/släntra
• size someone up evaluate carefully/granska
• drop fall to the ground/fall
• duck out of sight disappear (by lowering the head and body)/försvinna utom synhåll
• saddle up get on a horse/kliva på en häst
• wheel round object that turns to make a vehicle move/hjul
• vehicle car, bus, lorry, motorbike/fordon
• own possess, have/äga
• acre unit of land area = 4.047 square meters/4, 047 kvadratmeter
• sheep station farm for keeping sheep/fårfarm
• nearby close, not far away/i närheten
• departure act of leaving, going away/avfärd
• stop by visit, drop in/hälsa på, titta in
• turn out happen/visa sig
• stranger someone you don't know/främling
• put up give someone a bed for the night/ge husrum, inhysa
• camel large animal with one or two humps on its back/kamel
• trekker hiker, traveller on foot/vandrare
• take sick become ill/bli sjuk
• shearing cutting off wool from sheep/fårklippning
• road train large Australian lorry with trailers/långtradare
• restlessness unrest, excitement/rastlöshet
• stockman person who looks after farm animals/boskapsuppfödare
• mine place where people dig for minerals/gruva
• redhead person with red hair/rödhårig
• giant very tall and strong person/jätte
• moonlight have a second job illegally/jobba svart, extraknäcka
• hauler lorry driver, truck driver/långtradarchaufför
• wheat tall plant used to make bread, pasta etc/vete
• put a call through make a phone call/ringa
• boulder large stone or rock/stenblock
• those in the know people who know something/de som vet
• publican person who owns a pub/pubägare

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