Kapital 1, Teil 1, S.2-4 Ein Junge Überlebt

to survive

to conceive/come up with something

strange

mysterious; secretive

to entangle, ensnare

even, in fact

(the) nonsense, absurdity

the director/manager

by the name of, called

the power drill

chunky, beefy

the mustache, the mustaches

necessary, essential

to stretch, extend

peek over, to spy over

magnificent, splendid

to uncover

the secret/the mystery, the secrets/the mysteries

the worry/concern, the worries/concerns

unbearable, intolerable

to comeet out

several, a number of, quite a few

the no-good (good-for-nothing), the no-goods

to shudder, shiver

the thought, the thoughts

'shudder at the thought of'

to show up/appear

to keep away

to keep/stay away from (something/someone)

(the) contac/touch (stay in touch with)

murky, cloudy, dull, gray, bleak

the sign/omen, the signs/omens

to hum, buzz

'Mr. Dursley hummed to himself'

to choose, pick out

to chatterabble

sprightly, frisky, chipper

'Mrs. Dursley chattered to herself chipperly'

screaming

to scream, shout

to wrangle/wrestle

to wrangle for something

the high chair, the high chairs

to force/coerce

to jam/force/wedge

to squeeze into something

to fly past/to fly by

the brown owl/tawny owl, the brown owls/tawny owls

the briefcase, the briefcases

the loud kiss/the loud kisses

the tantrum/fit of rage, the tantrums/fits of rage

the oatmeal, the oatmeals

rascal, naughty boy

to chuckle, chortle

the driveway, the driveways

the illusion, hallucination

to squint

to blink

to stare at, to gape at (prä, perf)

neither...nor

either...or

'Cats could read neither maps nor signs'

'I would like either pizza or steak'

the jolt/jerk, the jolts/jerks

quickapid

to chase away

the mission/mandate, the missions/mandates

to arrive, reach

to replace/supplant

usual/common/normal

someone cannot avoid doing something

obviously/apparently

the cloak/cape, the cloaks/capes

to stand, to bear

'He dressed strangely'

to dress up, to smarten up

enraged, angry

the disguise/costume, the disguises/costumes

otherwise, alternatively

'He reprimanded five people' (colloquially- Redewendung)

'to stretch one's legs'

the presentation/format/layout, the presentations/formats/layouts,

to meet, encounter

I encounter, you encounter, he/she/it encounters, we encounter, y'all encounter, they encounter

angry

'You give me angry looks'

'You gave me angry looks' (perf)

'You gave me angry looks' (prä)

the discomfort, the unease (no plural)

to discomfort someone

nowhere (2 synonyms)

to pick something up (colloquial- 'pick up someone's words')

to pick up/to overhear

to stop dead in one's tracks (colloquial- idiom)

'Mr. Dursley stopped dead in his tracks'

the seasoning, the seasonings

the root, the roots

to think better of it (change one's mind)

hastily

to storm, to charge

to snap at/to spit at/ to hiss at

home, back home

to unsettle

to mention sth

to get into a panic

to get out of hand/to get out of control