home alone (2) fool me once
Friday, October 31st, 2008DIFFICULTY: NOT TOO HARD, REALLY
intro …Brian is in the middle of spending a week alone at home, with only his Aunt around. His parents have gone to Ireland on a two-week trip and both his sister Kate and brother Timo are out of the house. Brian and Timo haven’t been getting along all that well lately, especially since Timo lied to Brian about a gift he was going to get for Christmas.
Still, the night before Timo left for photography camp, he once again tried to persuade Brian that he was going to get the autogyro kit after all.
fool me once
“Well,” Timo continued, “dad and mom wanted to _____ to you. They decided to get you that kit and time it _____ it would come on your birthday.” — “Come off it, Timo. Do you really think I’m stupid enough to believe that?” — “No. I’m serious.” — “Of course you are.” — “Look, I wouldn’t kid you a second time. _____ I saw how hard you took it on Christmas.”
call sb names … nadávat n?komu (do blb? a podobn?)
come off it … už toho nechej
fat chance … to sotva
for my part … já sám (pokud mám mluvit sám za sebe / co se m? tý?e)
I happen to know … náhodou vím
kid sb … d?lat si srandu z
kit … skláda?ka
lead sb on … vodit za nos
make it up … zde: vynahradit
pain … zde: otravný ?lov?k
persuade … p?esv?d?it
put up with st … vydržet, smí?it se s n??ím, snášet n?co
then again … ale na druhé stran?
we were relieved … ulevilo se nám
“You’re a real pain, Timo, you know that?” I don’t usually call _____ and I’d never called anyone a pain. I just happened to remember it from the time Thomas’ mother came to get him out of our class. “A what?” It _____ Timo had never heard the word used that way. “A pain? What’s that _____ mean?” — “It means that you’re hard to _____ with. The stuff you say’s a little hard to believe.”
We left it at that. Timo gave up trying to persuade me that he was telling the truth this time. For my part, I was _____ have to think about it anymore. Good thing that’s _____ now, I thought. I was tired of hoping for things that I knew weren’t going to happen. And now that there was no Timo to drive me crazy, I was lying awake remembering his little lies and _____ with some good answers which I didn’t think of at the time. _____ , Timo was keeping me awake long distance. _____ that he had told the truth this time? Was my autogyro kit actually on its way? Fat chance. _____ , what if he was telling the truth? I mean, he wouldn’t have _____ lead me on like that a second time. Or would he?
Enjoy.
