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scenario – stsenaarium stsenaarium – 1 (filmi käsikiri) script, screenplay 2 (võimalik või eeldatav arengukäik) scenario diversion – diversioon The Estonian word, quite often used in the compound ‘diversiooniakt’ (an act of diversion) has quite a threatening aura about it. For example, Diversioon: Gruusia raudteel kärgatas plahvatus (Delfi). Teda süüdistati sõjakuritegudes, nimelt USA sõjaväe mundrit kandes diversiooniaktide ettevalmistamises (Otto Skorzeny). Me maale sõitis diversant turisti nime all, tal kaasas fotokaamera ja püstol hõlma all (Generaator M). The typical English meanings of the word can be easily understood if we think of the meaning of the verb ’divert’ – ‘kõrvale juhtima, ümber suunama’: Recreation is better known as an act of diversion: an activity that diverts, amuses, refreshes or stimulates the mind, body and soul (Recreation).

Tweetspeaker is a fun diversion from your everyday Twitter app (Agreda 2011). Need a diversion from your usual weekly routine? (BigInk PR) Road closures and diversions (ümbersõidud) in your area (Directgov). My main diversion from marine biology is playing and listening to music—specifically oldtime banjo music (Cordell). In the meaning of ‘diversion’ as explosions and suchlike, ‘sabotage’ might be used rather: Transport authorities suspect sabotage is to blame for the derailment of a northern train in Lamphun province on Saturday evening (Bangkok Post 2012). diversion – 1 kõrvalejuhtimine/-pööramine 2 (liiklus) ümbersõit 3 meelelahutus, lõbustus diversion – sabotage hamster – hamster This word does not seem to create a problem – the same is used in both languages for the same animal. In Estonian, however, the word also has a figurative meaning. It is used for a person who hoards things or food: Niisusgune juba eestlane kord, et ikka hakkab ennem talve nagu hamster omale varusid koguma (Mõtteid kõigist taskutest 2008). In English, the animal that is supposed to have such habits is the pack rat. Such an animal really exists; another name for it is the wood rat. These rats have bushy tails, large ears, and a tendency to hoard food and debris on or near their dens. Schoolgirl Kathy Loggie writes, Staying in an isolated house on a mountaintop in New Mexico I found cat food and rice carefully placed within layers of clothing in my suitcase which was left open in my room over night – wondering if this strange occurrence was the work of a pack rat.

Wood rat If so, I’d like to know more about the habits and character of these rodents (Merriam-Webster). Coming to the figurative meaning of ’pack rat’, Urban Dictionary defines it as ‘a person who stores anything they acquire and will discard none of it’, and gives the following example: My dad is such a pack rat. He still stores his stuff in my mom’s house despite the fact that he is no longer married to her. How to avoid becoming a pack rat can be read at http://mom.me/home/1290-avoid-becoming-pack-rat/?utm_source=ehow_opar&utm_ medium=2&utm_campaign=momme1 hamster fig – pack rat anecdote – anekdoot In Estonian it usually means a joke that is not based on something that has happened in real life.

Those who have lived in the Soviet times, most probably remember numerous anekdoodid about Nikita Khrushchev, Leonid Brezhnev and, particularly, about Vasili Chapayev, a Red Army commander in the Civil War. In English, however, an anecdote is a short story based on someone’s personal experience (LDOCE), like the following example shows: Physically, the young Bill Gates fit his “nerd before the term was invented” image by being all arms and legs. But he did have one striking physical capability.

The wiry kid liked to lure unsuspecting suckers into betting he could not jump out of a garbage can from a standing start. He could. Even as a young adult Gates liked to amuse skeptics by jumping over 17