2 Travel and Movement

 Heyday=apogeu
 Thus=in order to
 Commuter=navetist
 In effect=in fact, or in practice
 Number one priority
 Ring roads=șosele de centură
 Suburb=an outlying district of a city, especially a residential one
 To pluck up the/your courage to=to force yourself to be brave enough to do
something, although you are frightened or worried about it
 Congested=too blocked or crowded and causing difficulties
 Din=a loud, unpleasant confused noise that lasts for a long time
 Ahead of schedule=early
 Single ticket=a ticket for a journey to a place, but not for the return
 On the way
 Handlebars=ghidon
 Saddle=șa
 Right/dead/bang on time=happening or done at the particular moment that it was
expected to happen or be done
 To direct=to tell people the direction in which they must drive
 To hail=to call someone in order to attract their attention
 To hail a taxi
 To pick up speed=to accelerate
 To grind to a halt=a se opri cu scrâșnet de roți
 To hitch/lift a ride=to get a free ride in someone else’s vehicle as a way of
travelling
 To trip=a se împiedica
 To launch=to send something out, such as a new ship into the water or a
spacecraft into space
 To fling=to throw something or someone suddenly and with a lot of force
 To drift=a pluti în derivă
 To hasten=to make something happen sooner or more quickly
 To toss=to throw something carelessly
 Admission=to enter a place
 To wave=to move from side to side, or to make something move like this while
holding it in the hand
  To approach=to come near or nearer to something or someone in space, time,
quality or amount
 To hurtle towards someone=a se năpusti asupra cuiva
 To flutter=a flutura
 To sweep=to move, especially quickly and powerfully
 To float=a pluti
 To call=to ask someone to come to you
 To alight=to get out of a vehicle, especially a train or bus
 Extent=the degree or limit of something, how great or severe something is
 To take something in (your) stride=to deal with a problem calmly and not to allow
it to influence what you are doing
 To be on you last legs=very tired or near to death
 Get off the right/wrong foot=to make a successful/unsuccessful start in something
 To miss the boat=to lose an opportunity to do something by being slow to act
 Walk of life=different types of jobs and different levels of society
 To keep pace with something/someone=to keep pace is to be the same position
as someone or something else as each progresses or moves forward
 In the long run=at a time that is far away in the future
 To sit on the fence=to delay making a decision
 A change in someone’s life=o schimbare în viața cuiva
 To stand in the way of someone/to stand in someone’s way=to try to stop or
prevent something or someone
 To be in the same boat=to be in the same unpleasant situation as other people
 To ascend=to move up or climb something
 To dismount=to get off a horse, bycicle, or motorcycle
 To fasten=to do up
 Fog=mist
 Harbour=port
 Hitch hiker=autostopist
 Conductor=dirijor/control
 Passenger=pasager
 Traffic warder=agent de circulație
 Passer-by=trecător
 Pedestrian=a person walking rather than travelling in a vehicle
 Motorist=șofer