✅High or tall? Высокий или высокий?🤔
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📚High - про горы, объекты, которые «лежат», «висят».
Cambridge Dictionary говорит - We use high for mountains and for things which are a long way above the ground.
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📝EXAMPLES
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📌There are some high mountains in the north of the country.
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📌The light switch is too high for a child to use.
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❗️Просто запомните следующие словосочетания, тут только high!
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📝High level, high pressure, high price, taxes, high temperature, high-quality, high speed
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📚Tall - про предметы, которые «стоят».
Cambridge Dictionary говорит - We use tall to describe things which are high and thin in their shape (e.g. buildings, trees).
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📝EXAMPLES
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📌The tall trees by the river give welcome shade on hot days.
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📌You know that very tall, white building just where the motorway begins – that’s where I work.
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❗️Про здание можно и tall и high.
📲 Залез на youglish.com - tall buildings - 482 - high buildings 428. Чуть изменил запрос - tall building - 388 - high building - 856 😉
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❗️ВНИМАНИЕ
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Cambridge Dictionary говорит We don’t use high when we talk about people. We use tall:
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📌Sally is very tall and slim – she could get a job as a model!
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🤦♂️Not: Sally is very high and slim…
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👀НО!!! Возьму на себя смелость поспорить с Cambridge Dictionary (😳)
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☝️High - in slang - означает обкурившийся, под кайфом, так что... всё зависит от контекста.
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Sally is very high and slim - Салли - стройная, ну и пыхнула немного.🤷♂️
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