"Needful Things" part 8

 

Word	Definition	Synonyms	Antonyms	Translation	Example of usage from the book
ledgers	Official records or accounts	Books, registers	Erasures, deletions	Бухгалтерские книги	Spread out on his desk beside a stack of red-bound town tax ledgers for the years 1982 to 1989 was a sprawl of correspondence letters from the State of Maine Bureau of Taxation and Xeroxes of letters he had written in reply. (p119)
slammed	Closed or struck violently	Banged, crashed	Opened gently	Стукнул	He slammed the letter down on top of the others. He closed the file. (p120)
sicced	Sent someone to attack or pursue	Set upon, turned loose	Calmed	Напустил	He found himself wondering for the thousandth time who had sicced Them on him in the first place (p121)
innocent	Not guilty of any crime or wrongdoing	Guiltless, blameless	Guilty, blameworthy	Невинный	he could not remember even such innocent pastimes as nickel skat or pitching pennies (p122)
shitpits	Extremely unpleasant situations or places	Hellholes	Paradises	Дерьмо	Steve had suggested they spend the evening touring the deepest shitpits of hell (p122)
wakefulness	State of being awake	Alertness, vigilance	Sleepiness	Бодрствование	He had felt this sort of wakefulness in himself before (p123)
tote-board	Display showing information such as race results	Scoreboards, displays	Blank screens	Тотовская доска	It's a sucker bet even when the tote-board says it isn't (p123)
turnstiles	Rotating barriers used at entrances/exits	Revolving gates, ticket barriers	Open doors	Турникеты	Once he had made it almost all the way to the exit turnstiles before something in the back of his brain (p125)
clawing	Scratching or tearing with sharp nails/claws	Digging, ripping	Smoothening	Царапание	You could expend your energy clawing at the sides and succeed in slowing your fall (p126)
intend	Have in mind to do something	Plan, mean, propose	Abandon, desist	Намереваться	just let me know a day or two before you intend to call in your marker (p129)

 

Penbroke comes face to face with the store's owner, Gaun. They engage in a tense dialogue, revealing the secrets of the origin of the goods and the intentions of the owner.