Cranky today = easily annoyed and upset Unjust inflictor

Partial alibi for the evening =
A deadly lassitude had taken hold of him = mental and physical tiredness
Brassy female voice was squalling a patriotic song = loud and unpleasant, confident who speak loud and wear too much make-up
Squalling a patriotic song = to make a sharp and loud noise
Jagged splinters of glass = broken pieces of glass, jagged = rough and sharp points
Her right arm was in a sling =
Imbecile parsons flopped down beside him = stupid, flopped down = to fall or drop
Fatuous remark to be repeated = stupid
Welled up in him =
He had no pretext for going there = reason for doing something which hides real reason
Flinched altogether from speaking = to avoid doing something
Scrimmage = fight
Winston wriggled himself sideways = to move somewhere twisting one part of your body
A violent lunge managed to drive his shoulder = sudden and quick move forward
From over scrubby cheekbones eyes looked into winstons =
Grizzled hair = oqargan sochlar
Dappled light and shade = covered with areas of light and darkness:
She dodged the boggy bits = describe the ground which is wet and soft
Etiolated = weak and soft
Sheer incredulity = ishonmaslik
Chalked up in dripping alley-ways =
Irish team chalked up this year = to achieve something
A thrush had alighted on a bough five meters away = qush turi, alight on the tree = qo’nmoq
Making a sort of obeisance to the sun = respect by bending
Swelled its speckled breast = to become large and round
Vague reverence = tushunarsiz, noaniq
Come back to the hide-out = secret place
With an occasional crackle of twigs = shohlarninng gichirlashi
Threaded their way to the clearing = ochiq joy daraxtsiz
Inside the ring of saplings =
Its cult of strenuousness = popularity, extreme effortfulness
A sham = falseness, mugombirlik
Enunciating an important general principle = to explain a plan or idea
It was inconceivable = impossible to imagine
The belfry of a ruinous church = tower of church
Talking by instalment = qism, bo’lim