10. Vice, Investment, and the Seven Deadly Sins

1) sin - an action, thought, or way of behaving that is wrong according to religious laws;

2) vice - extremely bad and immoral behaviour, or a bad habit or personal quality;

3) pride - a feeling of pleasure and satisfaction that you get when you, or someone connected with you, have achieved something special;

4) greed - a strong wish to have more money, things, or power than you need;

5) envy - the unhappy feeling that you have when you want very much to do something that someone else does or to have something that they have;

6) anger - the strong feeling you get when you think someone has treated you badly or unfairly, that makes you want to hurt them or shout at them;

7) lust - great enthusiasm for something, or feeling sexual excitement or desire;

8) gluttony - the bad habit of eating or drinking much more than you need;

9) sloth - lazy behaviour;

10) cruelty - behaviour that deliberately causes pain to other people or animals, or that makes them unhappy or upset;

11) adultery - sex that takes place between a married person and someone who is not their husband or wife;

12) bigotry - having very strong and unreasonable opinions, esp. about politics, race, or religion, and refusing to consider other people’s opinions;

13) dishonesty - behaviour that involves cheating, dishonest and insincere behaviour;

14) hypocrisy - behaviour in which someone claims to have certain moral principles or beliefs but behaves in a not sincere way;

15) selfishness - thinking only about yourself and not caring about other people.

a) гордыня;

b) грех;

c) алчность, скупость;

d) порок;

e) зависть;

f) обжорство, чревоугодие;

g) гнев;

h) леность, праздность;

i) сладострастие, похоть;

j) жестокость, бездушие;

k) фанатизм; нетерпимость;

l) себялюбие;

m) прелюбодеяние;

n) нечестность, лживость;

o) лицемерие.

1) to boast

2) to condemn

3) to eradicate

4) secular

5) to commission an opinion poll

6) to frown on

7) to indulge

8) to level at

9) to contemplate

10) to cease

a) to get rid of something completely, especially something bad;

b) to not approve of something;

c) not religious, or not connected with religion;

d) to proudly tell other people about what you or someone connected with you has done or can do, or about something you own, especially in order to make them admire you;

e) to officially ask for a piece of work to be done for you, or an attempt to find out what people in general think about a subject by asking some people questions about it;

f) to allow yourself to have or do something that you enjoy;

g) to stop happening or continuing;

h) to say publicly that you think someone or something is bad or wrong;

i) to criticize or accuse someone;

j) to think very carefully about something for a long time.