I II. Сравните параллельные переводы1.

Time is money. (Benjamin Franklin. Advice to Young Tradesman — 1748).

Время — деньги (Б.Франклин. Совет молодому купцу).

А Васька слушает, да ест. (И.Крылов. Кот и Повар — 1813)

lit.Vaska listens, but continues eating. (Ivan Krylov. Cat and Cook).

In the fable, the cat named Vaska calmly continues eating the stolen chicken, while the cook appeals to his sense of decency <…> The quotation is used jocularly when a person reasons with an offender instead of dealing with him firmly.

Дядя Степа (заглавие детского стихотворения С.Михалкова — 1936)

Uncle Stepa (title of a poem for children by Sergei Mikhalkov). In Sergei Mikhalkov’s poem Uncle Stepa is a very tall and extremely courageous militiaman. The phr. is used jokingly with reference to very tall men.

Эллочка-людоедка {Людоедка Эллочка} (И.Ильф и Е.Петров. Двенадцать стульев, гл.22 — 1928).

One of the characters in Ilya Ilf’s and Yevgeny Petrov’s novel “The Twelve Chairs” named Ellochka (diminutive of Ella) Shchukina has a vocabulary of about 30 words, consisting mainly of fashionable jargon and interjections, which nonetheless is sufficient for her needs: Ellochka is as primitive as a cannibal. Hence her nickname: Ellochka the Cannibal. The name is applied to persons whose limited, crude vocabulary abounds in slang.

Маниловщина (по фамилии Манилова, одного из персонажей «Мертвых душ» Н.Гоголя, т.1, гл. 2-1842)

Manilov-mentality (from the name of one of the characters in Nikolai Gogol’s “Dead Souls”,vol.1, ch.2, a sickeningly sentimental landowner given to hare-brained scheming). Used allusively of empty prattle, daydreaming, visionary scheming and wishful thinking.

Мартышкин труд (<И.Крылов. Обезьяна. 1811)

lit.Monkey’s labour (Ivan Krylov. The Monkey)

In the fable, a monkey, envious of the respect enjoyed by a hard-working peasant, busies itself with a block of wood: it lifts the but all these useless efforts fail to attract attention. The phr. is used of useless work.

1. Personal Computer

2. Bodyguard

3.The Arms Race

4. Cape of Good Will

5. Shadow Cabinet

6. The White House

7. Black Market

8. Frontbencher

9. Silence Majority

10. Electric shaver

11. Alternating current

12. Glue-stick

13. Honeymoon

14. Stream of consciousness

15. The Cream of the society

16. Vicious circle

17. Blue stocking

18. Package of Proposals

19. Environment protection

20. Primacy of matter

(in Philosophy)

21. A new broom sweeps clean

22. A wolf in sheep’s clothing

23. After us the deluge

(Après nous le deluge)

24. Best defence is offence

25. Divide and rule

26. Extremes meet

27. Poverty is no sin

28. Neither flesh nor fish

29. Налог на прибыль

30. Подоходный налог