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Часть II / bumbling
Either someone told the agency to bug the highest judge in the
land, or the senator’s phone was bugged — привязываться; надоедать.
His fascination of art turned into a collecting bug— поветрие,
повальное увлечение.
I don’t give a bugger what grown-ups think about it— гомо сек-
суалист, мужеложец.
One of the bugaboos that authors of science fi ction sometimes
use to scare their human readers is the idea that ants may develop intelligence and take over the Earth— страшилище, жупел.
The air force reservist chosen to introduce Mrs Clinton in Tampa
was a shy former boss of an aircraft maintenance squadron, rather than
a bullet-chewing warrior-type— воинственный.
Mr Rubio had a point, but Mr Obama has a much bigger bullhorn—
рупорный громкоговоритель.
Germany bulldozed aside all doubts; Turkey needs to become
more open and pluralistic, but Mr Erdogan’s blustering, bulldozing style
does not augur well for that— грозить насилием; принуждать.
Gold can be viewed as a currency, and with most countries happy
to see their currencies decline, one might think bullion would benefi t,
not suffer— слиток золота или серебра.
As president he dispatched 13,000 militiamen to suppress an anti-
tax uprising by whiskey-making farmers (putting modern grumbles about
bullying by the IRS into perspective)— запугивание.
Corporate America is not bulimic any more— страдающий повы-
шенным чувством голода.
A new study offers hope in the battle against bulging waistlines—
разбухший; набухающий.
The country’s secularists consider the offi ce a bulwark against
ashift— оплот; защита.
Kirchner’s cunning conspiracy or bumbling incompetence; Тhe
public seems now increasingly convinced… that scientists as a group
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Часть II / bumbling
are chiefl y liars, bumbling idiots, and/or conspirators— неуклюжий,
неповоротливый, неумелый.
Little is published on the Maldives, travel bumf aside, so it can be
hard for analysts to judge whether gloom or hope is ascendant there—
бумаги, туалетная бумага, документы.
And the policies seem good for bumiputra civil servants: the
civil service is now 85% Malay, if one excludes teachers— коренного
малазийского происхождения.
Analysts also expect its rivals to report bumper earnings for the
most recent quarter— необычайно большой; изобилующий.
Toby Young is the most bumptious Englishman you are ever likely
to meet— самоуверенный, надменный.
Politicians in all parts of the world want bungs, but Nigerian lead-
ers are so greedy that they have subverted the entire machinery of state
to serve their needs— взятка, подкуп.
At the moment, these markets are well and truly bunged up—
закупоривать, затыкать.
A bungled rescue of Hong Kong hostages sparks a diplomatic
row— плохо сделанная работа.
Called for him to resign as Israel’s prime minister after dubbing
him a serial bungler— плохой работник, растяпа.
I think your post is entirely bunk, but Iam keen to know how you
got to your conclusions— чушь, ахинея.
Global trade in trinkets and bunkum financial products be
damned— болтовня, чепуха.
You won’t fi nd me defending the disgusting, bungling US outrages
that have been perpetrated in the ME— неумелый, безрукий; неловкий.
MP’s claiming illegitimate expense, NHS consultants taking bungs
to move people up the queue— взятка, подкуп.
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Часть II / butt
He knew that corpses are insensate matter, nothing more; loam, as
Hamlet said later, with which to stop a bunghole— отверстие вофляжке.
The streets of Port-au-Prince are decked out in campaign bunt-
ing— материя для флагов, праздничных декораций.
For a perfect balance of titillation and wistfulness, take a moment
to watch this reunion of burlesque dancers; Berlusconi’s burlesque—
бурлеск, пародия; карикатура.
Underwriting and fi xed-income trading were buoyant, equity trad-
ing and advice were fl attish — бодрый, жизнерадостный.
And Goldsmith’s team then burnished the pages into a glossy,
full-colour hardback— чистить, полировать.
Now, Mexicans are coming up in the world, owning their own
homes and Mexico City hasn’t seen a burro in a generation— ослик.
Both winners will receive a bursary of £ 6,000 to cover accommo-
dation and travel— стипендия, грант.
Ms Palmer says that six years of busking, often as a living statue
called “The Eight-Foot Bride”, led her to realise that people willing to toss
money in a hat do so according to their means and interest rather than
in response to a specifi c reward— выступать перед прохожими (чтобы
заработать нажизнь).
In this part of the port, there is no hustle and bustle— суета, су-
матоха.
Many fi rms are reluctant to answer probing questions from West-
ern busybodies: Gazprom, Russia’s state-owned gas giant, scores zero
on the fi rst and third measures— пытливый.
Her Gestapo pursuers assumed any woman as skillful in evading
them must be a butch matron— мужеподобная матрона.
Sir John and his committee have been the butt of much criticism,
including from Mr Cameron himself— мишень, цель.
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Часть II / butter up
The aim was to butter up Red China, which Richard Nixon wanted as an ally in the cold war against the Soviet Union— подлизываться,
умасливать.
Many companies buttress their mission statements with a catchy
slogan, something that acts as a quick and easy guide— усиливать,
укреплять.
To get to a neighbour’s house in Wales to watch the Thames Jubilee pageant this summer— and to enthuse about how he had just seen
abuzzard circling overhead— американский гриф.
Any efforts to either restructure entitlements or raise the taxes needed to pay for them have run into a buzz-saw of hostility—
электропила.
Dante is more than a revered but bygone giant— прошлый, вышедший измоды.
It was a byword for conformity— the Church Courts were a byword for iniquity in every country in Europe; Toyota is a byword for excellence — олицетворение.
A a casualty of arbitrary laws, Draconian contractual terms and
Byzantine bureaucracy— византийский.
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The usual way bills are reconciled in Congress is by cabal; impe-
rial ambitions of Washington’s inner cabal; He was relying on a cabal of
personal advisers— политическая клика; группа заговорщиков.
They do not wear kilts or toss the caber— кейбер (бревно
изствола молодого дерева, используется при «метании ствола»).
The whole kit and caboodle of them; from Albania to Britain, and
China; from the United States to Spain; from Nigeria to Zimbabwe, and all
others in between— компания, орава.
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Часть II / cakewalk
In their dreams, election campaigns might still involve addressing
crowds from the fl ag-draped caboose of a private train— служебный
вагон втоварном поезде; тормозной вагон.
It raises their cachet and helps them move into TV ads, where the
real money is— показатели, шкатулка.
Cack-handed Russian tactics are boosting NATO in eastern Eu-
rope— неловкий, неуклюжий.
Christmas is the season of frenzied last-minute shopping, and ca-
cophonous sales pitches aimed at impulse buyers— какофонический.
Sir James Goldsmith, tycoon, politician and cad, died on July 19th
aged 64— грубиян, хам.
In measured, musical, majestic cadences, he delivered his chal-
lenge to Ronald Reagan’s vision of America as “a shining city on a hill”—
модуляция; понижение голоса.
“You still have to have a cadre of people who at the end of the day
are able to go out there,” explains Ian Lipkin of Columbia University—
кадры, кадровый состав.
“We are sure they will respect Palestinian traditions and culture,”
says the culture minister cagily— сдержанно; осмотрительно.
It is entirely possible that another strongman, perhaps in ca-
hoots with the army, will emerge to replace today’s pluralistic freefor-all; Many related to the expropriation of peasants’ land by corrupt
local offi cials in cahoots with property developers— сообщничество,
соучастие, сговор.
China should be condemned whenever it bribes or cajoles; He has
the power to cajole and persuade leaders and guide them, gently, towards
a consensus — обхаживать; вводить взаблуждение.
It suits outsiders to have Mr Sarkozy play the role of cajoler-in-
chief— верховный льстец.
The presidential election in Sri Lanka on January 26th should have
been a cakewalk for the incumbent— увеселительная прогулка; кекуок,
танец афро-американского происхождения.
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Часть II / calculus
Republican mid-term win complicates calculus in Iran talks—
исчисление.
It looked like a calibrated insult to South Korea and Japan— выверять.
Her family made their money building the biggest calico printing
company in the world, but quickly left their roots behind— набивной
ситец.
In Sydney the number of local ambulance call-outs for overdoses
fell by 80% in the places where shooting galleries opened— вызов.
When I stop to think about it Ifeel it must have been a very close
call— чудом.
The current show includes his Olivier-nominated “Mambo 3XXI”,
in which dancers morph from synchronised callisthenics to joyful selfdiscovery in solos and duets— ритмическая гимнастика.
The callous young reporter assumes that all business executives
are rich crooks who need to be exposed— черствый, бессердечный.
The need for change in Japan is pressing, but the callow opposition hardly seems up to the job — незрелый, неопытный.
Might her calvary be about to end?— изображение крестных
мук (вцеркви).
Short-sellers perform a valuable function in fi nancial markets, exposing managerial incompetence, corporate fraud or plain overvaluation,
but their reward, all too often, is calumny— клевета; ложное обвинение.
He even got the cantankerous legislature to agree— придирчивый,
сварливый.
The story rolls on, Bobby Fischer and Anatoly Karpov make
cameo appearances, but then he decides to try his hand at university—
эпизодическая роль.
As the capital fl oods, its government carries the can— быть
козлом отпущения, расхлебывать кашу.
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Часть II / caprine
Its retreat comes on the heels of Boston, Rome and Hamburg can-
ning their bids within the past two years— прекратить; консервировать.
Too much of the “competitiveness” talk is a canard— one that
justifi es misguided policies, such as subsidies for green technology—
ложный слух, утка.
But this is not a problem American can-do-ishness can fi x— го-
товность сделать.
David Cameron’s holiday was plainly in the soft category: canood-
ling on a Cornish beach— ласкать, нежить.
Mr Cutting found that participants ended up preferring the lesser
known pieces to the canon merely through exposure— закон, канон.
Plenty of standard populist cant— лицемерие, лицемерная фра-
зеология.
Is Germany’s desire to keep talking to Russia born of a genuine
belief in diplomacy, or is it cant to protect its commercial interests?—
наклоняться; накрениться.
A a prison-camp veteran who was by then a deaf and cantanke-
rous but still eloquent old man; a weak mayor who shares power with
acantankerous city— придирчивый, сварливый.
First the dollar took a battering, then the euro got pummelled and
fi nally sterling hit the canvas— послать внокаут наринге.
Other ideas being canvassed include extending the penalties—
обсуждать; дебатировать.
For Spaniards old enough to remember Franco, joining the Eu-
ropean Union felt like the capstone on a long process of liberation; It is
the capstone of his career— высшая точка, вершина, кульминация.
Think more profoundly about how to avoid the destructive ca-
prices of unrestrained power— каприз; чудачество.
A non-caprine version is already approved for use in Europe and
Japan, where the combined market is worth $250m a year— относящийся
ккозлам.
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Часть II / capsize
If the court overturned Prometheus’s patents, hundreds of others
would capsize too— опрокидываться.
They know that they are not being brought back to captain the
ship for another long spell— руководить; быть начальником.
Eric Goode, who heads the Turtle Conservancy, says the turtles do
not appear to have been bred in captivity— вневоле.
Even the cracking carapace of clerical tyranny— щиток черепахи
или ракообразных.
Serai Mushir is a string of souvenir shops that started life as aca-
ravanserai— большая гостиница.
That was Mr Balls, carbuncles and all, and your columnist is glad
of him— сибирская язва.
When Mariner 10 careened past Mercury in 1974 and 1975, some
impressive data was collected— быстро двигаться, нестись.
The careworn but anonymous-looking types slipping in and out
of the riverside ziggurat— измученный заботами.
“I have no concern but carousing and rapture,” wrote Rumi, Sufi sm’s greatest poet, whose followers, of the Turkey-based Mawlawi order,
remember him in a whirling dance— пировать; кутить, пьянствовать.
Drive their fellow executives to carpet-chewing fury— терять
эмоциональный контроль над собой.
Israeli ambassadors were called in and carpeted in London, Canberra and Dublin over stolen passports and identities used by the team
that killed Mahmoud al-Mabhouh— вызывать, чтобы сделать выговор,
нагоняй.
A personality cult of Ataturk that carpets the country with busts
and portraits of the great man was nurtured by Turkey’s generals—
устилать, покрывать (чем-л.).
She has proved that she is more than just a caretaker and can actually win elections— ухаживающий запрестарелым, больным.
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Часть II / castrati
Republicans are wrong to carp at quantitative easing when the
Fed has, as instructed, kept infl ation close to its target— придираться,
находить недостатки.
With his attitude, Turkey Vulture would defi nitely have more car-
rion to feast upon— падаль; мертвечина.
Instead of being carted off to The Hague, could Sudan’s president
be tried at home?— уводить; забирать.
For much of the current term the Conservative Party has seemed
cartoonishly ungovernable— смехотворно.
It is here that some carve-outs from liability could perhaps be
negotiated— выделенные услуги.
A sketch after Michelangelo’s ‘’David,’’ made shortly before Rapha-
el left Florence for Rome, transforms the hero into an ancient caryatid—
кариатида (столба, колонны, скульптурная опора ввиде женской
фигуры, поддерживающая антаблемент или другой архитектурный
элемент).
More than a century on, the illegal cashiering in France of Cap-
tain Alfred Dreyfus shows what can happen to basic liberties when national security is invoked— увольнять сослужбы (занедостойное
поведение).
For adults in 1960s Britain, they were Nazis on castors— касто-
ровая шляпа.
The Supreme Court steps into a sea of casuistry when it hears
acase involving public prayer— казуистика; игра словами; софистика.
He castigated President Barack Obama for meeting the Dalai
Lama— подвергать наказанию.
Gordon Brown’s premiership, seemingly cast-iron a year ago, is
now so vulnerable— жесткий, непреклонный.
Two history’s most famous castrati: Caffareli and Farinelli—
евнух, кастрат.
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Часть II / cool cat
Indeed, after the daring raid that killed Osama bin Laden, America
has discovered that its commander-in-chief is one cool cat — отличный
парень.
In Argentine cities, piropos, or catcalls, are as common a sound
as honks and sirens— свист, освистывание.
He thought of those as his catacomb days— сложные, запутанные.
It was a cataclysmic event for scholars, who believed at the time that
the universe was unchanging— катастрофический, разрушительный.
He successfully defended a libel action against him by Lord Alfred Douglas, Oscar Wilde’s former catamite— катамит (мальчик,
состоящий вполовой связи совзрослым мужчиной).
Hopefully the Chinese version will solve the catatonic state democracies often fall in to— оцепеневший, неподвижный.
The lady was catechised in the communist faith and continues
to be unabashedly delighted to preside over the complete socialization—
тщательно выспрашивать.
The burqa, imposed on Afghan women by the Taliban, has become
a catchall term for headgear in which the face is wholly or mainly concealed— очень обобщенное, туманное обозначение.
They can also charge high fees from students from outside their
offi cial catchment areas— дренаж, дренирование.
An orgasm is a form of catharsis, le petit mort as some may call
it— катарсис, очищение (кишечника при помощи слабительных
средств).
Outlets that cater to America’s squeezed middle are coming under pressure from activist shareholders— принимать вовнимание,
учитывать.
That is catnip to Tories who want to teach children patriotic history— котовник кошачий (Nepeta cataria).
“It is amazing how history accelerates,” was the catty remark of
a prominent defector from the Brotherhood— злобный, язвительный.
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