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Часть II / clubby
And for years the Apulia region has grown at a healthy clip—
быстро двигаться, быстро бежать.
Like Elites throughout history, the post-modern Elite still like to
weave a mantle of virtue to cloak the ugly nakedness of their self-interest— прикрывать, прятать, скрывать.
But any Western belief that Colonel Qaddafi would be quickly
clobbered on the battlefi eld has, for the moment, been shaken— нанести
поражение; разгромить.
The Voyager spacecraft have not only clocked up a far better un-
derstanding of the outer planets— отмечать пройденное расстояние.
The government is also encouraging people to clock off at 3pm
on the last Friday of each month— заканчивать работу.
Swanning off to his chateau in France was the act of a political
clodhopper— неповоротливый, неотесанный парень.
Karzai in Afghanistan is cut from the same cloth as Maliki in Iraq—
изодного теста сделаны.
But, by the same margin, Democrats were unable to impose clo-
ture on a bill to extend for 30 days the stopgap— прекращение прений.
This is a book that some readers may fi nd sentimental or cloy-
ing— пресыщать.
In today›s politics everything is a weapon with which to club the
opposition— бить (дубиной, прикладом).
The sense of being alone made her see herself as a permanent
outsider, unable to share the clubbable social lives and experience—
общительный, компанейский.
All this clubbiness has consolidated a fragmented industry—
коммуникабельность.
Boardroom bust-ups are a rare occurrence in the clubby world of
Spanish business— контактный, общительный.
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Часть II / clunky
A third problem is that government websites of this sort are often
clunky— неуклюжий; тяжеловесный.
Who else is going to protect the public from what could be a $700
billion clusterfuck of fraud?— секс сдвумя партнерами.
A clutch of navy ships is waiting off the coast of Borneo— ap-
parently ready to serve as fl oating shelters for women and children—
выводок, потомство.
And they are drawn to familiar titles that stand out from the clut-
ter— беспорядок, хаос.
He needs to show that his party can coalesce around principles
and policies, not just power— объединяться, образовывать единое
целое.
In 2004, Mr DeLay, then the House majority leader, coasted home
with 55% of the vote— делать что-л. без особых усилий.
Giorgio Napolitano asked Enrico Letta (pictured), a member of the
centre-left Democratic Party, to cobble together a governing coalition—
делать что-л. кое-как, наскорую руку.
Netanyahu decided to cock a snook at them after the UN vote by
saying he planned to do just that— показать длинный нос (кому-л.).
Mr Gingrich is pushing a cockamamie claim that unbridled drilling could swiftly cut the price to $2.50— сумасбродный.
Chinese are cock-a-hoop at a concession; European communists
are cock-a-hoop — бурно радующийся; ввосторге; ликующий.
Mr Obama is better at warming cockles than thumping tubs—
согревать сердце.
With a 19-point lead, the Kukuriku (“Cock-a-doodle-doo”) coalition, dominated by the Social Democrats (SDP), will take power— громкий
крик «кукареку».
The cock-up theory of history; The deadliest police cock-up — ис-
портить; напортачить.
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Часть II / cognoscenti
Mr Goodwin had a cocksure management style that made him
the dominant fi gure at RBS— самоуверенный.
Some Burmese may wish that their country will not become a new
cockpit of superpower rivalry— арена борьбы.
The Japanese have a word for the 700,000 young people who have
withdrawn from society into domestic cocoons: hikikomori— кокон.
The American elite might celebrate diversity in dinner-table con-
versation, but in practice Americans are cocooning themselves in enclaves of like-minded folk— пребывание вкоконе.
The grim tale now turns out to have a horrible coda— кода, за-
ключительный аккорд.
Tariffs are not the only means to coddle farmers but also the
subsidies on exports of agricultural products are— обращаться как
сбольным; нянчиться.
Now, alas, you have joined the coddlers— няньки.
Cases, clauses and codicils tumbled from his lips— допол ни-
тельное распоряжение.
Most of the main groups of the animal kingdom are arthropods,
brachiopods, coelenterates, echinoderms, molluscs and even chordates— кишечнополостные.
The hydrates did not just clog the pipes, they also buoyed up the
125-tonne cofferdam that had been lowered over the leak— кессон для
подводных работ; коффердам.
Still, the underlying reasons for it have some cogency— неопро-
вержимость, неоспоримость.
In the rest of the world elite universities serve as incubators of the
country’s cognitive elite— когнитивный, познавательный.
Fannie and Freddie are vital cogs in the housing market— зубья.
Guild minimums are set in a provision of the Screen Actors Guild
contract that Hollywood cognoscenti refer to as Schedule F— знаток.
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Часть II / cognizant
Asymmetric information is a problem in fi nance— you need to
be cognizant of the facts to make critical decisions— осведомленный,
информированный.
Focus is shifting, though; the cogwheels in Brussels are slowly
shifting into reverse, turning inwards— зубчатое колесо.
Strengthen the cohesion of those forces— связь, сочленение.
Humans have been cutting and coiffi ng their hair for at least
25,000 years— укладывать (волосы) вприческу.
One of whom sports an authentically Jacksonian coiffure to match
his Jacksonian politics— прическа.
Unsurprisingly, then, the country’s four biggest airlines— Southwest,
Delta, American and United— are coining it— зарабатывать много денег.
For male spiders, the equivalent of a post-coital cigarette is not
asensible option. Making straight for the door is much wiser, since he who
hangs around risks being eaten by his consort— после совокупления.
It was a military-style operation, of the kind you would mount to
collar a dangerous drug lord— схватить, задержать, арестовать.
Generations of Mississippians grew up on farms where everything
even collards and turnip greens, were cooked with bacon grease, ham
hock or lard— листовая капуста.
The arrival in November of a technocratic government led by
Mario Monti, a former European commissioner, promising lots of
economic reforms, has soothed investors’ collywobbles— урчание
вживоте.
Muslims fear that their Christian neighbours are fi fth-columnists
for hostile western powers— пятая колонна.
She ranged from the highest coloratura parts, such as the Queen
of the Night in Mozart’s “Die Zauberfl öte”— колоратура (технически
трудные пассажи впении, атакже способность их исполнять).
A short Swedish fi lm of her life showed a grim colliery scene, with
belching chimneys— каменноугольная копь.
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Часть II / commodious
Once prices are being set collusively, a cartel may not want
to raise them further for fear of being caught— улаженный тайным
сговором.
Using that as collateral for additional fi nancing or as a way to sell
more equity— гарантия, поручительство.
With only a few traders at each mandi, they can easily collude to en-
sure that they pay less than the fair market price— участвовать взаговоре.
Public columbaria— drab, windowless buildings lined fl oor to
ceiling with small niches— are running short of space for the urns—
колумбарий (хранилище урн спрахом после кремации).
He asked the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, a university, to run a comb
through departmental payrolls— причесать.
Com— 224 years ago a bunch of Brits got their comeuppance
from a rabble of Americans who’d had enough of their top-down rule—
заслуженное наказание.
When Morsi commandeered extra-constitutional powers for him-
self on November 22 he lost all legitimacy— принудительно забирать.
A similarly martial mood seems to have taken Britain’s Eurpscep-
tic commentariat in its grip— политические обозреватели.
German fi rms are facing accusations of collusive behaviour, in-
cluding claims of more widespread rigging of emissions tests for diesel
engines— заговорщицкий.
A muscular presence commensurates with huge economy—
соответственный; соответствующий.
Forces such as globalisation and the spread of advanced tech-
nologies, for example, are commoditising talent faster than ever—
превращать в предмет потребления.
Other managers were either complicit or turned a blind eye— со-
участие впреступлении.
The Coffee houses particularly are very commodious for a free
conversation— удобный (для пользования).
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Часть II / commoners
Chief Pleas agreed to limit landowners to 12 seats and beefed up
the commoners’ share to 16— человек изтолпы, простой человек.
It was commonplace, in the immediate aftermath of 9/11, to de-
clare that the world had changed forever— привычное дело, типичный
случай.
The worst you can say about his approach is that it is merely com-
monsensical: decide the issues case-by-case while holding some idea
of values and interests in mind— соответствующий здравому смыслу,
вполне понятный.
A famous San Francisco psychic who has taken a job in a factory
to escape his gift of communing with the dead— общение; дружеская
беседа.
Ulaanbaatar— a veritable Bangkok of the steppes— at least if your
comparators are Kabul and Mogadishu— компаратор, программа
сравнения.
Elected senators, on the other hand, would feel no compunction
about delaying legislation from the much more representative Commons— угрызения совести; терзания.
The days when a visiting British minister could command headlines in a place like Brazil are over— вселять, внушать (уважение),
пользоваться (особым вниманием).
Britain’s “green” budget combines commendable prudence with
shallow populism— похвальный.
There are obviously people in the economics commentariat who
feel very strongly that nationalisation of insolvent banks is the best option— обозреватели.
So long as commodifying desire remains the route to success
in the free market, the future of the adult industry seems assured—
превращать в товар.
Silicon Valley, for its part, is pushing for more of the spectrum to
become a commons for everybody to use, which is what happens with
WiFi— общее достояние.
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Часть II / concomitant
Нe comforts the affl icted, commiserating with the Tammany
boss— сочувствовать, соболезновать.
The M5S’s programme is a compendium of mostly well-inten-
tioned aspirations, studded with yawning gaps— компендиум, собрание,
сборник.
Seems that Canada has gotten too complaisant under the protec-
tion of the American Nuclear Umbrella— обходительный; любезный.
The long smoldering disenchantment of the voters with the com-
placent Liberal Democratic Party had fl ared up into condemnation—
самодовольный.
The complementarities between effi cient services provision and
competitive supplies of goods on regional and world markets must not
be overlooked— комплементарность.
The other “comprehensives” are means to this end: deepen-
ing economic reform; governing according to the law— комплексный,
всеобъемлющий.
The most compelling feature of Mormon teaching— захватыва-
ющий, интригующий.
One of Obama’s chief exhibits is the Republicans’ comportment
during the past year of divided government— поведение.
It would take a miraculous concatenation of improbable events
to make Sarah Palin president— цепь, последовательность событий.
Without concerted action at least as many are expected to try to
follow them this— согласованный.
Concocting the offbeat blend of genre and milieu; Plots have been
concocted— сфабриковать, состряпать компрометирующий материал.
Civil services are congenitally inward-looking organisations—
врожденный, природный.
And there are powerful reasons for seeking to avoid the de-
struction of wilderness and the concomitant extinction of species—
сопутствующее обстоятельство.
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Часть II / concurrence
In a separate concurrence, four of the court’s liberals took a slightly softer tack— согласие; согласованность.
On July 15th “Fox & Friends”, a show on Fox News, condescend-
ed to cover the scandal that is mesmerising the world— вести себя
покровительственно, свысока.
I can only assume that the heady atmosphere of the current Prepreelection session is not very conducive to mudslinging over party
funds— подходящий; способствующий.
A second delusion— still lingering in some church circles— was
the confl ation of paedophilia and homosexuality; He never confl ated
the Germans, whose language and culture he loved, and the Hitlerites—
соединение; объединение.
Democrats loyal to the Clintons closed ranks, telling media outlets
that partisans are confecting allegations out of nothing— изготавливать,
создавать.
This interesting confab between Barack Obama has been called a
victory by Republicans— болтовня, дружеский разговор.
Its men have not followed their Western confrères and cut down
on the cancer sticks — коллеги.
If we bring back confi scatory marginal tax rates for incomes
over $1 million, do you think we’ll lack people able and willing to do the
jobs?— конфискационный.
But the confl uence of these two tasks— a counter-intelligence
operation that has dragged in the denizens of the White House itself— is
unprecedented— стечение, сочетание.
Havel confounded those who thought he was too dilettantish and
self-effacing to be a proper president— сбивать столку; ставить втупик.
The confl agration prompted the Greek prime minister to promise
stricter measures — большой, разрушительный пожар.
Having started life as confraternities for the most academic
students, they have deteriorated into gang violence— братство, содружество.
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Часть II / conjured
Such condiments as Italian oil and French mustard— приправа,
специи.
The apparent success with which they have monitored and in-
fi ltrated Palestinians in the West Bank has created an attitude of con-
descension that inhibits peacemaking— снисхождение, снисходительность.
Deradicalisation can be worse than useless if practitioners,
while condemning IS, condone other violence— попустительствовать,
потворствовать.
Since then America has introduced sanctions that target Iran’s
central bank, the country’s main conduit for oil transactions— средство
передачи, коммуникации.
The habitual presence of big numbers of Chinese boats in disputed
waters congeals into facts on the water that become harder to dispute—
застывать, твердеть.
“This mosque is closing, will turn off the lights and hand over the
keys,” recalls one of the congregants— прихожанин.
Each of these shifts, he argues, is strikingly congruent with
the shift from a pre-Smithian conception of the way people behave—
сравнимый.
For the past century mathematicians have struggled to prove the
conjecture of a late-19th-century French polymath, Henri Poincar—
догадка, предположение.
A group of researchers led by Eugene Caruso of the University of
Chicago report their use of a technique called conjoint analysis, which
they have adopted from the fi eld of market research and adapted to study
implicit biases in more realistic situations— консолидированный, общий.
One of Mexico’s newest prisons allows inmates to receive a con-
jugal visit every week— супружеский, брачный.
Mr Bertolaso conjured a success from Mr Berlusconi’s audacious
decision last July to switch the G8 summit to L’Aquila from its intended
venue on an island off Sardinia— сделать как поволшебству; сотворить
чудо.
239
II / conventions
Lagos that provides payroll and other software to companies, says
he often has to send employees home early because the power conks
out— испортиться, сломаться, заглохнуть.
Someone devised a scheme for using these as a way of conning
people into donating clothes— обманом вовлечь кого-л. вочто-л.
It gives foreigners conniptions that the Fed can cause them so
much economic distress yet never take that into account when it alters
policy— припадок истерии; приступ гнева, раздражения.
With the government’s connivance, debt levels can probably keep
climbing for a while— потворство; попустительство.
One of Mr Uribe’s aides is serving a 25-year sentence for conniv-
ing with paramilitaries— сговариваться (скем-л.).
Publications like Slate, the Atlantic or the New Republic are
often mocked for their knee-jerk contrarianism— человек, который
ведет себя нетак, как другие.
The defenders of the consensus tend to stress the general consil-
ience of their efforts— совпадение, стечение (обстоятельств).
The people have some conscientious control on their preferences, like the famous fable of the crow and the vixen— добросовестный,
сознательный, честный.
In a statement released last night, Ambassador Luis Gallegos took
issue with Kaplan’s conclusions and expressed “consternation that aU.S.
court has elected to pass judgment on Ecuador’s courts”— ужас; испуг;
оцепенение.
Though it still needs to recover a reputation for fi scal continence,
Labour remains keen to match such fi ghting talk— сдержанность;
умение владеть собой.
Ever since, senior Tories have been forced into humiliating con-
tortions— искривление; деформация.
A court fi nds Mr Bunton in contempt, the unserved defendants
get lawyers, albeit in name only; and Mr Bunton winds up in jail himself—
неуважение, оскорбление (органов власти).
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