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Часть II / convalescing
Even Russia, lately contemptuous of international norms, has
every interest in preserving the anathema against such weapons—
нарушающий (нормы).
When it comes to the contentious issue of China’s political and
territorial claims on Tibet— дискуссионный, спорный.
It is almost perfectly conterminous with lands conquered by
Muslim dynasties in the centuries after the death of the Prophet Muhammad— совпадающий (повремени, значению, впространстве).
Even more contentiously, the directive covers any fi rm that does
business with Europeans, even if it is based outside the EU— сварливо,
вздорно.
Yet America still has sizeable and, in places, growing contingent
liabilities— непредвиденный.
Those of us who write about politics and policy all fall some-
where on a continuum from engagement to detachment— абсолютно
непрерывный объект.
Contortionists who runs America’s state department— «человек-
змея», акробат.
Does management deserve its current elevated status or is it just
a jar gon-spouting con-trick? — мошенничество, злоупотребление
доверием.
Hauset issued a single contrite statement apologizing for mis-
takes— кающийся, раскаивающийся.
In the sprawling conurbations of the American South, as in
the Gulf and cities such as Singapore— конурбация, большой город
спригородами.
The conundrum facing the Netherlands is how to tolerate a
growing minority that is itself increasingly intolerant— загадка; головоломка.
In 1929, the New York Times reported that while King George V
was convalescing at Bognor, Queen Mary was seen buying nail polish
in Woolworth’s— выздоравливать, поправляться.
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Часть II / haredim
Several colleges and big fi rms around the country are providing sex-segregated environments where haredim can train and work in
the comfort of their own conventions— обычай, традиция, правила
поведения.
The Supreme Court undermines convoluted campaign-fi nance
rules; the plot is convoluted — свернутый спиралью, спирале-
видный.
And this week the lashed-up contraption he hoped would fulfi l his promise to the voters exploded in his face— новое хитроумное
изобретение.
When friends go out to dinner, the convivial atmosphere can be
shattered once the waiter brings the bill— веселый; компанейский,
общительный.
It took weeks of further clues, including the deaths of two fl amingos and a cormorant at the Bronx Zoo, for offi cials to fi nd the culprit—
большой баклан.
For their part, several delegates in the hall cooed over Mr Trump’s
snappily dressed, perfectly coiffed children— говорить воркующим
голосом.
Some 13 years after Enron, auditors still can’t stop managers cook-
ing the books— фабриковать, придумывать.
Speaking of coots, thanks for a title that speaks to my generation— the GOP needs some new betes noires— простофиля, простак.
“We’re busier thana coot,” says Donna Daniels of Castaways Travel, which arranges nudist cruises and other vacations— лысуха (птица).
Beyond Bernie Madoff, the Ponzi-schemer who copped 150 years
in American jail— получать, приобретать.
Coppicing also results in an excellent output to input energy balance with published data— подлесок, поросль.
A beech tree might put out suckers that grow into a copse—
поросль.
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Часть II / coruscating
The two countries vowed to co-operate on everything from aircraft
carriers to what an offi cial calls “the core of the core”: nuclear-weapons
research— внутренняя, сокровенная часть; сущность.
If Mr Hitchens can stay off the booze and do some serious think-
ing, his real autobiography, in 20 years’ time or so, should be a corker—
потрясающий экземпляр (очеловеке или вещи).
There were 10,000 of us gathered to watch her emerge from the
IRT like a busty Venus corking up through the waves— сдерживать,
скрывать (чувства).
Shipping bosses are realising that they have not been very good at
arguing their corner— неловкое положение; затруднение.
A corniche is being built which, say hopeful offi cials, will rival
Tel Aviv’s— дорога вгорах.
Occasionally, though, it lapses into corniness or cliché— баналь-
ность.
But then almost anything might be a weapon, including, not least,
a pair of hands pressed forcefully over the cornu and cartilage of the thyroid— роговидное образование.
There was the promise of a cornucopia of new drugs as genetic
targets previously unknown to biologists succumbed to pharmacological investigation— рог изобилия.
The corollary is Keynes’ observation that the market can stay ir-
rational longer than you can stay solvent betting against it; The corollary
was that countries found it hard to fund trade defi cits for long— вывод;
заключение; следствие.
These days studios conduct global marketing blitzes, trying to
corral their audiences before the next blockbuster appears— загонять
взагон, заводить встойло.
This time corset is gradually loosening— корсет; грация; пояс.
A series of coruscating stories; Marx was writing a coruscat-
ingly anti-capitalist work— сверкать; блистать.
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Часть II / corrugated
Pam whipped off corrugated-iron roofs, brought down power
lines and uprooted trees— гофрированное железо.
He was a despot, a cold-war monster cosseted by the West because his most plausible opponents were communists— баловень;
избалованный ребенок.
He was under the cosh for reacting tardily— тяжелая дубинка,
на литая свинцом.
David Axelrod and Valerie Jarrett and the rest of the Chicago co-
terie who campaigned with Mr Obama— группировка.
This is a domain so vast, vague and ancient that it is almost coter-
minous with politics itself— примыкающий, соседствующий.
An administration that will cotton up to the most repressive of
regimes— пытаться дружить.
Rumours fl y, decisions are taken blind and countermanded after
they have been carried out— отменять приказ, распоряжение.
To challenge Pervez Musharraf, an army coupster who had toppled and imprisoned him— заговорщик.
The 71-year-old senator is a mercurial; McCain is a temperamental
cove who wears heart on his sleeve— живой, подвижный; деятельный
человек, малый.
I’ve been throwing torches into this coven for days— сборище;
шабаш ведьм.
British companies look covetously at India’s rapidly growing middle-class consumer market— жадный (особенно дочужого богатства).
Nigeria’s light, sweet crude oil is coveted by U.S. refi ners because
it yields a higher amount of gasoline than the heavier variety from the
Middle East— жаждать, сильно желать.
Russia wants to cow its neighbors— пугать; запугивать, устрашать.
Thugs and criminals of the post-apocalyptic Mega City One will
once again cower in fear— сжиматься, съеживаться.
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Часть II / credulity
Gold has real value only in the same sense as cowrie shells or
bitcoins— каури (раковина, заменявшая деньги внекоторых частях
Азии иАфрики).
The doctor immediately began administering CPR(cardiopul-
monary resuscitation) — реанимация, включающая искусственное
дыхание инепрямой массаж сердца.
Despite his occasional crabbiness, Britten had a gift for friendship
and was close to many of the musical and literary fi gures of his age—
раздражительность.
Mr Junger sees unfold among a bunch of fi lthy infantrymen on
ashot-up Afghan crag— скала, утес.
How, precisely, do you go about cramming sundry trivia for
arapid- fi re quiz show?— перекармливать.
Admittedly, for every lost prophet there is a crank who is simply
lost; crankishness aside, technocracy and autocracy have long been natural bedfellows— причуда; прихоть; каприз; чудак.
There are providers in almost every cranny of the luxury land-
scape— повсюду, все уголки.
Ms Rousseff’s hiring of Lula looks like a crass attempt to thwart
the course of justice— топорная пропаганда.
Foreign universities crave access to India’s booming higher-edu-
cation market — страстно желать, жаждать.
Republican politicians do not yet blame Barack Obama person-
ally for the recent changes in America’s weather. That would stick in the
craw— стать поперек горла, застрять вгорле.
The same government made promises to expand crèche places
that the present one is trying to keep— детские ясли.
On the credenza opposite is another jumbled nest of wires for re-
charging mobile phones, cameras, netbooks and MP3 players— боковая
доска.
Left wing Europeans who dislike America would label that credu-
lity, not trust— доверчивость, легковерие.
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Часть II / creepy
Critics fi nd Mr Fico’s cocktail of history and culture stodgy or
downright creepy— бросающий вдрожь, вызывающий страх.
The bravest face the government can put on it is a crestfallen
one— подавленный, удрученный.
That is a worthy aim, but a partial one, because other jihadist
groups with equally murderous intent will thrive in the violent crevices
of the Middle East— трещина, расщелина.
The oil companies invited all cried off, citing prohibitive security
costs— идти напопятный.
What about the concern that a burst of mergers will crimp com-
petition?— мешать, чинить препятствия.
His son Mitt’s bid for the presidency has been more of a crinoline:
long and cumbersome— старомодная юбка.
When Germany’s Lena Meyer-Landrut takes to the Eurovision
stage on May 29th to sing “Satellite” in English, purists will cringe—
чувствовать раздражение, досаду.
Nanotechnology is giving products enhanced features, such as
bandages that help heal cuts, engines that run more effi ciently and crock-
ery that cleans more easily— посуда (глиняная, фаянсовая).
Everyone in Iceland knows the tale of Bjartur of the Summerhouses, a crofter who, emerging from years of debt bondage, struggles against
nature, misfortune and the curse of Ireland’s St Columba to be self-reliant— арендатор небольшой фермы (вШотландии).
Jersey is different. It is unusually middle-class, tight-knit and—
to critics— cosily croneyish— назначение надолжность или выбор
вкачестве партнеров наоснове дружеских связей.
Set to Latin house music and classic Cuban crooning, this piece
has a gender-bending freshness that fl outs the country’s macho stereotype— тихое проникновенное пение.
A third crosscuts dizzyingly between wartime London and the
story of Emil Freireich— разрез.
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Часть II / crypto-Jew
The sheer size of America’s defence budget puts it in the cross-
hairs— перекрестье.
In arguments, McCain comes off crotchety and beaten— кап риз-
ный, прихотливый.
They crouched nervously in bunkers— припадать кземле; со-
гнуться.
They like to play blackjack in the casino, where the croupiers
conduct their games in Mandarin— банкомет, крупье.
Insiders crow that the gumshoes found no smoking gun— зло-
радствовать, насмехаться.
As it turned out, the primary was not such a crucible; Iraq turned
into a crucible of terrorism Cross-examination is the crucible by which
the truth shall be revealed— горнило; суровое испытание.
If another fi nancial crisis were to hit, as at some point it surely will,
the currency could crumple— обваливаться, рушиться.
A crush of 500 listeners waited apprehensively as, ill and mov-
ing slowly— скопление, толпа; давка, толкотня; a crush of carts and
coaches— скопление повозок иэкипажей.
Berlusconi came into politics 17 years ago depicting himself as
afree-market crusader and always called himself a liberal— участник
общественного движения, общественной кампании.
To do so through a wholly owned subsidiary, rather than seeking
the crutch of a joint venture— опора, поддержка.
This presents a challenge for those not born into Britain’s upper-
crust— верхушка общества.
Surrounded by crusty generals three times his age, an insecure
young leader might just resort to hot-headed measures to assert himself—
нахальный; противный.
Ismaists feed rumours that Ataturk was a womaniser, a drunk, even
a crypto-Jew— человек, скрывающий свою принадлежность кевреям.
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Часть II / cuboid
A large black cuboid, hung with intricately woven Islamic textiles, rises at the heart of the show— кубообразный; сходный поформе
скубом.
And if the union cannot reach a trade agreement with cuddly
Canada, what hope is there for renegade Britain?— привлекательный,
приятный.
Those close to the president, such as Joe Biden, the vice-president,
and Tom Donilon, the national security adviser have taken up their cud-
gels again— защищать, заступаться закого-л.
It is more militaristic, and too secular to take its cue from Catholic
social teaching— реплика, знак, сигнал.
From cukes to nukes— огурец.
10,000 jobs were culled; Нis latest cull is less dramatic— отбраковка (скота); отстрел животных.
They detonated a large culvert bomb of the type that soldiers in
Afghanistan know all too well— вызывающее, агрессивное поведение;
уличная драка.
He thinks the way to get more French people working is to reduce
cumbersome labour protections, not add to them— обременительный,
тягостный.
A cumulus of discontent— множество; скопление; cumulonimbus— кучево-дождевые облака.
Lebanon’s Shia party-cum-militia, with vehicles that he secretly fi tted with tracking devi; A businessman-cum-infl uence peddler—
как компонент сложных слов созначением совмещенный; одновременно.
Obama graduated from Harvard Law School magna cum laude—
сотличием (одипломе).
But once the decision is taken, does anyone believe our politicians should be curating the museums, dictating what is and isn’t art?—
курировать, опекать.
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Часть II / cussedness
Relations between Iran and Britain had curdled long before No-
vember 29th, when two British diplomatic compounds in the Iranian capital were overrun— застывать, стынуть (окрови).
A set of Japanese curios brings to life the story of a Jewish bank-
ing dynasty— редкая, антикварная вещь.
The Australian press has dubbed “the curry bashings”; Offi cials,
rivals and foreign governments might treat the company differently so
as to curry favour with the president— murders of Indian students in
Australia— заискивать, подлизываться; чистить лошадь скребницей
(железной щеткой).
A cursory look at several recent polls shows that too often they
are travesties— беглый, поверхностный, небрежный.
That hasn’t prevented curmudgeons in Battery Park and Brooklyn
Heights from complaining about the occasional whump-whump-whump
over their heads; comments made by a curmudgeonly in-house commentator— чрезмерно бережливый; скряга, скупец, скопидом.
Pakistan has in the past curried favour with America; you couldn’t
be seen as the only candidate not currying favor with Iowa— выделывать
кожу; бить, пороть, хлестать; задать взбучку.
His letter of resignation, they note, ended with a curt “Yours sin-
cerely”, rather than the traditional self-abasing deference— отрывистогрубый, резкий.
Why assume she’s dopey, rather than just ahead of the curve on
populist oppositional rhetoric?— продвинутый.
Mr Levitin repeatedly throws these statistical curveballs at his
readers, training them to adopt a take-nobody’s-word-for-it attitude —
крученые мячи.
Power is at the cusp of its next boom cycle; Africa is on the cusp of
change; Нe is on the cusp of power— переходный период; поворотный
пункт.
More than half a century later, Bjartur’s cussedness lives on—
изпростого упрямства.
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Часть II / cutesy
His prose is tiny, and the mentions of his children dull and cutesy— вычурный, жеманный.
But it seems that for politicians, it is easier to cut ribbons than
corruption— снижать.
A former academic who owes his cut-glass English accent to an up-
bringing in London— безукоризненно правильный, аристократичный
(опроизношении).
Police and prosecutors say that cyber-stalking is growing—
постоянное использовние интернета для угроз, шантажа ит. д.
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Western governments have until recently been reticent about cyber-espionage is surely because they are dab hands at it— чуть-чуть,
удар, непроникающий глубоко.
FSB can dabble in any business it likes; Libyan nuclear dabblings—
заниматься (чем-л.) непрофессионально, время отвремени.
Most lawmakers in both parties know it would be daffy to dice
with default— сумасшедший, безумный.
Must every country on the planet advertise daft balances etc
just for the privelege of being left alone to munch an apple?— глупый;
слабоумный.
Avigdor Lieberman, who this week used the dais of the UN General
Assembly to dismiss the current round of negotiations as a non-starter—
помост, возвышение, кафедра.
Russia’s dalliance with Hamas; Sarlkozy’s highly publicized dalliance— праздное времяпрепровождение.
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