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Часть II / disinter
Israel has dished out this form of punishment before, though
rarely for longer than a month or so— раздавать направо иналево.
Why not develop social welfare programs that don’t create disin-
centives for work?— сдерживающее средство, препятствие.
But hearing an ex-general disparage hierarchies so forcefully
thrills employees— вести себя пренебрежительно.
Examined from close up, the 2012 has been a dismaying elec-
tion— вселяющий ужас.
It is an extraordinary network of disparate peoples bound by an
imperial history— несопоставимый; несоизмеримый.
The Vatican granted a papal dispensation to allow Fernando
Lugo, who is due to take offi ce as Paraguay’s president— распределение,
распространение.
Real growth looks a distant prospect, but the news that Britain
has fallen back into recession is more dispiriting than alarming—
вызывающий разочарование.
Wisely, they failed to diss that other staple of the French diet, wine,
the producers of which clearly have the stomach for a fi ght; so who’s
dissing the Greeks now?— оскорблять (кого-л), оскорбительное замечание.
The message is clear: dissent (whether of the liberal or Islam-
ist variety) is not just illegal, it is treason— несогласие, инакомыслие.
At Cannes euro-zone leaders made plain that family members
could be forsaken, even disinherited— лишать наследства.
At the moment several new factors are combining to favour the
distaff side more — женская работа, женское занятие.
The distemper spread across the Atlantic— беспорядки, волне-
ния; смута.
Makaburi got his nickname for threatening to disinter the graves
of Sufi Muslims— выкапывать (измогилы); эксгумировать.
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Часть II / disparate
In emerging economies the picture is even more disparate— не-
сопоставимый; несоизмеримый.
Amid the messy stand-off of disputatious protestors and hapless
administrators in the great sit-in at St Paul’s Cathedral— любящий спорить.
She breathes rapidly, her belly sticking out from a dirty T-shirt,
distended by hunger — раздувать, расширять.
Millions of other black voters across the South, abruptly ditched
Mrs Clinton— выбрасывать, сбрасывать (вканаву).
Government dithering keeps frackers above ground— находиться
вкрайнем возбуждении.
Egyptian radio broadcast patriotic ditties amid praise for the “eagles of the army— песенка.
The new law, which comes into operation in 2015, requires all state
bodies to divulge previously confi dential information on staff salaries
and emoluments— разглашать, раскрывать.
Men in djellabas duck into a storefront mosque for evening
prayers— джелаба (длинный балахон скапюшоном; традиционное
одеяние вМарокко идругих странах Северной Африки).
The Egyptian capital is a menacing place where betrayal swirls
like an army of djinns— джинн.
In the dock of public opinion are not just a few fat cats but the rich
in general— пристань, причал.
A country should not need to use doctored photos to get respect—
фальсифицировать, подделывать.
He was slapped with a docket of court cases accusing him of “insulting the Turkish identity”— выписка решения суда.
He indicated to voters in the liberal state that he would not be
adoctrinaire opponent of every Democratic initiative— доктринер.
A law change may help Victor Ponta, the prime minister, to dodge
prosecution— уловка, хитрость; проделка.
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Часть II / dolorous
His second career as a highly remunerated globe-trotting political
consultant, often to some pretty dodgy regimes, has done nothing for his
reputation— шаткий, сомнительный.
It went the way of the dodo— дронт (вымершая птица отряда
голубеобразных, обитавшая на островах Индийского океана
иистребленная вXVII–XVIII вв. завезенными туда свиньями).
McCain is too doddery to understand the doohickeys— нетвердо
стоящий наногах, ковыляющий.
Compared with its neighbours, Poland’s political puzzle is a dod-
dle— легкое дело.
I doff my cap to the candidate for having picked up the important
endorsement— снимать шляпу.
Mr Gandhi, a quietly clever 41-year-old free of the accusations of
graft that dog so many Indian politicians, is popular— преследовать.
Dogged diplomacy produces an impressively detailed agree-
ment— упорный, настойчивый.
Addressing only Latinos won’t help because a good share of them
are dogleg women or young— внезапное изменение направления.
Only the most naive investor read that as a commitment to do-
goodery rather than calculated self-interest— благодетель человечества.
Children at the bottom often face low-wage drudgery or the dole—
пособие побезработице.
In the early 1980s, as a dogsbody in a paper mill, she noted that
the waste paper her superiors so casually discarded was actually worth
something— ишак (тот, кто выполняет тяжелую, нудную работу).
North America, where refi neries once paid a premium for Alge-
ria’s high-quality crude, takes the largest dollop of the country’s 1.2m
barrels a day— крохи.
The show comes at a dolorous time for Burberry, which has seen
investors fl ee like models from a chip butty— печальный, унылый,
страдающий.
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Часть II / dolt
A shadowing of the housing crisis, that’s all this dolt, not insightful in the least, is clamoring for— болван, дурень.
Washington’sgigantic and frequently doltish establishment—
придурковатый, тупой.
Breaking the mould of Japanese politics requires tackling the
country’s domineering civil service— деспотический, властный, забияка.
Institutional appearance in a district of wood-panelled and redbrick domesticity— семейная жизнь, домашняя жизнь.
Rumsfeld caught in a hot tub with boy hookers, meth and Rush
Limbaugh, while being whipped by a Hilary look alike dominatrix; The
steely Soviet dominatrix— госпожа (всадомазохистских отношениях);
властная женщина.
The doner killers may force a reassessment— вкладчик.
Another is to buy a pay-as-you go dongle for the laptop— электронное устройство на компьютере для использования защищенной программы.
He is a devout Catholic with mild, donnish quirks— чопорный,
церемонный.
Personally, Iadmire the donnybrook in the GOP— шумная ссора;
всеобщая драка.
It is also public knowledge that dons are defacto leaders— главарь
мафии, крупный мафиози.
In parts of the state, enjoying an occasional doobie is nowadays
considered little different from sipping a Pinot Noir— марихуана.
Their return almost invariably signals that the company is in deep
doo-doo, and often the mess they are brought back to fi x is one they left
behind— экскременты.
McCain is too doddery to understand the doohickeys— штука,
штуковина, приспособление.
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Часть II / doubleing up with
All this is fantastically good news for Kukuriku, the opposition coali-
tion, whose title translates as “cock-a-doodle-do” — болван, дурень, олух.
They pitch a frumpy Bill Gates lookalike against a too-cool-
for-school Jobs doppelganger— доппельгенгер (впарапсихологии,
научной фантастике: призрачный двойник).
The Sunni-Shia schism may have lasted for 14 centuries, but most
of that time it has lain dormant— потенциальный, скрытый.
A similar number of Britons live in France, but mainly for a sun-
ny dotage in the bucolic south— старческое слабоумие, старческий
маразм.
Mr Kim retorted that he would “surely and defi nitely tame the
mentally deranged US dotard with fi re”— слабоумный (человек); старик, впадающий вдетство.
Falling birth-rates allowed parents to dote on fewer children, who
were increasingly likely to go to school— души нечаять, слепо обожать.
The 75% income-tax rate is dottier than a pointilliste painting—
немного чудаковатый, странный.
He claims several times not to care what people think of him, bit
he doth protest too much— старомодное “do”.
Dovish Chinese analysts express their usual hope that there will
be a shift toward economic liberalisation— миролюбивые.
The humble mouse is a doughty workhorse of science-
бесстрашный, доблестный, мужественный, неустрашимый.
He appointed as vice-president his dour, dapper 74-year-old intel-
ligence chief, General Omar Suleiman— строгий, суровый.
This I’m afraid is little but doublespeak dressed up in an academic
format— демагогия.
With more poor people doubleing up with friends and family,
some clients simply need help getting along better with their mothers—
занимать тоже помещение.
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Часть II / doubly
The departure of a Supreme Court justice is always momentous;
Mr Scalia’s is doubly so— вдвойне.
The central bank chief summoned the heads of the top 40 banks
for a dour meeting earlier this week— строгий, суровый.
But a tough and sullen electorate has no patience with the dove-
cotes— голубятня.
Angela Merkel was the bossy dowager— вдова (титулованного
лица, сохраняющая прежний титул).
Mid-budget fi lms of the kind that tend to be nominated for awards
were the fi rst to be caught in the downdraft— нисходящий (воздушный) поток.
South Africa is sliding downhill while much of the rest of the continent is clawing— катиться понаклонной плоскости.
Politicians often protest that services are for dodgy financiers or downtrodden burger-fl ippers and that Germany deserves better; More competition is emerging for Japan’s downtrodden brokers—
подавленный, угнетенный, притесняемый.
The volume and value of home sales in Canada are now at record
highs. In some areas the market looks downright frothy— полный,
совершенный, абсолютный.
That’s gotta be a downer for the Austrians— успокаивающий
наркотик.
At home he has been backed by a doyen of Israel’s foreign-policy
pundits— дуайен, старшина дипломатического корпуса.
The real problem is not dozy small tax preparers but the complexity of the tax code itself— дремлющий; сонный.
On Union Street, the main shopping drag, vacancies have risen—
улица, дорога, приманка.
Young professionals, often whites, are buying up old Victorianstyle houses which they fi nd charming but which the previous owners,
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Часть II / drip-feed
often blacks, see as decrepit, draughty and expensive to maintain—
продуваемый ветрами.
They share essential qualities: exhilarating draughtsmanship,
boldly expressive colour and conceptual ambition— черчение.
By contrast, “dramedies” such as “Chuck” and “Ugly Betty” fuse
comedy with more serious themes— смесь драмы итрагедии.
Chavez dragooned PDVSA into all manner of charitable work—
заставлять, принуждать.
It is not a tourist draw on the scale of the Edinburgh Festival—
приманка, соблазн.
With his easy manner, shrewd sense of humour and slight southern
drawl, Tony White is a far cry from the popular perception— протяжное
произношение, медлительность речи.
Since then, the two sides have been at screwdrivers drawn— об-
наженный (ошпаге).
The fourth phase, which has recently begun under the new ISAF
commander, General John Allen, is drawdown and transition— сокращение.
The fourth phase, which has recently begun under the new
ISAF commander, General John Allen, is drawdown and transition—
сокращение (численности войск, размещенных вкаком-л. регионе).
Leftover detritus that has no control system, such as the remnants
of the Chinese satellite missile test, which left a reported 3,000 dribs and
drabs in orbit— мелочи, крохи.
As results start to dribble out and it emerges which ticket looks
strongest, much jockeying for position will take place— течь тонкой
струйкой.
The drip-drip of allegations from Mr Nazarruddin’s trial will im-
plicate more people— капанье.
Switching to drip-feed irrigation means that watering becomes
more precise, cutting consumption per unit of output— капельная подача.
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Часть II / drippily
Long seen as drippily Utopian, the idea of getting rid of nuclear
weapons was suddenly taken on by think-tankers— глупо.
Is plenty more such drivel; sanctimonious drivel dressed up as
political philosophy; Dr. Evil or Drivel?— чепуха, чушь, бессмыслица,
бред.
He was drooling the press— говорить бессвязно; говорить
ерунду, пороть чушь, нести бред, чепуху.
At Amazon, it makes investors drool and rivals quake — говорить
ерунду, нести бред.
Khamenei want to pin the scandal on Mr Ahmadinejad’s friends
and lay the blame for Iran’s drooping economy at the president’s door—
пониклый.
In Britain, where earnestness is a sin and drollery a virtue, dismay
about the global fi nancial crisis is best masked with humour— шутки,
проказы.
The Secretary of State has a very droll sense of humor and a pen-
chant for employing it for maximum effect— чудной; забавный.
In 2005 nearly all of the BBC’s user-generated content was submitted directly to the organisation; now it has to hunt down half of
it from social networks. That means sifting a lot of dross— остатки,
отбросы.
Old people go to the polls in droves, but often need government
help the least— толпа, ватага.
A drubbing for Labour was on the cards, and a drubbing was
duly administered— битье, побои.
Samuel Johnson, the lexicographer after whom this column
is named, famously defi ned his profession as being that of “a harmless drudge”— человек, выполняющий тяжелую, монотонную
работу.
Children at the bottom often face low-wage drudgery or the dole—
тяжелая, монотонная работа.
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Часть II / dumbfounded
The personal diaries quoted by Ms Reid, many written by mid-
dle-class academics, artists, doctors and their families, offer a relentless
drumroll of deaths— барабанная дробь.
Aid agencies dub China and others “rogue donors”— обрубать;
обтесывать.
If Monti does not feel up to the job, he should duck out now—
уклоняться, избегать.
In bad times the state is there to clean up, just as it did during
asurge in dud loans in 1990s— бесполезный; негодный.
Investors in the real-estate mogul’s duff Atlantic City casino busi-
ness are unlikely to agree; The real reason their work generates so much
duff journalism is that Britain has such depressingly duff newspapers—
бесполезный; низкокачественный.
The author, a self described “urban duffer” makes a single foray
into a gun store and then deigns to proscribe a “solution” for everyone
else— глупец, дурак.
That left fi ve main candidates duking it out ahead of the January
21st primary in South Carolina— срыгнуть.
During the Egyptian uprising the advantage was clearly on the
side of the dissidents, since the Egyptian secret police were digital dul-
lards— тупица; олух; разиня.
The mainstream consensus has long been that a growing econo-
my raises all boats, to much better effect than incentive-dulling redistribution— затупление.
He sure talks like a complete moron- and the whole mess in Iraq
shows what a total dumbass he is— тупой.
The dumbing down of America has been decried by both the left
and the right— заставить замолчать.
Now he presides over recession, rising joblessness— and the
need to impose more austerity on dumbfounded voters— ошеломить,
потрясти.
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Часть II / dun
She has had actual letters asking how to dun Grandma for what
she eats at Thanksgiving— допекать, надоедать.
The absurdly elongated dunce’s cap— дурацкий колпак.
Hiring eggheads rather than dunderheads is generally wise,
though it can backfi re: just ask the banks that employed “quants” by the
dozen to create fi nancial instruments that no one understood— глупая
башка, болван.
Are Boeing and Airbus the fi erce competitors or have they become a cosy duopoly— монополия двух конкурирующих компаний.
You might think it also seems unbelievable that Pakistan could
be so breathtakingly duplicitous and take such a risk of antagonising
America, its most important ally— лживый; предательский.
Durum wheat stocks are expected to be especially tight, falling
by almost 40%— твердый сорт пшеницы.
Thatcher lumbered her party with a “poll tax” which required both
dukes and dustmen to pay exactly the same for their local-government
services— мусорщик.
Nobody knows how the duumvirate between Mr Medvedev and
Mr Putin is going to work— дуумвират (совет или суд вДревнем Риме,
состоящий издвух человек).
An opportunistic president and a dyed-in-the-wool rebel appear to have ended Sri Lanka’s best-ever hope for peace— закоренелый,
бескомпромиссный.
Virginia is a politically competitive, traffi c-clogged suburban dy-
namo— динамо, динамо-машина.
Setting man against man in a Hobbesian dystopia. At other
times he imagines America as Hobbiton in J. R. Tolkien’s fi ctional shire—
неидеальное общество, несовершенный общественный строй.
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