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Часть II / eddy
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At no time in half a billion years have any Earthlings cared about
carbon emissions— землянин, житель Земли.
An entire fl oor of Degas’s Paris house was stuffed with easels
displaying old masters, which favoured visitors were allowed to view—
мольберт.
For its cosmic ambition, ITER run into the earthiest of diffi culties:
spiraling costs— изумительный, ошеломительный.
Compared to the abolition of slavery, it may not be earth-shat-
tering— поразительный, удивительный.
The real choice for him is not when his measures would start to
bite in earnest— всерьез, серьезно.
Though humorous, the book needn’t be classifi ed as “relentlessly
middle-brow, or easy-peasy”, clarifi ed Sir Andrew Motion— легкотня.
Better to be part of a foreign group than to see clients ebbing
away to the big American investment banks— приходить вупадок;
ухудшаться.
America’s conservatives are in ebullient mood— кипучий,
полный энтузиазма.
The cost of driving easily eclipsed the war in iraq, unemployment,
health care or terrorism— затмевать, заслонять.
Though the king has opened an admirably ecumenical dialogue
with leaders of other faiths, no church or synagogue may yet be built on
Saudi soil— экуменический, всемирный, выступающий задостижение
религиозного единства все христиан.
The American embassy is tucked between a narrow sidestreet and
the bustling Garden Ring, near a swampy little river eddy— маленький
водоворот, воронка.
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Часть II / at the leading edge of a trend —
Bank of Namibia is at the leading edge of a trend— задавать тон.
Nothing is going to be edgier than wearing AIG apparel—
раздраженный, нетерпеливый.
The answer to the question is not particularly edifying—
поучительный, нравоучительный.
An eerie silence falls over Donetsk as tensions rise in eastern
Ukraine— жуткий, зловещий.
The man is an eejit, as we say in Farsi— идиот, дурак.
The euro crisis has recreated a rift between a Germanic north
and a Latin south that decades of integration tried to efface— стирать,
вычеркивать, удалять.
Food and Drug Administration testing for the safety and effi ca-
cy of drugs has given the market confi dence— эффективность, сила;
действенность.
The effervescent French president; a fi t of collective efferves-
cence as multitudes descend upon the city to witness the inauguration
of the 44th president— возбуждение, подъем.
In art as in life, both Kims are effeminate and podgy— делать
женоподобным, уподобляться женщине.
The effete corps ofi mpudent snobs; they are considered effete—
хилый, неспособный кдействию, истощенный.
It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing
his temper, effi ng and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian
offi cials and a Chinese interpreter— ругаться начем свет стоит.
With its heady mix of eartly effl uence and celestial protectionism,
Rome simply cannot leave you cold— поток, течение, обилие.
Manufacturing failed to compensate for the losses, even if a cultural effl orescence led by the Beatles accompanied the economic woes—
вершина, кульминация, расцвет.
272
Часть II / elfi n
He has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as
in his badmouthing of George Bush— наглость, нахальство.
Though some found the book “tedious and effulgent”, such as Jay
McInerney, writing in the New York Times, many embraced it as a weirdly
compassionate— блестящий, сияющий.
The poet’s soppy romanticism, fl inty egalitarianism and ridicule
of pomposity have universal appeal— эгалитаризм.
Be surprised to learn that a man so close to the pinnacle of power
was such a bad egg— непутевый, никудышный человек.
German voters, egged on by xenophobic tabloid headlines, do not
want to pay for that— быть внеудобном положении.
I am not French, and Iacknowledge and reject Napoleon’s ego-
maniac tendencies— эгоист.
Complain all you want, but only if you’re not guilty of even more
egregious behavior— вопиющий, отъявленный, очевидный.
It also contains Asiatic black bears, egrets and, according to some,
an extremely rare subspecies of the Siberian tiger— цапля.
Transneft seeks to eke out savings across its business— струдом
зарабатывать нажизнь, пробавляться, перебиваться.
But it is India’s élan, both in terms of its economy and a newly po-
lished image— стремительность, напор, натиск.
This iteration is less elegiac, but it is probably too late— элеги-
ческий; грустный.
The country still feels elephantine, its infrastructure is rick-
ety, its electricity patchy, most of its roads unpaved and potholed—
слоноподобный; неуклюжий.
Small, slight and bespectacled, with a thoughtful elfi n manner and
a ready grin, he looks perhaps half his age, and chats freely and easily—
чудесный, магический.
273
Часть II / elicit
The White House designed the meetings to elicit two other commitments— извлекать; вытягивать.
“Allies” and “partners” are not the same thing, for example, however trendy it may be to elide the difference— oтменять, аннулировать.
The fall of the Clubhouse— not a physical place but an elitist
fraternity— comes not long after its two greatest triumphs— человек,
принадлежащий кэлите.
The result, in elliptical and sometimes baffl ing prose, was “Letters to Olga”— туманный (остиле).
Today’s article in the Independent is about the rise in people taking elocution lessons— ораторское искусство.
Previous research has shown that men with signifi cantly elon-
gated ring fingers excel at competitive sports — продолговатый;
удлиненный.
In Afghanistan, half the women in prison are there for “moral”
crimes such as eloping— побег слюбовником.
All participants implicitly accepted the idea that methods used
to analyse Homer, say, or German myths might elucidate the Koran—
проливать свет; пояснять.
It eludes me how anyone can lend his name— избежать, спастись,
избавиться.
He promises the better life that has proved elusive for many Indonesians, at the same time as he pledges to stand up for his country—
неуловимый, ускользающий.
Those too emaciated to make the crossing to Zanzibar were left
to die on the shore— истощать, изнурять, выматывать.
Money that they expect will emanate from Washington— происходить, быть результатом (чего-л.).
The U. S. constitution is short, simple and relatively clear but the
things found in the emanations of its penumbra’s are legion— эманация;излучение.
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Часть II / embarked
He and his colleagues embed brains in plastic and put them in
a machine that cuts them into microscopically thin slices— врезать,
вделывать.
Heat and pressure sensors, and even video cameras, can be em-
bedded in vehicles to gather data as they fl y, providing a level of detail
and fi delity that we’ve never had before— встраивать, внедрять.
With the same sparkling clarity as his insights into the isometric
embeddability of abstract Riemannian manifolds in Euclidean spaces—
способность квдавливанию.
Radical Muslim and Christian groups stoke the embers of Pa-
pua’s confl ict; embers of nativism— тлеющие (взоле) красные угольки.
It would help Barack Obama embitter a mainstream party
on which he has at last made a big impact— раздражать; отравлять
(существование).
Finally, there is the particular kind of foe that Mr Soros is made to
embody— олицетворять.
First take the charge that Mr Obama’s “weakness” emboldens
President Vladimir Putin of Russia— поощрять, содействовать.
First take the charge that Mr Obama’s “weakness” emboldens
President Vladimir Putin of Russia— поощрять, содействовать.
One after another, prisoners asked for pieces of calico and em-
broidery silks to take back to their cells— вышивка; вышитое изделие.
It emboldens him to contemplate full-scale constitutional revi-
sion— давать смелость, вселять мужество.
His ideological baggage is almost as heavy as his personal em-
bonpoint— полнота, дородность.
Kuwait is embroiled in a tumultuous power struggle— ввергать,
вовлекать.
Back in the 1970s, when she fi rst embarked on this artistic path,
few would have predicted that she could make so many compelling bodies— вступать напуть.
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Часть II / embryonic
China as a rival embryonic superpower— незрелый, недо развившийся.
Last year Oxford Dictionaries chose an emoji— those cartoonish
faces descended from emoticons — стиль иконок наподобие смайликов,
появившихся в Японии.
Despite a more emollient tone, Mr Bush shows little sign of doing enough to ease European concerns— успокаивающий (ословах).
The president has failed to seek Congress’s permission before accepting foreign gifts, as the Emoluments clause says he must— доход
отдолжности.
One sign of Britons’ new informality was the clamour for the royal family to emote in response to the death in 1997 of Princess Diana—
проявлять эмоции, чувства.
China was the model to emulate and Kyoto in Japan is laid out like
8th-century Chang’an— следовать примеру; имитировать.
America has led the global assault on tax dodgers and their ena-
blers— то, что помогает другому достичь желаемого.
Ana Marie Pamintuan, described the Senate as the “upper chamber
of the nation’s biggest and most successful Laundromat” — encapsulat-
ing the insalubrious entanglement of money and politics in the Philippines— заключать всебе.
The press is encumbered with a growing battery of rules— загромождать.
They follow a formula: a little history, an introduction to how
government works, an encomium to famous writers— восхваление,
панегирик.
One woman fi led for divorce having found her husband to be rather
too well endowed— обеспечивать постоянным доходом.
Even if defeated in its heartland, the group seems likely to endure
elsewhere— длиться; продолжаться.
The biggest enemy is “boredom, which is still more enervating for
the soldier than the proximity of death”— слабохарактерный.
276
Часть II / entrepot
An enfeeblement of “Doing Business” would cast doubt on Mr
Kim’s commitment to the bank’s research— ослабление, слабость;
истощение.
Depicting Recep Tayyip Erdogan, the president of Turkey, en-
grossed in a series of athletically challenging sexual activities with barnyard animals— увлеченный чем-л.
Ms Rousseff’s Workers’ Party and its coalition allies are enmeshed
in a bribery scandal and the country is going through the worst recession
since the 1930s— опутывать, запутывать.
They are relaxed, almost to the point of ennui, about other peo-
ple’s sexual preferences, drug habits and skin colour— скука, тоска.
The janitor, having no money for the dinner that a proper date
would have included, went on his own to see “Home is the Hunter”, a play
about black servicemen returning to America after the war— he was en-
raptured— приводить ввосторг.
The idea of “rights”, “mainstream” and even the role of the Supreme
Court in determining these are not as enshrined as advocates of various
positions contend— бережно хранить; лелеять.
As rates ease, the fog enshrouding the central bank’s intentions
is beginning to clear— закутывать, обволакивать.
The union has become ensnared in technicalities and a fundamen-
tal argument about how much historic bank debt— поймать вловушку.
While computer screens can bewitch the eye, a good shop has four
more senses to ensorcell— околдовывать, очаровывать.
Fixing the FBI may entail some decidedly unAmerican thinking
about political correctness and privacy— влечь засобой, вызывать
(что-л.).
The Turkish authorities are using a mix of entreaty and threats
to ensure they get what they want— мольба, просьба.
It has largely been an entrepot to Mainland trades even during
British rule— перевалочный пункт.
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Часть II / entrancing
The benefi ts to the government, however, have not been as quite
as entrancing as expected — приводить в восторг, очаровывать,
околдовывать.
That might encourage South Koreans to entertain more varied
dreams of success— питать (какие-л. чувства, мечты).
Vietnam’s economy, once one of Asia’s most enticing, has slowed
sharply— привлекательный, притягательный.
The battleground is the gap between UN’s irredeemably idealistic purpose and its all-enveloping legal immunity— охватывающий
совсех сторон.
He loved words and worked hard on them, modelling his uproarious tales on Louis Jordan’s and his enunciation on Nat King Cole’s—
объявление, провозглашение.
Many of the events that will take place around the world this December will be mere ephemera— эфемерное, мимолетное, преходящее.
Julius Meinl V in a bar in Belgravia and he seems the epitome of
the well-bred Englishman; Mr Bhide thinks that they epitomize modern
civilization; Mr Takeshima is the epitome of the well-rounded establishment fi gure It was epitomized by Scroeder— изображение вминиатюре;
изображение вуменьшенном размере.
Politicians do not come from Mars, they are Italians themselves
and epitomize what is wrong with the country— кратко излагать.
The beginning of an epic battle between Microsoft, Google, Apple
and others— роман-эпопея.
To the country’s leaders, an epiphany came with the Tibetan upheaval in 2008 and subsequent protests abroad — Богоявление (одно
изназваний христианского праздника Крещения Господня).
Oprah Winfrey announced that she will end her eponymous
show in September 2011; Lego, theeponymous Danish fi rm; Peter Higgs,
eponymous predictor of physics’s missing boson; It is run by an eponymous foundation— дающий свое имя (особенно омифических
персонажах, именами которых называли города или народности).
278
Часть II / escapees
Thanks to the vast reserve army of labour created by globali-
zation, that equanimity may soon get wiped out— хладнокровие;
спокойствие.
The longer the crisis lasts, the more people will swing to the right
of the equation— стабилизация, уравнение, равенство.
Will the argument be resolved by fi nding equipoise between evi-
dence and intuition, facts and judgments?— равновесие.
And the president’s equivocation on the Keystone XL pipeline,
which was going to carry oil from the Canadian tar sands to the Gulf
of Mexico but has now been stymied, was a textbook example of how
to evade hard decisions in an election year— уклонение, увиливание
отпрямого ответа.
Americans believe in opportunity, not equality-mongering—
болтовня оравенстве.
When two EEZs collide, UNCLOS calls for an equidistant line be-
tween the coasts, splitting the shared gulf or strait down the middle—
равноудаленный, эквидистантный.
Banks are now erring on the side ofcaution— сбиваться спути.
Whether bovineor equine, the bill is belated— конский, лоша-
диный.
The corporation spent more time on its poaching errand than it
did on investigating whether East Arm Wharf could handle the joberrandrunning for Russia’s security services— поручение, задание.
While imposing ersatz fun on their employess, companies are bat-
tling against the real thing— замена, заменитель, субститут.
Like some other erstwhile true believers, he became one of
most cogent critics of his former faith— былой, давний, прежний,
старый.
Anti-Catholic agitation was exacerbated in the mid-19th century
by escapees from Ireland’s potato famine and the arrival of Catholics
from Germany— беглец.
279
Часть II / escarpment
We reach the far side of the Mara River and begin climbing Oloololo, an escarpment which twists and turns all the way to Tanzania—
крутой откос насыпи, вала; откос.
The puckish Frenchman is the biggest star in high-fashion shoe design, selling about 240,000 pairs a year in America at prices ranging from
$395 for espadrilles to as much as $6,000 for a “super-platform” pump
covered in crystals— тапки изткани срезиновой подошвой.
The number of African leaders who can eschew even a pretence
of democracy is shrinking— воздерживаться, избегать, остерегаться.
Others are esoteric, producing idiosyncratic goods that few other
countries can make— эзотерический, тайный, скрытый.
The breathless Mr Krugman looks past next week’s rout and es-
pies a nation in ruin— заметить, увидеть издали.
In front of the skyscrapers on the esplanade in Panama City, joggers puff along a path in the morning heat— ровная открытая местность.
The ideals the party espouses; what values do you espouse? Interest was espoused by that— поддерживать (какое-л. дело, идею).
If the authorities did ban home esterifi cation, though, enthusi-
asts who wished to declare independence from the oil companies could go
down another route— эстерификация, образование сложного эфира.
After nearly four years of estrangement, America’s two most
powerful and closest allies in the Middle East agreed to co-operate again—
отчужденность; разобщенность.
One winter afternoon, Igor Emmerich was walking up the estu-
ary at West Wittering on the Sussex coast— устье реки.
“Cyberbullying: its nature and impact in secondary school pupils”
by Smith et al in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry— идругие.
That Grecian profi le can be seen also in his paintings and etch-
ings— гравирование (травлением); травление.
Mr O’Leary describes his airline’s current customer-service
ethos— характер, преобладающая черта, дух.
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