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Часть II / exacted
Craniology, phrenology and eugenics, once-respectable fi elds of
endeavour that are now regarded with a shudder— евгеника.
The most familiar domain, though arguably not the most impor-
tant to the Earth’s overall biosphere, is the eukaryotes— эукариоты.
Ukraine has euphemistically designated the confl ict zone an area
of “anti-terrorist operations”— спомощью эвфемизма.
She was in a state of euphoria after her win; Berlusconi waseu-
phoric— эйфория.
The neoglossalists’ efforts may seem naive, but their belief in the
evanescence of English could prove prescient— исчезновение.
The evening-up effect is most obvious for the smallest fry—
купля-продажа срочных биржевых контрактов для ликвидации
существующей позиции иреализации прибыли.
This is unlikely to trigger a return of outright civil war, since
such an eventuality would alienate the foot soldiers— возможность;
случайность.
Many younger people, in particular, evince frustration that ra-
cial tensions have proved so intractable— ясно показывать; делать
очевидным.
Veto-wielding Russia and China have eviscerated three previous
sets of UN sanctions; When they get through eviscerating gold they are
gonna start on you— потрошить (рыбу, дичь ит. п.).
Her memories of teaching in the early post-communist years in
the then Czechoslovakia are evocative— вызывающий воспоминания.
Quick fi xes and short-term solutions will only exacerbate serious
sustainability— обострять, осложнять.
The younger Mr Romney lived in a grand neighbourhood, at-
tended a private school and moved in exalted circles— возвышенный,
благородный.
In the event, General Gowon behaved impeccably, and his troops
exacted no revenge— мстить; настаивать навыполнении (чего-л.).
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Часть II / exegesis
You are likely to be embraced, perhaps literally, by fellow worshippers, then impressed by the pastor’s scriptural exegesis— экзегеза
(толкование текста, особенно Библии).
Being an ayatollah, Ican modestly say that Iam something of an
expert in textual exegesis— экзегеза (толкование текста, особенно
Библии).
The evidence suggests that most people want this option, but
that few would, in the end, choose to exercise it— использовать,
осуществлять.
The excitable speculated that a co-ordinated cyber-attack was
under way— возбуждающийся, приходящий вволнение.
With no rail links, the southern Croatian exclave that is home to
the enchanting medieval city of Dubrovnik— эксклав (часть территории
государства, географически отделенная отосновной иокруженная
территорией других стран).
Unquestionably, however, Mr Trump has bestowed on this excres-
cence a scarcely dreamed-of prominence— разрастание; неумеренный
рост.
There is a troubling subtext: the author’s attempts to exculpate
himself; If exculpatory evidence comes to light after the trial, then the
Prosecutor has the ethical obligation to inform the defendant of such
evidence— оправдывающий; оправдательный.
For most poor countries, South Korea is a model of growth, a better exemplar than China— образец, пример для подражания.
The quality of public schools in Chicago’s South Side, where many
blacks live, ranges from poor to execrable— отвратительный.
As for exhortation, he argues that in practice, religion is not a legitimate source of morality— проповедь; наставление.
The exigences of fl ight require aircraft engines not only to be more
reliable, but also to deliver more power per unit weight— крайность,
тяжелое положение.
282
Часть II / extenuating
Taliban advance poses “an existential threat” to Pakistan— от-
носящийся ксуществованию, реальности.
Some of it is exogenous to the collective decisions of fi rms, some
of it is endogenous— экзогенный; внутренний.
He endured a humiliating trial which exonerated him only after
his death— оправдать; восстановить честь, репутацию.
The United States, he complained, enjoyed an “exorbitant privi-
lege”— непомерный, чрезвычайный.
Radek John, an investigative journalist who shuns suits and pep-
pers his stump speeches with expletives— служащий единственно для
заполнения пространства, пустот или для компенсации необходимого
количества.
Can you be a bit more explicit on this point?— ясный, подробный.
Exponential growth cannot continue indefi nitely; there are al-
ways barriers — вгеометрической прогрессии.
Only few days ago Bloomberg published an expose on how
government offi cials stole upward of 20 billion dollar worth of food—
опубликовать разоблачительный материал.
She is a careful expositor of ideas— интерпретатор, комментатор.
In medieval Europe Jews were persecuted not only because they
were not Christians but also because killing them was a quick way to ex-
punge debts— стирать, избавляться от.
On the basis of named crop varieties that are no longer extant,
the UN’s Food and Agriculture Organisation estimates that 75% of crop
biodiversity has been lost from the world’s fi elds— сохранившийся,
дошедший донаших дней.
Mr Peña’s critics complain that such extemporaneous remarks—
сделанный без подготовки, экспромтом.
Whatever the original was in Russian, it defi nitely makes bet-
ter sense as extenuating circumstances— служить оправданием,
извинением.
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Часть II / extolling
Around 10,000 true believers and assorted fellow-travellers chose
to march through Moscow anyway, extolling Lenin and excoriating Mr
Putin; Steven Hill of the New America Foundation extols the European
social contract; Television broadcast a series of programs extolling Uzbekistan as developing democratically— восхвалять, превозносить,
хвалить.
The government’s crude ways may be worse than the sins it seeks
to extirpate — искоренять; истреблять, ликвидировать; выводить;
полностью уничтожать.
The problem of a bail-out architecture is unfi t for purpose but
from which neither creditors nor Greeks can work out how to extricate
themselves— находить решение (сложной проблемы).
Taxes are far higher than they ought to be because of the needlessly extortionate cost of rental housing— чрезмерный, граби тельский.
This extrapolates to about $2.5 billion worth of baksheesh nationally every year— экстраполировать, проводить экстраполяцию.
New sculptures, new parks, and generally exuding vitality—
источать; выделять, проступать сквозь поры.
Obama is inebriatedwith the exuberance of his own verbosityопьянять; возбуждать.
“The federal health-care law is dead,” exulted John Van Hollen,
Wisconsin’s attorney-general— ликовать, радоваться.
Visiting Fairfax I was reminded of just how ethnically diverse America’s suburbs and exurbs are— дальние пригороды (где
преимущественно живут хорошо обеспеченные люди).
300,000 years is a geological eyeblink— мигание.
The country’s fi rst-quarter GDP fi gure was eye-popping — потрясающий, невероятный.
284
Часть II / fag-end
F
The Greek fabulist provided the name for the “sunshine” policy
which previous South Korean governments adopted towards the North—
баснописец.
Seen as a brutal facet of Japan’s high-speed post-war growth,
crammers are as powerful as ever— аспект, грань, сторона.
Locals chuckled when a foreigner warned facetiously that if they
blended in any better, other vehicles might crash into them— веселый;
оживленный.
However, this factoid is practically meaningless because it focuses
just on taxation, and ignores benefi ts— (газетная) утка; непроверенная
информация.
The U. S. in its support of its factotum should not include interfer-
ing with town planning; he acted as a factotum— работник, имеющий
много разнообразных обязанностей.
It lets them make facile comparisons with the agonised last days
of the Major government— поверхностный, обманчивый.
People are living longer, which is good. But old age often brings
adecline in mental faculties— дар, способность.
The second snag is the hectic fl uidity of politics as Mr Mugabe
fades— постепенное исчезновение звука, изображения (в кино,
порадио ипр.).
But why does the state spend so much energy discrediting has-
beens and faddists?— чудак.
We fi rst-timers spent a lot of time faffi ng around, working out the
payment system and worrying about our deposits— неорганизованно
инеочень успешно заниматься (чем-л.).
At the fag-end of Tony Blair’s premiership, the only consolation
for his party was that the result was not worse— бесполезный остаток
(материала, времени).
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Часть II / fair & square
Of course it is all right if you win an entire country from the natives or a whole state from another sovereign nation ‘fair & square’ at
the barrel of a gun— прямой, справедливый.
Fairweather friends may use the live-stream as a way not to have
to show up in person— ненадежный.
It is a fallacy that a job gained for one person is a job lost for another— ошибка, заблуждение.
Mr Sarkozy has begun to look fallible— подверженный ошибкам; ошибочный.
Arriving, worn and famished, to the friendship and relative plenty of Louvain in 1946, he was so overjoyed that he wanted to sing the
TeDeum— страдать отголода.
Bowing to rumours that have been fanned recently by Donald
Trump, the White House released the full version of Mr Obama’s birth
certifi cate — раздувать, разжигать.
For Scotland the situation becomes even more farcical in terms
of democracy— фарсовый, шуточный.
The farrago overshadowed Mr Brown’s bid to reposition himself
and his party in the run-up to the election— мешанина; всякая всячина.
Digital technology has already rocked the media and retailing industries, just as cotton mills crushed hand looms and the Model T put far-
riers out of work— кузнец, подковывающий лошадей.
Twice a year, in spring and autumn, London’s fashionistas go
crazy at the second of the world’s “big four” fashion weeks— страстные
поклонники моды.
Such considerations lead some to suggest that REITs have come
about for less high-faluting reasons— напыщенный, претенциозный.
Chinese people are not constrained by fatuous childish political
correctness— глупый, дурацкий.
These fatwas explain the rum list of candidates— закон, предпи-
сание овынесении наказания вплоть досмертной казни.
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Часть II / feisty
Just look at the pro gyms that body-builders use and you’ll see
none of the “frilly” equipment favored by the trendy places— часто
посещаемый.
The latest fawning hit praises Mr Xi’s “heroism” and “unyield-
ing spirit”, and lauds his war on corruption— ласковый, раболепный.
Speaker Pelosi has put more emphasis on fealty than on compe-
tence — верность вассала феодалу; присяга наверность.
It’s an impressive feat of archival and investigative research—
подвиг.
But where Labour sees restructuring, its opponents see feather-
bedding— искусственное раздувание штатов.
His popularity fell steadily and he started trying to feather his
own nest— украшать перьями.
Mr Hanson travels many paths on his feathery journey— легкий;
тонкий, воздушный.
Contributing to this febrile atmosphere is an unspoken fear— ли-
хорадочный.
Nevertheless, we are looking for evidence of the opposite; that get-
ting legless makes you feckless— слабый, бесполезный.
In the worst places in Africa, fecundity tends to track instabil-
ity— плодородие; изобилие.
We call on the company to meet its legal, moral and fi duciary re-
sponsibilities and clean up the pollution it left behind in Ecuador’s Amazon— доверяемый, поручаемый.
Then the cattelle are shipped to feedlots in Java and Sumatra for
fattening— пастбища, где скот нагуливает жир.
Dayan Jayatilleka, a political analyst, calls the Heroes’ Day state-
ment an “elaborate feint”— хитрость; уловка.
It is a harsh sentence for the 58-year-old who ruled Taiwan from
2000 to 2008 and who had a feisty reputation for promoting independence— вздорный, раздражительный.
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Часть II / fell
The factions that came together to fell Muammar Qaddafi have
given up— рубить, валить (дерево).
A Texas grand jury has indicted Ken Paxton on several felony
charges— тяжкое уголовное преступление.
But the state’s fi nances are down to the felt, with the defi cit expected to hit $11 billion— разорить, обанкротить.
Muhammad Morsi had adjusted his felucca to the prevailing conditions in Egypt— фелюка, небольшое весельное судно.
They already mostly sell their wares to fences who will fi nd ways
round the new rules— скупщик краденого.
The investigative team ferretted out cheating by analysing erasure marks on test sheets— разнюхивать.
Couriers need less training to ferry goods to customers’ doors—
доставлять.
To leave their dispute to fester would be bad for the Turkish-Cypriots— гноиться.
Generations of Conservatives from the 1930s to today have feted
him as a reforming Tory who improved the lot of the poor— чествовать
кого-л., поздравлять кого-л. вторжественной обстановке.
Not only is he in fi ne fettle, he’s pricked enough to be angry; the
economy was in fi ne fettle— положение, состояние.
They live in distant slums, surrounded by fetid remains, sleeping
and eating amid “a forest of tumbling plastic bags and rivers of rotting”—
вонючий, зловонный.
Yet today even these iron fetters are showing signs of bending to
the demands of the market— оковы, цепи.
Something a bit fey about him; fl itting in an instant from fey to
amused to aghast— неотмира сего, счудинкой.
In 1996 a rebel army from eastern Congo marched a thousand miles
across the lush country to depose Mobutu Sese Seko— he of the leopard
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Часть II / fi erier
skin fez— феска (головной убор вформе усеченного конуса скисточкой, который носят мужчины встранах Восточного Средиземноморья).
Rationing is done implicitly, through murky pricing, bureaucratic
fi at of denial of service— декрет, постановление, указ.
That original fi b about consensus was papered over with lots of
vague language— выдумка, домысел, неправда.
The most cunning people (whether conscious fi bbers or not) tend
to benefi t at the expense of everyone else— враль, выдумщик.
A recent television drama portrays Margot Asquith as a fl ibberti-
gibbet, who was only interested in trivia— ветреный, легкомысленный
человек.
Youngesters are a fi ckle bunch; Unity is the key not having a fi ckle
mind— непостоянный; переменчивый.
Sunnis have to accept that as the minority sect they will play se-
cond fi ddle; Caught fi ddling with their BlackBerries— мошенничество,
надувательство.
They found that the more often people (who had not then been
treated for a disorder) felt nervous, fi dgety, worthless or hopeless ten
years ago— неугомонный; суетливый.
A fi rm must have an explicit social or environmental mission, and
a legally binding fi duciary responsibility to take into account the inter-
ests of workers— опекун, попечитель.
It is diffi cult to fi ght back against the feathered fi ends— дьявол;
демон.
Mr Brown, who would be California’s oldest governor ever, admits
that the job is fi endish and thankless; incumbents are fi endishly hard to
dislodge; It was fi endishly diffi cult — чрезвычайно; чертовски.
Some fi efs are competing in age old turf wars— фьеф, феод, фео-
дальное владение.
In the Democratic Party just picks fierier policies and more
inspiring candidates, that anti-Trump majority will surely boil over —
пылкий, вспыльчивый.
289
Часть II / fi efdom
Waste in a company is lost profi t; waste in a bureaucracy means
a bigger fi efdom — феодальное владение.
Few fi ff-faffs over communist tyrants aside, Mr Corbyn is asquit-
ting himself quite well as party leader — не очень успешно заниматься
чем-л.
The Russian media have had a fi eld day with it— день военных
парадов перед зрителями.
As Angelica grew, Virginia, who cared not a fi g for fashion, un-
dertook to give her a clothing allowance and sent her to the hairdresser— просто наплевать.
Charles will one day be the largely powerless fi gurehead of a par-
liamentary democracy that pretends to be a monarchy— номинальный
глава; подставное лицо.
Filial piety comes in many forms— дочерний, сыновний.
Another concern is consumer protection: dodgy operators could
fi lch cash— стянуть, стащить.
In the 1960s and 1970s hubris, corruption and foreign mass culture
smashed through the delicate fi ligree of Persian society— филигрань.
Countries in the region are benefi ting in terms of the huge fi llip
to growth and to their external balances— мотив, побуждение, стимул.
A big company will have a compliance department that can fi na-
gle the federal code— жульничать.
These rules are nothing more than wet fi ngers in the wind— слег-
костью, без труда, запросто.
In 2008 Siemens, a German conglomerate, was fi ngered for hand-
ing out bribes in emerging markets— устанавливать; признавать.
To see how the most fi nicky historian of the future will fi nd the
slightest reason for doubting— излишне разборчивый; педантичный.
Mikheil Saakashvili, then a youthful fi rebrand leader of the op-
position to President Eduard Shevardnadze; Venezuelans, along with their
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