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Часть II / fuddy-duddy
It must send a frisson down the spine of any politician who re-
members ‘68; There was the frisson of fear that a genetic helotry would be
created, doomed by its DNA to second-class health care— дрожь; трепет.
But despite such fripperies, green parties and the environmental
issues which they champion now pose a serious challenge— безделушка,
брелок.
The Germans grew anxious that their tax euros were being frit-
tered away, and their savings might be infl ated away as their grandparents’ were— растрачивать помелочам.
Yet, for now at least, they remain central to the business of fl og-
ging posh frocks— платье, ряса.
Ministers and their apparatchiks almost Soviet in their determina-
tion to frogmarch us into behaving as they think we should— четверо
несут кого-л. заруки изаноги лицом вниз.
The froideur is a reminder that, for all the inquiry’s sensational
revelations about the intimate relations between proprietors and politicians— прохладное отношение.
Palm fronds and bougainvillea rustle in the breeze— листовидный
отросток уопределенных видов растений.
I hope their Blackberry thumbs go numb and their Bluetooth don-
gles get frostbite— обморожение, отмороженное место.
The volume and value of home sales in Canada are now at re-
cord highs. In some areas the market looks downright frothy — поверхностный, неимеющий глубокого смысла.
Many countries frown on it, though others take a more relaxed at-
titude— смотреть неодобрительно.
They pitch a frumpy Bill Gates lookalike against a too-cool-for-
school Jobs doppelganger— старомодный; плохо одетый.
Russia’s bullying of small fry such as Georgia— мелкая рыбешка.
He detested modern fashions in history, and fuddy-duddy ones
too— человек сотсталыми взглядами; консерватор.
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Часть II / fudge
A fudge between two feuding presidential candidates may offer
a political road map— чушь, выдумка, вранье.
Through a fug of cigarette smoke, her hosts found her intense,
charming, stubborn and prickly— духота; спертый воздух.
Mr Abbas full-throatedly confi rmed he had been “very close” to
a deal with Mr Netanyahu’s predecessor— очень громкий.
Kennedy kept her counsel at the time, but some months later, after
she fulsomely endorsed Obama, she said it had been her kids’ reactions;
he thanked Sarkozy fulsomely— льстивый.
It made both gestures despite issuing fulminations at incursions by two American fi ghter jets into its air-space— изливать гнев,
обрушиваться (накого-л.).
Iran is the fulcrum of an unstable region— точка опоры (рычага).
Ms McArdle fumes: the last paragraph makes these eminent professors seem, to put it charitably, not quite bright— раздражаться, кипеть
отзлости.
It is in the worst funk in its history; US economy is in a funk—
сильный запах; зловоние.
In exchange for padded contracts Brazil’s biggest construction
fi rms paid more than a billion dollars in bribes to Petrobras directors,
who in turn funnelled the money to their political masters— выходить
через узкое отверстие; просачиваться, выходить наружу.
Slavery was part of the furniture of European minds until well
into the 18th century— знания, багаж знаний.
And despite all the bear hugs at Latin American summits, Mr
Chávez did not further the continent’s cause— содействовать, способствовать.
Constitutional-reform arms race that erupted at the time of the
expenses furore— фурор.
Several times in the last couple of weeks, friends and colleagues in
Brussels have asked, with furrowed brows— покрывать морщинами.
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Часть II / gadfl y
When Mr Trump and his close associates are accused of furtive
or illegal acts, their instinct is to obfuscate, cry “fake news” or search for
scapegoats— тайный; незаметный.
Friends ofteh detected something furtive about her— скрытый,
тайный; незаметный.
Instead the animals, short-sighted and short-fused, were
trapped in holes in the forests of Java, Sumatra and India and killed—
вспыльчивый, раздражительный, несдержанный.
But thanks to poor communication, many saw it as China’s fi rst
fusillade in a global currency war— резкий критический выпад.
A monopoly long held by the Vietnam General Confederation of
Labour, a fusty arm of the party under which all unions are presently
herded— старомодный, спертый (овоздухе).
You can’t futz with a molecule— Inside of every American is
ascawny, twanging old futz like me— валять дурака, простофиля.
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Dressed in black gabardines, its Arabic-speaking parliamentar-
ians tour the villages of Galilee— габардиновое пальто, габардин.
What if the children inherited a gabby disposition straight from
the parents in their cocktail of genes?— словоохотливый, болтливый.
The gabfest involving senior Congressional leaders from both
parties lasted well over six hours, with no tangible results— треп, болтовня.
The reporter was a constant gadfl y to the government— овод,
слепень.
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Часть II / gaffes
Biden’s worst verbal gaffes of the day were minor, such as when
he called the Republican vice presidential nominee “Sarah McCain”—
ошибка, ложный шаг, промах.
This seems pretty hard to gainsay: when things are going badly,
the party in power takes the blame— возражать, противоречить.
Driving through the south-western corner of the state, the benefi ts
of this “shale gale” are easy to see— шторм; буря; ветер от7 до10баллов (порыв, движущийся соскоростью от51 до100км/ч).
Ed Miliband and Labour sensed blood and played on … about
cracking down on tax havens has played well to the gallery— играть,
подлаживаясь под вкусы галерки.
It must be galling to live next door to the world’s best schools;
That the party has allowed a (sort of) Chinese fi rm to poison the coast is
particularly galling— вызывающий гнев; досаду.
Joe Walsh, the band›s equivalent of Keith Richards, kept the mood
from getting too solemn, gallivanting around the stage— шататься,
бродить.
Mr Amour, Zanzibar’s president, was once described by Nyerere as
a hippopotamus for his galumphing political tactics— идти неровным
прерывистым шагом.
Bigwigs like Bill Clinton and Governor Andrew Cuomo, senators and city politicos were all there, not to mention cameras galore—
достаток, изобилие.
In the past week three developments have cast doubt on the
usefulness of Japan’s prevailing attitude of gaman— выносливость,
способность переносить страдание ит. п.
It includes so many exemptions, giveaways and rebates that those
who can game the system pay effective rates that are too low— играть
вазартные игры.
Offi cials say it is unrelated to the gammy left knee that had already slowed the president down in recent weeks— хромой.
She hangs a silk gamosa scarf around this correspondent’s neck
and invites him in for tea— ткань для обтирания.
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Часть II / garish
Among the things Iremember from the EMF roundtable was that
the opinions seemed to run the whole gamut from absurd— гамма;
диапазон, спектр.
Bosses grumble they are under constant pressure to perform, but
they are being pushed down the gangplank more slowly— сходня, трап.
Today the euro has lost much of its glamour, gangsta or other-
wise— чернокожий член банды.
But after roughly 2,000 years of roaring their noses were worn
away, their teeth gappy— спробелами; неполный.
These attributes bolster his claim that, in a fi eld of Republican
gargoyles, he is the likeliest to prevail in November— горгулья, человек
суродливым лицом.
Many thought the garish top lot carried an ambitious estimate,
£ 8m–12m, and would be hard to sell— чрезмерно пестрый, кричаще
яркий (ободежде, картине).
He left the local grammar school garlanded with prizes, and went
to Oxford with an open scholarship to study classics— надевать венок,
украшать гирляндами.
For more than 30 years, the confl ict which has scarred their tiny
province has garnered enormous amounts of attention from the world’s
news— копить, собирать, запасать.
More champions of Iran’s theocracy are preparing to open a mu-
seum in the richly restored garret where Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini,
the father of the Islamic Revolution, lived and lectured for 15 years—
чердак; мансарда.
Red tape is garrotting business; Many of the bodies at Baghdad’s
main morgue had been shot in the head, in the back, or garrotted; garrottes and sticks— гаррота (орудие казни— род железного ошейника).
Many normally garrulous Bangladeshi commentators this week
shunned requests to talk— говорливый, словоохотливый.
Strip of garish hoardings on stalks reaches into the distance—
чрезмерно пестрый, кричаще яркий.
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Часть II / gassy
Behind the excitement is the sense that the Pacifi c Alliance is
ahard-nosed business deal, rather than the usual gassy rhetoric of Latin American summitry— болтливый, многословный.
The soundest bet was to stick to one of Cormack’s favourites and
gatecrash the conversation— приходить незваным.
Other examples of a red-red-green coalition are the “gauche plu-
rielle” of former French Prime Minister; Conservatives are trying to rule
that out of bounds as too gauche to take seriously; As broad as the Cheshire Cat’s, full of slightly wonky teeth, the smile was at once confi dent and
touchingly gauche— неловкий; неуклюжий; нескладный.
Khodorkovsky, the jailed former head of Russia’s biggest oil company, has thrown down the gauntlet to Vladimir Putin— бросить вызов;
рукавица; перчатка скрагами.
This made it diffi cult for the Conservative government to gauge
its response— измерять, оценивать.
Venice’s magical, shimmering, translucent quality was being dissipated as the city sank, literally, beneath the garbage of gaudy materialism— безвкусный, кричащий, яркий.
Romney’s campaign fi nally began running gauzy biographical
advertisements during the Olympics— просвечивающий, прозрачный.
When she won the gavel, many saw it as a sign that the “marble ceil-
ing”; During this adjournment, a lone senator would drive to the Capitol every
three days to gavel in and, seconds later, gavel out— молоток (председателя
собрания, судьи или аукциониста); to rap a gavel— ударять молотком.
And a few young men looking gawky and shy, ready to smile without actually smiling— неловкий; застенчивый.
Hoteliers report that groups fi rst lock themselves in their rooms, to
gawp gobsmacked at politicians being insulted on television chat shows;
Those left behind could gawp at the gap between their own world and the
virtual one to which many Saudis escape for hours every day— смотреть
сглупым видом; таращить глаза.
More enthusiastically, it is a gazetteer of weird goings-on in remote corners of England— географический справочник.
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Часть II / gerrymandered
Two months later, as panic consumed the markets, it gazumped
Citigroup to acquire Wachovia— вымогать дополнительную плату.
Sessions will be geared toward understanding— направлять
поопределенному плану.
The president is trying, without much luck, to gee things up—
подбадривать, поторапливать.
Such gee-whizzery is hugely enjoyable in small doses, but it in-
volves a trade-off— громкое выражение энтузиазма.
Despite Mr Biden’s breezy optimism, the politics of Iraq remain as
volatile as gelignite— гелигнит.
On September 5th more than a dozen of its factions gelled into
anew, rival outfi t— вырисовываться, становиться ясным.
After two centuries of science becoming more and more spe-
cialised, the idea is to bring back the generalist— эрудит, человек
сшироким образованием икругом интересов.
The intellectual gentrifi cation of British politics even extends
to the basic mechanics of running things— облагораживание района
(джентрификация).
Before genufl ecting at the altar of “Free Trade”, let us not forget
the other side of the coin— преклонять колена.
Fifty years ago Truman Capote told an interviewer about his grand
hopes for a new literary genre— жанр, манера.
Regulators should put a stop to tactics that delay the introduction of
generic drugs— родовой; характерный для определенного класса, вида.
Through the geopoliticking, some human-rights activists argue,
the lot of normal Iranians is being ignored— геополитика.
I’dmuch rather be the sinner than the geriatric— гериатрический
(относящийся клечению людей пожилого истарческого возраста).
Special interests have hijacked the budget, and the gerryman-
dered legislature is powerless— предвыборные махинации (особенно
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Часть II / gerontocracy
перекраивание избирательных округов для получения преимущества
навыборах), избирательный округ, созданный врезультате предвыборных махинаций.
Seen from afar, Europe looks like a “gerontocracy”, an American
newspaper reported in 1963— правительство или правление старейших.
Visually, Frieze saw more large-scale works and fewer gewgaws
for one’s pied-a-terre— безделушка, безделица, побрякушка.
Playing this role only extends the existing debilitating ghettoisa-
tion of the poor in enclaves of charity— превращение вгетто.
The ghoul’s latest victim appears to have been Phobos-Grunt, an
ambitious Russian mission that was intended to return to Earth with a rock
sample from Phobos, the larger of Mars’s moons— вампир, вурдалак,
упырь.
Unless the correct code is entered to unlock the phone, they are
meaningless gibberish— тарабарщина; неграмотная речь.
A simple gibe spread: EU leaders had chosen non-entities who
could not overshadow them— насмехаться.
In its most prosperous cities, already giddy prices continue to
shoot up — вызывающий головокружение.
For all their gimcrack genesis Daleks were— and are— no joke—
де шевка.
Bush, Marco Rubio, John Kasich et al— have been impaled by the
gimlet gibes of Ted Cruz— «буравчик» (коктейль изджина или водки
исока лайма).
Pre-election gimmicks will damage the reputation of Britain’s
chancellor— хитроумное приспособление.
The European Central Bank started buying corporate bonds, in its
latest effort to gin up infl ation— поймать вловушку.
A cut in interest rates might ginger up the economy but the
Reserve Bank kept its benchmark rate at 5%— оживлять, придавать
живости, задору.
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Часть II / gleefully
Yet individual Japanese investors are still only gingerly re-
turning to their own stockmarket— осмотрительно, предусмотрительно.
Mr Gingrich will have a hard time keeping his supporters ginned
up until then— поймать вловушку.
That may have been true in the Gipper’s day, but the argument is
getting harder to make— лгать, обманывать.
Enryu did indeed behave like a comic-strip hero, ripping a door
from a car, waving an iron girder and tossing heavy objects out of its
way— перекладина; балочная ферма.
America was girding for an even more serious event— собраться
сдухом, ссилами.
He lived for sausages and— a close second— beer, and had the girth
and rosy cheeks to prove it— обхват; объем (талии, грудной клетки).
Tories hate John Bercow because they see him as an oleaginous
git, rather than because of his opinions— мерзавец.
Is the legally propagated free movement of people who wish your
gizzard slit in your bed something that makes you more or less secure?—
глотка, горло.
On the eve of the decision to gladhand the locals— весело при-
ветствовать, радушно встречать.
The Treasury’s ongoing stress test for banks, with its glacial time-
table — леденящий; студеный; бесстрастный.
Behind the glassy smile there was, Gore Didal assured people, yet
more ice— остекленевший, безжизненный.
From what Iglean out of news reports, Muslims in Bosnia and
Kosovo really DO see it that way— тщательно подбирать, собирать
(факты, сведения; по мелочам, обрывкам).
Republicans gleefully bewailed the tax on Christmas, with much
invocation of Grinches and Scrooges— весело; ликующе.
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Часть II / glib
I don’t fi nd the Governor especially glib or clever on many things;
People talk glibly; Bill Clinton is often painted as a glib kind of guy who
surrounds himself with similarly smooth talkers — легкий, беззаботный,
гладкий.
Word on the street is that Glitzkrieg Burlesque is looking for some
new Bombshells!— молниеносное наступление.
A potent mix of glitterati and digerati, plutocrats and aristocrats
have been mingling in the Swiss ski resort of Davos— избранные, элита.
Foreign journalists pounced on a series of glitches— затруднение,
проблема unexpected glitch— непредвиденное затруднение, неожиданное препятствие.
Glitzy retail outlets rub shoulders with poky wooden shacks,
whose elderly proprietors peddle wrinkly vegetables and ancient sandwiches— блеск.
Glinting greenly from the corners of the Beatles’ album covers is
an apple; there is a small glint of hope that more Gypsy children may be
educated— спышка, сверкание; яркий блеск.
Only glancingly do the programmes touch on the grubbier motives— косым взглядом, косвенно.
America’s election campaign may provoke some Asian gloating,
along with amusement, baffl ement and disgust — тайно злорадствовать,
торжествовать.
Go back to the era of dictators and world wars and you can fi nd exactly the same addiction to globaloney— global + baloney — “глобальный
вздор” (ошибочные представления, суждения; омеждународной
политике, международных отношениях; впервые встретилось в1943 г.
вречи Клэр Льюс, члена палаты представителей Конгресса США).
President Hu Jintao, who only a few years ago had hardly set foot
outside China, has become quite a globetrotter; An ambitious, globe-
trotting youngster from Asia who wants a good, cheap degree from
somewhere in Europe his youthful globetrotting— человек, много
путешествующий посвету.
Buyers scrape out the very last glob from the jar— капля.
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