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Часть II / hamlet
With all due respect, that seemed to be more in the vein of hagio-
graphy, not biography— агиография, жизнеописания святых.
He begins with the haiku, that most economical of forms, for
which “less is more, and more is better”— японская поэма из17 слогов.
That said, how does this Hail Mary pass compare to the other
big Hail Mary of the season— «Аве Мария» (католическая молитва
Богородице; вправославной традиции — «Радуйся, благодатная!»).
The whole barrel is spoiled and your sport has suddenly vanished
in a hailstorm of disqualifi cations— ливень, гроза сградом.
The fi rst Russian to inquire about political asylum in Britain may
have been Tsar Ivan the Terrible, who wrote to Queen Elizabeth I in 1570
asking whether she would take him in if things got too hairy in Moscow— страшный, опасный.
But one constant would remain through all of this fuss about wheth-
er Marmite is vegetarian, or baked beans kosher or halal – халяльный.
This is partly thanks to Alec Baldwin’s parody of the president as
an irascible halfwit— слабоумный.
There’s no place like home!” she hallooed, in a victory speech in
which she slammed the Republicans— криком привлекать внимание.
Ford is on a roll thanks to its improving product quality and the
halo effect of having avoided bankruptcy— ореол святости ичуда.
These are halcyon days in Silicon Valley and other hives of en-
trepreneurship around the world— безмятежный, спокойный, тихий.
The party’s hallowed notion of “collective” leadership has been
jettisoned— освященный, святой.
Mr Kim has been sharply criticised for his ham-fi sted reforms of
the institution, prompting an unprecedented rebuke from its staff association— неуклюжий, неловкий.
The Museum of Earth History, which opens in April 2005 in the
quirky hamlet of Eureka Springs, Arkansas— деревня, деревушка, село.
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Часть II / hammer
That is the message liberals need to hammer home— громить,
наносить серьезное поражение.
Mrs Clinton’s performance is so hammy as to annoy— напыщенный, неестественный.
Why bother to negotiate with the Palestinians, some intelligence
people may feel, when they can be constantly hamstrung by such trickery?— хромой.
For anyone who grew up in poverty or in wartime, old clothes—
cast-offs, hand-me-downs — have unpleasant overtones— вещь,
передаваемая понаследству.
Rick Perry, a former governor of Texas who may also run for
president, dismissed the conspiracy theory out of hand— наотрез;
нераздумывая.
Obama won evry income group handily— ловко, умело, проворно.
Mr Obama has been the most hands-on foreign-policy president
since Richard Nixon— практический; связанный сжизнью.
The authoritarian leadership of Kazakhstan has long hankered
after international recognition — очень хотеть, жаждать.
Now Mr Anwar has been linked to more hanky-panky— мошенничество, обман, надувательство, проделки.
Trump harangued Ford about plans to move production of its
Lincoln sports-utility vehicles— разглагольствовать.
No one harbours fantasies about the independence of the present
NPC— испытывать, питать.
Hardscrabble Baltimore fi nds that kindness brings its own rewards— малоплодородный, достающийся струдом, изматывающий.
An excellent opportunity for harping on American hypocrisy has
gone unmarked— надоедливо твердить.
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Часть II / hawed
Homer’s epic is not just composed of harridan wives and brave
men— старая карга, ведьма.
The hark back to an even more puritanical version of Islam—
напоминать.
One of this newspaper’s correspondents has yet to recover from
two harrowing days spent in the company of a Microsoft “brand evangelist”— калечить; разрывать.
Foreign and local critics who harp on about horrors are doing
down a fragile country— надоедливо твердить о(чем-л.).
“It’s a lot easier to be Santa than Scrooge,” harrumphs Jim Coo-
per; Amid the chaos, Thompson provides a solid anchor, occasionally har-
rumphing her disapproval but otherwise eerily— фыркать; хмыкать.
Bengalis know that in Phalgun the dust fl ies like a harum-sca-
rum boy down village lanes, and in Sraban the loud monsoon soaks the
thatch— легкомысленный, несерьезный, опрометчивый.
But love has a way of making a hash of plans, and these days
she and her husband manage two full-time jobs and the care of their
18-month-old daughter— околесица, бессмысленная болтовня.
Kenya’s social media adopted the Twitter hashtag “we are one” to
identify news on the crisis— сайты всоциальных сетях.
Appreciation without humility smacks of the haughty cowboy
mindset— заносчивый, надменный.
Plain-clothes agents of the Committee for the Promotion of Virtue
and Prevention of Vice, as the religious police are known, patrol streets,
parks and shopping centres, intervening to scold offenders, strike them
with switches or haul them off to be disciplined by ordinary police—
выждав, действовать внезапно ирезко.
The chargé d’affaires at China’s embassy in Jakarta was hauled
in to receive a stiff protest— вызывать, заставлять ходить.
Offi cials have hummed and hawed over how to honour Mr Peña’s
campaign pledge to create a new federal gendarmerie— бормотать,
произносить невнятные звуки.
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Часть II / haymaker
Many Republicans are alarmed by Mr Trump’s latest haymaker
against Mr Obama— сильный удар.
A hayseed with a Midwestern twang, Carnegie arrived in New
York in his 20s with the usual mix of big dreams and shallow pockets—
деревенщина.
Robert Shiller is no head-in-the-sand capitalist nor a highly paid
Wall Street shill— страусиное поведение.
Both take conservative stances on social issues (noto gay marriage and gun control, though Mr Sandoval is pro-choice on abortion), but neither is an intolerant headbanger— поклонник металлорока.
Designing a sacred space that can cater to all faiths is a heads-
cratcher for architects— загадка, головоломка.
A new seven-point strategy to end the bloodshed in Syria was the
headline-grabber from the G8 summit— лидер заголовков.
Many of the headwinds that had held back growth for so long
were abating— встречный ветер.
Yet modern campaigners for comprehensive immigration reform
tend to play on heartstrings— играть начьих-л. чувствах.
Launch them into space like human satellites, pound them fl at to
hearthrugs, hit them so hard they’d wonder where October and November went— коврик перед камином.
The club is quiet and uncrowded, a rare luxury in this heaving,
bustling city— прилив (эмоций, чувств).
In part because of their heckling, Mr Cameron has little to offer by
way of constructive suggestions— прерывать, забрасывать вопросами.
The EU should not just hector China about universal values but
encourage it to follow its own laws— дразнить; грубить.
The hedgerow removal rules do not apply within the curtilage of a farmhouse— живая изгородь; сплошные придорожные посадки.
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Часть II / hermetically
The hedonistic atmosphere of the times was responsible for the
introduction not only of “Ho Bryan” and the other great wines of Bordeaux— жизнелюбивый; жаждущий наслаждений.
In such a division it might seem natural to fi nd America and Eu-
rope on the same side, even if such talk gives many Europeans the hee-
bie-jeebies— мурашки покоже; нервная дрожь.
And states with economic heft, such as California and New York,
are formidable climate champions— вес, масса.
Throwing the ball is considered a heinous cricketing crime—
противный; ужасный.
Gifts have been coming in, such as “It” bags from the big fashion
houses or treasures from individuals seeking a home for family heir-
looms— фамильные вещи.
How the perfectly legal heists of a racehorse-trainer and former
seminarian made him— грабеж, кража.
The treasurer, Wayne Swan, promised the surplus three years ago,
“come hell or high water”— чтобы тонибыло.
They appear not to have agreed on how best to deal with the biggest
threat to the country’s domestic security: militant Islamists hellbent on
toppling the state— одержимый, настойчиво стремящийся (кчему-л.).
Lapel badges of the great helmsman reeks of the bad old days—
рулевой; кормчий.
It was monotheistic, but its many recognised spirits were impor-
tant messengers and helpmeets for the deity— помощница, товарищ.
The enclave still feels politically and physically hemmed in—
окружать.
By the time a boat has sailed halfway round the world, hemlines
may have risen an inch and its cargo will be as popular as geriatric haddock— кромка, край.
Now the problem is how to set up an embassy in a country that
wants to remain hermetically sealed— герметически, плотно.
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Часть II / herring
A third red herring is the notion that public confession and
contrition is something that Chinese, or East Asian, culture demands—
отвлекающий маневр (неприятно пахнущая копченая сельдь была
эффективным средством сбивать охотничьих собак соследа).
Where slicker rivals chop, change and pander, the rumpled Mr
Paul hews to his principles even when they are unpopular— строго
следовать чему-л.
Mr Blair sometimes seemed to see Britain’s global role as a bridge
between American hard power and the more herbivorous soft power of
the European Union— травоядный.
Local hams, made from peanut-fed pigs and then hickory-smoked,
fi rst earned fame in colonial times— гикори (род североамериканского
орешника).
The 30-year-old unveiled a string of commitments to end the kingdom’s dependence on oil by 2030 which, in themselves, would be a remarkable achievement for a hidebound country— истощенный, бедный.
The market for high-end pianos has been dominated for so long
by the German- American Steinway brand— удовлетворяющий самым
высоким требованиям.
India has treated the neighbours, by turns, with negligence and
high-handedness— своеволие, деспотизм.
Macau’s spectacular growth was due not to mass tourism, as in Las
Vegas, but to its success in attracting “high-rollers”— состоятельные люди.
He came to the industry’s annual convention because he was tired
of “the hillbilly attitudes” of developers— деревенщина.
The biggest threat to London’s future is its relationship with its
hinterland— сельская глубинка.
Fine human hairs do not seem to be performing any of the functions
of their counterparts in more hirsute species— косматый, лохматый.
When it comes to EU diplomacy Germany does not do histrio-
nics— театральное представление, спектакль.
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Часть II / hogtied
He was photographed histrionically throwing a tyre on a barri-
cade outside a blocked oil depot— актерски; сценически.
A technical hitch stays the executioner’s needle— задержка,
заминка.
Hitching two mutual organisations together is even harder,
and the BPCE group has other bits and pieces too— подтягивать;
прихрамывать; спотыкаться.
The government is considering the possibility of hiving toxic as-
sets into a bad bank— разделять, разукрупнять.
The idea that anybody would want to hoard a currency that has
lost 60% of its value in the past two months is absurd— копить, накоплять.
Managers tend to make two hoary contradictory assumptions—
древний; освященный веками.
There was a sense that the city was descending into a Hobbesian
hell— гоббсовский, относящийся кфилософскому учению Т. Гоббса,
всостоянии «войны всех против всех».
The airline check-in queues hobble along and the PA system is
barely audible above the din— сковывать, затруднять движения.
You can often read about wealthy Hong Kong people hob-nobbing
with offi cials in the mainland Chinese government— дружить.
Because a loan is secured by the piece in hock, risk is fi nite—
долг, долги.
Now a hodgepodge of militias, most of them Islamist, are readying
to fi ght him there and in cities such as Derna and Benghazi— мешанина,
смесь.
An American eye-care fi rm, unveiled early this month, has been
hogging the headlines— заграбастать, прибрать крукам.
Everywhere bad government is too slow and infl exible, hogtied
by vested interests and red tape, or hijacked by ideological zealots—
связанные порукам иногам.
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Часть II / hog
Blame British imperialism, US imperialism— why not go whole
hog and dire consequences for everybody else in the whole World!—
делать (что-л.) основательно, доводить доконца.
Then came the question of just how high on the hog— бродяжничать.
This offers some hope that, as they perform the hokey-cokey over
the euro zone— хоуки-коуки (веселый парный танец, популярный
в1940-е годы).
The president serves up some hokum about how “the state of the
union is strong” and America is a “shining city on a hill”— жульничество;
ложь, неправда, обман.
Aid-bags stamped with the stars-and-stripes are tolerated when
turned into use as holdalls— портплед; вещевой мешок.
The idea is to offer a “holistic system” for travel — единый, це-
лостный.
He is ready to unleash the Holocaust on them— истребление;
бойня; резня.
Men, women and children tore at their clothes in homage to Kim
Jong Il, a man who for 17 years kept his people in a state of isolation—
уважение; преклонение; благоговение.
In the homestretch of the Illnois senator’s presidential race—
финиш, финишная прямая.
Regulators are homing in on new rules to rein in speculators—
фокусировать внимание.
Not as a grim Stalinist display but as a celebration of pure blood
and homogeneity— однородность; единообразие.
As a result, a lot of managerial talent emigrates. “Why be a hon-
cho for Rossi and Son?” Mr Andrewasks— глава, начальник, босс
(термин применяется как поотношению кмужчине, так и поотношению кженщине; слово происходит отяпонского «hancho»—
лидер.
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Часть II / hoopla
Looking to hone their moneymaking skills while sitting out
adownturn; they can more effi cientlyhone in on those two or three ideas— точить, затачивать.
The salary for the largely honorifi c president is to be more than
halved— почетный.
Honu, the hawks bill, the leatherback and the olive riddle—
виды торских черепах, обитающих упобережья Гавайских островов,
некоторые изних внесены в список исчезающих иохраняемых
государством животных.
Some of these producers rely on Heath Robinson lash-ups of their
own devising to make their motoring equivalent of hooch— крепкий
алкогольный напиток (особенно низкокачественный, продаваемый
нелегально).
They said the hoo-hah over his sacking of his diary secretary, al-
legedly to create a job for his mistress, was overblown— суета, шумиха.
Europe is cheaper for tourists, but even there things get expensive
(and require more hoop jumping) for long stay visas— “прыгать через
обруч”, покорно, беспрекословно выполнять все требования.
Mexican envy at the hoop-la surrounding Brazil, its Latin Amer-
ican rival, has reached a pitch to which only a psychoanalyst could do
full justice— кутерьма, шумиха во время избирательной компании.
Jeb Bush calls ‘W’ movie ‘Hooey’; a government takes the country
into an unpopular war and its main reason for doing so turns out to be
hooey— абсурд, ерунда, чушь.
Now widely enough accepted in dark-matter circles that the pu-
tative particle responsible has, playfully, been dubbed the “hooperon”—
бондарь, бочар.
The white class was hoodwinked— обмануть, одурачить, про-
вести.
There was lots of hoopla, but there were no new, substantial rem-
edies for the global slump— приемы иметоды для поднятия энтузиазма
вовремя избирательной кампании.
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Часть II / hoots
She didn’t give two hoots what Mr Trump said about abortion—
нималейшего внимания.
20 bills are now sitting in the congressional hopper— ящик,
урна, вкоторые опускаются предложения ит. п. для рассмотрения
их законодательным органом.
The former senator was one of nine Republican hopefuls participating in a televised debate— человек, подающий надежды.
A place of caramel apples and cotton candy, secret forts, and hop-
scotch on the streets— классики (детская игра).
Huckabee has never locked horns with this famous Democrat—
бодаться рогами.
That achievement earned him many honours for services to ho-
rology, but it was only the beginning of a long slog to get his idea accepted— измерение времени.
Europe’s two largest low-cost carriers, Ryanair and EasyJet, were
having an annus horribilis— ужасный год (латынь).
Established in 1982With 27 years experience in Leicestershire specialising in horticulture, landscaping garden design, paving, fencing,
garden maintenance, ponds and water features— садовод.
The European Union’s horse-trading over top jobs refl ects murky
coalition-building— махинация, нечестная сделка.
We sing hosanna, hosanna to our breeding and our banner and
we are cool— Осанна! (молитвенный возглас, заключающий всебе
хвалу иблагодарение Богу).
For a host of personal and political reasons, this newspaper continues to regard the media tycoon as unfi t for offi ce— совокупность.
An ambitious overhaul of India’s confusing hotch-potch of indirect taxes could give business a boost— овощной суп или смесь,
приготовленная набараньем бульоне.
By now politicians were hotfooting it back, to get a grip on a situation that had clearly spiralled out of control— идти быстро, спешить.
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