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Часть II / indigent
Even before the instability there were worries about whether the
succession would be smooth, given the often indecorous behaviour of
the crown prince— неблагопристойный, предосудительный.
His indefatigable energy served as a tonic to an institution that
had been in the doldrums for some time— неутомимый, упорный.
The Rugby World Cup of 2007 will be remembered as the time
when the map of world rugby changed indelibly— незабываемый,
неизгладимый.
Malaysia’s Indians, many of whom trace their roots to inden-
tured labourers shipped to the peninsula three or four generations ago—
связывать договором.
A key is still, basically, a piece of metal sporting a series of grooves,
teeth and indentations which, when inserted into a keyway, line up
to move pins and levers to lock or unlock a mechanism— вмятина,
вдавливание.
Up for possession of drugs, he was deemed indigent, and the
city’s public defender was appointed to represent him— нуждающийся,
нищий.
The letters are frank about the indignities of getting old, from
hearing aids to cataract operations— оскорбление; унижение.
Yet not just on the Korean peninsula but across Asia, America
remains the indispensable power, a linchpin for regional stability—
незаменимый.
Of the new inducements, trade deals called Economic Partner-
ship Agreements are the ones Europe thinks will help Africa most—
побуждающий мотив; стимул.
Britons like to think of themselves as gamely indomitable—
неукротимый; неудержимый.
He has become something of a martyr for indigenous rights ac-
tivists— аборигенный, туземный.
Brazilian doctors while the managemant of public health care is
indigent— бедствующий, нуждающийся, нищий.
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Часть II / individuation
Far from liberating employees or leading to greater ‘individuation’ at personal levels, IT appears to be shoring up family structures—
индивидуация (возникновение взаимозависимых функциональных
единиц при формировании колоний).
A bad defeat for David Cameron illustrates his party’s indisci-
pline— недисциплинированность.
If it becomes law, however, it could give indie directors, who are
suffering from the general squeeze in the industry, a promising new avenue for getting their fi lms made— направление вальтернативной рокмузыке.
Bill Novelli, a former boss of the AARP, America’s indomitable
grey-power lobby, delivered a powerful counterblast to such pessimism—
несдержанный, необузданный.
Christopher Columbus has such an ineluctable presence in history that— неизбежный, неминуемый, неотвратимый.
Corruption and ineptitude are bipartisan — неспособность,
неумелость, неумение to demonstrate / display ineptitude— проявлять
неспособность.
The glue that underpins such faith is the principle of Biblical in-
errancy— безукоризненность, безупречность.
It slipped into an inexorable process of decline— неумолимый,
непреклонный.
Obama is inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity—
опьянять; спаивать.
The grousing turned to malicious laughter as “Governor Blanco’s
Road Home Programme” became a synonym for offi cial ineptitude—
непригодность, неспособность.
You and your cohorts are the ones without facts or sense and picking out isolated and infi nitesimally meaningful examples of stupidity—
инфинитезимально, бесконечно близкий.
Well, like the ingénue in a corny movie, there Iwas: the patient
and long overlooked understudy— инженю (актерское амплуа).
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Часть II / inquorate
This creates a porous material, titanium sponge, which is crushed
and melted in a vacuum furnace to yield titanium ingots— слиток,
болванка; чушка.
Sudan’s rulers have been trying anew to ingratiate themselves
with the West and with governments farther afi eld on a range of issues— обхаживать (кого-л.) вкорыстных целях; втираться(кому-л.)
вдоверие.
Ms Harries lightens her account with humorous anecdotes, in-
jokes, even a touch of slapstick— шутка всвоем узком кругу.
This action of secrecy leads others to suspect iniquitous beha-
vior— крайне несправедливый; чудовищный.
In 2007 the summer weather was particularly inimical to the per-
sistence of ice— враждебный, недружелюбный.
The point of this study is to understand better how seals hunt fi sh
in the inky depths of the ocean— цвета чернил, черный, темно-синий.
It doesn’t matter if the brand on the casing says Apple, Nokia or
Samsung: the innards are stuffed with Japanese wares— внутренности,
внутренние органы.
Mr Everett has taken a shot across the innatists’ bow, and an im-
pressively modest and reasoned one given that Mr Chomsky once called
him a charlatan— иннатизм (разум наделен идеями при рождении).
There’s no reason to be so cynical when the innocuous explana-
tion is more plausible— безвредный; безобидный.
They seem hard pressed to come up with anything tangible so far,
except for mere innuendo — косвенный намек; инсинуация.
France’s two-round system inoculates against extremist parties
like her National Front— сделать прививку.
Regulations would not inoculate the world against crisis— сде-
лать прививку.
The two main opposition parties then walked out of the Senate,
leaving it inquorate— неспособность решать эффективно.
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Часть II / inrush
It would come before the summer inrush of migrants to Europe—
прорыв; натиск.
Having a chip that instantiates the idea in hardware gets around
that— иллюстрировать примером.
Europe and an inscrutable China; He developed an insatiable-
hunger— ненасытный; жадный, алчный.
When they demurred, he mocked them. He knew that corpses are
insensate matter, nothing more— неодушевленный.
We might recall former Prime Minister Lee Kwan Yew coining the
phrase ‘Insidious Western Media’— хитрый, коварный; действующий
тайно.
The French have cast aside the insipid and the showy, the sanguine and the sombre, old-timers on the left and the right— скучный,
неинтересный.
She had always hiked the mountains as a respite from order forms
and insoles at the Bee Bee shoe company— стелька.
The favourite New Tory euphemism for insouciant dismissal of
serious allegations— беззаботный.
Mr Powell’s insouciance is probably also designed to distract attention from America’s lack of real options— беззаботность;
безмятежность.
Both lead extraordinary, well travelled lives, and they pass each
other on instinctual breeding runs that end in death— интуитивный,
подсознательный.
How China reacts to this meeting may be instructive— поучительный.
Combinations of fi ssiparous diversity and fi erce patriotism, in-
sularity and messianic sense of destiny— островное положение,
замкнутость, сдержанность.
The overall impression, however, is that this is the camaraderie of
a beleaguered troop fi ghting a noble battle against insuperable odds—
неодолимый, непреодолимый.
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Часть II / intraday
They are inset with ancient cameos and intaglios, precious and semi-
precious stones and enamel; they are inset with ancient cameos and intaglios, precious and semi-precious stones and enamels— глубокая печать.
Such intangibles as software, services and content— неосязае-
мая собственность.
Such efforts demonstrate how to interleave careers and learn-
ing— чередовать(ся); перемежать(ся).
They needn’t even be ennobled, as interlopers have hitherto
been— облагораживать.
Such intermingling became less common after the great mutiny
of 1857— смешиваться, перемешиваться.
One of their concerns was to prevent are currence of Europe’s in-
ternecine wars— междоусобный; внутренний (оконфликте внутри
группы, организации).
In 1500 when a group of sailors landed and claimed the territory
for their king, were coming to the conclusion that their new neighbours
made unreliable allies in intertribal wars— межплеменной.
Now that the Medvedev interregnum is over, the mood has shift-
ed back to a state-capitalist model— междуцарствие.
Ms Marshall intersperses chapters about Bishop with chapters
of memoir— раскидывать, усеивать.
Cambodian and Thai troops have intermittently clashed over
adisputed border temple; It was broadcast intermittently— периодически; сперерывами, время отвремени.
This interstellar ichthyoid neatly disposed of a problem all sci-
ence-fi ction authors have: how to let alien species talk to one another—
межзвездный.
Why network neutrality is such an intractable problem— and
how to solve it— нелегко поддающийся решению.
The Athens stockmarket crashed by more than 10% in intraday
trading— происшедший заодин день, суточный.
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Часть II / intransigence
These days, pragmatism has given way to dogmatic intransigence; One excuse for such intransigence comes from the messy tran-
sition now taking place in the insurance markets— непримиримость,
бескомпромиссность.
Old problems, such as Iran, can rapidly force themselves back to
the top of the president’s in-tray; it is easy to see why Europe’s refugee
problem might not be at the top of Turkey’s in-tray— лоток, подставка
для поступающих бумаг.
Though Angola wants to woo foreign investors, everything seems
contrived to deter all but the most intrepid and patient— неустрашимый,
отважный.
The most intricate ever organised came to an end in America—
сложный, замысловатый.
There are few more divisive subjects in business theory than
the relative merits of “intrinsic” versus “extrinsic” rewards— важный,
значительный, существенный.
Yet a fi fth of patients who die in the country’s hospitals have been
intubated— вводить трубку вполый орган.
Russians became inured to terrorism; people are inured to their
pleasures— приучать к(чему-л.); тренировать.
Anger rises as fast as the water across inundated northern cities— затоплять, наводнять.
Nearby, in the shade of a towering neem tree, protesters with banners and fl ags listen as a speaker inveighs against graft— поносить,
оскорблять, ругать.
Hitler was not only an avid reader but also an inveterate under-
liner; if Mr Trump, an inveterate conspiracy theorist, was peddling in-
fl ammatory nonsense about his predecessor and America’s intelligence
agencies, that would also be serious— застарелый; закоренелый.
He found himself in this invidious position after (and indeed
before) a speech he gave at the Liberal Democrat party conference—
вызывающий враждебное чувство, зависть.
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Часть II / irresolvable
They encountered anti-Clinton invective all over the place— об-
личительная речь; выпад; инвектива.
Council of Ministers headed by the president, who is appointed by
the king but must win an investiture vote in parliament— инвеститура,
формальное введение вдолжность.
Morocco’s constitution holds the person of the king, also known
as Commander of the Faithful, to be sacred and inviolate— нетронутый.
Suffocated by an irascible government, the country’s newspapers
are now the least informative in east Africa; Belarus irascible president—
вспыльчивый, несдержанный, раздражительный.
It might be that none of them won him as many swing votes as
the onslaught he endured at the hands of irate trade unions on January
17th— гневный, разгневанный, взбешенный.
Yuschenko has drawn Russia’s ire— гнев, ярость.
With his heavy jowls and hooded eyelids, Mr Howe cut an iren-
ic, gentle, even slightly unfortunate fi gure— мирный, миролюбивый.
Later he fought communism with the ironclad conservatism of
the Washington Times— жесткий, твердый.
But it was the job of Roberto Azevêdo, the WTO’s director-general,
to iron out such differences between members— улаживать.
An irredeemable mess and irreconcilable rivalry— безнадежный,
безысходный, неисправимый, непоправимый; irredeemable mistake— фатальная ошибка.
The orange revolutionin 2004–05 was not just about backing de-
mocracy; it was also about checking Russian irredentism— член партии
ирредентистов (итальянское политическое иобщественное движение
конца XIX— начала XX в., ратующее заприсоединение кИталии
земель ситальянским населением, находящихся под контролем
Австро-Венгрии).
By rushing to press in January it has missed the salient fact that
BP now faces another seemingly irresolvable mess, this time in Russia—
неразрешимый; неподдающийся анализу.
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Часть II / Irreverent
Irreverent social media, including Facebook and YouTube, are
fi zzing through the ether— непочтительный, неуважительный.
Since their irruption half a year ago, Occupy Wall Street and its
ilk have created a new political slogan— набег, нашествие.
Drivers taking their attention off the road to glare at their opponent and issue him (more rarely her) with a menacing fi ve-fi nger salute
known as a waka— издавать; пускать вобращение.
The canal intended to pierce the Isthmus of Panama is in many
respects a bolder enterprise— перешеек.
This iteration is less elegiac, but it is probably too late— по вторение, повтор.
HSBC believes its itinerance explains its survival. Countries
and regimes come and go— группа должностных лиц, совершающих
объезд территории.
Defended by legalistic quibbling, greatly angered an itinerant
preacher in Palestine two millennia ago; Parrot is an itinerant English
printer; Armies of itinerant nannies— должностное лицо, объезжающее
свой округ (судья, священник); переезжающий сместа наместо.
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The three candidates spend their days dealing sharp jabs— a recent low point followed a mass shooting at an abortion clinic in Colorado, blamed on an unstable man whose hatreds reportedly include Barack
Obama — толчок; пинок.
She will not win the presidency, but she has shed the jackbooted
imagery of her father, Jean-Marie, who shamed France by getting into the
run-off against Jacques Chirac in 2002— оказывать давление, оказывать
грубый нажим.
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Часть II / jeers
Did any discernable foreign policy theory come out of President
Barack Obama’s European jag?— приступ неконтролируемых эмоций.
From demented jailbird to president-in-waiting: Asif Zardari’s
metamorphosis— арестант, закоренелый преступник.
What Ronald Reagan called “that old jalopy of our tax system”—
полуразвалившийся ветхий автомобиль или самолет, драндулет.
A green jamboree in Indonesia will not achieve anything tangi-
ble, but it matters— веселье; пирушка, празднество.
In recent months Mr Trump has set nerves jangling among con-
servative supporters — играть нанервах.
What schoolboy could resist boasting of such a jape— злая шутка,
розыгрыш.
The Economist seems increasingly to prefer actively to write in
away destined consistently to irritate and jar; presumably, so as clearly
to demonstrate its commitment consistently to avoid splitting the infi nitive— спорить, ссориться.
The reference to a “bluebird” is as jarring in Japanese as it is in
English— неприятный наслух.
And they provide their senior managers and leading investors with
“wealth and luxury” that would have impressed even the most jaundiced
Roman— завистливый.
Before a javelin has been thrown or a hurdle cleared, a govern-
ment-sponsored conference for would-be investors will be completed at
Lancaster House— метательное копье, дротик.
Don’t anticipate anything game-changing or jaw-dropping here—
поразительный, удивительный, невероятный.
A jeepney ride through the capital’s snarled streets offers time to
refl ect on the shortage of political commitment to the public good— самые
популярные средства общественного транспорта наФиллипинах.
Depending on the year and the neighbourhood, he was greeted by
cheers or jeers— язвительное замечание, колкость.
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Часть II / jejune
It was as juvenile as the rest of the jejune copy inside— скудный,
тощий.
Jeremiad rhetoric is just a righteous punishment for misdeeds—
жалобы, сетования, плач.
This sort of knee-jerk behaviour is quite common during election campaigns, when ultra-quick reactions are at a premium— предсказуемый рефлекс.
These date back to the complex architecture of euro-zone bailouts, jerry-built in haste in 2010— сделанный наскорую руку, кое-как.
A former spymaster, Rafi Eitan, even suggested half in jest that
arival service may have framed the Israelis— острота, шутка; idle jest—
глупая шутка, комичная ситуация; курьез.
Japan’s prime minister, Yukio Hatoyama, should jettison his Svengali— выбрасывание груза заборт вовремя бедствия.
Mr Brown is not fond of jetting around the world, but he is afrequent
visitor to the United States— путешествовать нареактивном самолете.
To produce all the fl otsam and jetsam one could ever wish—
ненужные остатки; обрезки; обрывки; осколки.
A former jet-set resort is under water— элита (те, кто летает
насобственных самолетах), богатые путешественники.
From the Labour ranks come tired jibes about Conservative policies— an insulting or mocking remark — насмешки, издевки.
But there are millions of Americans who do not like the cut of his
jib— внешность.
Speaking in the House of Lords in July 2005, he railed against “statistical jiggery-pokery” and “selective surveys”— абсурд, вздор.
The jilted Germans called on GM to put up at least 50% of the mon-
ey required— бросать (супруга, партнера).
He loved France to the point of jingoism— ура-патриотизм,
шовинизм.
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