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Часть II / lay
Congress as a whole has met the present challenge with lassitude,
not leadership— утомление; апатия.
In Argentina, “a gaucho lassoing himself with his own bolas”
could be taken to mean that the gaucho lassoed himself with his own
testicles— ловить арканом, лассо.
Russia’s new rulers, ideologically orphaned by the collapse of So-
viet communism, have increasingly latched onto the belief— осознавать
выгоду.
Latrine building has been a part of Peace Corps programs since
inception— отхожее место (особенно влагере, госпитале).
The City of London quickly worked itself up into a lather— abet-
ted by the British press— пена, мыло (налошади); to get into a lather—
терять голову (отпереживаний).
There may be latent feelings, but the over riding truth is the need
for reconciliation— латентный, непроявившийся.
When he woke up in Lilliput, bound by a lattice of slender liga-
tures, to fi nd dozens of tiny men disporting themselves on his chest, Lemuel Gulliver let out a roar “so loud that they all ran back in fright—
решетка, сетка.
While the Paris accords were laudatory, we all must accept the
bitter truth that the earth is too hot now— похвальный, хвалебный.
Governments want to assist broadband development, but la-
vishing taxpayers’ money on high-speed networks is not the answer—
расточать; обильный.
Donald Trump has staged a lawyerly retreat from his executive
order of January 27th— правовой.
The rules change from country to country and they get laxer and
laxer all the way down the chain until you reach Liberia— распущенный,
расхлябанный.
Perhaps the wariest observers are the Russian authorities, both
lay and clerical— мирской, светский.
361
Часть II / lay abouts
It is a common misperception that students are work-shy layabouts— бездельник, тунеядец.
The use of the core measure may seem opportunistic to laypeople— like playing games with the numbers to get the fi gures— присяж-
ные.
The capital’s residents were urged to call a hotline should they
have any leads— вести.
Demonstrators marching on America’s informal embassy wearing
Uncle Sam hats and leering cow masks— смотреть искоса; смотреть
хитро.
Nonetheless, it still gives them broad leeway to decide when
aloan is looking parlous enough to register an expected loss— свобода
действий.
In sum, Lego’s name is derived from leg godt, Danish for “play
well” — играть хорошо (датский).
Absolutely not, replied the CDFA in a communication full of le-
galese that Ms Dashtaki calls “Kafkaesque” — юридический жаргон.
When a legatee lives in a third country it is harder still—
наследник.
Tales of mistreatment are legion— тьма, множество.
We are obligated to make laugh over Zapatero´s legerdemain
and its brand new trick; Some accuse the White House of legerdemain—
ловкость рук; жонглерство.
There he met Ernest Lawrence, the inventor of the cyclotron, who
gave him a leg-up in his career— поддержка; подмога.
The Gandhi name is the leitmotif of India’s post-independence
history— лейтмотив.
Indians everywhere (never “Native Americans”, another colonisers’ word) had been robbed, corralled and turned into cowed, self-loathing lemmings in white schools— лемминг.
362
Часть II / lieu
He asked for leniency, as he had been infl uenced by Western ide-
as— снисходительность, терпимость.
Many doctors think they are trying to curb a bunch of lentil-
munching fanatics who ignore the dangers of something going—
пережевывающих чечевицу.
Leonine great writers and radicals with Afros out to their shoul-
ders— львиное мужествo.
The world will be less cheerful without his readiness to pull a sil-
ly face, or don a leprechaun hat and matching pants— эльф, который
всегда носит кошелек сшиллингом.
Revolutionaries are advised to die young lest they make fools of
themselves— чтобы не, какбы не.
There is no let-up in the growth of the number of patents issued
each year— пауза, перерыв.
Bernie Sanders wants to levy Social Security taxes, which cur-
rently stop at $118,500, on incomes over $250,000— облагать (налогом);
вводить налоговые ставки.
lt will be Mardi Gras, a local holiday celebrated with passion, and
plenty of libations— возлияние; выпивка.
In some places, the LGBT community has spread its wings to call
itself LGBTTTI: Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Trans-sexual, Transvestite and Intersexual (having both male and female physical characteristics).
Ron Paul is a 76-year-old libertarian from Texas with a worldview
so wacky and a programme so radical that he was recently discounted as
a no-hoper— сторонник доктрины освободе воли.
When the correspondent went on to document drunken
housekeepers and licentious receptionists, the owners sued him—
безнравственный, распущенный.
The origins of modern taxation can be traced to wealthy subjects
paying money to their king in lieu of military service— вместо.
363
Часть II / Lifers
Lifers, executives who had spent their entire career with one company, were much more present 30 years ago— сотрудник, работающий
долгие годы; кадровый офицер.
It lifted an executive ban on offshore drilling— отменить запрет.
When he woke up in Lilliput, bound by a lattice of slender liga-
tures, to fi nd dozens of tiny men disporting themselves on his chest, Lemuel Gulliver let out a roar “so loud that they all ran back in fright”—
связывание, соединение.
There is no lightning-bolt solution— удар молнии, грома.
L’Oréal’s like-for-like revenues rose by 4.7% in 2016, whereas the
Body Shop’s increased by just 0.6%— метод подсчета, исключающий
искусственные объемы продаж.
In all likelihood, Congress will do this in time for the new year—
повсей вероятности.
He replied, in his languid, ever-courteous southern lilt, “The hell
you say”— мелодия, напев, песенка.
That pretty much describes the two sides limbering up for a political scrap over the European Union’s constitutional treaty— делать
разминку.
In fact, legal limbo is not an either-or condition; there are degrees of statelessness— лимб (укатоликов: пограничная область ада,
вкоторой пребывают души праведников, умерших допришествия
Христа идуши умерших некрещеными детей).
The damage being done to its health is visible in a few liminal
places— the Great Barrier Reef, say, or the oyster farms of Washington
state— тонкий слой.
Mr Ford continued to limn Frank’s life in “Independence Day”,
perhaps his most profound and moving work— изображать; описывать.
Uday’s stock fell further when in 1996 he was nearly assassinated,
and afterwards walked with a limp— медленно двигаться, струдом
передвигаться.
364
Часть II / liveried
Standing out as a book writer today requires more than a bright
idea and limpid prose— простой, ясный, прозрачный (оязыке, стиле).
Even as protests calm down, questions linger about Turkey’s po-
litical future— сохраняться, неисчезать полностью.
He was the linchpin of the team— тот, наком все держится;
незаменимый человек; опора, шплинт; чека.
If prices linger at or above $100 a barrel— засиживаться, за-
держиваться.
With a McDonald’s on every corner, our evolved love of lipids can
lead to an early grave— липиды.
A place as litigious as America— сутяжнический (олюдях,
их характере, высказываниях; спорный, подлежащий судебному
разбирательству.
Germany’s president, Christian Wulff, paid his fi rst offi cial visit to
Turkey last week, accompanied by his lissom wife, Bettina— скорый,
проворный; легкий (вдвижениях).
It endured listless donors and woeful budgets— апатичный,
бездеятельный, безразличный, вялый.
Seamlessly, the dancers move from breakdance to something more
lithe— гибкий, податливый.
Charles Freeman argues that no government is without sin and
that there should be no political litmus test for hosting the Games— reaction for litmus— реакция налакмус.
The book gives way to a forlorn litany of the events— литания,
длинный искучный перечень чего-л.
It is understandable that China should want to make it riskier for
the American navy to operate close to its own littoral— прибрежные
воды.
These days the liveried doormen in Athens’s fi nest hotels stare
out at sleeveless drummers in a protest tent camp— носящий ливрею.
365
Часть II / livid
A big export-oriented economy is booming but its trading partners
are livid— разозленный, вярости.
Partisans took to their bunkers erpts from Justinian’s “Digest” of
Roman law suggest that 6th-century sea captains, innkeepers and livery-
men could not refuse board to any cargo, man or horse— член гильдии.
Partisans took to their bunkers to lob bombs at each other, the
truth of the matter be damned— зашвырнуть, бросить.
Energy and economic growth always grew in lockstep and to
think otherwise was dangerously naive— шаг вногу (встрою).
To an urban locavore, pricey fuel does not sound so terrible— тот,
кто питается местной пищей.
Tom Campbell insists that this is not so: “This is not the Met in
lockdown mode”— ограничивать возможности, функциональность.
Locust investors strip companies bare and then move on—
саранча перелетная.
As the locus of innovation moves on to other fi elds, can information technology ever regain its pre-eminence?— центральная позиция,
ключевая точка.
For Valdis Dombrovskis, the prime minister, the euro has been
alodestar through years of crisis— путеводная звезда, идеал.
The Tories had descended from their lofty ground of defi cit-cutting austerity to low politics— величественный.
The two companies are at loggerheads over everything from apps
to acquisitions— иметь резкие разногласия, быть вссоре.
Allegations of log-rolling, though denied, plagued the voting last
year for 2018— взаимная поддержка между членами Конгресса.
A new law may do little to break India’s land-acquisition logjam—
залом, затор, завал.
The pair loll on a green hillside at Murnau south of Munich where
Münter had bought a house— стоять (облокотясь) вленивой позе.
366
Часть II / loth
It has managed to convert the capital of UK into Londonistan, anas-
ty nest of all kinds of Islamic terrorists and fanatics— преобладающее
население мусульман.
Using longitudinal data on college-going Americans who were
aged between 12 and 17 in 1997, the authors found that student-loan debtors were in fact more likely than non-debtors— продольный.
Astronomers may have found their first Saturn looka-
like— имитация; близкая коригиналу копия (аппаратного или
программного обеспечения).
For even as the country trumpets planned space missions, it fails
to build good loos today— уборная, туалет.
The idea that modern central banks with their loosey-goosey
printing presses have generated an epidemic of infl ation is a little nuts—
непринужденный, раскованный.
But it is the insight Sparks brings to an old subject that confi rms
what we have always suspected, that “The Arch” really is more lollapa-
looza liturgist than he is preacher man— что-либо исключительного
качества всвоем классе.
Other conspiracy theories about Mr Obama are even loopier—
странный, чудаковатый; счудинкой; сумасшедший.
The Greens reckon that lopping a day off the working week would
begin to redress the inequalities between men and women— урезывать.
The fate is lopsided as before; it was a lopsided fi ght, hastily ar-
ranged, poorly refereed, and pitting a big bruiser against bantams—
кривобокий; наклоненный.
A kinder interpretation may be that, even for the loquacious
MrCampbell, there is not much left to say; to neutralise politically dangerous or excessively loquaciousoutsiders— болтливый, говорливый.
Israeli security says it recently uncovered a plot to blow up a lorry-
load of explosives under a Tel Aviv skyscraper— грузовик.
They are loth to take part in it— несклонный, нежелающий; де-
лающий неохотно.
367
Часть II / louche
A backlash against extreme Puritanism, particularly among the upper classes who observed the louche goings on at court— пользующийся
дурной репутацией.
Other southern states combine conspicuous religiosity with widespread loucheness— плохая репутация.
A well-known loudmouth professor at Peking University was
suggesting that some in the former colony were “British running dogs”—
крикун.
Britain is known for its lager louts and beer bellies— деревенщина.
When it comes to energy, Vladimir Putin’s Russia seems prone
to loutish behaviour— despite constant claims that Russia is a reliable partner— грубый, неповоротливый, нескладный, неотесанный.
A song written for lovelorn servicemen going into battle hundreds
of years ago— страдающий отбезнадежной любви.
China love-bombed the Seychelles and Mauritius with presidential visits— выражение любви для получения выгоды.
Soon she was to add her own knot to this Bloomsbury love-
tangle— любовная путаница.
Presidents Chávez and Uribe hold a love-in— сборище хиппи.
An older relative stepped in to inform curious reporters that the
youth “loves the new freedom”, adding, “Lovely-jubbly, tally-ho, tally-
ho”— выражение удовольствия.
He took things easy, hid throat lozenges in his handkerchief, and
looked after his instrument— пастилки отболи вгорле или кашля.
You know the sound of your heartbeat: lub-dub, lub-dub— сердцебиение.
The story ranges across four decades, from the courtship of
Dani el’s parents in the 1960s to his mildly lubricious London life in the
mid-1990s— вертливый, уклончивый.
368
Часть II / lurk
Lucid dreaming is not as much entering dreams while remaining
conscious— прозрачный, ясный.
Some of the lucre has gone to fi nance the pro-poor subsidies be-
loved of the president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad— прибыль, барыш.
As a convenience to visitors annoyed by having to lug wads of
cash, Iran’s savvier carpet dealers and hoteliers have evaded the blockade
by collecting credit-card charges overseas— тащить; сильно дергать.
He had a lugubrious, clever head; he heard a lugubrious rendi-
tion— cкорбный, траурный.
A pre-Christmas lull in political combat probably means less than
meets the eye— короткое/временное затишье.
Yet the apparent assassination last month of Mr Mbai, a key man
in efforts to redraft Kenya’s lumpen constitution— кадровый состав,
деклассированный.
The Greeks should be ready to turn to the IMF before they lumber
themselves with an even worse fate— валить ипилить (лес).
She wants to do to government what lumberjacks do to trees—
дровосек, лесоруб.
Even China’s lunge for breakneck growth from 1992 looked set to
accelerate forces the party might not control— выпад.
Does it mean that the wolves would not howl if Wall Street had
awolf/lupine culture?— волчий.
A startup called Theranos, began to lurch from one problem to
another— шаткая походка; пошатывание.
Venezuela’s lurgy should sharpen Cuba’s eagerness for the re-
medy of reform— болезнь, недомогание.
A stream of lurid stories about the party has appeared in the Hun-
garian media recently— зловещий, угрожающий.
Dangers lurk in Franco-German plans for a more tightly integrat-
ed euro zone— красться, подкрадываться.
369
Часть II / lushly
A few shiny additions come into view at the foot of a lushly forested hill in the country’s south-east— покрытый буйной растительностью.
Business presses are publishing a series of luvvie-hugging
books such as “The Fine Art of Success”, by Jamie Anderson— шутливое
название людей, связанных стеатром ит. д. ичрезмерно склонных
клюбовным эмоциям.
This is a book that luxuriates in description— благоденствовать,
процветать; расти буйно, пышно.
Vegetation in Borneo is luxuriant and highly diversifi ed— буйный, пышный.
But the nation’s enforcers started to get tough only when the brazenness of the lysine conspiracy became apparent in the 1990s— лизин
(незаменимая аминокислота).
M
In contrast, the “macroprudential supervisor” would recognise
that if it applied such policies to everyone, it could cause a recession—
продиктованный благоразумием.
It was, said one commentator, a “danse macabre” of Croatian society— мрачный, ужасный.
The idea, hitherto untested on voters, is to show that the Lib Dems
are less a makeweight— второстепенный персонаж, необходимый
для завершения картины.
Mr Toruño, now 27, absorbed the codes of machismo from infancy— мужественность; мужское начало; мужская энергия.
Terrorism and guerrilla warfare are often intended as macabre
theatre— мрачный, страшный, ужасный, жуткий, макабрический.
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