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Часть II / nawabs
All this might sound a bit namby-pamby to pioneers like Sister
Dong— жеманство; сентиментальность.
Mexico has extradited suspected narcos in unprecedented num-
bers— наркотраффиканты.
The government and Repsol insist that nary a puff of gas will reach
Chile— нисколько, ничего, никапли; ниединого nary a red cent—
ницента.
They were afraid he would inculcate ideas of true independence as
well as accountability into a nascent class of patriotic Persian leaders—
рождающийся, возникающий; встадии возникновения.
And if individuals are scared about the size of the defi cit, it’s proba-
bly because lazy journalists keep nattering on about it— привязываться,
приставать.
A natty dresser; the nattily dressed politician announced that the
legislative election on September 18th was beset by “massive fraud and
rigging”— изящный; аккуратный, опрятный.
America is by no means the only Western democracy prone to
spasms of nativism— нейтивистское движение. Протекционистское
движение сконца 1820-х, воснове которого лежала борьба первых
американских переселенцев (протестантов) против иммигрантовкатоликов.
It is not really surprising that attempts to dig up The Economist’s
early web pages have come to naught— свести нанет.
As with American Christians as a whole, the politics of black
churches is more nuanced than is sometimes assumed— нюанс, оттенок.
France’s political elite is stuck in its old game of navel-gaz-
ing and unable to bring solutions to the country’s problems— долгое
раздумывание; самокопание.
On September 13th 1848 a navvy called Phineas Gage was helping
to build a railway in Vermont— землекоп, чернорабочий.
She wrote about it so persuasively and wittily, in novels that
swarmed with nosy in-laws, grasping landlords, Bollywood nawabs and
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Часть II / near
whining beggars, that readers assumed she was Indian— мусульманский
правящий принц или могущественный землевладелец.
Mrs Clinton has a near-lock on a different political tribe: the
state’s elected Hispanic Democrats— функция, позволяющая следить
за статусом в iPhone.
The play centres on Ned Weeks, a nebbishy and combative gay
man— забитый; незадачливый, жалкий.
Many thus shrugged off the fi rst set of run-off polls, showing the
rivals neck and neck— попятам, ноздря вноздрю.
On a recent trip to America, Nicolas Sarkozy, France’s president,
could not resist the temptation to needle his hosts— язвить; досаждать,
изводить; раздражать.
I guess this giant nefarious entity called the United States must
be truly powerful— бесчестный, нечестный, низкий, гнусный.
Wily netizens will no doubt stay a step ahead of the censors, using proxies and other tools, as they do in China and Myanmar— частые
посетители интернета.
In a bitter twist of fate, his nemesis is Park’s daughter; His nemesis, the country’s longest-serving prime minister, Mahathir Mohamad, who presided over his downfall, has retired— заклятый враг,
мститель.
Barack Obama is a political neophyte who did not learn the necessary lessons while serving in the Senate— новичок.
She used a nerdy example; but nerdish parents are often just as
culpable they are meeting in New Zealand, for what was supposed to be
aquiet and nerdish rule-tightening session— тупой, скучный, занудный.
Juraj Kotian, one of the bank’s top economists, argues that the
recession stoked saving by nervy households — самоуверенный,
нахальный, бесстыдный.
At any rate, surely not his netsuke— нэцке, японское украшение
на кимоно.
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Часть II / niggles
Clearnet, the clearinghouse, rapidly netted out and liquidated
Lehman’s entire interest rate swap portfolio— выбраться изсетей.
Environmental concerns could also prove nettlesome— раздра-
жающий.
Networking, compromise and consensus are UN’s order of the
day— установление (деловых) контактов, налаживание связей.
Court rulings on extradition and deportation have provoked heavy
breathing in a country where both issues are increasingly neuralgic—
невралгический.
Just note how Obama’s Berlin speech pretty much neutered this
attack— кастрированный.
It lost control of the newfangled thing— новенький, новехонький;
модерновый.
He failed to break the nexus between politics and business—
связь; узы.
They are also carping about her New Yorkiness— she did not
learn to drive a car until her late 20s— and her supposed isolation from
the lives of ordinary Americans— качества типичного жителя НьюЙорка.
As the recession bites, a gastronomic indignity is nibbling its
way through the land of fi ne dining— прием пищи малыми порциями;
равномерный прием пищи.
Has the king’s promise of reform come in the nick of time— or
not? — точный, критический момент.
A small British fi rm is working on a nifty new jet-rocket hybrid
engine— модный, щегольской.
To judge from the opinion polls, only in Britain does a No seem
nigh certain— приблизительно, ближний.
Bank bosses insist that, although there are niggles, all is under
control— спорить помелочам.
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Часть II / nincompoop
For years, Boswell was considered a fool, a nincompoop, a fawning
sycophant who, by chance, had produced a masterpiece— простофиля,
дурачок.
If your cit wants to be NIMBYist, you will pay for it with higher
land taxes— not in my yard movement — моя хата с краю.
Although electric cars are nippy, stylish and as easy to drive as
conventional vehicles, electric motoring has some distinct disadvantages— проворный, ловкий, шустрый.
Hillary Clinton felt the “Bern” again when Bernie Sanders, her rival, nipped her to a surprise victory in the state— победить противника
лишь снезначительным отрывом.
He used his powers as proconsul to overrule local tyrants, nitwits
and crooks— дурак, ничтожество, простофиля, кретин.
Let me poke some nitpicking fun: Isaid: “Singapore is a great country alright, but it ain’t China, or India”; To encounter bureaucratic nit-
picking — мелочные придирки; выискивание недостатков; педантство.
They rebuffed a plea from Republican legislators in Arizona
that would have nixed a fi x to partisan gerrymandering— запрещать,
отменять.
This was anathema to Einstein and others: it looked as if information was travelling faster than light, a no-no in the special theory of relativity— нечто недозволенное, табу.
Once exposed and developed the silver particles would concentrate at nodal points from the intersection of direct and refl ected light
waves— центральный; опорный, основной, узловой.
Mr Putin said that unauthorised political protesters faced a “club
on the noggin”— маленькая кружка, маленькая чашка.
Mr Duhalde has risen from Peronism’s sometimes noisome lower
depths— нездоровый, вредоносный.
Mr Agha seems nonplussed by the stupidity of the question—
удивленный, смущенный.
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Часть II / noxious
The other, Albert Ho Chun-yan, is thus a no-hoper— лошадь,
накоторую заведомо нестоит ставить.
Businessmen of all stripes mingle by the pool before seeking out
one of many nooks and crannies for confi dential chats— укромный
уголок.
Yet in Britain it has nosedived and the employment rate of young
people not in full-time education is now at its highest since 2007— резко
падать, снижаться.
The shift to less salty nosh as one of the fi rm’s most important
changes since easy-open cans— еда, пища.
Nostrum of passive groupthinkyields no fruit at all, why per-
sist? — панацея, лекарство отвсех болезней; излюбленный прием
(политической партии).
I’m starting to wonder if the political classes liked things better
with the war — certainly fewer nosy questions from journalists and civil
society— пронырливый; надоедливый.
Since coming to power in 2007, Poland’s centrist Civic Platform
(PO) party has notched up an unbroken string of victories in national
elections— отмечать, записывать (победу).
This time any hopes that the king might work the same magic came
to nought— ничтожество, пустое место (очеловеке), нуль.
Yanukovich shows no sign of having the intellectual or political
nous a successful president needs; To attend fi lm school in Seoul, and
eventually to bring more of their artistic nous to South-East Asia— ум;
разум; интеллект, здравый смысл.
A drinks company must be able to depend on a powerful brand;
but it also needs to come up with sought-after novelties— инновация,
нововведение.
Geology deals with the now: the 10,000-year-old Holocene epoch,
apeculiarly stable and clement part of the Quaternary period— настоящее время; данный момент.
Yet the noxious cloud may not prove quite so unpleasant for the
Italian-American carmaker— вредный, вредоносный, нездоровый.
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Часть II / nuanced
A more nuanced criticism is that too little has been done to reduce
Portsmouth’s dependence on the navy— нюанс, оттенок.
The nub of Obama’s problem; the nub of Boeing’s complaint
was that USAF has used subjective criteria— суть, соль, мораль (дела,
рассказа).
BIT has pioneered the use of psychology to help policymakers
change behaviour through “nudges” rather than taxes or laws— слегка
подталкивать, побуждать.
He was nudged out of his CEO’s chair; After months of nudges
and winks— слегка подталкивать локтем, побуждать, заставлять.
The system seems to work on a wink-wink, nudge-nudge basis—
подмигивание иподталкивание локтем.
Trade between India and Pakistan, for example, is nugatory—
никчемный.
His opposite number, Wu Shengli, did not miss the opportunity to
miss an opportunity— представитель другой стороны.
Perhaps the scale of the atrocity numbs moral outrage— поражать, ошеломлять.
Mr McCain faces a tough primary battle against a dingbat who frets
about man-on-horse nuptials— свадьба; венчание, бракосочетание;
женитьба.
His wife Rahsan, who ran the DLP with him, was said to have him
fi rmly under her thumb and to nurse his political grudges for him—
лелеять (мысль, надежду), питать (иллюзии).
Its likely, just that the conditions allow the possibility that some
nutter infl uenced by right wing pundits/fox/radio will kill off some minor democratic politician— псих.
The government has now made the statue’s removal a cause célèbre for every nutty Russian nationalist wanting to throw a punch—
cвихнувшийся, ненормальный; дурацкий.
But it is an escape to Utopia: a single state of Israel/Palestine where
lion and lamb nuzzle down together— нюхать, водить носом (особаках).
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Часть II / obsequiousness
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If the miracles were to occur, we still would be a nation churning
out ignorant oafs becuase we do not take learning seriously in this country— болван, тупица, олух.
Mr Brown has duly stuck his oar in, calling the strike “dep lorable”—
весло.
People who know the supreme leader of Iran are unsurprised by
his obduracy— ожесточение, непреклонность.
Their position on climate has been between obdurate and ridicu-
lous; With Iran so obdurate— закоснелый; черствый; ожесточенный,
закоснелый.
Africans paid due obeisance to Beijing, its new interloper— жест
подчинения.
Obfuscation which leaves the ‘judicial’ branch to carry the load;
one side regards “sex worker” as a dangerously obfuscatory euphemism—
спутанность сознания (помрачение сознания).
This led only to unemployment, as wages did not fall obliging-
ly when gold (and thus money) was in scarce supply— услужливо;
вежливо.
Jun Zhang of New York University came to this conclusion oblique-
ly, by examining one of life’s burning questions— покасательной,
случайно.
Instantly, Future Islands were dragged from dive-bar obscu-
rity into the powerful currents of the mainstream— неизвестность,
незаметность.
To some, his survival owes more to obsequiousness— he rushed
do the Obama administration’s bidding on mortgage modifi cations, for
instance— раболепие, угодничество.
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Часть II / obscurantist
Some arch-conservative clerics have been ousted from top posts and
forbidden from proclaiming obscurantist fatwas— обскурантистский,
ретроградский.
Bundling all electronics in today’s cars has the serious drawback
of quick obsolescence— устаревание.
They are forced to bear child after child, with consequences
ranging from the horrors of obstetric fi stula to the tragedies of infant—
акушерский, родовспомогательный.
The prince dealt with fi ve US presidents, ten secretaries of state, 11national security advisers, 16 sessions of Congress, an obstreperous American
media, and hundreds of greedy politicians; Britain’s planning system hands
obstreperous local residents a lot of power— шумный; беспокойный.
Lukashenka’s obstinacy over the customs union was the last
straw— неуступчивость; настойчивость.
There is an almost willful obtuseness about the Economist’s belief that Obama is being held hostage by the exceedingly liberal congressional leadership— тупость.
The almost masochistic pleasure many took in national selfdeprecation was the obverse of earlier and future exceptionalism—
противоположный.
Mr Chávez’s return will at least obviate the need for ministers to
make frequent visits to Havana for bedside consultations— устранять;
избавляться.
In the face of international sanctions occasioned by its support
of the rebels in eastern Ukraine and its earlier annexation of Crimea—
служить поводом.
His black face is occluded by a white mask— закрывать.
In a lecture to a high-octane, bipartisan audience at the Supreme
Court on November 20th, organised by the Salzburg Global Seminar, Mr Bellinger recalled sharp exchanges with Bush— напряженный, заряженный.
How a leading group of oddball judges changed the United States— чудак, оригинал.
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Часть II / off-puttingly
A committed member of one of the world’s odder religions— чуж-
дый, необычный.
Two new ways to patch the oddments together and distinguish
genuine from false information are reported this week— остатки; разрозненные предметы.
For Mr Lévy’s company is the odd-man-out in the global adver-
tising game— человек, непринадлежащий кданной партии.
“How many good potential servants have become poor stenog-
raphers because of the odium of the name ‘Bridget’?”— ненависть;
отвращение; неприятие.
Small wonder that oenophiles are growing more vigilant— ис-
тинный ценитель вин.
A lioness may mate up to 100 times a day with different lions dur-
ing oestrus— период течки (уживотных).
Even without such content, 129 pages would scarcely be enough
to discuss Hitchcock’s oeuvre — творческое наследие.
Off, enough— прочь!
Sinclair described how offal and waste from the meatpacking
industry had created a river so vile that putrid gas bubbled up from
the bottom and made the Chicago river literally combustible— ливер,
потроха.
Assuming that one-third attend church regularly, that would
put the annual offertory income at around $13 billion— церковные
пожертвования.
But he has yet to show that he has the energy to oversee a revival of
the sort he pulled off with Vodafone’s Japanese offshoot— ответвление,
отводок, боковой отросток (перен.).
Better ties between India and Pakistan may be in the offi ng—
возможный, могущий произойти внедалеком будущем.
They received almost off-puttingly good reviews–fi ve stars
apiece from the Times— сбивающий столку; обескураживающий.
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Часть II / oft-heard
The oft-heard argument about Hungarian fi scal policy is that Mr
Gyurcsany’s government will make progress in 2007— часто повторяющийся.
Holidays are a concentrated chance to ogle other clans’ frictions
and fi ssure— смотреть свожделением (накого-л.); пожирать глазами.
North Korea has a thriving black market in everything from
computers to fi ne cognac, oiled by corrupt Chinese customs offi cials—
промазать взяткой.
“You’re still an oinker,” he told his comrade-in-arms— жирдяй,
толстяк.
The toxic echo-chamber of social media, plus untreated mental illness, help turn stalkers and oddballs into murderous maniacs— чудак,
оригинал.
Tories hate John Bercow because they see him as an oleaginous,
rather than because of his opinions— елейный.
But the raw-milk Camembert and other olfactory treats are tucked
away behind rows of rice— обонятельный.
Deng said he hoped debate on major historical questions would
come to an end, it was a sort of historical omerta— омерта (кодекс
молчания учленов мафии).
They are culturally very different, but the political parallels are
ominous — зловещий, угрожающий.
The spark for the protests was the government’s omnibus budget
bill— всеобъемлющий.
If there is a God, and God is a sentient being, let alone omniscient,
God would be weeping— всеведущий, всезнающий.
An omnivorous reader, he described a subtle feeling of alienation, as though he was perceiving the world of canonised letters with his
nose— всеядный; всепоглощающий.
His book, which is a lazy, once-over-lightly non-apology of a life,
does not restore it— беглый взгляд.
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