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Часть II / parsed
He even managed to parlay a badly-handled war in Iraq into avote
winner— использовать для получения выгоды.
The economy, although improving, remains in a parlous state—
затруднительный, рискованный, тяжелый.
After parleying to agree the terms of the ceasefi res, most offi -
cers mingled with the enemy just as keenly as their men did— говорить
(наиностранном языке); обсуждать, договариваться.
Graduates were expected by their family and peers to become
employees of the state and parastatal sector— an organization or industry, especially in some African countries having some political authority and serving the state indirectly — организация, наделенная
политической властью и косвенно обслуживающая интересы
государства.
At the time of the 1999 coup, the world regarded him as a usurper
and shunned his country as a pariah— пария (представитель низшей
касты вИндии), изгнанник, изгой, отверженный.
Here is a much larger group whose interest in politics is essen-
tially parochial; Parochial nationalism that is unable to adapt to postmodern society— узкий; местнический.
«We’re in a new paradigm” because of social media, says Jesse
Wente, an Ojibwe from the Serpent River First Nation— система взглядов.
Twenty years from now, how many Chinese words will be common
parlance in English?— язык, манера говорить/выражаться.
It caused paroxysms of guilt; It is so prone to paroxysms— при-
ступ (болезни), припадок, пароксизм.
Once considered a paragon of Swiss business; Slovenia is a pa-
ragon of good government— образец, модель совершенства; paragon
of perfect polity— образец идеального.
This week’s local elections will be parsed for what they mean for
Jeremy Corbyn— производить анализ.
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Часть II / paraphernalia
Pre-revolutionary American paraphernalia such as Life magazines and Coca-Cola signs or newspapers from the Spanish-American
War— атрибуты, принадлежности.
She’s as comfortable “borrowing” or “renting” as her male para-
mour — любовник; любовница.
The investment mania was interrupted by the fi nancial crisis; the
paronomasia seems unstoppable— каламбур, игра слов.
Conspiracy theorists now wonder if Mr Lazcano faked his own
death and is living out his days under a parasol in Cancún— зонтик
(отсолнца).
All the same, they do offer a path away from pariahdom—
пребывание в низшей касте.
The move is not quite as dramatic as it sounds: the new negative
rate will apply only to new reserves that banks park with the central
bank— оставлять навремя.
Instead of settling into a period of calm, markets plunged into new
paroxysms— спазм, судорога.
The severe drought that has parched most of the state this year
shows no signs of abating— испепелять; жечь.
Instead of challenging the city’s established wisdom about
where to eat, the guide mainly parrots it — зубрить, механически
повто рять.
Nor was the prime minister able to parry attacks on his government’s health-care and economic policies— отражать (удар, нападение).
The parsimony of Italy and Greece is partly connected with their
economic diffi culties— скаредность, скряжничество, скупость.
This being America in 2017, pundits and elected offi cials instantly
began parsing the partisan consequences of Mr Mueller’s appointment—
разбирать; анализировать.
The food shop is Partridges, family-owned for 40 years and with
a royal warrant as Grocers to the Queen— куропатка.
412
Часть II / pat
Lorries and river barges use diesel, a source of particulates—
твердые частицы вотработавших, выхлопных газах.
Mrs Lincoln has much in common with her fellow party-bucker,
Ms Snowe— спонсор партии.
Despite urgings by all not to be a party-pooper at Oslo, Mr Arafat
could not entirely suppress his frustration; Gorbachev, The Party Poop-
er— некомпанейский человек; человек, портящий другим веселье.
Though they posed as Texans, they were Connecticut parvenus
who summered in Maine; NATO’s best hope is therefore to sideline him,
partly by starving him, and other parvenu warlords, of some of their fat
contracts— парвеню, выскочка.
Swedes found this skit tremendously funny, partly for the faux-
mafi a encounter at the beginning (which mocks Swedish naivety in dealing with Russian gangsters) but also for the glorious pastiche of Russian visual and musical clichés; He has a talent for superior pastiche—
мешанина; всякая всячина; сборная солянка.
Skoda jokes look passé as carmakers pile into a new production
hotspot— старомодный.
From Bangladesh to Subotica on the Serbian border with Hunga-
ry countries play pass-the-buck with these immigrants— переложить
ответственность (надругого).
If the Fed continues to stand pat, infl ation may soon move above
2%— упорный, банальный.
But despite heavy spending, progress has been patchy; relations
are patchy — пестрый, разношерстный.
But it may not be enough to patch up the company’s problems—
улаживать (ссору).
How pathetic that they cover their ignorance by blaming hedge-
fund managers in London— жалостный; трогательный, уми ли тельный.
Videos capturing pat-downs have gone viral, generating indigna-
tion— обыск (охлопыванием).
413
Часть II / paternalistic
Uber-conformists perfectly happy with socially paternalistic poli-
cies but radically opposed to fi scally paternalistic policies— отцовский,
отеческий.
Instantly those men will be deprived of the patina of nobility and
gallantry that they did not earn and do not deserve to have attributed to
them— налет, след, отпечаток.
We thank you for your patronage— патронаж, покрови тельственное отношение.
This represents a huge leap forward for the industry, but the showroom patter will be misleading— условный язык, арго.
The effect is bigger in developing countries than developed
ones, due to the paucity of existing communications infrastructure—
недостаточность, нехватка.
Last month paywalls went up around the New York Times
and the Dallas Morning News— система предотвращающая доступ
кинтернету.
Pax Sinica— China does not aspire to run the world because it
believes itself to be the centre of the world — мир (по-китайски).
Hilary Benn, the shadow foreign secretary who had dared to speak
out against his peacenikery— миротворчество.
In their response to the sovereign-debt crisis, Europe’s policy makers
have tended to favour the peashooter— игрушечное ружье.
Tax peccadillos got him off to a bad start with lawmakers—
грешок.
For the peccaries at the Jerusalem Biblical Zoo, it is a familiar
experience— пек ри (разновидность американской дикой свиньи).
It is worth noting, for pedantry’s sake, that the 1996 Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty bans nuclear explosions in space— педан тичность.
Mr Rosi’s fi lm, “La Tregua”, is a stark and austere but too pedes-
trian adaptation of Primo Levi’s account of returning from Auschwitz—
неинтересный, прозаичный.
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Часть II / penhold
America, while acting slightly peeved, will carry on regardless—
докучать, надоедать, раздражать.
Anyone claiming that America’s economy is in decline is peddling
fi ction— незначительный, несерьезный.
He could be superbly rude to peddlers of cliché and to plausible-
sounding simplifi ers— плохой работник, разносчик сплетен, сплетник.
But recent years have knocked J&J off its pedestal as one of Ame-
rica’s most venerated companies— пьедестал, подножие.
Routine violence there exceeds anything seen in Bangkok, but it
elicits barely a peep from the news media in the Thai capital— беглый
взгляд, тайный взгляд, взгляд украдкой.
But peer ahead and it is not hard to conjure up a plot worthy of
the most lurid giallo-writer— вглядываться; изучать.
His name was in the Peerage— сословие пэров (вАнглии, Фран-
ции).
I think the American peevishness and vindictiveness is well over-
done— сварливость; раздражительность.
The Germans are also peeved at having to renegotiate that hy-
pothesized deal in the face of further US meddling— раздраженный.
Сountries with pegs to the dollar— искусственная поддержка
цены (курса).
In India today, the “Common Man”— a typically feudal pejorative;
the term tends to be pejorative and murky— who ‘aspires’ to be an intelligent citizen— уничижительный, умаляющий.
Social, tax system pel-mell it destroyed any chance to be competi-
tive with Czech or Poland much less Romania; Germany cannot quit nuclear power while making a pell-mellexit from fossil fuels — путаница;
неразбериха; мешанина.
The essence of his playing style was a penhold grip on the bat,
index fi nger and thumb circling the handle— держать ракетку между
большими указательными пальцами.
415
Часть II / pelage
The panda’s black-and-white pelage certainly makes for a striking logo— меховой покров (уживотных).
If the mainstream debate is robust, its penumbra is toxic— полусвет, полутень.
These were engulfed in fi re and brimstone as divine punishment
for the local penchant for gay sex— склонность, расположение, любовь
(кчему-л., кому-л.).
But the pendulum of capital-markets regulation in America has
swung in one direction for so long that when it started to reverse course—
маятник, чередование.
The cause of this penance is the leaking to the media of a list of
over 100,000 people who held accounts at HSBC’s Swiss arm in 2005–07—
итимья, возмездие, кара, наказание, расплата.
She was then relatively unknown, and penurious— скупой, скаредный.
Yes, a lot of good penmanship is gone due to the lack of practice— стиль или манера писателя, стиль создания художественного
произведения.
The penultimate step towards the creation of artifi cial life has
just been announced— предпоследний.
Penury need not spell political death; He warmed the hearts of Argentines with the comforting notion that it was the evil IMF, rather than
their own mistakes, which was responsible for a once-rich country’s penury; though blessed with natural resources and Arab subservient elites
whiled often leaving the mases in penury— нищета; нужда.
The provenance of the president’s image in the portrait— that
pensive expression, that upturned jaw— turned out to be an April 2006
photograph— размышляющий, задумчивый.
Police lawlessness has exhausted people’s patience and that
pent-up anger has fi nally burst into newspapers— ограниченный,
сдерживаемый.
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Часть II / percentile
Sri Lanka’s government, representing the penitent chauvinism of
the country’s Sinhalese majority— раскаивающийся.
The Catholic church may have to serve a harder penance—
покаяние.
Our justice system is an odd relic of the penitentiary, as a quiet
place for penitent souls; The Haitian Penitentiary has collapsed and the
inmates— tough guys most of them— are running free for the foreseeable future— исправительный дом.
The penultimate round of talks before December’s climate-
change summit in Copenhagen ended in Bangkok; Those taking the Bac
S will have one-and-a-half hours more history a week in their penulti-
mate school year than now— предпоследний.
The Secretary of State has a very droll sense of humor and a pen-
chant for employing it for maximum effect— склонность, расположение,
любовь.
This penny-pinching hurts all the more because it mocks the big
expansions undertaken in the 1990s— скаредный, скупой.
Mrs Merkel is not embarrassed to pepper them with questions
in meetings at the chancellery— забрасывать вопросами, репликами.
Testy press conference today, perhaps the most peppery we’ve
seen Barack Obama— язвительный, едкий.
In contrast GDP in the Philippines expanded by a peppy 2.2% in
the quarter, beating China’s growth rate— энергичный, живой.
But what Dr Jamieson’s work shows beyond peradventure is that
no part of Earth’s surface is safe from the activities of Man— разумеется,
вне всякого сомнения.
To adapt them to thought control, a group of able-bodied people
will fi rst don the cap and perambulate in the legs around a laboratory,
to refi ne the process— ходить взад ивперед, расхаживать.
It tops 100% for fi rms in the 90th percentile, compared with just
over 20% 30 years ago— процентиль.
417
Часть II / percolated
His speech to a gathering of young Israelis percolated down to
the undecided centre of Israeli politics— проникать сквозь; проходить.
Its journey around its home galaxy, though, is no stately peregri-
nation— путешествие, странствие.
The perennial tedium of the Oscars ceremony won’t prevent mil-
lions of people from watching it; The results of the latest census have diverted blame towards a perennial culprit: overpopulation; Afghanistan
is perennial— нечто неумирающее, нестареющее, неизменное.
Money fl owing out of the periphery endangered peripheral banking systems— второстепенный, частный.
Elite managers, who are these days often Spanish or Italian, are
peripatetic experts— more management consultants than chief executives— аристотелевский, перипатетический.
A pernicious “superiority complex”, says a former intelligence
man, has taken root in both Mossad and Shin Bet, the internal security
service also known by its Hebrew acronym, Shabak; A belated attempt
to curb a pernicious form of child pornography— разрушительный,
разорительный, наносящий ущерб.
Alas the Serbs in the southern enclave would perforce have to
move north— понеобходимости.
Gone are the days of bosses in their perches and hideouts —
насест, жердочка (для птиц); незанятое место.
He lamented Mr Brown’s “wooden and perfunctory” delivery, likened him to a “Brezhnev-era apparatchik”— безразличный, неглубокий.
Commodity markets perked up a bit in response to Mr Li’s speech,
which gave hints of more stimulus measures in the offi ng to prop up
growth— воспрянуть духом, оживиться.
The Arab spring has become a perma-protest against pretty much
everything— prefi x Informal indicating a fi xed state.
My heated towel was only available in “Lemon Mist” and “Lavender Eve”, NOT the “Persimmon Holiday” Ihad been promised— хурма
(плод).
418
Часть II / pert
He perused them for a minute, then offered the sales assistant
$6,000 for the lot— внимательно прочитывать.
Will the perpetual “next big thing” ever be more than that?—
бесконечный, вечный.
That typically tortuous peroration from John Kerry’s stump
speech concerns one of his most important themes: foreign policy—
разглагольствование; речь.
Infl uenced by his impressions, as a tourist or peripatetic busi-
nessman— странник; странствующий торговец.
Kenya’s high level of corruption still permeats virtually all levels
of business— проникать, проходить сквозь.
Schlesinger liberalism was altruistic and perfectibilian, but it
was also anti-Communist, pluralistic, pragmatic and tough— способный
ксовершенствованию, человек, достигший совершенства.
Papandreou pere (Andreas) is not to blame for starting it—
используется для обозначения различия между отцом и сыном.
With international help and a less peremptory guidance fromthe
US (onreforms) Pakistan will recover — властный, повелительный;
высокомерный.
These are symptoms of a larger and more pernicious problem—
наносящий ущерб; пагубный.
China’s straightforward approach is an attractive alternative to
the pernicketiness of the IMF and the Paris Club of creditors— привередливый, придирчивый, разборчивый.
Mr Gingrich delivered a peroration on the virtues of making peo-
ple work that impressed his tea-party audience so much that they gave
him a rapturous standing ovation— разглагольствование.
Corporate tax in America How to stop the inversion perversion—
неправильный, несоответствующий стандартам, нормам.
Another clerk describes a colleague as “one of the most pert, as-
suming, and forward coxcombs Iever saw”— нахальный; бойкий.
419
Часть II / perpetuated
His economic liberalism was shallow and he perpetuated the old
clientelism without the old parties— увековечивать; сохранять навсегда.
There now probably needs to be a fi fth P: persevere— упорно
добиваться, стойко, упорно продолжать.
Some good ideas take years of dogged perseverance to come to
fruition— упорство, неколебимость.
At fi rst they offered no facial protection; later the nose and jaw
were covered only by a fl imsy piece of perspex— вид пластика.
All the pseudo-theology about what is a heresy is so much per-
sifl age, nothing more or less than the PCUSA baptizing anti-Semitism—
подшучивание; легкая шутка.
What happens to human cells if you douse them in a Petri dish
full of public shame, official reprimands and months of intense
stress— чашка Петри (используется для культивирования микроорганизмов).
They were perturbed by the opening speech, in which Wen Jiabao, China’s prime minister, set a growth target of just 7.5% for 2012—
приводить всмятение; тревожить.
To create an ordinary “amending treaty” that could be bundled
through national parliaments, without any more pesky voting by European citizens; They have pesky obligations— надоедливый, беспокоящий;
досадный.
The perpetrators are a new faction of a home-grown group called
Jamayetul Mujahideen Bangladesh— злоумышленник; правонарушитель.
Okinawans are notable fi sh eaters, even by the standards of a pis-
civorous country— рыбоядный.
Fees discourage tenants from pestering agencies or making unnecessary changes to their contracts— донимать, допекать.
At the start of the 4th century BC, when bankers were already
the butt of music-hall humour (“the most pestilential of all trades”)—
отвратительный, мерзкий.
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