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Часть II / proselytised
In the opening, when Lear calls on Apollo, his subjects prostrate
themselves— подавлять, подчинять, покорять.
Apple has a two-pronged tax avoidance strategy, says Carl Levin,
the chairman of the subcommittee— двухлучевой (оследе).
To the end, he considered himself a promulgator of the “es-
sence of democracy”— объявлять, провозглашать, опубликовывать;
обнародовать.
As a politician he would deliver prolix speeches without notes or
hesitation— многословный, занудный.
You have to be excellent at the pronoun games— слова, заменя-
ющие существительное.
Pat Brown, was one of the state’s best and most popular gover-
nors and a protean political identity— подобный Протею; изменчивый,
многогранный, многообразный.
Long gone are the days of the Great Exhibition in London of 1851,
the progenitor of all expos, when the point was to show off manufactured goods— прародитель; основатель рода; предок.
His prolixity is a legend, yet he emerges as an original thinker
and iconoclast— нудное многословие; занудность.
Such men are also more promiscuous and do not care as much
about long-term relationships— спорядочный, неразборчивый (взнакомствах, связях ит. п.).
The prosaic reason for the dearth of private issuance— прозаи-
ческий, неинтересный.
I have to say that, for me, agreeing to the proscription of the Paki-
stani Taliban was a straightforward decision— объявление вне закона;
изгнание; опала.
The fi rms advertised the affi liation heavily in their investment
prospectuses — проспект (учебного заведения, компании ит. п.).
Mr Sandstrom once proselytised in Venezuela and says he
even has a permanent-residency permit there; Can humanists (atheists,
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Часть II / prophesying
secularists, etc) proselytize?— обращать в свою веру; привлекать
насвою сторону.
Mr Kim has reverted to type by prophesying war— предсказывать,
пророчить.
And yet the network has one proven advantage: its protean ability to adapt to circumstance— подобный Протею; многообразный.
Goethe was a man of protean talents, interests, appetites and
achievements who lived through a particularly tempestuous period of
wars and revolutions in Europe — подобный Протею; многообразный.
Yet all the bribery and vehicles of dubious provenance have not
sated the demand for second-hand cars— происхождение, источник.
The answer depends on whether you consider Sunday’s ballot as
a proxy vote on national politics or a colourful sideshow— полномочие
действовать отимени другого лица, доверенность.
The army’s prowess owes as much to military culture as hard-
ware— искусство, мастерство, умение.
The record is held by the German city of Freiburg— in one study
74% of cars were on the prowl— врозыске.
In 1980 PR fl aks and journalists prowled in around equal numbers— рыскать впоисках добычи.
Under Mr Bronfman and his private-equity partners, Warner Music drastically pruned costs in the mid-2000s— обрезать; подрезать
(деревья).
His increasingly prurient tone may have encouraged a climate that
has led to the sacking of Zeynep Aksu— похотливый, сладострастный.
She grew so fat that, when a deputy tried to arrest her, she couldn’t
be pried from her cabin: “She’s ketchable,” he reported, “but she ain’t fetchable”— поднимать при помощи рычага.
Projections by Professors Rallings and Thrasher of Plymouth University, the rock- stars of local election psephology, are a reliable benchmark— статистическое исследование выборов.
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Часть II / puffery
San Francisco conjures up images of hippies and of free love,
the psychedelic 60s and leftist politics— необычайно яркий, броский
ит. п.
Trapped in a café by a violent mob in Bosnia, he psyched himself
up for a breakout by asking “What would Shacks do?”— психологически
готовить (кчему-л.).
Mr Nohria is more persuasive as an evangelist than as a psycho-
pomp— «душепровожатель» психопомп (проводник душ вцарство
мертвых, например, Гермес).
“They even let pubescent girls swim in the sea,” moans the cul-
ture minister— достигший половой зрелости.
He appeared on The Colbert Report and played air hockey with
apuck shaped like Texas— шайба (вхоккее).
Puckish White House correspondent Jake Tapper couldn’t resist
contrasting Barack Obama’s agenda; am Ithe only one fi nding Ahmedinejad to be likable in a puckish kind of way? — oзорной, проказливый.
With a name like “Lafontaine” how could it be otherwise in your
eyes, ma puce?— красновато-коричневый.
The female pudendum is strictly for pornographers, gynaecolo-
gists and feminists trying to make a point— наружные половые органы
(особенно женские).
Two giants were reduced to a few puddles of warm water— лужа,
море.
Kim, the family man, ensured that he passed his movie set to a cho-
sen heir, his pudgy third son, Kim Jong Un— пухленький.
Unfortunately this sort of puerile behaviour has become the norm
especially in supposedly ‘progressive’ Western Democracies— незрелый,
неразвитой; легкомысленный.
Any talk by the Kremlin of the rule of law or about modernisation
will be puffery so long as Mr Khodorkovsky remains in jail— неуемное
восхваление; рекламирование; дутая реклама.
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Часть II / pug
A pug needs about one-quarter of the daily calories required by
a German shepherd— мопс.
Pugilist of American letters; Stallone’s ageing pugilist; Pugilists
and aesthetes— борец; спорщик.
Thailand’s pugnacious prime minister, Samak Sundaravej, is an
especially hard man to defend; Mr Emanuel is famous for being the president’s most pugnacious panjandrum and congressional and media manipulator— драчливый.
JPMorgan Chase’s private bank saw a record $80 billion of net
infl ows last year as investors fl ed less pukka fi rms— первоклассный.
They do not have the social skills that those who lack pulchritude
have acquired over a lifetime— красота, миловидность.
Anything published between 1933 and 1945 was tainted with the
“stench of blood and shame” and should be pulped— превращаться
вмягкую массу.
It provides a powerful pulpit from which to preach to— подмостки,
помост, трибуна (для выступлений древних ораторов).
Brisk growth in food prices (especially for meat, fruit and vegetables, pulses, and cereals), account for 57% of the consumer price index— бобовое растение.
Russia pulverized poor Gorgia— растирать, дробить, измель-
чать.
Seen as a whole, the Moon in these images resembles a pitted sphere
of pumice more than a cue ball— пористый вулканический материал.
First the dollar took a battering, then the euro got pummelled and
fi nally sterling hit the canvas; For estern leaders grimly accustomed to
the months-long pummelling of presidential or parliamentary contests;
Clinton is pummeling home the message— бить, избивать (особенно
кулаками).
George Washington was as punctilious about his honour, as fi ne
a horseman and as deep in debt as any of them— педантичный, скрупулезный, щепетильный домелочей.
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Часть II / Purveyor
And they smell, not terribly, but pungently, when squished or
when they cluster— сильный, пронзительный.
In the punishing climate of Iraq— трудный, тяжелый, изнури-
тельный punishing work schedule— напряженный рабочий график.
Britons interested in politics face a raucous punditocracy ea-
ger to assure them that their countrymen are becoming more liberal or
more conservatives — элита влиятельных экспертов и политических
комментаторов.
Its passage was “remarkable and improbable” because the pundit-
ry, lobbying and game-playing of Washington had made it easy to doubt
America’s ability to do “such a big thing”— ученые мужи.
Taxi drivers smuggle ammunition and AK-47s from Egypt beneath
punnets of strawberries— квадратная или прямоугольная кор зинка.
Small children, people with certain cognitive impairments and
punsters may retrieve the wrong word from the mental lexicon— остряк;
каламбурист.
In promising a referendum on Europe, the prime minister is taking
a punt— удар поподброшенному мячу, удар срук (вамериканском
футболе, регби).
Why punters seem to be so good at guessing is a puzzle — жертва
надувательства.
Or are euro-prices just too high for your puny dollar?— слабый,
маленький.
Mr Xi and the party congress in a few months’ time will have much
more say over how to transform the pupa into a butterfl y— куколка.
The EU itself sometimes displays a puppyish eagerness to have
its military pretensions stroked— щенячий.
She exposes his scholarly purblindness and political naivety and
his late realisation of the true nature of German National Socialism—
непредусмотрительный; тупой.
The ultimate purveyor of luxury— поставщик; Purveyor to their
Majesties— поставщик их величеств.
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Часть II / purview
Marriage is in the purview of religious authiorities— часть
статута, заключающая само постановление.
When George Benjamin goes into composing purdah, he al-
ways loses a lot of weight because the process is so intensive— секрет,
тайна.
People like you are in a sort of purgatory because no one would
ever come out and tell you that he doesn’t want your business anymore— чистилище, мучение, страдание, пытка.
The guardians of Chinese language purity are challenging the
French in their bid to keep out dastardly English words— чистота,
безукоризненность, безупречность.
But Mr Kaczynski appears to be in the grip of full-blown pyroma-
nia— пиромания, импульсивное поджигательство.
The Republic could purport to have the right to pre-empt BP’s entire interests— претендовать (начто-л.), заявлять (очем-л.).
Customers may purr about the ease of summoning a smart town
car, especially where taxis are old— урчать, мурлыкать.
If the spending plans for Britain over the next fi ve years, set out
by George Osborne this week, were an animal, they would be a pushmi-
pullyu a “gazelle-unicorn cross” which has two heads (one of each) at
opposite ends of its body — разнонаправленное движение.
Some called Congressman Wilson a booz-head and a pussy-
hound— бабник.
What harm can one unarmed man living in a pusillanimous
country representing its unarmed populace can do?— малодушный,
трусливый.
Withering dithering and pussyfooting in the hopes of some sort
of consensus is horrendously counter-productive— сверхосторожность.
Russians wanted to help Georgia justify its putative NATO mem-
bership; Do anything to salvage its putative capital, other than plaintively
cry “theft”— мнимый, предполагаемый.
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Часть II / quackery
Press conference before the election had a Putinesque tone— пу-
тинизм.
How on earth can such a putrid stew of vice and pestilence
be expected to self-transform into a chorus of angels?— гнилой, прогнивший.
The Olympic movement was once putrescent, too— гниющий;
гнилостный.
That is not true, however, of the put-upon architects who have to
design America’s embassies— одурачить.
The result is that India now putters on at less than half what it
could achieve— игрок, делающий удар клюшкой.
Of course, you don’t actually need to pace the mean streets of
Newcastle to purloin a copy of the Mag— совершать мелкую кражу.
The remainder, they claim, were caused by fl ying sparks from elec-
tricity pylons or human carelessness— опора, пилон.
Britain’s success in giving Zimbabwe its democratic chance would
prove pyrrhic indeed— пиррова победа.
Q
Chewing qat gives a similar high to adrenalin, making the con-
sumer more talkative, alert and sociable— вечнозеленый кустарник кат.
Foot-powered breast-enlargement pumps, metal pods promising
rejuvenation, and the Relaxacisor, a machine that promised to slim and
tone women’s bodies through electrical shocks while they lay idle, are
displayed in a wing at the Science Museum of Minnesota dedicated to
quackery— шарлатанство.
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Часть II / quadriplegics
Unlike paraplegics, quadriplegics have lost the use of all four
limbs— человек, неспособный использовать свои конечности.
Britons under 30 are drinking half as much as they did in 2000,
though those aged 65 and above are actually quaffi ng more— осушать
залпом.
Many army offi cers are whisky- quaffers and adverts for alcoholdetox clinics are widespread— алкоголик.
Luring the Americans into the quagmire of Iraq; to emerge from
the Viernam quagmire and the ignominy of Watergate; it was a publicrelations quagmire— болото, трясина.
Quaint is not an obvious word to use about America— a country built on revolution, restless expansion and the unabashed pursuit
of profits — необычный, своеобразный, привлекательный своей
оригинальностью.
Human Rights Commission (EHRC), a mega-quango which absorbed various anti-discrimination outfi ts— комитет, назначенный
правительством, ноработающий независимо отнего.
Many societies have no qualms with taking the life of a baby—
сомнение, неуверенность, колебание.
More grudgingly, they also understand his quandary in Afghanistana quandary— затруднительное положение; затруднение; недоумение.
A lot of schools are jostling for position in the upper quartile—
квартиль.
Geoffrey Vaki was installed as police commissioner, and the legal
battle to quash the warrant began— досада; огорчение.
At the quayside thousands of yellow fl ags of the Maldivian Democratic Party (MDP) fl uttered as supplies were loaded— пристань.
The electorate is now so queasy about foreign adventures that
future governments are likely to be wary of embarking on new ones—
испытывающий тошноту; подверженный тошноте.
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Часть II / quivering
Quenching the schismatic fl ames depends on countries beyond
Iraq’s control, like Iran and Saudi Arabia— тушить, заливать (огонь,
пламя).
“Vote for my Daddy,” quavers Ben Lange’s toddler daughter, in
aspot for his candidacy in an Iowan congressional race— выводить
трели (впении), дрожать (оголосе).
The British dislike of queue-jumpers— нежелающий стоять
вочереди.
Investors grow querulous and militants in the oil-rich Niger Delta
threaten to resume their rebellion; People are more anxious than querulous; Querulous shareholders— капризный, жалующийся, ворчливый,
недовольный.
Defended by legalistic quibbling, greatly angered an itine-
rant preacher in Palestine two millennia ago— препираться, спорить
помелочам, придираться.
We are not gong to get out of the created economic quicksand by
cutting social programs— зыбучий песок, плывун.
The traffi c on Sixth Avenue “with its rush-hour gladiators testing
each other’s limits” are a stark contrast to the quietude of the American
Folk Art Museum where Julius fi rst encounters Brewster’s portraits—
покой, спокойствие.
The revolutionary war is America’s creation story, while the civil
war offers a saga of sin and redemption and the second world war was
aheroic quest— приключенческая игра, “квест”.
“Dance as if no one can see you, campaign as if you’re already on
the ballot,” Mr Navalny quips— насмехаться; высмеивать.
The British called him a quisling, but his martial valour still in-
spires Indians— предатель; коллаборационист.
To synthesise those clues into answers and to frame those answers
in a conversational way was able to beat to the draw the fi nest minds of
American quizdom— научное сообщество.
Speaking before the House Financial Services Committee. Count
me among the quivering— дрожащий.
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Часть II / cuts to the quick of a problem
He cuts to the quick of a problem, stripping it of clutter and en-
cumbering nuance— центр чего-л., суть, сущность.
Lagos is a funny place, where sanitised modernity brushes up
against quotidian brutality— банальный, избитый, неоригинальный.
R
Brazil once again missed the boat of modernity and chose instead
to support a ragamuffi n “democracy”— оборванец; оборвыш.
His national army is more a coalition of ragtag militias from
the east, stretched thin by fi ghting in Benghazi and Derna— имеющий
неопрятный вид.
The renewal of a European connection may be the best chance of
keeping the country from going off the rails— под откос.
Now she has cast away that raiment of credibility— наряд, одеяние.
Value creation is a corporation’s raison d’être, the ultimate measure by which it is judged— разумное основание, смысл.
America cannot ram this idea down Arab throats— вбивать,
вдалб ливать.
One Toxteth mother, whose teenage son left a gang a year ago, says
he was recently rammed by a rival gang in a car— таранить, врезаться
(куда-л.) ссилой.
The smiles will be wooden, the backs ramrod straight— словно
аршин проглотил.
Police and university offi cials offered no clues as to exactly what
set Mr. Cho off on the deadliest shooting rampage; rampant anti-Americanism— ярость; буйство.
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