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Часть II / ropy
In the meantime, this is a rollicking story of hubris and the suf-
fering it brings— бесшабашный; разухабистый.
Barack Obama romped to victory with 365 electoral-college votes,
192 more than Mr McCain, and almost 53% of the popular vote— легко
справиться с(чем-л.).
An estimated 5,000–6,000 of them now work in the city, compared
with the 12,000 in Washington, DC, the trade’s romping-ground— место
веселой возни, шумной игры.
In St Paul’s Cathedral hung a rood, a grand fi gure of Christ on the
cross, the centre of the medieval churchgoer’s attention and piety, which
provided a political bellwether through these years— распятие.
The salaries paid to rookies closely refl ect these distinctions of
rank— типичный для новичков.
In the war on drugs that Mexico is waging, the root cause of
the problem is not being addresed: US unstoppable demand for drugs—
коренная проблема.
Pigs rootle fastidiously through the foothills of the mountain of
rubbish— рыть землю рылом (освиньях).
This is where the ugly ducklings of mainstream economics come
home to roost — верховодить; задавать тон.
And the toughness of the post is all the more reason, he says, to
elect somebody who knows the ropes and who has “no future” afterwards— хорошо ориентироваться.
François Hollande, the outgoing president, was mocked on Le Petit
Journal, a news and entertainment show, for his ropey English— плохой,
скверный.
She knew the ropes; the problem with steel cables (or“ropes”
as they are known in the trade) is that they are heavy— хорошо
ориентироваться, знать все входы ивыходы.
At the time, of course, things were less clear-cut and few realised
just how ropy the banks were— плохой, неудовлетворительный.
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Часть II / rosary
In his parents’ house there was no politics discussed whatsoever,
just nightly kneeling to say the rosary— розарий, розариум.
Now Korea can add resilience to its roster of achievements—
перечень, реестр, список.
Parents have stepped in where the state cannot or will not help:
on one classroom wall is a rota of fathers who guard the school day
and night (alocal nursery was recently robbed of everything from its
Christmas tree to its bathroom soap)— установленный порядок, распорядок.
If you are young, years of rote learning in dreary state schools
did not prepare you well for this new world— механическое запоминание.
It is a simple message, but one that America’s health offi cials have
tried time and again to drill into the minds of their rotund fellow citizens— полный, круглый, пухлый.
His friends back home were constrained by their rote-based education, losing countless hours to courses on Ho Chi Minh Thought; the traits
that made it an economic powerhouse in the 20th century— easy capital, big companies, rote learning, management by mandarins and stable
jobs for male breadwinners— are ill-suited to the 21st— механическое
запоминание.
Pears was often on tour and had a roving eye— странствовать.
550,000 Haitians have gathered in 337 makeshift camps and tarpaulin; almost as many are sleeping rough— лишенный комфорта,
суровый (обусловиях жизни).
In May a mob broke into his offi ce to rough him up— жестоко
обращаться.
At his confi rmation hearings for the post of secretary of state he
rode roughshod over his interrogators— жестокость.
To help readers fi nd all our China coverage in one place, each week
we round-up links to the Sino-centric articles— собирать, созывать
(водном месте).
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Часть II / ruffl ed
Oil prices are in a rout, with no clear sign of the bottom yet. Janu-
ary 29th 2015— беспорядочное бегство; стремительное отступление.
The conservatives have rubbished the Hartz commission’s pro-
posals— превращать вгруду обломков.
China is exploring the global rubble— бутовый камень, бу-
лыжник.
The rub is that when specialists start talking with laymen, they fre-
quently appear to forget about the difference in the level of know ledge—
затруднение, препятствие, помеха.
To blithley subsume all laws under one rubric — the rule of law—
is pointless because there can then be no agreement— заглавие, заголовок.
A demand to make Irish an offi cial language is causing ructions-
a noisy, often violent, quarrel or fi ght— скандальный.
Use senior rather than ranking, rumpus rather than ruckus, and
rumbustious rather than rambunctious— гвалт, гудение, гул.
Schröder’s government will belatedly try to make up for the
time it wasted in the rudderless beginnings of its second term— без
руководства, бесконтрольный.
Very few government programs can pass even a rudimentary
ROI analysis— элементарный.
People fall in love and sing about it, or they murder someone and rue
the day— сожалеть, чувствовать угрызения совести поповоду (чего-л.).
The Palestinians, rueful now that they failed to nail down what
was then on offer, want the new talks to resume from where the old ones
left— грустный, унылый, печальный.
Britain’s small shopkeepers rue the day they called for a probe of
retailing— раскаиваться, сожалеть.
Handled better, the move might have ruffl ed fewer feathers—
ерошить (перья, волосы).
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Часть II / rum
But for so many to write revisionist claptrap in a hotel-sponsored
competition is rum indeed— странный, чудной, подозрительный.
Cracking the rumbustious market is the kind of offensive that
Korea’s shock-troop salesmen relish— шумный, буйный.
Carrefour’s problems are a mere rumble compared with the earthquake that is about to hit European retail; He quickly found a middle
ground between the smooth music he was raised on and the hellbent early
rumblings of rock— рокот.
It is a trade well chosen for a ruminating hero whose life is
about to be tested; Pundits continue to ruminate over it— раздумывать;
размышлять.
Mr Maliki, who leads the rump of the Dawa party, the third main
Shia faction; The rump of guerillas— “охвостье”, огузок; зад.
Where slicker rivals chop, change and pander, the rumpled Mr
Paul hews to his principles even when they are unpopular— помятый.
Some 10,000 senior members of the former ruling party, which
dominated Tunisian politics for fi ve decades, have been banned from running for offi ce. So why the rumpus?— шум, гам; ссора.
Here is a quick rundown of my opinion on the two solutions—
краткое описание, краткое изложение.
The 5,000-year-old chambered tomb of Maes Howe, in Orkney, is
mostly famous for the runes left behind by some 12th-century Vikings—
руна (эпическая песня укарелов ифиннов).
It is a ruse familiar to offi cials the world over: if you have embarrassing or controversial news, release it on a Friday, the later the better—
ухищрение, хитрость.
An old lady’s russet wig lies in the road, lost perhaps as she
took fl ight after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster— грубая
домотканая шерстяная ткань.
Сells in the body, like workers on the job, can get stuck in a rut,
doing the same old thing day after day without prospect of promotion or
relocation— привычная колея; рутина.
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Часть II / salience
S
Despite all the sabre-rattling, neither Iran nor America wants
confrontation just yet— бряцание оружием; угрозы.
His followers were sent sachets of healing water— пакет-саше,
упаковка “саше” (небольшая упаковка для жидкостей ипорошкообразных продуктов).
He looks like the sacrifi cial lamb— жертвенный, самоот вер-
женный.
It enriches a few bosses but saddles the state enterprises with enor-
mous debts for which, in the end, the government is liable— взваливать;
обременять.
Environment degradation by ‘governing innovatively and saga-
ciously’— проницательно, дальновидно.
Making the most of an ancient business practice in a sagging
economy— оседание; провисание.
The market sagged briefl y along with the rest of the local economy,
she says, but then came roaring back, especially at the top end— провисать.
Public mockery of mildly salacious passages — похотливый,
сладострастный, распутный.
Whether it’s called “salami tactics” or “auf Sicht fahren” makes
little difference— тактика поэтапных мероприятий, изменений; постепенное отсекание нежелательных элементов (подобно нарезанию
колбасы салями тонкими ломтиками).
Companies are already salivating at the chance— вызывать слю-
нотечение.
But the simple analysis here, Ithink, is that as with most issues, it’s
necessary to account for issue salience as well as simple preference—
выпуклость, выступ; особенность.
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Часть II / sally
In real life, her fi rst sally abroad would be not to Berlin but to
asummit in Brussels— вылазка.
Pakistani tradition requires that any politician worth his salt is
seen among the people, pressing the fl esh at vast gatherings— уважаемый;
незря получающий деньги.
At a gathering of Colombo’s old salts, the mood is optimistic—
морской волк, просоленный ветрами моряк.
A Briton doing business in London might well have to make do
with something less salubrious; More salubrious countries— здоровый,
полезный; целительный.
Yet a look at the euro zone’s problems is salutary— благотворный;
спасительный.
One potential salve, promoted by educationalists on the left and
right and hinted at in Ms Morgan’s plans, would be to allow local authorities in effect to form their own chains— смягчать; успокаивать.
Unlike many of economist or buiness books where read many so
often fi nd new ones a bit samey— однообразный.
A warmongering neocon and a sanctimonious backstabber;
sanctimoniousdrivel dressed up as political philosophy— ханжеский,
лицемерный.
For that matter, leaving the Pharisees and the Sanhedrin— “sitting together,” hence “assembly” or “council”) was an assembly of twentythree judges appointed in every city in the Land of Israel.
The dark wizard himself, with admirable sangfroid, insists that
little has changed — хладнокровие, самообладание.
Britain is feeling sanguine about both the new prime minister and
terrorism— оптимистический; уверенный вуспехе.
A new study shows that climate change is likely to sap productivity in the rich worl— лишать сока; иссушать.
It revealed sartorial, as well as institutional, fl aws— относящийся
кодежде, моде; to have a sartorial look— выглядеть тщательно одевающимся человеком.
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Часть II / saucy
With their ceremonial sashes and grand town halls in even the remot-
est village, mayors occupy a special place in French life— орденская лента.
To sashay down America’s catwalks; Karima el-Mahroug,
which seems to be her real name (she prefers Ruby Rubacuori, or “Ruby
Heartstealer”), fi rst sashayed on to the political stage on October 26
th
—
расхаживать.
It tries to sell China’s message by being more sassy, and some-
times more critical, than other state media— развязный; нахальный.
Kathy, as you may have gathered, is the voice on my satnav— по-
иск поспутнику.
After sunset a bomber sauntered in and blew himself up next to
the queue for the dodgem cars— прогуливаться, прохаживаться.
He called its security sacrosanct— священный; неприкос но-
венный.
The writing is highly intelligent, elegant and slightly quirky with-
out ever being showy or sassy— развязный; нахальный.
Yet all the bribery and vehicles of dubious provenance have not
sated the demand for second-hand cars— насыщать, удовлетворять.
An Iranian satrapy; such satrapies as Iraq— сатрапия (провин-
ция под руководством сатрапа; срок правления сатрапа; звание сатрапа); самодур, жестокий правитель, тиран.
Еhe sorrowful satchel was the mascot of a “citizen’s” rebellion against
a proposed school restructuring— ранец, сумка (обычно для книг).
Although developing markets are important, India and China
are largely still off the satnav— сокращенно от “satellite navigation”
(навигация по спутнику).
Economists of a saturnine disposition are used to thinking of old
Europe and ageing Japan as their intellectual homelands— мрачный,
угрюмый.
Mr Bentley has been humiliated by leaked recordings of saucy
phone calls between him and Rebekah Maso— грубоватый, фривольный.
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Часть II / saunter
A saunter through the streets was evidently deemed unwise—
прогулка, прогуливаться.
But his success meant that life imitated art, and Mr Hirokane
emerged as a business savant— ученый; крупный специалист вкакой-л. области.
Argentina now imposes more trade limitations deemed “harmful”
than any country save Russia— заисключением, кроме.
After his inauguration on August 5th, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has little to savour as he settles in for a second four-year term—
наслаждаться, смаковать.
Terrorism is something which should be fought with intelligence,
with disguise, with “savoir faire”, not with brute force— находчивость,
умение выходить из(трудного) положения.
She has rebuked Mr Lee for not getting her government’s say-so
on his plan— право принятия окончательного решения.
However, many small towns are reluctant to erect them, for fear
they might “pick off the scab” from old wounds— корка (наране).
Year storms prompted an outbreak of scabies— чесотка.
The string of terrorist plots and attacks that has provided Brussels,
and some other Belgian cities, with a scabrous reputation as an incubator of jihadi ideology and a paragon of law-enforcement incompetence—
непристойный, оскорбительный.
A decade of high oil prices has left the region’s oil exporters with
more than $2.5 trillion in accumulated sovereign assets along with scads
of fancy toys— очень большое количество, куча.
Working for the Yankee north incidentally, which made him
ascallywag, Ibelieve, in the original meaning of the word— заморыш,
«прохвост».
A greater concern should have been that they became easy prey
for scammers— жулики.
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Часть II / schlocky
They scamper from home to home; They see Poland scamper-
ing after big countries such as Russia, France and Germany, rather like
a teenager desperate to hang out with adults, heedless of the national interest— бегать, носиться, резво скакать.
His speech offered very scant hope— скудный, недостаточный;
ограниченный.
How dare he bring disaster on the rest of the euro zone when it
had so generously bailed out his scapegrace of a country?— шалопай,
повеса.
CiU, meanwhile, proposes an ill-defi ned system of rewards for
well-behaved immigrants while critics say this is all unnecessary scare-
mongering— разжигание страха; запугивание.
Frequently scatological, often crudely misogynistic, some
of Larkin’s unpublished work makes for uneasy reading— грязный,
непристойный, скабрезный.
He became a fearless and scathing critic of Brezhnev’s senes-
cence— едкий, жестокий, злой.
Obama’s scattershot tax increase — незапланированный,
спонтанный; scattershot reply— спонтанный, неподготовленный ответ.
Yéle has so far pursued a more scattergun approach— незапла-
нированный, спонтанный.
In 1940, as a teenager in The Hague under Nazi occupation, he
cobbled together scavenged parts to make simple radios— копаться
вмусоре, отбросах.
Underlining the widely-held view that perfi dious Albion continues
to scheme— плести интриги.
A 18-hour schlepp via hong Kong— бросок, перелет, тащить,
нести (что-л. тяжелое или громоздкое).
Low culture from salsa to schlocky soap operas are popular ex-
ports— дрянной, халтурный.
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Часть II / schmoozing
Can anyone tell me what the French hope to achieve through all
this schmoozing with the US; shahristani doesn’t like schmoozing—
сплетничать, судачить.
He played the role of schmuck— тупица, зануда.
Obama is looking more and more like the schmendrick— при-
дурок.
But then schmaltz gushed forth: “If history proves that be
so, Iwill not shy from that hatred” — сентиментальная болтовня;
сентиментальный вздор.
It used to be that an employee having problems at home would
keep schtum about it in front of his boss— молчание в ситуации, когда
лучше молчать, чтобы избежать неприятностей.
The 650-odd bishops who attended the once-a-decade Lambeth
conference went home with open schism between the liberal and conservative wings— схизма, ересь, раскол; to cause, create a schism—
производить раскол.
After a scintilla of regret over lost youth, to turn 50 should be to
enter the prime of life, with a plenitude of projects and achievements; there
is no even onescintillaof evidence— крупица, малая толика.
Top of the list was a big upward revision to the already scintillat-
ing third-quarter GDP fi gures— забавный; искрометный.
Akio Toyoda, 53, the scion of the founding family, appear in public
to bow in apology— and even then critics complained that he did not bow
deeply enough; He was the scion of the family— потомок; наследник.
Economists are not known for their scintillating personalities—
забавный; искрометный.
Mr Trump appears to be seeking a co-operative relationship with
China after a schmooze-fest with Xi Jinping at Mar-a-Lago— заводить
полезные знакомства.
Any reader who is not thoroughly schooled in modern Western
history may fi nd Mr Makari’s detailed account confusing— обучать
(чему-л.).
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