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Часть II / scooped
When this idea was fi rst mooted, people scoffed— осмеивать, под-
нимать насмех.
Estonia has two more hurdles to jump before it can scotch the
scoffers; Observers scoff at such notions— зубоскал; насмешник.
You have to mention those other two scoffl aws to understand the
politics of this— тот, кто пренебрежительно относится кправилам,
законам.
America risks being seen as unwilling to play global policeman,
while still being happy to play global scold— брань.
Lapses like this affect school truancy, foment social disorder
and encourage a preference for margarine on one’s scones— лепешка
изнепросеянной муки.
The staff, chivvied jovially along by an intrepid retired Scottish
schoolmarm who created the restaurant a few years ago— старомодная
женщина, любящая поучать других людей.
The ultimate concession is to give activists representation on the
board in return for keeping schtum— молчать.
The Dutch learned better than any other country what such cha-
os can mean, when scores of their countrymen were killed in 2014—
множество (большое количество).
The scourge of corruption is spreading— бич, бедствие.
The Sydney stockmarket seemed to approve of the scorched-earth
tactics— выжженная земля.
Mr Obama gets off pretty much scot free— платить городские
налоги, местные подати.
He scotches the notion; to scotch infl ation— положить конец
(чему-л.), прекратить, пресечь.
But the news broke a few days early when the Observer, a Bri-
tish newspaper, scooped it— опубликовать сенсационное сообщение
(раньше других).
471
Часть II / scoot
Some of them scoot around America’s shale beds— бежать стремглав.
You visit Kisangani, every building has bullet holes, scorch marks,
or is simply destroyed— обжигать; подпаливать.
It makes perfect sense for companies to do the reverse: scour the
world for markets that will pay high prices for their shares— очищать;
избавляться.
The Supreme Court will hear a case in the autumn that puts a new
spin on an old scourge: partisan gerrymandering— бедствие, беда.
A recent poll suggests that the government will scrape the referendum— выбивать.
The Syrian regime has spent billions trying to get them up to
scratch— надолжной высоте.
Relations between Mr Jibril and and Mr Tarhouni have been
scratchy— раздражительный, злобный.
A military parade is held on the Champs Elysées, and fi ghter jets,
blazing a trail of red, white and blue, screech low over Paris; In Sweden,
towns like Gothenburg are partially segregated; This week the government executed a screeching U-turn on its asylum policy— визжать;
скрежетать.
If you are standing next to a pothole that is supposed to be fi xed
by local government, your constituents could care less about partisan
screeds— длинная искучная речь, статья.
That is more easily scrawled on a banner than achieved in prac-
tice— писать наспех; писать неразборчиво.
Vanessa strongly detailed, she a scribble and a nothing, as she
always felt— каракули.
The urge to scrimp and splurge— урезывать, экономить; транжирить, тратить деньги.
After a spell in Paris, he was bought by London Zoo as a scrofu-
lous, rat-chewed runt— болезненный, слабый.
472
Часть II / sculpted
Some locals say immigrants are scroungers; in fact they are less
likely to claim benefi ts than the natives— хапуга.
Even scrounging food for the eight she had sheltered had become
harder— попрошайничать, побираться.
The people trudging out of rebel territory, across a strip of scrubby
ground dotted with bundles of barbed wire— поросший кустарником,
низкорослыми деревьями.
Farther down the road, another scruffy settlement called Wadi
al-Saial— грязный, неряшливый.
Even Harry Potter and James Bond are scruffy looking nerf-herd-
ers by comparison— грязный, неряшливый.
Kingsville, an old railway town in the scrublands of south Texas,
has several features that cheer Republicans— лесной район.
At fault was the scrum, the key way play is restarted in rugby
union— драка, потасовка.
At the end of our meal, out came a scrumptious homemade cake,
cooked in the galley right on the boat— восхитительный, изысканный
(обычно оеде).
David Munns, who manages Bon Jovi, a rock band that was formed
in the early 1980s and is still going strong, notes that older fans have more
money and more scruples— колебания; угрызения совести.
Human beings cannot resist trying to scry the future— гадать
спомощью магического кристалла.
Some policymakers see informal enterprises as parasitical, profi t-
ing at the expense of more scrupulous rivals who heed regulations and
pay taxes— порядочный, добросовестный.
I met a Muslim named Aziz, broad-bearded and wearing the white
skullcap of a hajji— тюбетейка.
Citizen Khan sculpted a campaign that appealed to the anxious,
the less affl uent and those uneasy about London’s more glaring inequalities— ваять, лепить.
473
Часть II / scupper
Any mention of redistribution of wealth in America would normally scupper a politician’s ambitions— губить, убивать.
William Randolph Hearst, proprietor of scurrilous newspapers
and anti-hero of the fi lm “Citizen Kane”— неприличный; оскорбительный.
A spectacular jail break at southern Afghanistan’s largest prison
saw nearly 500 prisoners, most of them Taliban, scurry to freedom—
бежать стремглав; нестись.
They could release him from the comfortable house arrest in Islamabad where he is awaiting trial on a number of charges, and let him
scuttle out of the country— поспешно бежать, удирать.
The scuttlebutt now is that Warner will try to buy EMI from
Citigroup, which seized it earlier this year from Terra Firma— слухи,
сплетни.
This was reinforced by the scuttling of the arms-deal investigation by the Hawks— поспешно бежать, удирать.
Suggestions that the protest marks a sea-change in the country’s
politics may be premature— изменение, преображение.
That gap turned out to contain a seam of gold— прослойка; пласт.
He must sear the memory of the Holocaust on human minds for
ever— сохнуть, увядать.
That is possible, but companies such as Exxon and Shell are
too seasoned to pay a lot for small, unprofi table fi rms— опытный;
испытанный.
The main reason banknotes get dirty is that they pick up an oily
substance called sebum from human skin— кожное сало.
State Street in America, and UBS in Switzerland, have all drastically pruned their loan books, and plan to carry on wielding their seca-
teurs— секатор, садовые ножницы.
Another part of the reason that goods are secreted into Nigeria is that shipping to Lagos is slow and bureaucratic— скрывать,
укрывать.
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Часть II / sepia
That could make the Senate a magnet for Italy’s seediest politi-
cians— обветшалый, потертый.
Why aren’t we going after computer and cable-TV companies for
creating a sedentary lifestyle?— сидячий; неподвижный, малоподвижный.
The port mega-city of Karachi, a great and seething Asian ba-
zaar— бурлить, кипеть.
Hugo Chávez worries ever less about maintaining a semblance
of democracy— видимость.
Meanwhile, political theorist Jacob Levy untangled the semiotics
of Guy Fawkes— семиотика— наука ознаках, знаковых системах иих
приложениях, вчастности вИТ ителекоммуникации.
This surreal episode was a seminal moment— плодовитый,
плодотворный; конструктивный, продуктивный.
He was shy and unforthcoming to strangers, slipping away after
performances to eat his favourite semolina in his hotel room alone—
манная крупа.
Such disdain is trumped only by the sempiternal public contempt
for Congress and car salesmen— извечный.
He became a fearless andscathing criticof Brezhnev’s senes-
cence— биологическое старение, дряхление.
One scholar, Cong Cao, argues that the country faces a future of
“premature senility”— дряхлость; старческая немощь.
Politicians should certainly stop demosnishing big fi rms and sen-
timentalizing small ones— сентиментальничать.
It is also eerily sentient, in the wat the highly automated plants
tend to be— ощущающий.
The most beautiful object in this exhibition is a fi ve-metre-long
scroll covered with sepia lines of feathery calligraphy; The sepia mist
descended— сепия (ярко-коричневая краска).
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Часть II / sepoys
A man who is leading a grass roots revolution against American
imperialism and its local sepoys— сипай (наемный солдат вИндии).
To put a septuagenarian into the White House— человек ввозрасте от70 до79 лет.
It is daylight, but the darkness inside the headquarters of the
world’s biggest privately owned electricity company is sepulchral—
могильный; погребальный.
Far from the world of sequins and greasepaint, Bagehot recently interviewed a political grandee about constitutional reforms being
explored by the Conservative-Liberal Democrat coalition— блестка
наплатье.
One of his goals is to increase the number of serendipitous
interactions of our staff, inside and outside the firm— связанный
сосчастливым случаем.
Such serendipity helped Twitter attract 58m web visitors in October last year— интуитивная прозорливость.
I would not have the gall to stand on the moral high ground and
sermonise the Chinese about democracy— читать мораль, нотацию.
Compare Montgomery’s centennial with the sesquicenten-
nial, which this February drew a ragtag few hundred enthusiasts—
150-я годовщина.
Delay is not unusual— the EU’s new trade deal with Canada took
fi ve years to sew up— закончить, «закруглить».
After six weeks of shadowboxing, Barack Obama and John Boehner, the Republican speaker of the House of Represenatives, are moving
towards a long-term defi cit deal— “бой стенью”.
One customer, sniffi ng a shallot, announced that if you rub garlic
on your feet you can taste it in your mouth— шалот (лук).
Ms Xiao is also lucky because she managed to persuade a friend to
donate his sperm and enter into a sham marriage with her— фальшивый,
фиктивный.
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Часть II / shepherded
After a shambolic election in Nigeria, a barely credible new presi-
dent; Feuding and shambolic govt— хаотичный; плохо организованный.
Shamefacedly, one man said he had even voted for Barack Oba-
ma— робко, застенчиво, стыдливо.
Shanty-towns may be more of a trap than economists thought—
хижина, лачуга, хибарка.
Congressman Wilson would stroll into his offi ce to grret the shape-
liest staff in Washington— стройный; хорошо сложенный.
She was shackled to a hospital bed until the fi nal phase of la-
bour— приковывать, затруднять, обременять.
Naive young northerners, with zero previous experience of black
America, living in sharecroppers’ shacks, eating grits and using dirty
outhouses— испольщик; издольщик.
Mr Zuma had had a string of close shaves with the law for both
grand corruption and squalid sexual behaviour— быть наволоске
отчего-л.
Frank Blake runs Home Depot, a chain that makes shedloads of
cash out of sheds and patio furniture— ангар; гараж; база.
Some of the democratic sheen has come off both revolutions; Gut-
tenberg is expected to survive a parliamentary inquiry, thanks largely to
his soldierly sheen and his popularity with voters— блеск, сияние; отлив.
It was hard to know which mattered most: Obama’s hosts, with
whom he was trying to build closer partnerships; voters at home who had
just given him a shellacking in the mid-terms; or China, the elephant
outside the room— полное поражение, разгром.
Having diffi culty comprehending Germany’s political shenani-
gans? The shenanigans could not have been more lurid, but the peace
process may nonetheless be edging forward— забавные номера;
мошенничествo.
They were closely shepherded at all times— смотреть, присма-
тривать (закем-л.); держать под наблюдением, следить.
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Часть II / shielder
They called him a hypocrite for condemning America as a shielder of blasphemers while ignoring the offences to God committed by his
ally— защитник.
The anniversary shindigs are particularly unwelcome, they reckon, because they mean, in effect, a burst of state-fi nanced unionist propaganda— веселье; шумная вечеринка.
It is a shibboleth that well-designed regulation will necessarily stifl e innovation— шибболет, слово, трудное для произношения,
покоторому узнают иностранца.
Mrs Clinton cannot be a warmonger and a peacenik, or a radical
feminist and a shill for the patriarchy— изображая клиента; «подсадная
утка».
America’s Congress should stop shilly-shallying and approve
extra money for the International Monetary Fund— нерешительность,
неуверенность.
The Oslo shindig— launched in 2009, and on its way to becoming a human-rights equivalent of the Davos economic forum— веселье;
шумная вечеринка.
London beats these two on any criterion you care to name, with
their parochial, little-Yerpian, eternal, BORING, shin-kicking— вид спорта,
вкотором надо свалить противника на землю ударом поголени.
It should be in their interest to keep the alliance shipshape—
вполном порядке, как следует, аккуратно.
The law could allow foreign fi rms to shirk paying proper compen-
sation to the victims of a future Bhopal— уклоняться отответственности.
No tickey, no shirty makes a young man express his pent up anger
in inappropriate ways— раздраженный, рассерженный.
Foreign companies working with the Chinese understand is that in
order to win these contracts they must transfer know-how by the shovel-
ful— полная лопата, полный совок.
President Evo Morales’s government has shovelled money towards this part of the country ever since he was elected in 2005— сгребать,
загребать.
478
Часть II / shrilly
A proposed shotgun merger of General Motors Corp. and Chrysler
LLC. shotgun marriage— вынужденный брак; вынужденный союз.
In 1641 Japan’s shogunate designated an artifi cial island in Naga-
saki harbour as the only place foreigners could live— сегунат.
They had built the fi rst STM on a shoestring budget, which satis-
fi ed his frugal mind: it was held together with Scotch tape, and operated
(toreduce vibration) only at night, in breath-held silence— небольшие
сбережения.
Medvedev will be a shoo-in; The race was virtual shoo-infor in-
cumbents; The Democratic candidate, Martha Coakley, the state’s attorney-general, should be a shoo-in; a shoo-in v. a has-been— бесспорный
кандидат напобеду (вспортивных состязаниях, навыборах и т. п.).
Shoehorning reality into pre-conceived theory – втискивать,
впихивать.
And many of the malls that were built in the heyday of the genre
are starting to look shopsoiled— испорченный (отоварах, которые
продаются поболее низкой цене).
The American economic embargo merely serves to shore up the
Castro regime— поддерживать, подпирать.
Their best shot is through a no-confi dence motion in parliament—
доля, взнос.
Mr Erdogan has given Germany’s ambassador in Ankara the cold
shoulder— подчеркнуто холодный прием.
And at an OPEC meeting on November 30th, they agreed to shoul-
der the largest share of a production cut in a bid to restore prices—
взвалить наплечо, наплечи.
This act of showboating cruelty vaulted Mr Terre’Blanche to
fame— само реклама.
The professor’s inconvenient remarks were not part of a “cam-
paign” against the government’s policies, as ministers have shrilly suggested— пронзительно, резко (озвуке).
479
Часть II / shrink
Country music has always been the best shrink that 15 bucks can
buy— психиатр.
The number of countries with formal diplomatic ties to Taiwan
has shrivelled to just 23— высохший; увядший.
His strongman shtick, enthusiasm for waterboarding and nonchalance over the beating of a protester at a recent rally give off an incipient
whiff of a kind of bouffant fascism— отличительная черта, особенное
свойство.
Friends of Vladimir Putin, the president of Russia, have shuffl ed
$2 billion through a network of banks and offshore fi rms— смешивать,
перемешивать.
Israel want to shun Hamas; attract groups that have not usually
supported the LDP, including the young, who often shun politics altogether— избегать, остерегаться.
Educated women are often shunted into dead-end jobs —
передвигать, отодвигать.
Instead, they hope Afghans will “shura their way to success”—
консультации вшуре.
Mr Maliki falls just shy of a majority— недостаток.
Held meetings on the sideline of the dedication ceremonies—
вкоридорах.
Back in 2012 Mr Ryan reassured anxious conservatives as Mitt
Romney’s vice-presidential sidekick— закадычный друг.
In the hallways and lavatories, mainland girls sidle up to gamblers, asking “go upstairs”?— ходить бочком, украдкой.
Technology is turning the fi rm, long a safe box for information, into
something more like a sieve, unable to contain all its data— сетчатый
фильтр.
But both of those signally failed to match Mr Lee’s achievement
in propelling Singapore “From Third World to First”— поразительно.
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