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Часть II / siphoned
Sign-offs, like sign-ons, vary from country to country, from sta-
tion to station, and from time to time— заключительная часть письма,
передачи.
AIPA represents only a sliver of Jewish opinion— ломтик;
обломок, кусок.
Call some one something or repeat a falsehood loudly enough and
for long enough, and many simpletons will believe it to be the truth—
простак, простофиля, дурачок.
Ms Oswald translates Homer’s similes literally, but paraphrases
the rest, creating a modernised version that delights in the unexpected—
сравнение (стилистический прием).
He mimics an awestruck elected offi cial calling his wife from the
capital and simpering: “Darling, I’ve arrived”— произносить что-л.
спритворной или глупой улыбкой.
But the ability to make genomes could one day allow simula-
cra of such creatures to be made by synthetic biology — изображение,
видимость.
He has been named as an adviser to China’s parliament, a posi-
tion often handed out as a sinecure for retired offi cials— синекура,
тепленькое местечко.
That comparison has infuriated the Chinese— and helped put
Bloomberg in the sin bin it was allegedly trying to avoid— мусорное
ведро грехов.
Space technology has been a sinew of military power ever since
the Soviet Union shocked America into the space race when it launched
Sputnik — мускулатура; сила, мощь.
The evolving welfare dispute is less a dogged confrontation be-
tween left and right than a sinuous political dance— запутанный,
сложный.
The fact that money can be siphoned off at different points in
a corrupt chain does not mean you don’t try to do something about the
different leaks identifi ed— противозаконно перекачивать средства
(обычно денежные).
481
Часть II / sisu
Ask Finns about their national character and chances are the word
sisu will come up. It is an amalgam of steadfastness and diligence, but
also courage, recklessness and fi erce tenacity. “It takes sisu to stand at the
door when the bear is on the other side,” a folk saying goes — сочетание
непреклонности, мужества, упорства и усердия.
From sword-forging in feudal times to machines and microchips
today, real men toil tirelessly to make things you can see, services are for
sissies— женоподобный мужчина; баба (омужчине).
Confucius Institutes usually skate over sensitive political topics such as the crushing of pro-democracy protests in 1989— избегать;
касаться вскользь.
But India fears being left in the lurch as NATO skedaddles out of
Afghanistan— улепетывать, спасаться бегством.
These latter funds are ticking time bombs, like a skein of LTCMlites— запутанный клубок, путаница.
Using better data-gathering techniques and employing a skeleton
staff to keep costs down— минимальное количество.
There’s no reason for the viewer to care which of these sketchily
drawn chancers, if any, ends up with the Goya— поверхностный.
Spread of fetal-imaging technology has not only skewed the sex
ratio— уклоняться, отклоняться.
A satirical television programme called “Parazit” that delights in
skewering Iran’s politicians; week after week he nimbly skewers victims
such as the Muslim Brotherhood and pompous television presenters—
насаживать навертел, шампур.
Why spend money protecting ungrateful, stay-at-home skin-
fl ints— скряга, скупердяй.
The Americans, to whom they look for investment and support, have withdrawn all but a skeleton staff— основной, незначительный.
The fi rst English-language teacher to come to Japan landed in atiny
skiff— небольшая плоскодонная гребная лодка.
482
Часть II / slack
With rich countries on the skids, China’s economic model is look-
ing good— катящийся понаклонной плоскости, обреченный.
Not Copacabana bikini skimpy, but far too slight for such a big
place: hence the queue of ships idling off Rio’s beaches, waiting for a slot
at its overburdened port— откровенный (ободежде).
These border skirmishes are quite common considering the na-
ture of the border and relations between the two countries— небольшой
бой, стычка.
Fresh from being mocked in a strangely cruel “Saturday Night
Live” skit — пародия, сатира.
Skittish foreign investors withdrew their money and cautious
state-owned enterprises hoarded greenbacks— ветреный, легкомысленный.
The great survivor of Georgian— and Soviet— politics may be
on the skids— катящийся вниз, под откос, впропасть; обреченный.
By skirting that truth, “House of Cards”, for all its dramatic ten-
sion and clever dialogue, amounts to a kind of Washingtonian escapism—
обходить стороной; уклоняться.
Unemployment benefi t for the same age group is only £ 73.10
aweek at best but Britain is a nation of strivers, not skivers— бездельник,
лодырь.
And agents may also skive off, choosing to switch to a spot of
web browsing on a synthetic internet that the researchers have created for the purpose— увиливать, уклоняться (отработы)— сачковать,
лениться; прогуливать.
There is a peculiar fascination about the old order, with its skiv-
vies and tweenies and gentlemen’s gentlemen— прислуга, служанка.
They can expose political skulduggery and also tabulate poll re-
sults instantaneously, making fraud easier to detect— мошенничество,
надувательство.
With public spending shrinking the private sector has a lot of slack
to take up— нехватка, недостача.
483
Часть II / slake
Israeli fi rms offer technology to slake the world’s thirst— утолять
(голод, жажду).
But after his thumping win Mr Salmond slammed on the brakes
and started talking about holding a consultative vote— резко нажать.
There are indications that BP’s approach to the drilling of the Macondo well was similarly slapdash— неряшливая работа.
Americans still slather ketchup on hamburgers but their habits
are changing— мазать толстым слоем.
So the idea that The Economist has been slavishly pro-euro from
the off is just not true— подобострастный, раболепный.
Violators can be fi ned or even hit with six months in the slam-
mer— тюрьма.
The programme’s contradictions— camp and sincere, profound
and silly, slapstick and mundane— enable it to transcend differences of
geography— грубый.
Study 329 has become one of the best-known examples of a piece
of academic sleight-of-hand called “outcome switching”— ловкий трюк
(мошенника), уловка.
A slew of development projects; traders pointed to a slew of causes
for the price surge; A slew of leaders— большое количество.
The idiot with a college degree who elects a sleazeball politician
is incapable of rational thought and illiterate— чудак.
Shapiro himself turns sleuth, exposing as fraudulent a piece of
evidence— следить, шпионить (закем-л.).
Ankara demanded that Israel apologize for a diplomatic slight—
неуважение, пренебрежение.
They did not know the truth: that Kim lost his war, fl ed east and
later slinked home in a Soviet uniform, kowtowing to Stalin until his
death— идти крадучись.
The legalisation of doctor-assisted dying is the fi rst step on a slip-
pery slope where the vulnerable are threatened— скользкий путь.
484
Часть II / sloughed off
All that was on offer was Giscard’s pathetic, treacly slip-slop—
бурда, пустая болтовня.
In 2008 many Democrats fl oated into Congress in Mr Obama’s
slipstream— зона пониженного давления забыстро движущимся
автомобилем.
Only the modern technology of clamps and sharp scissors permits
the slithery tube to be dealt with at speed— скользкий.
The ladies’ affections proved more valuable than the men’s: Mr Van
der Bellen won by a sliver, 50.3% to 49.7%— ничтожно мало; обломок,
кусок.
The choice between slogging to the offi ce and working from home
can be pretty unappealing— тяжело шагать; тащиться.
Dr Ioannidis has been waging war on sloppy science ever since,
helping to develop a discipline called meta-research— неряшливый,
небрежный.
A gaggle of would-be presidents start the hard slog of chipping
away at the Granite State— сильный удар, изнурительная работа.
This seems to be the lesson from most attempts at sloganeering
by British towns and cities— использование лозунгов.
Malta wins the race for the most slothful nation, with 72% of
adults getting too little exercise— пассивный, вялый.
In December the pre-budget report found some extra cash to slosh
on— литься, выплескиваться, хлестать (ожидкости).
To Bohemians and Beatniks he seemed, in his free-spirited, vaga-
bondish, slouch-hatted sort of way, a heroic prototype— неумелый
иленивый работник.
Economy was pulled steadily out of the slough into which it had
fallen— топкое, трясина, топь.
During a long and improbable life Spiegel sloughed off more
skins than a bed of snakes, and a biographer’s fi rst task is to keep their
footing — сбрасывать кожу, оболочку (озмее).
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Часть II / sludgy
Firms such as Shell and BP which have invested heavily in Alberta’s sludgy natural bitumen— перепачканный; илистый, болотистый.
Once an environmental sluggard, China now pursues green policies with gusto— тунеядец, лежебока.
Their prescription for a weak economy is a large slug of austerity— глоток.
The governor was soon in the sort of slow slugfest his foes ex-
celled at— поединок; драка.
Why work for a sluggardly American fi rm when Infosys is grow-
ing at double digitsz— ленивый; вялый; неторопливый.
The affair has turned into a slugfest between Frankfurt and Berlin over the reputation and “independence” of Germany’s central bank—
поединок.
He knows that opening the sluices to trade with India would boost
Pakistan’s pathetic growth rate— шлюз; перемычка; ворота шлюза.
Time for India’s leaders to wake from their slumber— дремота,
сонное состояние.
He moved his impoverished family into what his son describes as
a slummy township— позорное место.
The period from the 1940s to the 1970s, when governments took
primary responsibility for keeping economies out of slumps, was
more volatile and infl ationary but it was hardly Armageddon— резкий
экономический спад.
That may be why even the most infl ammatory racist slur in the
AP-MTV poll— the “N-word”— didn’t rouse a majority of young people—
дискредитация, компрометация.
Alas, few will benefi t from rigid calorie-counting or cabbage-soup
slurping— причмокивание, чавкание; хлюпание.
The strategy, known as “nuts and sluts”, is to cast doubt on the
message by casting doubt on the messenger— выполнять тяжелую,
нудную работу; ишачить.
486
Часть II / smithies
Whether it has been stolen from legitimate nuclear projects or
made on the sly— тайком, украдкой.
Could the liberal use by French parents of a fi rm smack be respon-
sible?— привкус; аромат, запах.
I was a smallholder in the Jordan valley near the Dead Sea—
мелкий земельный собственник.
The smarmy newspaper editor is almost unwatchable in his
eagerness to harness the growing bigotry— льстивый; подобострастный.
Hotels have been smartened and ferocious security measures put
in place— принаряжать; прибирать.
But its smattering of boutique hotels and passable restaurants
stayed largely empty— малое количество.
An interesting aspect of the piece is that it freely crosses the ad-
mittedly thin line between juicy gossip and vicious smears; Mr Fujimori’s
use of tabloid newspapers to smear opponents— клеветническое или
дискредитирующее замечание.
Indeed, internet geeks in the EU’s eastern member states seem the
most smitten by networking sites— ударять, бить.
If mortgage borrowers had, as a group, shown a smidgen of ob-
jectivity and discipline, none of this would have happened— небольшой
кусочек.
His scandalous corruptive real estate deal in his fi ef of Patagonia,
where he “made” a profi t of some USD 14 million will forever smirch the
Kirchner name— пачкать, пятнать.
Our “know-it-all-in -chiefs” have had nothing but smirks to of-
fer— самодовольная, притворная улыбка; ухмылка.
The longer she stays in this race, the greater chance that Senator
Clinton will splinter the democrats into smithereens; To blow the ship
to smithereens— осколки; черепки.
A large offshore fi nancial centre will typically have 80–120 cor-
porate smithies, the World Bank reckons— кузница.
487
Часть II / smite
Well, god didn’t smite Ireland and turn its people into pillars of
salt— yдарять, бить.
The new Labour leader’s doomed bid to smother disunity with
duplicity— гасить, тушить, ликвидировать.
With her front door open and Santa Rita at the ready, and the ceiling fan turning slowly in the smothering air— удушливый запах.
Ramat Shlomo simply ignited the rage that has smouldered in Mr
Obama’s breast; the long smouldering disenchantment of the voters with
the complacent Liberal Democratic Party had fl ared up into condemnation— теплиться (очувствах).
They just sit there and take it with a smug sense of self righteousness— самодовольный иограниченный.
Chicago thinks he has found a way to tell doting dads from deadbeats in advance: check a man’s reaction when he watches a smutty
movie— вульгарный, непристойный.
August 5th saw the snaffl ing of the Washington Post by the found-
er of Amazon.com— совершить мелкую кражу.
Oil sales to Japan hit new snag— натолкнуться напрепятствие.
He was a researcher, who spent his time trying to snare phenomena other scientists thought uncatchable: what went on inside tornadoes
and on the ground under them, or the precise moments when lightning
formed and struck— поймать вловушку, силки.
The snafu spawned a round of political fi nger-pointing— бардак,
путаница, неразбериха.
To many, they are a snaggletoothed symbol of big government
gone mad— имеющий зубы неправильной формы.
As for Yemen, it is an ungovernable snakepit, home to rival tribes,
secessionists and a local branch of al-Qaeda— змеюшник.
A depressing number still seem ready to be won over by Silvio
Berlusconi’s snake-oil— жидкость, имеющая якобы целительные
свойства.
488
Часть II / sniggered
Queues for concerts can snake down the pavements due to secu-
rity controls— извиваться.
From the young hawker offering to sell motorists a toilet seat as
he snakes through the never-ending jam that is normal traffi c in La-
gos— ползти, извиваться.
The LDP’s revenge was to catch it unprepared for a snap poll –
поспешный, необдуманный.
The largest insider-trading case in decades snares a giant hedge
fund— поймать вловушку; завлечь.
But wow, you all sound incredibly bitter, hiding your jealously
of Obama behind snark and cynicism— фантастическое животное
изпоэмы Л. Кэрролла “The Hunting of the Snark”.
It makes employees and deliveries late, it snarls up modern “just-
in-time” supply chains and it clogs up labour markets— смешивать,
спутывать.
Attempts to build a snazzy, German-style apprenticeship system
crash into cultural and economic differences— броский, шикарный;
приятный.
Mr Navalny closed by simply citing Mr Solzhenitsyn’s title: “Even if
it sounds naive and is often sneered at, ‘Live not by the lie’”— выражаться
презрительно или насмешливо.
As he sniffl es around East Berlin’s soulless streets, contemplating
his imminent suicide— приступ депрессии, подавленное состояние.
There were a lot of snickers in Washington, DC, when Putin’s name
was fi rst announced as the new president— хихиканье, подавленный
смешок.
Schröder’s remark was short and snide; nothing more awesome-
ly ironic than being snide about the snide— поддельный, фальшивый,
фальсифицированный.
These “Economy Comfort” tickets, whose name we have sniggered
at previously, are available on certain international fl ights— хихикать,
посмеиваться.
489
Часть II / sniped
French offi cials sniped at their Belgian counterparts on learning
that several of the perpetrators had hatched their schemes in Brussels—
стрелять изукрытия; стрелять, тщательно прицеливаясь.
Causes and effects can be separated by long timeframes that
don’t lend themselves to snippy soundbites— грубый, резкий, бесцеремонный.
His re-election in 2004 was a shock that in part explains the snip-
piness of much European coverage now— краткий, отрывочный,
фрагментарный.
Еhey could choose (without being able to talk to the others) either to snitch on their team-mates or to stand by them— ябедничать;
доносить на(кого-л.).
Who wants to pay £ 30 per day to stand on a delayed train full of
snivelling ill people?— хныканье.
Inverted snobbery prevents good teachers going where they’re
needed— снобизм.
In cities like Istanbul and Izmir headscarved girls sporting hiphugging jeans and snogging their boyfriends are not an uncommon
sight— целоваться иобниматься.
At the mention of Poland, there was a snort of derision from aHungarian in the audience— фырканье; храпение.
Polansky cocked a snook at US justice— показать длинный
нос (кому-л.).
The Kremlin’s chief ideologist told him which subjects he could campaign on and nominated snoops to keep an eye on him— детектив, сыщик.
If it were shown that his administration illegally snooped on
Mr Trump, Mr Obama’s legacy would be disgraced— подглядывать,
подсматривать.
They fail to point out the most obvious conclusion: snooty journal
editors are biased against beer drinkers; reprinted under a snooty headline— высокомерный, заносчивый, надменный.
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