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16.03.2024 | 8:58:54 | gen. | casually mention | вскользь упомянуть (The property on sale across the street from my plain board house has a one-eyebrow-raising asking price of $15 million. I casually mention this to impress my friends when I have them over for a few drinks. (nsnews.com)) |
16.03.2024 | 8:53:55 | inf. | mean | вредный (talking about a person • He's a real mean guy. • He's such a mean guy.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:44:53 | cliche. | that's about it | больше ничего (The late Prof. Fred Rodell of the Yale Law School once remarked that there are two things wrong with almost all legal writing: "One is its style. The other is its content. That's about it.") |
16.03.2024 | 8:44:34 | cliche. | that's about it | вот, в общем-то, и всё (Leave a few lights on and make sure you pick up the paper every morning. That's about it.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:42:11 | cinema | join the cast | войти в число актёров (занятых в кинофильме, телесериале) |
16.03.2024 | 8:40:58 | gen. | in the usual place | в обычном месте (I'll put the envelope in the usual place, Janet knows where.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:37:48 | gen. | contribute a lot | вносить большой вклад (to – в • Small and mid-sized businesses contribute a lot to the Canadian economy.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:32:16 | gen. | in off hours | в нерабочее время (применяется реже, чем outside regular hours) |
16.03.2024 | 8:30:50 | gen. | casual dining | обед или ужин в неофициальной обстановке |
16.03.2024 | 8:28:52 | context. | be blamed | виновник (A laptop left running on the couch is blamed for a deadly fire, coroner says. – Виновником пожара является...) |
16.03.2024 | 8:07:49 | gen. | go about sth. | взяться за что-л. (to begin to do something or deal with something (Cambridge Dictionary | to approach something (Collins Dictionary) -- noun / gerund • I just don't know how to go about it. -- Я не знаю, как за это взяться. • What's the best way of going about this? -- Как лучше за это взяться? • How can we go about solving this problem? -- Как нам взяться за эту проблему?) |
16.03.2024 | 8:06:26 | gen. | tackle | взяться за (Thanks for the updated report. I will tackle it shortly. -- Я скоро за него возьмусь. / Я скоро им займусь. • I decided to tackle my backyard and I felt overwhelmed – there was so much to do! – Я решила взяться за задний двор / заняться задним двором, но там столько работы, что руки опускаются.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:02:52 | gen. | have sb. out on a hike | взять с собой в горы (Friday is fine. My dog walker will have Willis out on a hike that day and will bring him back to the house early afternoon.) |
16.03.2024 | 8:00:25 | inf. | jack up prices | взвинтить цены (on sth. – на что-л., тж. jack up the prices • Grocery stores are jacking up prices on a lot of food products.) |
16.03.2024 | 6:48:59 | idiom. | I can do it on my head | сущий пустяк для меня (I can do it on my head, you know. – Для меня это сущий пустяк / пара пустяков.) |
16.03.2024 | 6:47:50 | slang | shred | кататься (на горных лыжах, доске • Counting down the days until shred season. Early bird passes are on sale now! Which mountain will you be shredding this year? (Twitter)) |
16.03.2024 | 6:03:35 | O&G, oilfield. | gas, oil, or water inflow | газонефтеводопроявление (источник • "These techniques will work for gas, oil, or water inflow with any types of mud, water-base or oil-base." William C. Lyons – 1996 – Technology & Engineering) |
16.03.2024 | 6:01:31 | commer. | soft sales | вялый сбыт (The company is preparing for softer sales next year.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:59:15 | gen. | in the legal sense | в юридическом смысле слова (partners in the legal sense) |
16.03.2024 | 5:58:22 | gen. | during this time period | в этот период |
16.03.2024 | 5:49:43 | cliche. | be there for each other | приходить на помощь друг другу (That's what we do as Canadians. We're there for each other in difficult times.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:49:07 | cliche. | reel from | приходить в себя (после пережитого • I'm still reeling from it. – Я ещё в себя прийти не могу.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:48:33 | law, contr. | subject to receipt of | при условии получения (subject to receipt of necessary reports – при условии получения необходимых отчётов) |
16.03.2024 | 5:47:38 | idiom. | got a long face | приунывший ("Why've you got such a long face?' 'My girlfriend doesn't want to see me any more.") |
16.03.2024 | 5:46:31 | fig. | capture the eye of | притягивать к себе взгляд ("The Ukraine and the Kuban has always captured the eye of the Germans", the politician admitted in a private conversation.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:46:05 | lit. | draw the eye | притягивать взгляд (... and her nobility and pride draw the eye – притягивая взгляд своим благородным, горделивым видом) |
16.03.2024 | 5:44:32 | fig. | grow less keen | притупиться ("Yet I could not shake off the vague feeling of dread which it left behind it, though the sensation grew less keen as the weeks passed, and nothing happened to disturb the usual routine of our lives." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
16.03.2024 | 5:44:05 | met.work. | dull the edge | притупить кромку (You can hit it with sandpaper to dull the edges.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:34:36 | gen. | which marks | присущий ("The perfection which marks Poe's great lyrics was, of course, not yet present. But the promise was there." – Arthur Hobson Quinn) |
16.03.2024 | 5:29:30 | gen. | great sense of humor | замечательное чувство юмора (Andrew has a great sense of humor.) |
16.03.2024 | 5:27:50 | idiom. | mark you | заметьте ((British, old-fashioned) —used in speech to give stress to a statement that one is making so that a preceding or following statement will not be misunderstood: "I don't always agree with him. Mark you, I'm not criticizing him!" (Merriam-Webster)) |
16.03.2024 | 4:43:23 | gen. | possessions | вещи (I like him. He values people more than possessions.) |
16.03.2024 | 4:04:44 | lit. | admired | восхитительный (one of the most admired examples of Renaissance art) |
16.03.2024 | 3:45:56 | ed. | caregiver | воспитательница (at a daycare centre) |
16.03.2024 | 3:38:36 | vet.med. | well-behaved | воспитанный ("Rather than a flat "no" to pet owners, landlords should interview prospective tenants with pets and treat each case individually. There are many responsible pet owners with well-behaved pets and they should not be treated in the same manner as people with large, dangerous dog breeds." (The Province)) |
16.03.2024 | 3:37:48 | gen. | how much will ... cost me? | во сколько мне обойдётся ...? (Q: How much will a taxi cost me from my hotel to your marina? A: From most downtown hotels, taxis will cost between $10 to $15 CDN.) |
16.03.2024 | 3:35:45 | gen. | lifelong thief | вор-рецидивист (Max Dembo, played by Dustin Hoffman, a lifelong thief, is released from a six-year stint in prison and forced to report to a boorish and condescending parole officer. (Wikipedia)) |
16.03.2024 | 3:32:36 | police | retail theft | воровство в магазинах (Retail theft is on the rise in Canada. (CityNews 1130)) |
16.03.2024 | 3:10:06 | gen. | become aware of | заметить (что-л., кого-л. • After a few moments I became aware of two more people down on the beach, they were squatting by the shoreline so I had not seen them at first. Then I took a closer look and realized they were not humans.) |
16.03.2024 | 2:21:25 | eng. | transmedium | перемещающийся в различных средах (Weir discussed his recent and upcoming documentary films on UFO phenomena as well. His most recent focuses in part on the phenomenon of USOs or Unidentified Submersible Objects – essentially UFOs that go under the water. He explained that many submarines have encountered USOs, which they call “fast movers,” and even documented them on sonar. “It’s almost like an open secret that they’re noticing these operating in our oceans with superior speeds to anything we can operate,” he said. “A submarine goes a maximum of about 35 to 40 knots,” he continued, while a torpedo – creating an air bubble in front of it to reduce friction – can get up to 70 knots. But the items spotted on sonar move even faster; and unlike our technology, which is limited to either the air or the sea, these objects can readily move from air to sea and back again, making them truly transmedium. “They exhibit the capability of moving from our oceans to our atmosphere to space with no friction, no regard for physics as we know them.” (coasttocoastam.com)) |
16.03.2024 | 2:10:31 | gen. | make sb. feel guilty | пристыдить ("Vagrants come and buzz into our building and just squat and police just tell me to not call them unless they’re threatening your life. There’s elderly females living in the unit right where he's sleeping in front of. Cops came and tried to make me feel guilty. They’ve been harrassing Vancouver residents for a while and cops refuse to do anything!" "So mostly just like the rest of the country -- lawlessness and double standards for the law." (Twitter)) |
16.03.2024 | 2:10:31 | gen. | make sb. feel guilty | вызвать чувство вины ("Vagrants come and buzz into our building and just squat and police just tell me to not call them unless they’re threatening your life. There’s elderly females living in the unit right where he's sleeping in front of. Cops came and tried to make me feel guilty. They’ve been harrassing Vancouver residents for a while and cops refuse to do anything!" "So mostly just like the rest of the country -- lawlessness and double standards for the law." (Twitter)) |
16.03.2024 | 1:48:06 | gen. | we can't ever thank you enough! | мы вам крайне признательны! (The cubs are super excited about your support! And we are too. It's due to generous people like yourself that we are able to do what we do, and we can't ever thank you enough!) |
16.03.2024 | 1:43:40 | gen. | there's a lot of evidence for that | существует немало доказательств этого (*предлог! • He explained that most allopathic doctors think of consciousness as being in the brain, and not something to be considered in treating illness that isn’t directly related to the brain. “If consciousness is more like a soul – I think there’s a lot of evidence for that – then the body becomes a vessel for that soul.” (coasttocoastam.com)) |
15.03.2024 | 9:15:07 | gen. | very handy | весьма кстати (An extra thousand a month would be very handy.) |
15.03.2024 | 9:07:18 | gen. | handy idea | весьма кстати (We've got more thunderstorms in the forecast, so a beach umbrella would be a handy idea for anyone planning to watch the fireworks tonight.) |
15.03.2024 | 9:05:38 | gov. | carry out an investigation | вести расследование (The Canadian Food Inspection Agency is now carrying out its own investigation.) |
15.03.2024 | 9:03:06 | disappr. | height of irresponsibility | верх безответственности (This is the height of irresponsibility.) |
15.03.2024 | 8:53:14 | journ. | big story | важная новость (It's a big story for sure, we have several people working on it.) |
15.03.2024 | 8:52:36 | cliche. | be on the lookout | быть начеку (for sb., sth. • Officers are on the lookout for drunk drivers 24/7.) |
15.03.2024 | 8:27:10 | polit. | backed | при поддержке (a CIA-backed coup) |
15.03.2024 | 2:48:19 | gen. | link up with | смыкаться с (о населённых пунктах, территории • The village of Hemingford Grey links up with Hemingford Abbots, which has two attractive meres. (AA Illustrated Guide To Britain) – смыкается с) |
14.03.2024 | 10:19:47 | gen. | it's always in the back of my mind | я всегда об этом помню |
14.03.2024 | 7:55:43 | commer. | dealer in antiquities | торговец археологическими древностями (After being cleaned, experts dated the sculpture from the First or Second Century, with an iron dowel added later, allowing it to be attached to a bust or pedestal. This type of adaptation was often carried out by Italian dealers in antiquities during the late 18th Century to make excavated ancient fragments more attractive to aristocrats travelling in Italy on what was known as the Grand Tour. (burghley.co.uk)) |
14.03.2024 | 7:52:14 | gen. | antiquities | археологические ценности (After being cleaned, experts dated the sculpture from the First or Second Century, with an iron dowel added later, allowing it to be attached to a bust or pedestal.
This type of adaptation was often carried out by Italian dealers in antiquities during the late 18th Century to make excavated ancient fragments more attractive to aristocrats travelling in Italy on what was known as the Grand Tour. |
14.03.2024 | 7:52:14 | gen. | antiquities | археологические памятники (After being cleaned, experts dated the sculpture from the First or Second Century, with an iron dowel added later, allowing it to be attached to a bust or pedestal.
This type of adaptation was often carried out by Italian dealers in antiquities during the late 18th Century to make excavated ancient fragments more attractive to aristocrats travelling in Italy on what was known as the Grand Tour. |
14.03.2024 | 6:47:12 | gen. | overlooked | незаслуженно обойдённый вниманием (One of the most overlooked cruise itineraries is Pacific Ocean crossings. It's not unreasonable, given that there are not a lot of sailings, and many are not port-intensive, but there are some gems. (cruisetravelbug.blogspot.com) • With a master's degree in religion from the University of Chicago, Michael Lichens focuses his work on overlooked aspects of spiritual life. In the latter half, he discussed the Catholic Church's most celebrated exorcist, the late Father Gabriel Amorth, how he became an exorcist, and some of the intense cases he was involved with. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 6:44:07 | psychiat. | mental health facility | психиатрическая лечебница (Gray also discussed the problem of homelessness in cities like Los Angeles, and highlighted the need for more mental health facilities and the challenges faced by veterans in particular. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 6:39:54 | gen. | make very little money | мало зарабатывать (He spoke in favor of an idea popularized by economist Milton Friedman-- negative income tax, where people who make very little or no money would receive a stipend yet would be incentivized to work rather than collect welfare. (coasttocoastam.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 6:36:23 | formal | address an issue | заниматься проблемой (Now working as a private mediator in resolving disputes, he lamented that many in society have lost the ability or even interest in talking and working with each other to address and resolve issues, particularly of a political nature. -- заниматься проблемами и решать их (coasttocoastam.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 6:31:41 | gen. | live your own life as you choose | жить так, как хочется (James P. Gray was a trial judge in Orange County, California, starting in 1983, and the 2012 Libertarian candidate for Vice President. In the first half, he shared his views as a Libertarian, and weighed in on such issues as public education, homelessness, healthcare, taxes, and drug laws. Libertarians, he noted, believe that "you should be able to live your own life as you choose, as long as you don't wrongly impair other people to do the same thing." (coasttocoastam.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 6:06:20 | formal | choose | принять решение (You may, at your sole and absolute discretion and risk, choose to use massage services offered by Night Adventure Tours to its platinum members.) |
14.03.2024 | 5:01:46 | real.est. | single-family lot | участок для индивидуальной застройки (The legislation changes would allow up to four homes on a traditional single-family lot in municipalities across the province. This enables homeowners to create secondary suites, such as basement units or potentially even duplexes, townhomes, and triplexes. (dailyhive.com)) |
14.03.2024 | 2:46:04 | gov. | expropriate private property | изъять земельный участок (для государственных нужд • The power to expropriate private property is among a local government's most far-reaching authorities, and therefore would only be used with appropriate caution, planning and prudence and used where other reasonable alternatives have been exhausted. (gov.bc.ca) • Земельный участок площадью 30 квадратных метров изымут местные власти для реконструкции автомобильной дороги на улице Древней. На изымаемой для государственных нужд территории расположен объект недвижимого имущества — магазин «Продукты». (из рус. источников)) |
13.03.2024 | 10:15:25 | inf. | fancy pants | выкрутасы (Now if he meant to ditch his gun, why not do it where he did his killing? Why take the risk of going into another apartment to do it? Why the fancy pants? – К чему эти выкрутасы? (Raymond Chandler)) |
13.03.2024 | 10:11:20 | formal | generate | принести доход (Bob Wilson, director of project management in the city’s parks department, told council the restaurant generated $1.1 million in its first year open as Eagle's Nest. He said the events aspect of the restaurant (such as wedding bookings) generated $700,000 and the restaurant side generated $350,000. -- мероприятия (в том числе свадебные банкеты) принесли доход в сумме $700 000, а ресторан принёс доход в сумме $350 000) |
13.03.2024 | 10:02:44 | formal | acquire | выкупить (у владельца • Eagle's Nest on Eagle Mountain will get a new patio this year with space for 50 guests. It’s part of upgrades to the elegant mountaintop restaurant, after the City of Greenwood acquired it in 2019.) |
13.03.2024 | 9:53:37 | gen. | it's always in the back of my mind | я постоянно об этом помню |
13.03.2024 | 9:46:21 | gen. | make a brilliant display | ярко гореть (напр., о иллюминации) |
13.03.2024 | 9:44:44 | media. | distinctive addition | яркое дополнение (With its bright, colourful, red-yellow-and-blue segments resembling Lego blocks, the new school is a distinctive addition to the rapidly growing urban neighbourhood.– стала ярким дополнением к этому микрорайону) |
13.03.2024 | 9:36:11 | transp. | breakbulk goods | штучные грузы (Breakbulk goods are goods that don't fit in standard shipping containers and need to be loaded individually on skids, pallets or crates.) |
13.03.2024 | 9:34:33 | humor. | whatnot | штукенция ("Oh, it's a silver whatnot, is it?' 'Yes. A sort of cream jug." (P.G. Wodehouse)) |
13.03.2024 | 9:30:56 | gen. | just a smidge | чуточку (just a smidge further to the left – чуточку левее) |
13.03.2024 | 9:30:25 | derog. | soulless clod | чурбан (о человеке) |
13.03.2024 | 9:27:26 | disappr. | overzealous | чересчур рьяный (The overzealous bylaw officer who fined a group of seniors out for an exercise without a licence in a Toronto park will not be punished. • “They (city and park officials) have lost common sense and they’re being overzealous,” said James Oakes. “I live here, but I’m thinking more about the elderly people. There were four wheelchairs parked here the other day and it was sad to see there was no fountain. They’re at the very last stage of their life and they can’t sit here and listen to the calming sounds of the water.” (vancouversun.com)) |
13.03.2024 | 8:31:41 | gen. | restful | умиротворённый |
13.03.2024 | 8:25:17 | gen. | latest technologies | новейшие технологии (using the latest technologies – с примененением новейших технологий) |
13.03.2024 | 7:53:16 | formal | worthy of condemnation | достойный порицания |
13.03.2024 | 7:17:00 | humor. | monstrosity | страшилище (One region that seems to have its fair share of aquatic humanoids is the state of Ohio, as well as the Ohio River, which meanders through it and neighboring Indiana and Kentucky, itself having plenty of weirdness going on. Here we have reports of a veritable menagerie of all manner of fish-men, frog-men, and other, less identifiable aquatic humanoid monstrosities. |
13.03.2024 | 7:10:39 | gen. | graphic | страшный (для восприятия • graphic images • graphic descriptions of the victims) |
13.03.2024 | 7:08:20 | gen. | have a real passion | страстно увлекаться (for sth. – чем-л. • My youngest daughter has a real passion for Highland dancing.) |
13.03.2024 | 7:04:23 | gen. | preserve oneself | самосохраниться (preserve ourselves as a nation – самосохраниться как нация ) |
13.03.2024 | 6:59:32 | idiom. | have a lot of ground to cover | обсудить много вопросов (We have a lot of ground to cover. – Нам нужно охватить большую тематику, охватить большое число тем (в беседе).) |
13.03.2024 | 6:56:47 | idiom. | debate sth. till the cows come home | обсуждать без конца (We can debate this till the cows come home.) |
13.03.2024 | 6:56:32 | idiom. | debate sth. till the cows come home | обсуждать бесконечно (We can debate this till the cows come home.) |
13.03.2024 | 6:51:56 | gen. | computer hardware servicing | обслуживание компьютерного оборудования |
13.03.2024 | 6:49:24 | telecom. | we lost the connection | обрыв связи |
13.03.2024 | 6:47:49 | gen. | confused | путающийся в ответах (Walton didn't turn up for six days, when he called his sister from a pay telephone in Heber just after midnight on November 11. His sister and brother described him as confused and trembling on the floor of the phone booth when they fond him. -- путался в ответах (coasttocoastam.com)) |
13.03.2024 | 5:39:39 | gen. | be uncooperative | проявить несговорчивость (If Prince William & KP wanted us to see Kate Middleton’s face, they would have paraded her out like they did after each one of her kids' birth. The fact they refuse to means they can’t, won’t, are afraid to reveal her present physical appearance or they separated and she’s uncooperative. (Twitter)) |
13.03.2024 | 4:47:47 | gen. | selection of quotations | подборка высказываний |
13.03.2024 | 4:22:53 | gen. | in near-perfect condition | в почти безупречном состоянии (Matsumura and his colleagues have been excavating the ruins at Büklükale for about 15 years. They'd found only broken clay tablets before, but this one is in near-perfect condition. (livescience.com)) |
13.03.2024 | 3:55:19 | gen. | palm-size | умещающийся на ладони (A 3,300-year-old clay tablet from central Turkey describes a catastrophic foreign invasion of the Hittite Empire, a mysterious Bronze Age state. The palm-size tablet was found in May 2023 by Kimiyoshi Matsumura, an archaeologist at the Japanese Institute of Anatolian Archaeology, amid the Hittite ruins at Büklükale, about 37 miles (60 kilometers) southeast of the Turkish capital Ankara. (livescience.com)) |
13.03.2024 | 3:36:54 | fig. | at the dawn of | на заре (т.е. в начале • At the dawn of the 20th century, the British Empire was set to celebrate the coronation of King Edward VII with an event that would etch itself in history: the Delhi Durbar of 1903. Orchestrated by Lord Curzon, the viceroy of India, this grand celebration aimed to honor the new king with unmatched splendor despite his absence. |
13.03.2024 | 3:24:42 | cliche. | it goes without saying | понятно, что (The subtext is as unmissable as a skyscraper: Indigenous culture and urban life—let alone urban development—don’t mix. In 2022, city councillor Colleen Hardwick said of that project, “How do you reconcile Indigenous ways of being with 18-storey high-rises?” (Hardwick, it goes without saying, is not Indigenous.) (macleans.ca)) |
12.03.2024 | 8:29:31 | gen. | to_varying degrees | в различной степени (Descendants of the original Doukhobor settlers number approximately 30,000 across Canada, but about one third of that number remains active in the culture, maintaining their spiritual practices, Russian language and pacifism to varying degrees. |
12.03.2024 | 7:02:30 | fig. | catapult to global fame | прославить на весь мир (внезапно • For him, like many across the country, the story is personal. The first film he went to see with his now-wife was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves – its scene of Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman at Hadrian's Wall catapulted the tree to global fame. |
12.03.2024 | 7:01:57 | fig. | catapult to global fame | принести мировую известность (внезапно • For him, like many across the country, the story is personal. The first film he went to see with his now-wife was Robin Hood Prince of Thieves – its scene of Kevin Costner and Morgan Freeman at Hadrian's Wall catapulted the tree to global fame. |
12.03.2024 | 6:55:00 | gen. | small tree | деревце |
12.03.2024 | 6:55:00 | gen. | small tree | деревцо |
12.03.2024 | 6:46:31 | gen. | leave sb. utterly baffled | вызвать полнейшее недоумение у кого-л. (Over the weekend, a mysterious 10-foot-tall steel monolith, resembling a giant Toblerone, has popped up on Hay Bluff near Hay-on-Wye, Powys, leaving locals and walkers utterly baffled. (Wales Updates, (Twitter)) |