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13.08.2023 | 3:46:54 | modern | network | знакомые (Myself and most of my network are from here. We’re able to stay in Vancouver due to a combination of family wealth and well-paying jobs. I can't imagine how tight money would be having to raise kids or pay rent in this city. -- Я и большинство моих знакомых (Reddit)) |
13.08.2023 | 3:33:51 | rude | suck | вызывать отвращение (US usage, informal, rude: be very bad, disagreeable, or disgusting (Oxford Dictionary) • Sickening, just fleeing and leaving her there to possibly die alone on the road. I hope they are caught and put away for the maximum time allowed under the law! Car culture sucks. The enablers of car culture need to pay for their arrogance. (Twitter) – отвратительна • "Live in East Van now. Beautiful city but the people suck. Looking forward to moving away." "Why do the people suck?" (Reddit) -- но люди тут отвратительные • I love Vancouver but the weather sucks. -- погода здесь отвратительная) |
13.08.2023 | 2:22:26 | inf. | cheesy | потешный (US usage; напр., о фильме -- из-за низкого качества постановки, наивности сюжета и пр. • Mr. Lobo described his favorite kind of films as "late night misunderstood movies," such as Invasion of the Saucer Men or the classic Godzilla franchise. "I love a good cheesy sci-fi movie... anything with guys in monster suits or model flying saucers," he said. |
13.08.2023 | 2:12:43 | inf. | cheesy | приевшийся (Are you going to wear the Elvis costume? Oh man, that's cheesy! Can't you think of something else? – Это так всем уже приелось! Больше ничего придумать не можешь?) |
12.08.2023 | 8:06:18 | gen. | got caught in a downpour | застал ливень (I had planned a nice bike ride to work. Sure, it was cloudy when I left home, but then I got caught in a downpour just as I rode into downtown!) |
12.08.2023 | 5:26:25 | account. | up from the year prior | больше по сравнению с предыдущим годом (обычно в процентном выражении • Earlier this year, the company said it had remitted more than $67 million in tax to the province last year, up about 70 per cent from the year prior. |
12.08.2023 | 5:19:56 | busin. | highly profitable | высокоприбыльный (Tom Davidoff, an associate professor of economics at UBC’s Sauder School of Business, said it’s unsurprising that property owners are drawn to the short-term rental business model, which can be highly profitable. |
12.08.2023 | 4:45:32 | gen. | unmistakably | неоспоримо ("Not only was he devastatingly handsome, he had a style all his own. The way he walked and talked and moved was unmistakably Cary Grant. (Carrie Dolan, the Wall Street Journal)) |
12.08.2023 | 4:05:12 | cliche. | be assigned | получить задание (A few years ago, Carrie Dolan, a bright young reporter for the Wall Street Journal, was assigned to interview Carrie Grant, who was in the San Francisco area for one of his rare lecture appearances. (Abigail Van Buren) -- получила задание взять интервью) |
12.08.2023 | 4:01:08 | cliche. | bright young person | способный молодой человек или девушка (a bright young reporter for the Wall Street Journal) |
12.08.2023 | 3:23:36 | gen. | for the purposes of keeping it simple | для простоты дальнейшего изложения материала (For the purposes of keeping it simple, we've broken down all of those vehicle choices into nine major categories covering all of the basic types of vehicles from coupes to full-size sedans to crossover SUVs. |
12.08.2023 | 3:16:41 | cliche. | it's easy to see why | легко понять, почему (It’s easy to see why this waterfront lot is valued so highly.) |
12.08.2023 | 2:55:49 | cliche. | in short supply | в недостаточном количестве (обычно в сочетании с be • Kim Grout, CEO at the provincial Agricultural Land Commission, said that she understands the need for more industrial land, but acknowledged that agricultural land is also in short supply. -- имеется в недостаточном количестве |
12.08.2023 | 2:42:33 | cliche. | easy fix | простое решение (проблемы: • There's an easy fix, which is ensuring that there's adequate funding.) |
12.08.2023 | 2:42:12 | cliche. | simple fix | простое решение (проблемы • Metro Vancouver’s industrial land squeeze is no secret, but the pain it is expected to cause is becoming harder to manage. With no simple fixes in sight, the stakes are rising for Canada’s largest port – and the local and national economies it supports. |
12.08.2023 | 1:19:44 | fig. | untangle the entire criminal chain | разматывать всю преступную цепочку (Не верю что подобные махинации как у этой женщины обошлись без взяток. Надо разматывать всю цепочку. Кому заносила, сколько, кто покрывал. |
12.08.2023 | 0:50:27 | yacht. | motorboat operator | водитель моторной лодки (MOCC – Motorboat Operator Certification Course COURSE SESSION NOTE: The Motorboat Operator Certification Course is scheduled through the Regional Watercraft Safety Coordinators. |
12.08.2023 | 0:43:25 | law | legal counsel | юридический советник ("legal counsel" means any person qualified, in accordance with the laws of a province, to give legal advice; [Federal Law-Civil Law Harmonization Act, No. 2, S.C. 2004, c. 25, s. 7(7).] |
11.08.2023 | 9:02:52 | gen. | commission charged | взимаемые комиссионные |
11.08.2023 | 7:59:34 | cliche. | go on the rampage | громить (A gang of teens went on the rampage at the mall and there wasn't a police officer in sight. – стали громить) |
11.08.2023 | 7:57:29 | inf. | playing around | измены ("I wasn't faithful to Jenny: she knew this yet she stayed with me. Funnily enough, it was only when I stopped all the playing around that she left me.." (Michael Winner) – когда я перестал ей изменять) |
11.08.2023 | 7:56:48 | cliche. | fool around on one's wife | изменять жене ("Look, Ted is a very high-maintenance guy," says a long-time girlfriend of Fonda's from Los Angeles. "He is known for loving-the-one-you're-with syndrome, and fooling around on his wives." (Vanity Fair)) |
11.08.2023 | 7:52:44 | media. | hit | обрушиться (New Brunswick was hit with over 40 mm of rain last night. – обрушилось. • It was a major disaster: many people lost their lives, winds of more than 145 miles per hour were recorded, and there was massive, widespread damage across the region. It was one of the worst disasters to hit the country in centuries. – обрушилось на страну) |
11.08.2023 | 7:48:11 | cliche. | what do you care? | а вам какая разница? ("Too many people who don’t belong here, foreign born.... Hong Kong, India, China, Iran, Taiwan, Korea, Africa..... and they keep coming. We were never asked." "What do you care where somebody is born?") |
11.08.2023 | 7:47:48 | cliche. | what do you care? | а вам-то что за дело? ("Too many people who don’t belong here, foreign born.... Hong Kong, India, China, Iran, Taiwan, Korea, Africa..... and they keep coming. We were never asked." "What do you care where somebody is born?" ) |
11.08.2023 | 2:39:12 | gen. | pummel | громить (The artillery pummeled the fleet. ... Meanwhile, the other ships were being pummeled. (Wikipedia)) |
11.08.2023 | 2:33:54 | gen. | pummel | колотить (to hit someone or something repeatedly, esp. with your fists • The yam is boiled, and, when cooled, pummeled into a mush to be eaten.(Wikipedia) • She hates watching boxers pummel and be pummeled in the ring. (Cambridge Dictionary) -- как боксёры колотят друг друга • The matted fabric was pummeled and boiled repeatedly, resulting in a shrunken and thickened felt. (Wikipedia)) |
10.08.2023 | 11:46:01 | cliche. | see? that wasn't too bad, was it? | вот видишь, ничего страшного (после благополучного завершения чего-л. рискованного) |
10.08.2023 | 11:38:01 | gen. | sprinkled | припорошённый (Have you seen Paris sprinkled with a light dusting of snow? It's pure magic. -- чуть припорошённый снежком) |
10.08.2023 | 11:26:25 | gen. | take the weight off one's feet | дать ногам отдохнуть (Now I'm going to add my one negative comment about Venice, and it's the thing we found out as we wandered through the city: there doesn't appear to be any public benches, anywhere you can just sit down, take in the view, or just take the weight off your feet. (YouTube)) |
10.08.2023 | 11:20:02 | gen. | give one's feet a rest | дать ногам отдохнуть (Those who want to give their feet a rest can take in the sights by catching a tram offering a free tour of the city.) |
10.08.2023 | 11:15:39 | cliche. | did you know that ...? | известно ли вам, что ...? ("that" is often left out in informal speech • "Did you know there are only four bridges that cross the Grand Canal in Venice?" "Interesting.") |
10.08.2023 | 11:05:41 | cliche. | get busy | заполняться (людьми или машинами • Now this beautiful beach does get a little busy at times, so head out early with your towel and pick your spot. • The Oak Street Bridge is getting busier due to an earlier crash at Sea Island Way, so take the Knight Street Bridge instead if you're heading south. • "Isn't it crowded?" "Well yes, it can get busy, especially in and around St Mark's Square." -- многолюдно) |
10.08.2023 | 10:12:49 | law, contr. | Second Party | с другой стороны (... and BB, herein referred to as the "Second Party"...) |
10.08.2023 | 10:08:58 | gen. | opposite | с другой стороны (With your right hand, reach towards the opposite foot, that is your left foot.) |
10.08.2023 | 10:01:14 | neol. | whistle-blower | служащий, сообщающий о нарушениях или злоупотреблениях (в фирме или в государственном учреждении) |
10.08.2023 | 9:58:32 | gen. | make a derogatory remark | пренебрежительно высказаться (about – по поводу) |
10.08.2023 | 9:48:24 | cliche. | go about it | действовать (We support the goal of ending speculation in the real estate market, but are not sure the government is going about it the right way. – не уверены, что власти действуют правильно в этом направлении) |
10.08.2023 | 9:18:02 | gen. | file | продвигаться (The line slowly filed inside the first government cannabis store. – Очередь медленно продвигалась ...) |
10.08.2023 | 9:15:54 | gen. | file | личное дело (The client number shown on the front of this document is your personal identification number. This number provides access to the information on your file. – доступ к информации в Вашем личном деле) |
10.08.2023 | 9:11:34 | law | null and void | лишённый юридической силы |
10.08.2023 | 8:59:15 | busin. | conduct business | заниматься коммерческой деятельностью (I just finished an article on The Atlantic that discussed the migration away from coastal cities to cheaper real estate because telecommunications and COVID have/will revolutionize the way business, and thus work itself, is conducted. (Twitter)) |
10.08.2023 | 8:51:48 | formal | raise awareness | вести разъяснительную работу (of – по поводу) |
10.08.2023 | 8:39:03 | inf. | pickle | заковыка (a pronunciation pickle) |
10.08.2023 | 8:38:19 | inf. | pickle | закавыка (a pronunciation pickle) |
10.08.2023 | 8:33:11 | busin. | externally | для внешнего пользования |
10.08.2023 | 7:22:39 | idiom. | late in the game | поздно (It just seems a bit late in the game to raise this issue. You should have told us before the project was launched. – уже поздно об этом заводить разговор) |
10.08.2023 | 7:18:36 | formal | not in compliance with | не соответствующий ("The Department shall replace donated foods received by distributing or recipient agencies that are stale, spoiled, out of condition, or not in compliance with specifications when: ....." The Code of Federal Regulations of the United States of America, Par. 250.13 ) |
10.08.2023 | 3:07:48 | gen. | scrub sth. clean | отчистить (модель [scrub + obj + adj ] -- от грязи, накипи и т.п. • He scrubbed the old saucepan clean, and it looked as good as new. (Cambridge Dictionary) -- отчистил кастрюлю) |
10.08.2023 | 2:56:22 | gen. | harsh environment | негостеприимная природа (The plants they harvested were suited to Australia’s harsh environment; drought- and pest-resistant, bush foods typically don’t require the amount of land, fertilizers or irrigation that introduced foods do. |
10.08.2023 | 2:48:53 | gen. | hone one's knowledge | совершенствовать свои знания (Aboriginal people have honed this knowledge over the roughly 65,000 years that they have occupied the mainland. According to Bruce Pascoe’s book Dark Emu: Aboriginal Australia and the Birth of Agriculture, they didn’t just hunt and gather; by the time British colonists arrived, Indigenous people were “in the early stages of an agricultural society” that included farming and aquaculture. |
10.08.2023 | 2:45:34 | gen. | pluck a piece of fruit from a tree | сорвать плод с дерева (As Locock explains, harvesting bush foods isn’t a simple case of plucking a piece of fruit from a tree. In addition to necessitating an understanding of seasonality and growth cycles, bush foods may require unique processing and preparation, such as wild yams and cycad seeds, both of which are toxic unless first leached in water. |
9.08.2023 | 10:02:22 | humor. | pack a hefty punch | способный заехать изо всей силы (A pang of pity for the stricken officer passed through me. Orlo, as I have said, was well nourished, and Vanessa was one of those large girls who pack a hefty punch. A cop socked by both of them would have entertained no doubt as to his having been in a fight. (P.G. Wodehouse) • ...во время съёмки заехать изо всей силы прикладом винтовки... (vaschilin.blogspot.com)) |
9.08.2023 | 9:57:24 | vulg. | a load of BS | полное фуфло (His book is a load of BS!) |
9.08.2023 | 7:28:41 | cliche. | have a sense of character | разбираться в людях (As an insurance fraud investigator, you must have a sense of character. -- хорошо разбираться в людях ) |
9.08.2023 | 2:38:51 | UK | rented home | съёмный дом (Tony Garnett, 30, claims he has thrown out Sofiia Karkadym, 22, after accusing her of not being able to handle alcohol and using a knife to damage a wall at their rented home. |
9.08.2023 | 1:58:37 | construct. | fierce competition for developable land | жёсткая конкуренция за землю под строительство (I’d agree but put more of the blame on municipal zoning than on developers in this case. When there is comparatively little land zoned for development, competition for developable land is fierce, and it makes financial sense for developers to build as tall as they possibly can to recoup the costs of outbidding other developers for that land. (Reddit)) |
9.08.2023 | 1:47:31 | soc.med. | flurry of social media posts | буря в соцсетях (шаблон, описывающий реакцию в социальных сетях • Flaming debris was seen blazing across the night sky in Melbourne on Monday, sparking a flurry of social media posts questioning if it was a meteor. -- вызвали бурю в соцсетях |
9.08.2023 | 1:28:34 | cliche. | reach the conclusion | прийти к заключению (that ... – что ... • This becomes more evident when listened to at a slower speed, Nelson pointed out, noting that there are distinct inflections at certain junctures, as in a question and answer. He reached the conclusion that the recordings were not hoaxed, as the sounds, at times, were both above and below the capability of the human vocal range. -- пришёл к заключению, что |
9.08.2023 | 1:24:56 | morph. | conversational characteristics | речевые характеристики (When Nelson first heard the Sierra Sounds (listen to one labeled "Fast Talk"), he immediately recognized them as language, as they had many of the conversational characteristics of human dialogue, with various sounds articulated like syllables, sentences, and utterances. This becomes more evident when listened to at a slower speed, Nelson pointed out, noting that there are distinct inflections at certain junctures, as in a question and answer. |
8.08.2023 | 9:49:41 | cliche. | make all the difference | иметь решающее значение (During periods of bad weather, when a late spring or early fall snow covers flowering plants and stops insect activity, and when a vagrant hummingbird shows up in winter at a nectar feeder, a clean feeder filled with fresh nectar can make all the difference for a bird’s survival. – имеет решающее значение для выживания птички) |
8.08.2023 | 9:41:37 | adv. | on the market | имеющийся в продаже (We have always sought to offer the highest-quality and most unique products on the market.) |
8.08.2023 | 9:36:31 | gen. | tie into | иметь отношение к (And how does the victim's criminal record tie into that? – А как с этим связано уголовное прошлое жертвы? А какое к этому имеет отношение уголовное прошлое жертвы?) |
8.08.2023 | 8:14:18 | trav. | face cloth | полотенце для лица (I need a face cloth and a towel, please.) |
8.08.2023 | 8:11:08 | fin. | deposit cash into one's bank account | положить наличные в банк (depositing $90,000 cash into your bank account) |
8.08.2023 | 7:23:33 | gen. | take a series of photos | сделать несколько фотоснимков (... However after taking a series of photos at the entrance to the cave and viewing them on my computer I found on the last shot a strange mist that I could not see when I took the photo. My friend told this could be ectoplasm. No doubt there must be some spirits around, in his view.) |
8.08.2023 | 5:29:46 | gen. | grow profusely | густо разростись (о кустарнике • Because of the vegetation which grows profusely along the edge of the precipice and overhangs it, it makes it difficult to see where the edge of the drop starts. Luckily the squire must have been near to one of the narrower sections of the chasm and was able to leap across the intervening gap on his horse, unfortunately his hounds were not so lucky and many of them fell to their deaths on the rocky floor of the chasm fifty feet below. |
8.08.2023 | 5:29:46 | gen. | grow profusely | обильно разростись (о кустарнике • Because of the vegetation which grows profusely along the edge of the precipice and overhangs it, it makes it difficult to see where the edge of the drop starts. Luckily the squire must have been near to one of the narrower sections of the chasm and was able to leap across the intervening gap on his horse, unfortunately his hounds were not so lucky and many of them fell to their deaths on the rocky floor of the chasm fifty feet below. |
8.08.2023 | 4:55:01 | hunt. | be out hunting on horseback with one's pack of hounds | охотиться верхом с собаками (Ludchurch in the past has been known locally as Trafford’s Leap, the reason it acquired this name was due to the fact that the old Squire of Swythamley, Sir Philip Trafford, was out hunting on horseback with his pack of hounds when to his dismay he strayed too close to the edge of Ludchurch. |
8.08.2023 | 4:48:31 | gen. | one who has an imaginative mind | одарённый богатым воображением (In fact the statue was actually the figure head off a ship he owned, the H.M.S Swythamley, it seems that Sir Philip was not only an astute business man but also was blessed with an imaginative mind. |
8.08.2023 | 4:04:59 | gen. | gain one's name | брать своё название (from – от • This ancient road ends at a place called Castle cliffs, which gains its name from the fact that the rocks when viewed from a certain angle resemble the fortifications of a castle. -- берёт своё название от ... |
8.08.2023 | 4:01:46 | gen. | that was a weak one! | слабенько! (in competition sports) |
8.08.2023 | 3:58:22 | gen. | charge an entrance fee | взимать плату за вход (Sir Philip Brocklehurst who owned nearby Swythamley hall and also the land that Ludchurch can be found on exploited this natural landmark by turning it into a famous tourist attraction in the late 1800s. He had a gate fitted to the entrance of Ludchurch where a member of his staff would charge visitors a halfpenny entrance fee, in fact this was quite beneficial to the local community as farmers decked out their horse drawn wagons with their best linen and collected tourists from Leek railway station bringing them up through a purpose made road which even today can still be seen. |
8.08.2023 | 3:58:09 | gen. | charge an entrance fee | брать плату за вход (Sir Philip Brocklehurst who owned nearby Swythamley hall and also the land that Ludchurch can be found on exploited this natural landmark by turning it into a famous tourist attraction in the late 1800s. He had a gate fitted to the entrance of Ludchurch where a member of his staff would charge visitors a halfpenny entrance fee, in fact this was quite beneficial to the local community as farmers decked out their horse drawn wagons with their best linen and collected tourists from Leek railway station bringing them up through a purpose made road which even today can still be seen. |
8.08.2023 | 3:46:16 | rude | who gives a shit? | никого не волнует (about sth. • Another driver raised his fists above his head while yelling, “Who gives a shit about climate change?” adding, “You’ve made your picture, you’ve made your point. Now get the f*** out of here.” -- Всем на***ть на изменение климата! |
8.08.2023 | 3:19:51 | esot. | the absolute least one can get away with | по самому минимуму (speaking of expenses • Developers will spend the absolute least they can get away with while getting development permits approved. Any remaining quality is efficiently removed from the process by competitive bidding. (Reddit)) |
8.08.2023 | 2:25:55 | esot. | mind-reading ability | способность читать чужие мысли (A psychic has clairvoyant, healing, mind-reading, or prophetic ability. Such ability, on-call and consistent enough to make a reputation, is extremely rare. |
8.08.2023 | 2:08:40 | disappr. | play with | забавляться чем-л. (A close friend, author Al Alvarez, wrote that black magic killed Sylvia Plath. If she wasn't playing with witchcraft, what made the former honor student write poems filled with death, torture, airless rooms, and the moon? |
7.08.2023 | 10:00:56 | topon. | Earl's Landing | Графская пристань (a well-known historic landmark in Sebastopol. "A landing stage or landing is a platform built over water where boats stop to let people get off, or to load or unload goods.[mainly British]". (Collings Dictionary) E.g. • Queensborough Landing • Squire's Landing (Sydney, NSW)) |
7.08.2023 | 8:29:29 | humor. | they get everywhere, don't they? | где их только нет! |
7.08.2023 | 7:49:21 | mil. | Marine | морпех (He was a Marine.) |
7.08.2023 | 6:33:32 | elect. | run-up to the election | подготовка в выборам (Mr. Putin will no doubt use this ideological onslaught and the war in Ukraine relentlessly in the run-up to Russia’s next presidential election, in March 2024. |
7.08.2023 | 6:33:32 | elect. | run-up to the election | предвыборный этап (Mr. Putin will no doubt use this ideological onslaught and the war in Ukraine relentlessly in the run-up to Russia’s next presidential election, in March 2024. |
7.08.2023 | 3:44:53 | philos. | conservative values | консервативные ценности (Thirty years after Russia — in the midst of the ardent liberal hopes of the 1990s — adopted a Constitution whose Article 13 said, “No ideology shall be proclaimed as State ideology,” Mr. Putin’s Russia is hurtling toward a new official ideology of conservative values. |
7.08.2023 | 3:25:11 | fig. | lose one's bearings | потерять ориентир (The country under Biden has lost its bearings, he suggested.) |
7.08.2023 | 2:42:13 | cliche. | this has some truth to it | в этом есть доля правды (When I asked him how Russia proposed to pay for a prolonged war effort, he shot back: “We pay for it all from our sales of oil to Europe via India.” This was bravado, but it had some truth to it. |
7.08.2023 | 2:38:43 | disappr. | moneyed crowd | денежная тусовка (Sitting at a cafe overlooking the Patriarch’s Ponds in one of the toniest areas of central Moscow, Pyotr Tolstoy, a deputy chairman of the State Duma and a direct descendant of the great novelist Leo Tolstoy, exuded confidence as a moneyed crowd ate large crab claws and other delicacies. |
7.08.2023 | 2:30:16 | gen. | for all of | несмотря на все (усилия / попытки • For all of Mr. Putin’s efforts to vilify the West, it still lives in the Russian imagination as a chimera of cool. |
7.08.2023 | 2:27:31 | bank. | make contactless payments | совершать бесконтактные платежи (The subway is spotless; restaurants offering a popular Japanese-Russian fusion cuisine overflow; people make contactless payments for most things using their phones; there is a ridiculous concentration of luxury cars; the internet functions impeccably, as it does in all of Russia. |
7.08.2023 | 2:20:07 | relig. | give funeral rites | отпевать (for sb. – кого-л. (на кладбище) • Funeral rites were given for the soldiers.) |
7.08.2023 | 2:14:38 | cliche. | teach to adopt | прививать (certain values – некие ценности • A new generation is being taught to adopt patriotic values from an early age. |
7.08.2023 | 2:12:30 | cliche. | teach to adopt values | прививать ценности (A new generation is being taught to adopt patriotic values from an early age. |
7.08.2023 | 2:07:31 | fig. | lightning strike | молниеносный удар ("a conflict conceived as a lightning strike, only to become a lingering nightmare" |
7.08.2023 | 1:43:59 | book. | plunged into | ввергнутый в (a nation plunged into an intractable war) |
6.08.2023 | 12:16:12 | inf. | people watch | разглядывать проходящих людей (сидя в кафе, за столиком • "Beautiful beachfront area! I love all the colourful buildings just across the road from the water." "Thanks, it's such a beautiful little place – nice to just sit back and people watch!") |
6.08.2023 | 11:38:16 | cliche. | get busy | приняться за работу |
6.08.2023 | 11:38:05 | cliche. | get busy | заняться делом (It's not enough to talk about change, the new premier's got to get busy and make these changes.) |
6.08.2023 | 10:57:55 | gen. | after a good night's sleep | хорошенько выспавшись (After a good night's sleep, a lovely cup of coffee and a pastry at a local cafe, we set off to explore the town.) |
6.08.2023 | 10:35:24 | gen. | stress-free | без напряжения (making the event as stress-free and enjoyable as possible • So as we head back to town I think you can see it's a fairly easy and straightforward route around the lake, and it is stress-free. (YouTube)) |
6.08.2023 | 9:58:24 | gen. | new to | недавно приехавший (Are you new to Canada? – Вы недавно приехали в Канаду? • I'm new to Kelowna, so thanks for the heads-up!) |