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28.09.2020 | 0:29:45 | gen. | draw attention | привлечь внимание (Texas Gov. has expressed bewilderment that his statements drew so much attention.) |
28.09.2020 | 0:26:59 | inf. | grab one's attention | обратить на себя чьё-либо внимание (Corey Sturrock and his wife had been out for a walk when they spotted something very large in the water.(...) "I have been camping and walking on Loch Ness my whole life and I have never believed in the Loch Ness monster," said Corey. (...)
He described the creature as 'eel-like' but also 'the size of a bus'. "We saw the water rippling as if something was swelling, and that is what grabbed our attention," he said. "We then saw this thing, that looked like a massive eel rise from the water, and then go back under again. There was a large swell." – именно это привлекло наше внимание / именно поэтому мы и обратили на него внимание |
27.09.2020 | 23:21:58 | jarg. | on board | в организме (medical lingo: You need to have something on board in case the next attack happens at night, it's very effective.) |
27.09.2020 | 9:14:25 | gen. | fit in | влиться в коллектив (When it comes to being popular, sometimes you don't need to fit the mold in order to fit in.) |
27.09.2020 | 9:12:51 | inf. | fit in | уложиться в (отведённое время: "If you can manage to fit in an hour or so, it would be great if you could focus on the insulation, as well as check the piping throughout the basement." – уложиться примерно в один час) |
27.09.2020 | 7:10:06 | gen. | when I was your age | в твои годы (When I was your age I had two children to feed.) |
27.09.2020 | 7:10:06 | gen. | when I was your age | в твоём возрасте (When I was your age I had two children to feed.) |
27.09.2020 | 7:03:26 | traf.contr. | charge a toll | брать плату за проезд по мосту (Tolls were still being collected in 1955. Drivers fumbling around in their pockets and glove boxes for change probably didn't help to speed things up. Tolls did come off in 1963. But will they come back again? (Twitter)) |
27.09.2020 | 7:03:26 | traf.contr. | collect a toll | брать плату за проезд по мосту (Tolls were still being collected in 1955. Drivers fumbling around in their pockets and glove boxes for change probably didn't help to speed things up. Tolls did come off in 1963. But will they come back again? (Twitter)) |
27.09.2020 | 7:02:07 | gen. | wicked man | злодей |
27.09.2020 | 6:55:31 | gen. | byways | закоулки ('Holmes's knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
27.09.2020 | 6:53:49 | gen. | with an assured step | уверенным шагом ('Holmes's knowledge of the byways of London was extraordinary, and on this occasion he passed rapidly and with an assured step through a network of mews and stables, the very existence of which I had never known.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
26.09.2020 | 3:11:42 | gen. | I give you my word that | даю вам слово, что ("I am not a fanciful person, but I give you my word that I seemed to hear Moriarty's voice screaming at me out of the abyss." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
26.09.2020 | 3:08:12 | gen. | make the matters more complex | усложнить дело ('A minute examination of the circumstances served only to make the case more complex.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
26.09.2020 | 2:58:41 | gen. | light a fire | разжечь камин ('The servant deposed that she heard him enter the front room on the second floor, generally used as his sitting-room. She had lit a fire there, and as it smoked she had opened the window.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
26.09.2020 | 2:27:00 | gen. | unwind after work | расслабиться после работы (Looking to unwind after work? A reasonable selection of craft brews, including Jack's Black Panther Ale, are available at East Side Craft House.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:16:13 | gen. | attempt met with failure | попытка потерпела неудачу (An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:11:42 | gen. | strike oil | найти нефть (An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:11:42 | gen. | strike oil | добраться до нефти (An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:10:17 | dril. | to a depth of ... metres | на глубину ... метров (бурить скважину • An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:05:48 | gen. | drill an oil well | бурить нефтяную скважину (An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 2:05:48 | gen. | drill an oil well | пробурить нефтяную скважину (An oil well was drilled to a depth of 368 metres before it was abandoned. Several attempts in subsequent years to strike oil also met with failure.) |
26.09.2020 | 1:55:44 | gen. | things changed | всё изменилось (Then Barry found out I was going to have a baby. All of a sudden, things changed. – внезапно всё изменилось / всё вдруг изменилось) |
25.09.2020 | 8:08:44 | traf. | light volume | слабое движение (на дорогах, шоссе, говоря об интенсивности) |
25.09.2020 | 7:41:19 | gen. | multiple times a day | неоднократно в течение дня (You already take this pill when your feel pain. So why not do it multiple times a day to prevent pain?) |
25.09.2020 | 7:12:03 | gen. | be steadily on the rise | неуклонно расти (The population of Surrey is steadily on the rise. Over 1,000 new residents make the move to Surrey every month.) |
25.09.2020 | 7:12:03 | gen. | be steadily on the rise | неуклонно возрастать (The population of Surrey is steadily on the rise. Over 1,000 new residents make the move to Surrey every month.) |
25.09.2020 | 7:05:08 | gen. | financially secure | материально обеспеченный (о мужчине, ищущем знакомства) |
25.09.2020 | 2:36:05 | gen. | get a bit wet | немного промокнуть (The rain did stop and the sun came out this morning but I got a bit wet.) |
24.09.2020 | 7:54:34 | labor.org. | strike for more pay | объявить забастовку, требуя повышения заработной платы (In 1932, the firemen of Brownsville strike for more pay. Fire Chief Billy Sparks and his entire force are dismissed.) |
24.09.2020 | 7:48:31 | ed. | achieve outstanding academic scores | добиться выдающихся результатов в учёбе (After Mabel achieved outstanding academic scores, her cousin wanted to surprise her with a special gift, a toy poodle named Dora.) |
24.09.2020 | 7:48:31 | ed. | achieve outstanding academic scores | продемонстрировать выдающиеся результаты в учёбе (After Mabel achieved outstanding academic scores, her cousin wanted to surprise her with a special gift, a toy poodle named Dora.) |
24.09.2020 | 7:38:11 | formal | take into consideration the fact that | учитывать тот факт, что (When you take into consideration the fact that ... – Если учитывать (учесть) тот факт, что ...) |
23.09.2020 | 10:01:32 | gen. | in a difficult position | в сложном положении (Many charities that rely on government funding are in a difficult position thanks to this announcement. – оказались в сложном положении) |
23.09.2020 | 9:58:48 | gen. | temporary quarters | временное помещение (Due to renovation at city hall, council has moved to temporary quarters in the Keith Block.) |
23.09.2020 | 9:42:13 | ed. | post-secondary students | студенты вузов (vs. high-school students) |
23.09.2020 | 9:42:13 | ed. | post-secondary students | студенты высших учебных заведений (vs. high-school students) |
23.09.2020 | 9:07:54 | gen. | startled | напуганный (We were definitely startled, everybody was startled – me and my kids, the dog and two cats. That sound outside on the street was were unnerving. We were definitely alarmed. – были напуганы) |
23.09.2020 | 9:05:56 | inf. | spooked | напуганный (spook = frighten; unnerve • We stopped and looked at each other because at this point, we were all a little spooked, and didn't know what to do. As we started walking again, I happen to look into the trees and I saw this creature just standing there watching us. – были немного напуганы |
23.09.2020 | 8:55:58 | idiom. | nerves are on edge | находиться в возбуждённом, нервном состоянии (It must have been around two in the morning when Marc shook me whispering harshly that someone is trying to get into his bedroom window. I hoped it was just a nightmare, or his nerves were still on edge. Quietly we slipped into his bedroom and listened to the sounds of scraping at the window edge! – нервы у него ещё не успокоились |
23.09.2020 | 6:47:55 | idiom. | shed some light on | прояснить (Intrigued Andrew revealed he has no idea what the 'creature' could be. But he is hoping other Scots can help shed some light on his sighting which came just one day after learning about Nessie at the Loch Ness Experience. Retired asset manager for Fife Council Andrew said: "Maybe Nessie has escaped and gone up the coast. |
23.09.2020 | 4:22:44 | gen. | rumours going around | ходят слухи (The story first came to my attention in about 1991 from a woman who had heard rumors going around here in Elkhorn, and particularly in the high school, that people had been seeing something like a werewolf, a wolf-like creature, or a wolf-man. |
22.09.2020 | 8:54:37 | geogr. | reach a height of | достигать высоты (Lingmoor Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, situated five miles west of Ambleside. The fell reaches a height of 1,540 ft and divides the valleys of Great Langdale and Little Langdale. (Twitter)) |
22.09.2020 | 8:51:13 | brit. | fell | каменистая возвышенность ("A fell (from Old Norse fell, fjall, "mountain") is a high and barren landscape feature, such as a mountain range or moor-covered hills; a hill or other area of high land, especially in northwest England", "Lingmoor Fell is a fell in the English Lake District, situated five miles west of Ambleside. The fell reaches a height of 1,540 ft and divides the valleys of Great Langdale and Little Langdale.") |
22.09.2020 | 8:04:22 | Canada | councillor | муниципальный советник |
22.09.2020 | 2:05:02 | idiom. | give the go-ahead | одобрить (to – что-либо • While Hendren believes city staff, First Nations and federal officials want to do a good job on the Jericho Lands, he said residents fear council members will give the go-ahead to the Broadway and Alma tower, as well as for too many highrises at Jericho, because they imagine there will soon be a subway line along Broadway to UBC. |
22.09.2020 | 0:59:17 | gen. | keep it reasonable | держаться в разумных пределах (Let's just keep it reasonable. We don't want another Manhattan here, with dozens of luxury residential towers surrounded by single-family homes.) |
22.09.2020 | 0:41:53 | gen. | stroll along the street | прогуливаться по улице (Twilight actress Ashley Greene was spotted strolling along Robson Street yesterday. • Just strolling along East Broadway and spotted construction just west of Commercial Drive. The westbound right lane is closed just past the intersection.) |
21.09.2020 | 9:09:55 | gen. | be worth to the economy | приносить доход экономике (The tourists who come to look for the monster are thought to be worth around £30m to the Highland economy. – Cчитается, что доходы от туристов приносят около 30М фунтов в год экономике региона ( |
21.09.2020 | 6:50:25 | gen. | this is so delicious! | объедение! |
21.09.2020 | 6:50:25 | gen. | this is so delicious! | вкуснотища! |
21.09.2020 | 6:49:12 | gen. | this is so good! | объедение! |
21.09.2020 | 6:49:12 | gen. | this is so good! | вкуснотища! |
21.09.2020 | 6:16:19 | gen. | get the car ready | приготовить машину (для поездки • Can you get the car ready? I must leave at once.) |
20.09.2020 | 8:41:06 | gen. | mere pittance | жалкие гроши ("Each daughter can claim an income of £ 250, in case of marriage. It is evident, therefore, that if both girls had married, this beauty would have had a mere pittance, while even one of them would cripple him to a very serious extent." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
20.09.2020 | 8:38:45 | gen. | my understanding is that | насколько я понимаю |
20.09.2020 | 6:25:16 | gen. | dark brown in color | тёмно-коричневого цвета ((...) a sighting somewhere in Birmingham on a summer's day in the late 1980s. It reportedly "shook the staff rigid" at a store that overlooked the stretch of canal in question. In this case, the mighty animal of the waters was described as being dark brown in color and said to be no less than 15 feet in length. |
20.09.2020 | 6:07:12 | Russia | Black Earth Country | Черноземье (played a crucial role in the development of the Black Earth Country) |
20.09.2020 | 3:50:49 | gen. | drag | затащить (into – в • Sightings of strange creatures in Loch Ness, Scotland date back centuries ago. In times long gone, they were known as Kelpies and Water-Horses, supernatural shape-shifting creatures that would drag people into the depths of the loch, drowning them in the process. |
20.09.2020 | 3:50:49 | gen. | drag | уволочь (into – в • Sightings of strange creatures in Loch Ness, Scotland date back centuries ago. In times long gone, they were known as Kelpies and Water-Horses, supernatural shape-shifting creatures that would drag people into the depths of the loch, drowning them in the process. |
20.09.2020 | 3:46:23 | imitat. | swoosh | шум от крыльев (Mrs. Walker also recalled the following: "Immediately afterwards, we heard a loud swoosh over the house tops across the street. It was like the white flash of a torpedo-shaped object… (...) I sat there stupefied. I was amazed. |
19.09.2020 | 9:47:33 | gen. | only way out | единственный выход (The only way out for you that I can think of is to go to court. – Единственный выход для вас – это обратиться в суд.) |
19.09.2020 | 9:46:48 | gen. | only solution | единственный выход (Vancouver has too many cars. The only solution is to ban them altogether – but I doubt that will ever be done. (Online post)) |
19.09.2020 | 6:04:27 | gen. | there are rumours | ходят слухи (that – что: • The pub has been shut down since March when COVID-19 hit. The website has been removed and phones calls just ring and ring with no voicemail. There are rumours that it is for sale, so perhaps someone will eventually take over.) |
19.09.2020 | 5:51:26 | inf. | sure beats | не сравнить с (A race car driving course? Wow! Sure beats the typewriting class! – Учиться на автогонщицу? Это не сравнить с курсами машинисток!) |
19.09.2020 | 5:50:23 | inf. | doesn't beat | не сравнится с (Honolulu is nice but doesn't beat our lovely city.) |
19.09.2020 | 5:49:11 | gen. | can't match | не сравнится с (As far as I know, the Green Mermaid is Fredericksville's oldest pub. It opened in 1913. It's still filled with an old school vibe that so many corporate bars and pubs just can't match. – не сравнятся) |
19.09.2020 | 5:36:54 | gen. | you have no one to blame but yourself | ты сам виноват (There is no one single piece of infrastructure that can be built to keep people from complaining about traffic. (...) If you feel you're always stuck in slow traffic, you have no one to blame but yourself. It's a choice you have made. (Online comment)) |
19.09.2020 | 5:25:30 | meteorol. | fine-tune the forecast | уточнить прогноз (Comparing satellite & radar imagery, with a variety of computer models to fine-tune your air quality & weather forecast this week.) |
19.09.2020 | 4:55:18 | idiom. | things are about to get rolling | дело сдвинется с мёртвой точки (More than six years after it was approved by council, the largest mixed-use commercial and residential development project on the North Shore in recent decades will soon become a reality. City of North Vancouver council approved Concert Properties' request to build 800 strata and rental units and ground-level commercial space on the waterfront property along Harbourside Drive in 2014. But the land has largely be been left fallow since then. Now Concert president and CEO Brian McCauley says things are about to get rolling. |
19.09.2020 | 2:58:28 | cook. | homemade jam | домашнее варенье (Our biscuits are light and fluffy and served with our homemade jam! A limited number baked a day so don't miss out! (Twitter)) |
18.09.2020 | 9:47:52 | jarg. | perv | изврат |
18.09.2020 | 7:50:29 | gen. | the same kind | такой же (Josh got new sheets for his bed, the same kind he had before. – новые простыни, такие же, как раньше у него были) |
18.09.2020 | 7:45:31 | gen. | graze | зацепить (Although it is early in the investigation, it looks as though the cyclist collided or grazed a pedestrian, that caused her to lose her balance and fall into traffic, where she was struck by a transit bus. • 11-year-old girl grazed by bullet on Massachusetts Avenue: Buffalo police say the girl, who was identified as a city resident, was grazed on the leg after someone fired a shot into the air. ) |
18.09.2020 | 7:25:35 | formal | I felt that | я счёл, что ("When evening came I felt that it would be an imprudence to leave so precious a thing in the office behind me." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
18.09.2020 | 7:19:27 | gen. | answering smile | ответная улыбка ("How do you know that?" She smiled, but there was no answering smile in Holmes's thin, eager face. (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
18.09.2020 | 6:31:20 | formal | fruitless labour | напрасный труд ("Do not worry about my future, for that is provided for; and, above all, do not search for me, for it will be fruitless labour and an ill-service to me." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)) |
18.09.2020 | 6:27:13 | gen. | in one's order of time | в хронологическом порядке (You must arrange the records in their order of time: January, February and so on.) |
18.09.2020 | 6:12:08 | gen. | have no difficulty in recognizing | без труда узнать ('When the light of the hall lamp fell upon our midnight visitor, I had no difficulty in recognizing him.' (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) – без труда узнал) |
18.09.2020 | 6:08:02 | humor. | virtuous folk | добропорядочные граждане ("Run down, my dear fellow, and open the door, for all virtuous folk have been long in bed." (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle) – все добропорядочные граждане давно легли спать) |
18.09.2020 | 5:37:15 | gen. | clear up | расчиститься (It should clear up in the afternoon. – После обеда небо должно расчиститься.) |
18.09.2020 | 2:31:14 | cinema | narration | голос за кадром (a commentary delivered to accompany a movie, broadcast, etc. • Narration: Stanley Jackson |
17.09.2020 | 6:07:20 | formal | make a statement | выступить с заявлением (made a statement in connection with – выступил с заявлением по поводу |
17.09.2020 | 6:05:26 | media. | speak out | выступить с заявлением (The Victim of Sexual Harassment Speaks Out) |
17.09.2020 | 0:28:16 | vet.med. | loaded syringe | шприц с дозой лекарства |
15.09.2020 | 6:25:00 | gen. | for a very good reason | совершенно не напрасно (In my opinion, Linda's book 'Monsters Among Us: An Exploration of Otherworldly Bigfoots, Wolfmen, Portals, Phantoms, and Odd Phenomena' is her most ambitious and thought-provoking. Section 4 of her book is titled "Creatures of Shadows, Mists, and Lights." And it has that title for a very good reason. As Linda demonstrates on many occasions, where Dogmen are often seen, so are strange and usually small balls of light and mysterious mist. |
15.09.2020 | 6:21:06 | journ. | article titled | статья под названием ('How To Cook Anything' recently printed an article titled "The Art of Cooking Nude." Isn't it rather suggestive?) |
15.09.2020 | 6:14:55 | gen. | enormous bang | страшный грохот (NB: singular • "(...) It was difficult to know how far away from us it was as it was pitch black outside, but it looked about two or three feet wide. Then suddenly there was an enormous bang, absolutely colossal." Anne continued: "The only other person who was local to us was an old lady who was staring at it too. Well, she came up to me and said that she'd been woken by the bang. (...)" |
15.09.2020 | 6:09:55 | gen. | enormous | огромного размера (this pot-bellied, enormous statue) |
15.09.2020 | 5:59:04 | media. | generate deep interest | вызвать глубокий интерес (This specific event rapidly generated deep media interest, and was taken extremely seriously by the Fort Worth police. As prime evidence of this, no less than four police cars quickly headed to the scene of the Reichart's encounter. |
15.09.2020 | 5:33:29 | fig.of.sp. | absolute chaos broke out | воцарился полный хаос (Kelly was, and still is, a small, rural town which is situated just short of ten miles from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. On the night of August 21, 1955, absolute chaos broke out. It all went down at the farmhouse of the Sutton family (...) |
15.09.2020 | 3:51:43 | gen. | the opportunity came up | представилась возможность (George Spicer was a man with a busy job: he was a director of a well-respected tailors in London, called Messrs. Todhouse, Reynard and Co. So, when the opportunity came up for a vacation, the pair jumped at the opportunity. They chose to take a trip to Scotland, for a bit of tranquility and relaxation. What a mistake that turned out to be. |
15.09.2020 | 3:48:28 | formal | history-making | исторический (о дне, событии • There's no doubt that, in terms of Nessie lore, July 22, 1933 was both history-making and groundbreaking. That was the date upon which Mr. and Mrs. George Spicer had an encounter with a large and lumbering beast at Loch Ness that, clearly, as Mr. Spicer's words demonstrated, they wished had never occurred. |
15.09.2020 | 3:41:23 | gen. | speak about | толковать о (It's a case that is still spoken about today by the locals. – Об этом случае и поныне толкуют местные жители.) |
15.09.2020 | 3:33:24 | gen. | that does happen sometimes | такое иногда случается (Sounds like the bather was struck by a hit-and-run shark which struck him but did not bite. That does happen sometimes. |
15.09.2020 | 3:30:32 | gen. | like this | такой (в знач. "подобный этому" • because of excuses like these – из-за таких отговорок) |
15.09.2020 | 2:45:05 | fig. | lock one's eyes with | встретиться взглядом с (As for the ABC, it was racing along a stretch of the old tunnel at a very fast speed. Not only that: as the creature passed by, on the tracks, its eyes very briefly locked with Maureen's. |
14.09.2020 | 21:28:09 | idiom. | take for granted | недостаточно ценить (You just take me for granted! You don't love me!) |
14.09.2020 | 21:28:09 | idiom. | take for granted | не ценить (You just take me for granted! You don't love me!) |
14.09.2020 | 5:50:36 | rude | screw it! | на что он мне сдался! (I figure, how am I gonna report this? They'll think I'm crazy or something, I mean, how the hell do you report this type of stuff? They wouldn't take me seriously. I said screw it, and kept driving. There wasn't any damage on the truck or anything so whatever. |