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| 24.12.2014 | 11:14:09 | gen. | ask | обратиться с просьбой (обратились ко мне с просьбой, чтобы я – asked me to) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:54:53 | gen. | hunchbacked | сгорбленный (ORD) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:54:16 | gen. | bent | сгорбленный (ORD) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:53:24 | gen. | hunched | сгорбленный (ORD) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:48:37 | gen. | love of one's neighbour | взаимная любовь |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:43:16 | gen. | oubliettes | каменные мешки (A secret dungeon, access to which was gained only through a trap-door above; often having a secret pit below, into which the prisoner might be precipitated. 1819 Scott Ivanhoe xlii, The place was utterly dark–the oubliette, as I suppose, of their accursed convent. a 1845 Hood Knight & Dragon xxviii, In the dark oubliette Let yon merchant forget That he e'er had a bark richly laden. 1872 Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. lxix. 15 Forgotten like one in the oubliettes of the Bastille. 1877 Tennyson Harold ii. ii, The deep-down oubliette, Down thirty feet below the smiling day–In blackness. OED) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:20:53 | gen. | in the vernacular | в просторечии (в просторечии именуемый = referred to in the vernacular as. ... where it is referred to in the vernacular as bangungot, SUNDS affects 43 per 100,000 per year among young Filipinos.) |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:17:34 | gen. | investigative office | следственная часть |
| 24.12.2014 | 10:17:24 | gen. | investigative unit | следственная часть |
| 24.12.2014 | 8:30:58 | gen. | something is out of place here | что-то здесь не то (It's just that, something is out of place here. I can't quite put my finger on it," returned Susan, looking out the kitchen window. "It's nothing. The house has a history ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:38:31 | gen. | starting upon approval | с момента утверждения (Starting upon approval of this Agreement, the City will provide quarterly status reports related to project schedule to the County and the ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:31:46 | gen. | starting upon | с момента (The initial commitment to action, starting upon signature in Kyoto, could be relatively modest, pacing upwards depending upon various factors, with a specific ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:29:35 | gen. | snowball recruitment | рекрут снежным комом (Snowball recruitment is a method of sampling where researchers recruit potential participants from among their acquaintances or through other participants. While snowball recruitment may be advantageous in some research designs, it is important to assess the following: Whether the potential for bias from the snowball method would impact on the research outcomes. Is there the potential for any real or perceived coercion to be applied in the recruitment process? The possibility for a breach of privacy for a nominated individual. Snowball recruitment – in either the passive or active form – is acceptable as long there is no real or perceived coercion to take part in the research by either the researchers or other participants, and as long as there is no breach of Commonwealth, State or Territory privacy legislation involved in accessing contact details for potential participants.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:22:39 | gen. | purchase barrier | барьер покупки (People consider a variety of factors when they shop for a product and data driven marketing can help you with identifying purchase barriers. What does it cost? How easy is it to buy? Is it high quality? If you’re trying to convince a shopper to go ahead and purchase your product, you need to understand what might prevent them from doing so. Your data driven marketing strategy for marketing to shoppers will be largely defined by the purchase barriers you’re trying to overcome.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:19:44 | gen. | competitive brand | марка-конкурент |
| 23.12.2014 | 20:13:26 | gen. | factors in a purchase | факторы, влияющие на покупку (.. value measures such as "Do I like it?" or "Does it speak to me?" still have economic effect because such measures can be deciding factors in a purchase. WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 19:35:01 | gen. | focus group scenario | сценарий проведения фокус-групп (Focus Group Scenario. At the beginning of each focus group, participants were given this scenario: "Baby Jane Doe was born at 24 weeks gestation, placed on ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 19:32:03 | gen. | be emailed | передаваться в электронном виде (передаваться Заказчику в электронном виде на адрес = be emailed to Customer at. This form can be completed online and emailed to us at alumni@goodenough.ac.uk or printed and mailed to us at: Development and External Relations Office) |
| 23.12.2014 | 19:21:49 | gen. | per capita | на человека в семье |
| 23.12.2014 | 19:04:49 | gen. | catch | привлекать (to attract and hold (someone's attention, interest, etc.) I tried to catch the waiter's attention, but I guess he didn't see me. The show is more likely to catch the interest of an older audience. Her books have caught the imagination of children from around the world. [=children find her books very exciting and enjoyable]. MWALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:20:41 | gen. | there's something fishy going on here | что-то здесь не то |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:15:04 | gen. | letter of contrition | покаянное письмо (Tilton and Moulton insisted that it was clear from that first December day in I870 that they were accusing him of adultery, and that Beecher's "Letter of Contrition" ... | I'd believe Cameron's letter of contrition to Tory branch members more if it didnt start off "Dear swivel eyed loonies & fruitcakes") |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:12:38 | gen. | spying | шпионская деятельность |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:11:21 | gen. | fully admit one's guilt | полностью признать себя виновным (James fully admitted his guilt in his last letter to me. Yes, he admitted that he had raped his stepdaughter.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:09:43 | gen. | give a full confession | полностью признать себя виновным (According to authorities, during his hospitalization Grant gave a full confession, explaining in detail how he had first fought with Tara Grant before strangling her. WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:05:03 | gen. | somebody with a death wish | самоубийца (Making the long trip to Mars? Let NASA put you in a deep sleep? Only somebody with a death wish would volunteer for this.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:01:38 | gen. | out of the question | невозможный (not possible or allowed. Asking my father for money was completely out of the question. Wearing a stained blouse to dinner was out of the question. MWALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 17:00:00 | gen. | totally out of the question | решительно невозможный (And bathing the whole body was totally out of the question. | I said you could trust me that it was totally out of the question for us to have any at home, and we haven't. | We would sometimes grab a beer and share cigarettes, but anything else was totally out of the question.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:56:39 | gen. | manuscript of | в рукописи (One of the film's producers, Leslie Dixon, read the manuscript of the novel in 2011 and brought it to the attention of Reese Witherspoon in December of that year. WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:54:47 | gen. | woman friend | знакомая (Sometime later, a woman friend of Patrick's called me after he died to share with me what she said to him after my wife and children had left his ... | A short time later, a woman friend of Mom's called and said she was concerned. | Then a couple of months later, a woman friend of his called to say she was flying in and wanted to know if he could meet her for dinner.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:52:59 | gen. | all the more so because, as | тем более, что, как (These sessions quickly came to scandalize, all the more so because, as the SPP pointed out, they varied in length but were more often short, and even very ... | All the more so because, as we have seen, exports have become an urgent necessity for them under any circumstances, as a result of technological conditions ... | It was a bivalve paradise, all the more so because, as an ancient impact crater and flooded river valley, it is shallow, often less than ten feet deep, so virtually all ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:37:53 | gen. | evil villain | отъявленный злодей (OCD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:36:43 | gen. | great villain | отъявленный злодей (The Queen in ‘Snow White' is one of film's greatest villains. OCD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:27:51 | gen. | elbow to elbow | по соседству друг с другом (You work and live elbow to elbow with people. You commute in tiny trains, in underground tunnels, squished between strangers, everyday..twice a day.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:26:28 | gen. | elbow to elbow | бок о бок |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:19:57 | gen. | encompass | сосредоточить в себе (to include different types of things • The festival is to encompass everything from music, theatre, and ballet to literature, cinema, and the visual arts.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:18:41 | gen. | subsume | сосредоточить в себе (to include something in a larger group and cause it to lose its own individual character The new treaty subsumes all past agreements. be subsumed by/under/within/into something: Art courses have been subsumed under the Humanities Department. MED) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:16:08 | gen. | the City of London | лондонский Сити (an area in central London where there are many large banks and financial organizations, including the Bank of England and the stock exchange. The City has an area of about one square mile (about 2.5 square kilometres), and it is sometimes called ‘the Square Mile', especially in newspapers. Its name is sometimes used to mean people who work there and make financial decisions. There is a similar area in New York City called Wall Street: The City is optimistic about the outlook for inflation. a firm of City stockbrokers. LDOCE) |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:08:31 | gen. | be popular with | пользоваться популярностью у |
| 23.12.2014 | 16:00:41 | gen. | architect firm | архитектурное бюро (A London architect firm has been declared the winner of an international competition to design a new $1bn Iraqi parliament building in ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:55:03 | gen. | zoning | разграниченные зоны (разграниченные жилые и бизнес зоны = residential and business zoning. ... within our district, including such things as residential and business zoning, transport, natural hazards, contaminated land and subdivisions.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:54:40 | gen. | zoning | разграничение зон |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:50:05 | gen. | utilities | инженерная инфраструктура |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:46:17 | gen. | nothing but the best | все лучшее |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:44:27 | gen. | life, business and entertainment | жизнь, бизнес и развлечения (Augusta Downtown Alliance will develop a thriving, authentic downtown community, a focal point for life, business and entertainment in Central Maine, ... | ... played on crowded streets in Detroit, more than likely in the thirty-block section known as Paradise Valley, the center of black life, business, and entertainment. | ... North America's information and communication technology providers, focused on making life, business, and entertainment simple for the people we serve.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:41:06 | gen. | turn over a new page | открывать новую главу (The article "Turning over a new page" discusses the rebuilding of the National Library and its collections following the Khmer Rouge occupation of 1975-9. ESD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:38:34 | gen. | high-rise development | высотный проект (Another high-rise development has been approved in Woolwich with buildings up to 18 storeys.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 15:33:24 | gen. | government thoroughfare | правительственная трасса (The through-railroad line, thus formed, as it were, upon the ruins of the government thoroughfare, by the Baltimore and Ohio and the Central Ohio Railroad, has ... | After exiting the restaurant, the two men walked west along Unter den Linden toward Wilhelmstrasse, the main government thoroughfare.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:40:06 | gen. | nationwide | на всю страну (happening or existing in all parts of a particular country • a nationwide campaign • The police conducted a nationwide hunt for the missing prisoners. Example Bank: • The band start a nationwide tour next month. • The campaign is on the way to becoming nationwide. • The police conducted a nationwide hunt for the missing girl. • The study uses data from a nationwide survey of 5 000 people. • We have a nationwide network of local offices. • The company has over 500 stores nationwide. OALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:34:06 | gen. | House of the Government of the Russian Federation | Дом Правительства Российской Федерации (White House now houses the Russian government. An inscription at the base of the tower reads, "House of the Government of the Russian Federation." WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:31:36 | gen. | historical and architectural landmarks | историко-архитектурные памятники (Buy Report to the Commission on Chicago Historical and Architectural Landmarks by Martin R Murphy (ISBN: ) from Amazon's Book Store. Free UK delivery on ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:27:05 | gen. | Small Ring of the Moscow Railway | Малое кольцо Московской железной дороги (Herbert Smith Moscow infrastructure team advises on the US$3.2 billion Small Ring of the Moscow Railway (MRR) PPP project.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:19:29 | gen. | business, life and entertainment | бизнес, жизнь и отдых (include the Dallas Observer, an alternative weekly newspaper, and D Magazine, a monthly magazine about business, life, and entertainment in the metroplex. WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 14:00:35 | gen. | business scene | деловая жизнь (LondonlovesBusiness.com – is the first independent editorial website about London's business scene in its entirety.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 13:58:10 | gen. | gross leasable area | арендная площадь (Gross leasable area (GLA) is the amount of floor space available to be rented in a commercial property. Specifically, gross leasable area is defined as the total floor area designed for tenant occupancy and exclusive use, including any basements, mezzanines, or upper floors. It is typically expressed in square metres (although in some places such as the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom, the square foot is used). It is measured from the center line of joint partitions and from outside wall faces. That is, gross leasable area is the area for which tenants pay rent, and thus the area that produces income for the property owner. For a property with only one tenant, the measurements Gross Floor Area (GFA) and Gross Leasable Area (GLA) are essentially equal. The Building Owners and Managers Association has established a standard with American National Standards Institute, ANSI/BOMA Z65.1-1996 for measuring floor area and calculating gross leasable area and loss factor. WK) |
| 23.12.2014 | 12:27:34 | gen. | reasonable | резонно (Но если это и в самом деле по каким-то неведомым причинам произошло, резонно было предположить, что = But if that did happen for some unfathomable reason, it would have been reasonable to assume that. But recently, as the US upped its production, it would have been reasonable to assume that Saudi would have correspondingly cut surplus ... BBC) |
| 23.12.2014 | 12:25:19 | gen. | unfathomable | неве́домый (по каким-то неведомым причинам = for some unfathomable reason. 1) incapable of being fully explored or understood her grey eyes were dark with some unfathomable emotion 2) (of water or a natural feature) impossible to measure the extent of. NOED. 1. too strange or difficult to be understood • an unfathomable mystery 2. if sb has an unfathomable expression, it is impossible to know what they are thinking. OALD. impossible to understand: " For some unfathomable reason they built the toilet next to the kitchen. CALD. unfathomable reasons/motives His behavior is completely unfathomable. MWALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 12:10:20 | gen. | clever move | тонкий ход (intelligent strategy, smart step, intelligent action. BED) |
| 23.12.2014 | 12:06:55 | gen. | the Great Game | большая игра (1) spying 2) the rivalry between Britain and Russia in central Asia during the 19th century. [Origin: first used by Rudyard Kipling in Kim (1901)]. NOED) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:56:53 | gen. | dispel | прояснить (напр., сомнения. Talking to Pam helped to dispel my doubts about the holiday. OALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:54:13 | gen. | later appointee | назначенный впоследствии (Назначенный впоследствии на должность = A later appointee to. James'sbrother John, a later appointee to the U.S. Supreme Court, had a lawyer's bill to prove it.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:46:50 | gen. | in less than favourable light | не в самом привлекательном свете |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:32:55 | gen. | than what | больше того, что (It may possibly so happen, that he knows little more than what we are already informed of.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:26:40 | gen. | minor capacity | заштатная должность (If he is or will be employed in a minor capacity, he has special qualifications that will make his services essential to the efficient operation of the employer's ...) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:18:35 | gen. | material | объект для (неважный объект для вербовки = poor spy material) |
| 23.12.2014 | 11:16:10 | gen. | controversial | конфликтный (causing a lot of angry public discussion and disagreement • a highly controversial topic • one of the most controversial of London's new office blocks • a controversial plan to build a new road • Winston Churchill and Richard Nixon were both controversial figures. OALD) |
| 23.12.2014 | 10:45:06 | context. | a | некто (a Mr Smith called to see you) |
| 23.12.2014 | 10:38:18 | gen. | show no interest in | не интересоваться (At school he showed no interest in religion. | Though Mussolini had conventional antisemitic views, he showed no interest in the Nazi racial laws and even had a Jewish mistress, Margherita Sarfatti.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 10:36:43 | gen. | pom-pom hat | шапочка с кисточкой |
| 23.12.2014 | 10:35:12 | gen. | bobble hat | шапочка с кисточкой |
| 23.12.2014 | 10:34:32 | gen. | pompom hat | шапочка с кисточкой |
| 23.12.2014 | 9:12:53 | gen. | drive and driven wheels | ведущие и ведомые шестерни |
| 23.12.2014 | 8:59:14 | gen. | carry out an interview | брать интервью (у = with. also conduct, do, hold • The survey team carried out over 200 interviews with retired people.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 8:55:23 | gen. | global sports stars | звезды мирового спорта |
| 23.12.2014 | 8:44:43 | gen. | try as they did | как ни пытались (Try as they did, his parents were unable to teach him to ... | Try as they did, his condition worsened with the second.) |
| 23.12.2014 | 8:41:35 | gen. | all manner of | самые различные (many different kinds of. echinacea is used by American Indians for all manner of ailments. NOED. all kinds or sorts of (things or people). The store sells all manner of musical instruments. All manner of people come to the city. MWALD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:45:51 | gen. | perestroika-minded | перестроечный (Raisa Gorbacheva acquired a very public stature, yet many Soviets disapproved of her visibility. The perestroika-minded media began to feature | ... remove Honecker by 1988, replacing him with a more perestroika-minded leader. | to replace the aging minister of defense, Marshal Sergei Sokolov, with a younger and, it was hoped, more "perestroika-minded" general, General of the Army ...) |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:43:30 | gen. | consul general | генконсул (pl. consuls general. a consular officer of the highest rank, as a person who is stationed at a place of considerable commercial importance or supervises other consuls. RHWD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:20:15 | gen. | lyric | слова из песни (1 : the words of a song a song with a beautiful lyric – usually plural a song with beautiful lyrics She knows the lyrics to all her favorite songs. The song's lyrics made no sense to her. Who wrote the lyrics for/to this song? 2 : a poem that expresses deep personal feelings in a way that is like a song : a lyric poem a poet admired for his lyrics. MWALD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:19:46 | gen. | lyrics | слова из песни (the words of a popular song. she has published both music and lyrics for a number of songs. NOED) |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:14:57 | gen. | junior staffer | младший сотрудник |
| 22.12.2014 | 20:08:57 | gen. | situation | местечко (уютные местечки = comfortable situations. ... to measure myself against the best and I've always taken on challenges – I left Canada for Germany as a kid, I've left comfortable situations.) |
| 22.12.2014 | 19:25:29 | gen. | superspy | супершпион (a highly accomplished spy Example Sentences Including "superspy" Plus: Alexander and more Bourne to Run Matt Damon is still trying to jog his superspy memory in The Bourne Supremacy. MAXIM (2004) The star of Troy has emerged as the frontrunner to play 007, taking over the role of the suave superspy from Pierce Brosnan. THE MERCURY, SUNDAY TASMANIAN (2004). Collins) |
| 22.12.2014 | 19:19:45 | gen. | foreign intelligence operative | агент иностранной разведки (The foreign intelligence operative's goal is to make it so easy for you to get involved or to put yourself in a compromising position that you won't want to report or ...) |
| 22.12.2014 | 19:13:15 | gen. | there's no denying | нельзя не признать (used for saying that something is clearly true. There’s no denying her popularity. there’s no denying (that): There’s no denying that he was a great man. MED) |
| 22.12.2014 | 19:03:28 | gen. | psychiatric hospital | психиатрическая клиника (A hospital for the care and treatment of patients affected with acute or chronic mental illness. Also called mental hospital. AHD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 18:38:26 | gen. | wide variety of | самые разные (the general goals of the protest, the white protestors voiced a wide variety of opinions as to what constituted the appropriate method for obtaining these goals.) |
| 22.12.2014 | 17:20:10 | gen. | not dissimilar | примерно аналогичный (a pump not dissimilar to those once found on every farm. WN3. Johnson held a not dissimilar reciprocal opinion, comparing Monboddo to another of his own bugbears, Rousseau. LDOCE. the military requirements are not dissimilar from those for defense – Fletcher Pratt those pumps … were not dissimilar to those once familiar to everyone on a farm – J.B.Conant. WTNI) |
| 22.12.2014 | 17:02:10 | gen. | personae non gratae | персоны нон грата (an unacceptable or unwelcome person. Nabokov was persona non grata with the regime. NOED. a person who is not welcome in a particular place because of something they have said or done, especially one who is told to leave a country by the government • Their ambassador was declared persona non grata and forced to leave the country. OALD. someone who is not accepted or welcome by other people His shocking book about the movie industry has made him persona non grata in Hollywood. MWALD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 16:20:28 | gen. | lodge a strong protest with | направить решительный протест в (New Delhi: India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan for granting bail to Lashkar-e-Toiba (LeT) commander and 26/11 Mumbai attacks ... | India has lodged a strong protest with Pakistan over repeated ceasefire violations along the border at a Brigade Commander-level flag meeting between the ... | The Pakistan government on Monday lodged a strong protest with Indian government asking it to restrain its forces from ceasefire violations, ...) |
| 22.12.2014 | 16:17:49 | gen. | media reports | сообщения в СМИ |
| 22.12.2014 | 16:15:52 | gen. | blown agent | провалившийся агент (to the immediate adoption of a policy which made TRICYCLE irretrievably a blown agent and which also caused BALLOON to become blown in the near future.) |
| 22.12.2014 | 16:06:42 | gen. | green light | санкция (Как писала впоследствии пресса, санкцию на проведение операции дал не кто иной, как Борис Ельцин = According to subsequent press reports, the green light for the operation was given by none other than Boris Yeltsin.) |
| 22.12.2014 | 14:35:35 | gen. | closed for renovation | закрытый на ремонт (The gallery is closed for renovation. OCD) |
| 22.12.2014 | 14:10:22 | gen. | task force | опергруппа |
| 22.12.2014 | 14:09:20 | gen. | burst | краткосрочный (краткосрочные сигналы = burst signals) |
| 22.12.2014 | 14:05:12 | gen. | signal monitoring service | служба радиоэлектронного контроля (serious American officer from the Signal Monitoring Service. (Pacific) travelled from his HQ to tell us that our Command Net had committed ...) |
| 22.12.2014 | 12:35:41 | gen. | believe | представить (Мне трудно представить, что – I find it hard to believe that) |
| 22.12.2014 | 12:26:43 | gen. | same-year student | сокурсник (Everything is going fine, until he becomes infatuated (without help of incantation or love potion) with a same-year student.) |
| 22.12.2014 | 11:47:36 | gen. | take | версия о (~ on something (informal) the particular opinion or idea that sb has about something • What's his take on the plan? • a new take on the Romeo and Juliet story (= a way of presenting it). OALD. his own whimsical take on life. NOED) |