Articles (Week 8)

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lax

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careless;
распущенный;
Timothy Leary, a psychologist at Harvard University, was one of the best-known workers in the field, but it was also he who was widely blamed for discrediting it, by his unconventional research methods and his lax handling of drugs.

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bereavement

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deprive (лишать) or make disolate (несчастный)
тяжелая утрата;
It, and its close chemical relative psilocybin, isolated from hallucinogenic mushrooms, were reported as having potential for treating anxiety disorders, OCD, depression, bereavement and even sexual dysfunction.

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placebo

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a substance having no pharmocological effect but given only to satisfy patient who supposees it to be medecine;
Unfortunately, most of the studies that came to these conclusions were flawed: many results were anecdotal, and control groups were not established to take account of the placebo effect.

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to proscribe

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to prohibit as dangerous or harmfull;
запрещать;
Eventually both LSD and psilocybin were proscribed.

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yeast

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дрожжи;
Edwin Wintermute and his colleagues at Harvard have engineered yeast cells to carry out two of six steps in the pathway needed to make lysergic acid, the precursor of LSD.

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rye, ergot

Back 6

рожь, спорынья;
The current process for manufacturing it is a rather messy one involving ergot, a parasite of rye.

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to detest

Back 7

hate;
ненавидеть;
Republicans universally detest Barack Obama’s health reforms—which, though passed last year, will not go into effect until 2014—and vow to repeal them.

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vow

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personal commitment;
клятва;
Republicans universally detest Barack Obama’s health reforms—which, though passed last year, will not go into effect until 2014—and vow to repeal them.

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to repeal

Back 9

withdraw (выводить) formally;
отменить;
Republicans universally detest Barack Obama’s health reforms—which, though passed last year, will not go into effect until 2014—and vow to repeal them.

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extol

Back 10

to praise highly;
хвалить;
Some foreigners may extol China’s handling of the global financial crisis, but Mr Wen has stuck to his guns.

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attain

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to reach, achieve;
достигать;
The Economist Intelligence Unit, a sister organisation of this newspaper, reckons that on the basis of market exchange rates China will attain that glory in 2020.

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reckless

Back 12

without caution, carelessly;
безрассудный;
And for all the bubbliness of China’s property market and the reckless spending of local governments, the country will probably avoid a crippling debt crisis.

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perennial

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lasting for indefinitely long time;
многолетний;
Chinese leaders are perennial worriers about inflation, not least because of its role in fuelling the discontent that led to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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discontent

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dissatisfied;
недовольство;
Chinese leaders are perennial worriers about inflation, not least because of its role in fuelling the discontent that led to the Tiananmen Square protests of 1989.

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successor

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a person that follows;
преемник;
When Mr Wen’s successor takes over in 2013, the current plan will still have more than two years to run.

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to envisage

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visualise;
предусматривать;
t still envisages big investments, but in the hope that these will boost household consumption in the longer term.

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collateral

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security pledged (заложенная) for the payment of a loan;
залог;
Not being allowed to borrow directly, many of them set up companies to borrow on their behalf, using land as collateral.

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plummet

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plunge;
стремительно падать;
If the bubble bursts, land prices could plummet, leaving the banks dangerously exposed.

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immense

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vast, huge;
огромный;
No country, he says, could be productive enough to invest 50% of GDP in new fixed assets without eventually facing “immense overcapacity and a staggering non-performing loan problem”.

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staggering

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tending to overwhelm;
ошеломляющий;
No country, he says, could be productive enough to invest 50% of GDP in new fixed assets without eventually facing “immense overcapacity and a staggering non-performing loan problem”.

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dweller

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who stay as permanent resident;
житель;
If China is not to stagnate, it will have to make a bigger effort to persuade rural dwellers to keep coming to the cities as its population ages ever more rapidly.