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Concede
(kən´sı:d) |
[V] уступать допустить допускать признавать признать признавать поражение проигрывать
-He conceded that he had been wrong. признать -If you concede something, you admit that it is true, proper, or certain––usually in an unwilling way -I eventually had to concede defeat. -She finally conceded that he was right. |
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Conceited
(kən´sı:tıd) |
[A] тщеславный самодовольный высокомерный
-A conceited person has an inflated self-image and perceives himself as incredibly entertaining and wonderful. -Heaven knows I at least am not conceited -a conceited fool -an attitude of self-conceited arrogance |
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Con
(kɒn) |
[N] жульничество жулик стук подача команд рулевому
[V] заучивать наизусть зубрить долбить управлять кораблем вести судно жульничать надувать направлять мысль направлять действия [A] жульнический -He conned her into giving him money обманом -The mistress of Alexander Hamilton and the wife of a con man, Maria Reynolds played a central role... -I am afraid you have been the victim of a con. -He claimed that the businessman had conned him out of his life savings. |
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Burgess
(´bɜ:rdʒıs) |
[N] гражданин города житель города член парламента
-Though a little embarrassed at being captured, he was grateful to receive the thanks from the House of Burgesses |
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Brackish
(´brækıʃ) |
[A] солоноватый противный
- (of water) tasting slightly of salt, often unpleasantly. солоноватый -Before vanishing into the brackish water -shallow pools of brackish water -Showers in many hotels are low pressure and often brackish, not fresh. You’ll often find brackish water in areas where salty seawater mixes with freshwater, such as "the brackish water of a Louisiana bayou." |
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Chortle
(´tʃɔ:rtəl) |
[N] хихиканье сдавленный смех ликование
[V] громко ликовать громко торжествовать посмеяться смеяться хихикать хихикнуть -A chortle is a joyful, partly muffled laugh. If you have a toddler, you will recognize the sound of a delighted chortle, sort of louder and a bit more raucous than a giggle. -A chortle is a joyful, partly muffled laugh. If you have a toddler, you will recognize the sound of a delighted chortle, sort of louder and a bit more raucous than a giggle. |
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Collusion
(kə´lu:ʒən) |
[N] тайный сговор сговор тайный: тайное соглашение
-If you are making secret agreements with someone, then you are in collusion with them. Every time gas prices jump, consumers suspect the gas station owners of collusion and price fixing. -The federal investigation has exposed collusion among banks, insurance companies -An art thief could be in collusion with a museum director to steal a famous painting from an art museum. |
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Comply
(kəm´plaı) |
[V] исполнять исполнить исполнять просьбу подчиняться уступать согласиться соглашаться
-You must comply (with her wishes).уступать -When Hamilton refused to comply, Burr, further enraged, challenged Hamilton to a duel. -Comply is to act according to someone's wishes or rules. Although you might like to stay out with your friends, you'll have to comply with your parents' rules and be home by midnight. -The patient complied with the physician's orders -Protesters were given a Wednesday deadline to comply. |
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Concoct
(kɒn´kɒkt) |
[V] стряпать состряпать придумывать замышлять
-I've concocted a new drink for you to try; The child concocted a story about having been attacked.состряпать;выдумать -When you concoct something, you mix up different ingredients. If you want to become a mad scientist or a wizard, you'll have to learn how to concoct strange potions. -concoct a mystery story. -concoct a strange mixture |
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Concourse
(´kɒnkɔ:rs) |
[N] стечение стечение народа толпа скопление открытый: открытое место, где собирается публика главный вестибюль вокзала главный зал вокзала
-The streets were filled with a fair concourse of people that night. -He crossed the station's concourse towards the escalator. |
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Confine
(kən´faın) |
[N] граница
[V] ограничивать ограничить придерживаться заточать держать взаперти заключать в тюрьм -They succeeded in confining the fire to a small area.ограничивать - The prince was confined in the castle for three years.держать взаперти -For the remainder of the war, George Washington was content to keep the British confined to New York -Confine is all about setting limits. If you are confined to the house, it means you can't leave it. If you're really sick, you might be confined to your bed. -Please confine your remarks to the issues at hand |
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Austere
(ɔ:´stıər) |
[A] строгий суровый аскетический простой затея: без затей чистый
-an austere way of life.аскетический -The adjective austere is used to describe something or someone stern or without any decoration. You wouldn't want someone to describe you or your home as austere. -The life of the troops was comparatively austere. -The church was austere and simple. -an austere, distant, cold person |
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Bait
(beıt) |
[N] приманка наживка искушение отдых и кормление лошадей в пути
[V] насаживать наживку на крючок приманить приманивать искушать искусить завлекать травить собаками преследовать насмешками изводить покой: не давать покоя кормить останавливаться в пути для отдыха и еды получать корм -Before he went fishing he dug up some worms for bait. наживка; приманка -He baited the mousetrap with cheese. насаживать наживку -People who go fishing aren’t the only ones to use bait. -When you hold a yard sale, place your best stuff closest to the sidewalk — to serve as bait. -Bait can be anything from the worms that hide a hook to a stereo that tempts shoppers to stop and browse. |
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Begrudge
(bı´grʌdʒ) |
[V] завидовать выражать недовольство возмущаться обижаться cкупиться
-To begrudge someone something is to wish them ill for it or to envy them. Try not to begrudge his getting the promotion over you — he's been at the company longer. -Not in the least did she begrudge him his good fortune. -She can’t begrudge me a few hours now and then. -begrudged every penny spent -She begrudged him his youth. |
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Begrudgingly
(bı´grʌdʒıŋlı) |
[ADV] завистливо
-Hamilton begrudgingly accepted, believing that in doing so he would assure his “ability to be in [the] future useful.” |
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Belligerent
(bə´lıdʒərənt) |
[N] воюющий: воюющая сторона
[A] находящийся в состоянии войны воюющий воинственный агрессивный -She is very belligerent and quarrelsome. агрессивный -belligerent nations.воюющий -If someone is belligerent, they're eager to fight. -a belligerent tone -He was almost back to his belligerent mood of twelve months |
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Bivouac
(´bıvu: ̗æk) |
[N] бивак палатка
[V] стоять биваком располагаться биваком -If you ever draped a blanket over bushes or lawn chairs in the backyard and pretended to bunk down under it when you were a kid, you’ve made a bivouac — a temporary, makeshift camp with little or no cover. -On the 7th he pitched his bivouac about Frederick City. |
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Bore
(bɔ:r) |
[N] высверленное отверстие скважина дыра канал ствола калибр диаметр отверстия внутренний диаметр скука скучный человек скучный: скучное занятие сильное приливное течение
[V] сверлить расточить растачивать высверливать высверлить провертеть провертывать пробурить бурить пробивать себе путь протискаться протискиваться вытягивать голову (о лошади) надоесть надоедать наскучить -If your friends fall asleep every time you open your mouth, you might be a bore — someone who makes the people around them bored. -You can bore a hole into something by drilling through it with a tool, and you can also bore people by being excessively dull, repetitive, or tedious to be around -Of one thing she was assured, she was bored no longer. |
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Bear
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v- переносить, рождать производить
-To bear is to carry or endure, whether by physical or mental force. If you can bear to read on, you'll find out all the different ways to use the word bear. -She is bearing his child -bear news |
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Captivity
(kæp´tıvətı) |
[N] плен рабство неволя пленение
-The aim was clear: slaves and gold. They went from island to island in the Caribbean, taking Indians as captives. -he was held in captivity until he died -An American missionary was released today after more than two months of captivity. C |
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Commence
(kə´mens) |
[V] начинать начинаться
- the church service commenced with a hymn.начинать -Commence is a fancy way of saying begin at the start of a formal event such as a meeting or war. -Commence operations on Monday 3 may. -Commence on 1st September 2006, for up to three years. -They commenced a systematic search of the area. -B academic year commences at the beginning of October |
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Bowdlerize
(´baʋdlə ̗raız) |
[V] выбрасывать все нежелательное
-Bowdlerize (´baʋdlə ̗raız) -sanitize She had ceased to bowdlerize her storytelling -bowdlerize a novel |
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Woe
(wəʋ) |
[N] горе скорбь несчастье проблемы головная боль
-You may experience financial woes, if you spend too much on your credit card. -There’s rapidly growing consensus that the nation’s housing woes are holding back the economic recovery. |
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Wither
(´wıðər) |
[V] вянуть увянуть увядать отцвести отцветать сохнуть засохнуть блекнуть иссушить иссушать лишать свежести ослабевать уменьшаться уменьшиться уничтожать отсыхать отсохнуть
-The plants withered because they had no water; The sun has withered my plants.вянуть; иссушать -Wither means to shrivel up or shrink. If you forget to water your plants for six weeks, they'll wither — they'll dry up and you probably won't be able to bring them back to life. -all hope withered away -The teacher withered the noisy student with a glance. -His dream of being a famous footballer withered and died. -His leg muscles had withered from lack of use.W |
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Wronged
(´rɔ:ŋəd) |
[A] опозоренный
-The country is wronged in this matter, as in many things else. -He caught only a glimpse of her before looking irritably away, but then felt as if he had wronged her in some way. |
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Worthwhile
( ̗wɜ:rɵ´waıl) |
[A] ст`оящий, ст`оящий затраченного времени или труда дельный путный
Things that are worthwhile are good — they're worth the time or money you spend on them. -If going to the gym helped you get in better shape, it was worthwhile. If hanging out in the park made you happy, it was worthwhile. If something is a total waste of time and you wish you hadn't done it, then it wasn't worthwhile. -a worthwhile book” -The study did not produce any worthwhile results. |
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Woo
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[V] ухаживать добиваться посвататься свататься уговаривать докучать просьбами
-He wooed the daughter of the king.ухаживать -When you woo someone, you are being charming because you think that it will make them love you more. You want to win their heart, so you woo them, you flirty dog you. -Poetry is a great way to woo someone -The bank wooed customers by offering low interest rates. -The penniless author successfully wooed and married Roxanne. |
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Wilting
(´wıltıŋ) |
[N] увядание
-You’d better stop treating Pam like a little wilting flower with a head of glass .. -All life is wilting in the soaring summer heat outside. -My opponent was wilting -plants wilting in the heat. |
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Wilt
(wılt) |
[N] вялость слабость вилт
[V]вянуть поникать слабеть ослабевать терять присутствие духа губить -The flowers wilted |
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Wiry
(´waıərı) |
[A] тонкий гибкий и крепкий гибкий как проволока похожий на проволоку жилистый выносливый проволочный
-wiry red hair -He had a wiry build. -a wiry tone. -a wiry and athletic young man |
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Voracious
(vəʋ´reıʃəs) |
[A] - прожорливый жадный ненасытный
-Voracious is an adjective used to describe a wolflike appetite. It might be a craving (страстное желание) for food or for something else, such as power, but the word usually denotes an unflattering greediness. -paying taxes to voracious governments -voracious sharks -He was a voracious reader. |
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Volatile
(´vɒlətəl) |
[A] непостоянный изменчивый ветреный неуловимый летучий быстро испаряющийся взрывоопасный
-Watch out when a situation becomes volatile — it is likely to change for the worse suddenly. -a volatile relationship -She has a volatile temperament. -when volatile chemicals explode -in a volatile mood |
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Vulturous
(´vʌltʃərəs) |
[A] хищный
-their vulturous appetites rendered them regardless of all else. -She could have posed for one of the Grimms’ most vulturine witches. -Flint smiled a grim, vulturine smile as he read over the finished letters of instruction, a few minutes later |
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Vial
(´vaıəl) |
[N] пузырек склянка флакон бутылочка
-Pour out the vials of wrath on smb. - Vials of liquid -A vial is just a small glass bottle that contains a chemical or drug. -A small card bearing the name, number, locality, and other data was placed in each vial. |
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Villain
(´vılən) |
[N] злодей негодяй плутишка хитрец виллан крепостной
-the villain of the play/story.злодей -A villain is a bad person — real or made up. In books, movies, current events, or history, the villain is the character who does mean, evil things on purpose. -There are no villains in this drama, just a young man unlucky in love. -As a copper, I've spent my life putting villains like him away. |
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Virtuous
(´vɜ:rtʃu:əs) |
[A] добродетельный целомудренный
-If you call someone virtuous, you are saying that person is living according to high moral standards. Someone virtuous is who you want leading your Girl Scout troop. -Your decision to cancel your vacation plans when your mom got sick was virtuous -a prince who falls in love with a beautiful and virtuous maiden |
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Unseat
(ʌn´sı:t) |
[V] ссадить со стула сбрасывать сбросить с седла сбрасывать с лошади лишать места лишать должности лишить парламентского мандата
-The Republicans are trying to unseat the liberal Democrat -It is not clear who was behind the attempt to unseat the President. -She was unseated on her first ride. |
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Ungodly
(ʌn´gɒdlı) |
[A] неверующий нелепый возмутительный ужасный
-You’ve made an ungodly mess -ungodly acts -My folks had nothing to do with ungodly people. -at the ungodly hour of 4.00am |
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Unforeseen
( ̗ʌnfɔ:r´sı:n) |
[A] непредвиденный не предусмотренный
-unforeseen circumstances -unforeseen difficulties -Due to unforeseen circumstances, the show has been cancelled. |
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Untoward
( ̗ʌntə´wɔ:rd) |
[A] несчастливый своенравный неблагоприятный неудачный неподобающий неловкий неприличный непокорный
-The surveyor's report didn't highlight anything untoward. -an untoward incident. -Some Democrats say they began carrying cameras in case they needed to document untoward acts. |
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Undermine
( ̗ʌndər´maın) |
[V] подкопать подкапывать подкоп: делать подкоп подмывать подмыть разрушать подрыть подрывать заминировать минировать
-The road was being undermined by a stream.Подмывать -Constant hard work had undermined his health. -To undermine literally means to dig a hole underneath something, making it likely to collapse. -Water has undermined the stone foundations. -Late hours can undermine one's health. -their insults undermined her confidence |
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Uneventful
( ̗ʌnı´ventfəl) |
[A] небогатый событиями
-an uneventful life -the voyage was pleasant and uneventful -recovery was uneventful -The return journey was uneventful, the car running perfectly. |
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Interlude
(´ıntər ̗lu:d) |
[N] антракт интерлюдия интермедия промежуточный эпизод
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Valour
(´vælər) |
[N] доблесть отвага
-He displayed his valour on the battlefield доблесть -He was decorated for valour in the war. |
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Vanity
(´vænıtı)[ |
N] суета суетность тщета тщеславие туалетный столик
-Vanity is the quality of being vain (тщеславный), or having a ridiculous amount of pride. If you have excessive vanity in your appearance, you probably spend long hours sitting at your vanity table doing your makeup or plucking your nose hairs. -No one could have accused him of vanity. -Men who use steroids are motivated by sheer vanity. |
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Turmoil
(´tɜ:rmɔıl) |
[N] беспорядок смятение шум суматоха
-The crowd / His mind was in (a) turmoil.смятение -the political turmoil of 1989 -Your mind is in turmoil. -a country in turmoil over labor strikes. |
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Tizzy
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[N] шестипенсовая монета волнение
-The whole town has been in a tizzy since they found out. -You don’t need to get in a tizzy over this |
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Timber
(´tımbər) |
[N] лесоматериал лесоматериалы строевой лес брус балка бревно тимберс шпангоут крепежный лес личный: личное качество достоинство изгородь
[V] обшивать деревом [A] строевой лесной -This house is built of timber.древесина -a hundred acres of good timber.строевой лес a bird nestling in the timbers of the roof -These forests have been exploited for timber since Saxon times. |
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Throbbing
(´ɵrɒbıŋ) |
[N] трепетание волнение пульсация
[A] трепещущий дрожащий пульсирующий -a throbbing pain -the throbbing engine of the boat -he felt a throbbing in his head -the throbbing of the engines |
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Trespass
(´trespæs, ´trespəs) |
[N] злоупотребление проступок нарушение владения посягательство правонарушение прегрешение грех
[V] злоупотребить злоупотреблять посягать посягнуть нарушать чужое право владения совершать правонарушение -You are trespassing (on my land).вторгаться в чужие владения -She is trespassing upon my privacy -They were trespassing on private property. -Forgive those who trespass against us. -You could be prosecuted for trespass. |
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Transitory
(´trænsı ̗tɔ:rı) |
[A] преходящий скоропреходящий временный мимолетный переходящий переходный
-If something is fleeting or lasts a short time, it is transitory. -The adjective transitory describes something that is fleeting, temporary, or brief. -When you met your first love, your parents thought that the relationship was transitory — but fifty years later, you're still married! -Most teenage romances are transitory. |
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Throwback
(´ɵrəʋbæk) |
[N] движение назад возврат к прошлому задержка регресс атавизм переключение
-Rams will wear throwback uniforms worn in 1999 Super Bowl championship season. |
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Tamper
(´tæmpər) |
[N] трамбовка пест кража электроэнергии
[V] Трогать соваться сунуться Вмешиваться портить оказывать тайное давление Подделать подделывать искажать Исказить подкупать -Don't tamper with the engine. ковыряться -Don't tamper with my feelings. - tamper with a jury -tried to tamper with the decedent's will; tampering with the timing mechanism of the safe. -Someone tampered with the documents on my desk |
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Tantalize
(´tæntə ̗laız) |
[V] подвергать танталовым мукам мучить помучить дразнить ложными надеждами
-The expensive clothes in the shop-window tantalized her.дразнить -tantalizing smells in the kitchen.дразнящий When you tantalize people, you torment them in a specific way — by showing them something they want but can’t have -He would tantalize the dog with food. |
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Thence
(ðens) |
[ADV] оттуда отсюда из этого поэтому
proceeded thence directly to college” “flew to Helsinki and thence to Moscow” we were young and thence optimistic” |
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Tenure
(´tenjər) |
[N] владение недвижимость пребывание в должности срок владения пребывание срок пребывания
-During Hamilton's tenure as Treasury Secretary, political factions began to emerge. -Take the noun tenure for the period of time a person holds a position or office. Your tenure as a student ends when you graduate high school — unless, of course, you go on to college. -his short tenure of the Labour leadership -a teacher granted tenure on a faculty. |
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Tentacle
(´tentəkəl) |
[N] щупальце усик
-An octopus has eight tentacles.щупальце -A tentacle is long, ropey thing that sticks out of an animal’s face. -the tentacles of organized crime |
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Thrift
(ɵrıft) |
[N] бережливость экономность хозяйственность процветание достаток зажиточность армерия [бот.]
[V] сэкономить экономить - She is noted for her thrift but her husband is very extravagant. Экономность -Thrift means being very careful about how much money you spend. Reusing the same tea bag ten times so as not to waste money is a kind of thrift. -They were rightly praised for their thrift and enterprise. |
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Thrifty
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[A] экономный, бережливый , запасливый цветущий процветающий
-Thrifty people -Being thrifty means being careful of your money and how you spend it. Think twice before you spend, but if you must shop, hitting the sales and using coupons are good ways to be thrifty. -My mother taught me to be thrifty. |
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Trough
(trɒf) |
[N] корыто кормушка квашня подошва желоб ковш лоток впадина котловина самый: самая глубокая точка падения производства, цен и т.п. область низкого давления мульда
[A] швеллерный -He worried that the trough would became a trench, the trench become a vortex -a drinking-trough for the cattle. корыто; кормушка -The boat went down into a trough.подошва -If you live on a farm, you already know that a trough is what animals eat out of. -The ducklings should be fed once in two hours, scattering a little food on the troughs. |
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Tangible
(´tændʒəbəl) |
[N] ощутимый: нечто ощутимое реальный: нечто реальное осязаемый: нечто осязаемое
[A] осязаемый ощутимый материальный реальный заметный ясный -tangible evidence.реальный -She had to go hack to Raleigh with something tangible -When you can touch something, it's tangible: "I need tangible proof that aliens exist — I want to shake their little green hands!" -skin with a tangible roughness -tangible evidence -tangible property like real estate -tangible assets such as machinery |
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Thrash
(ɵræʃ) |
[N] крутильные колебания
[V] пороть бить взгреть отлупить победить победить в борьбе потрепать намолотить молотить -The child was soundly thrashed.пороть -The wounded animal thrashed about/around on the ground. метаться -Our team was thrashed eighteen-nil.разбить (наголову) -He needs a good thrashing! порка -The feverish patient thrashed around in his bed” -They found him on the floor, kicking and thrashing about. -'Liar!' she screamed, as she thrashed the child. |
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Underdog
(´ʌndər ̗dɒg) |
[N] собака, побежденная в драке побежденный: побежденная сторона подчиняющаяся сторона неудачник
-no one liked a fight, or a victory, particularly for the underdog, better than Jack Sutherland. -Even so, Murray suggested that being the underdog relieved the strain of performing at home. |
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Stricken
(´strıkən) |
[A] пораженный раненый разбитый (о сердце)
- p.p. от strike -In his youth he was stricken with a crippling disease; grief-stricken parents; panic-stricken crowds. поражённый -and Jessica simply stared at them, looking stricken -Stricken means "overwhelmed by emotion." When you saw the pretty new girl at school smiling at you, you were so stricken you walked right into a wall. -Foreign aid workers will not be allowed into the stricken areas. -a family stricken by genetically inherited cancer |
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Stern
(stɜ:rn) |
[N] корма [мор.] задний: задняя часть какого-л. предмета хвост правило
[A] суровый строгий вердый непреклонный неумолимый кормовой [мор.] задний -The teacher looked rather stern; stern discipline. суровый; строгий -You know when you've done something really wrong, and the person who gets you in trouble has that unforgiving look on his face? The best word for that look is stern, meaning "strict" or "severe." -a stern face -a stern disciplinarian -the stern demands of parenthood |
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Sterling
(´stɜ:rlıŋ) |
[N] стерлинг фунт стерлингов английский: английская валюта серебро установленной пробы
[A] стерлинговый установленный: установленной пробы безукоризненный надежный подлинный первоклассный полновесный полноценный [ADV] стерлинг: в фунтах стерлингов -He still liked her for all the sterling qualities she possessed -a sterling teaspoon. - a person of sterling character. |
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Stow
(stəʋ) |
[V] укладывать, складывать, наполнять, набивать, вместить, вмещать прекращать
-The sailor stowed his belongings in his locker. складывать, -stowed carrots and potatoes in the root cellar. -secrete I helped her stow her bags in the boot of the car. |
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Stow away
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-He stowed away on a cargo ship for New York. ехать зайцем
-My jewellery is safely stowed away in the bank.прятать -The illegal immigrants stowed away on board the freighter |
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Strand
(strænd) |
[N] берег прибрежная полоса береговой: береговая линия прядь стренга нитка
[V] сесть на мель, посадить на мель, выкидывать на берег, выбросить на берег выброситься на берег, скручивать, вить -The ship was stranded on the rocks.садиться на мель -A single hair, a noodle, even a line of thought — any of these things could be called a strand, a long thin length of something. -he tried to pick up the strands of his former life -a strand of pearls |
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Strain
(streın) |
[N] натяжение растяжение напряжение нагрузка деформация род порода племя сорт наследственность наклонность наследственная черта черта характера стиль стиль речи тон речи напев мелодия поэзия стих: стихи штамм
[V] натягивать астягивать натягиваться натянуться растягиваться напрягать напрячь насиловать напрягаться натужиться стараться изо всех сил превышать злоупотреблять злоупотребить обнимать сжимать цедить процеживать процедить фильтровать профильтровать процеживаться фильтроваться просачиваться деформировать исказить искажать вызывать остаточную деформацию [A] натяжной -you can strain your ankle or patience. you have to strain a little to accomplish anything, like getting an A in math. Maybe you have to strain to hear the quiet flute in an orchestra. Another meaning is to pass something through a filter, like tea leaves. -straining our ears to hear -Don't strain your mind too much -the rope strained when the weight was attached |
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Stencil
(´stensəl) |
[N] трафарет шаблон узор по трафарету надпись по трафарету
[V] наносить узор по трафарету -There are suede and calf versions, as well as a stenciled leopard print. -The leaves were stenciled and painted in 24 vibrant and varied colors, from pale blues to fluorescent yellows. |
