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1.05.2024 4:57:52 cliche. it was not until ... that только когда (with verbs in the past: On May 2 at about 3:00pm, my neighbor Ken took a series of 3 shots of me throwing my Frisbee in my backyard. I should have seen that white disc in the top left corner, but I didn't and neither did my friend who was taking the photos. It was not until I downloaded the pictures to my computer that I saw it. We are truly perplexed that we didn't see it at the time.)
1.05.2024 4:30:11 esot. in the trance state в трансе (In the second half, he discussed channeled conversations with prominent souls, including Jacques Cousteau, Wayne Dyer, Albert Einstein, Nikola Tesla, and John McCain, and their insights into what the future holds. Their hopeful messages came through a voice channeler, a woman named Sam Larkin, whom Thomas and his wife Carolyn interviewed when she was in the trance state. In this kind of channeling, "the soul goes through her, it comes into her body and actually takes over her vocal cords," he explained. (coasttocoastam.com))
1.05.2024 4:26:08 gen. technical field техническая отрасль (John Thomas worked for many years in various technical fields, including software, semiconductors, and battery technologies, and subsequently became interested in sustainability practices. -- в различных технических отраслях (coasttocoastam.com) • Техническая отрасль включает в себя производство и продажу технических продуктов, таких как электроника, машины, оборудование и другие товары, которые требуют специфических знаний или навыков для их понимания и использования. (из рус. источников))
1.05.2024 4:19:40 gen. carry the baby to full term выносить ребёнка до положенного срока (Preston is concerned we are opening a Pandora's box with the technology, which could lead to humans transforming our own species, as well as bringing back extinct races like the Neanderthals. The Neanderthal genome was sequenced back in 2010, and according to George Church, all it would take is implanting a chimpanzee or an "extremely adventurous human female" to carry the Neanderthal baby to full term. (coasttocoastam.com))
1.05.2024 4:10:49 gen. rather sizeable приличного размера (An intriguing video captured by an Australian prospector shows a rather sizeable black feline, that some suspect could be a panther, running through a field. The curious footage, which is remarkably clear by big cat sighting standards, was reportedly filmed this past Sunday by Angus James, who was searching for gold with a metal detector near the mining community of Ballarat. Some observers noted that James' experience was not wholly unique in that there have been several big cat sightings throughout Australia, where such creatures are not believed to exist. coasttocoastam.com)
1.05.2024 3:39:37 real.est. community garden общий огород (где жители жилого комплекса выращивают ягоды, овощи на индивидуальных грядках и травы-приправы, это не фруктовый сад в полном смысле слова: The townhome development also offers a community garden, a playground for children and a gym.)
1.05.2024 3:33:23 real.est. within striking distance of the city в пределах досягаемости от города (“With the pandemic, people wanted to move away from the city where there’s so much density, and this is one of the big attractions for it. People are coming to this location because it’s not in Vancouver, but it’s within striking distance of it, which is very expensive nowadays.” renxhomes.ca)
1.05.2024 3:33:23 real.est. within striking distance of the city на доступном расстоянии от города (“With the pandemic, people wanted to move away from the city where there’s so much density, and this is one of the big attractions for it. People are coming to this location because it’s not in Vancouver, but it’s within striking distance of it, which is very expensive nowadays.” renxhomes.ca)
1.05.2024 3:27:35 real.est. in an outdoors setting на природе (There has been a diverse spectrum of buyers, he noted, but one uniting factor is a yearning for active living in an outdoors setting. Younger families or downsizing empty nesters are the demographics, and they have come from across the country. He said the community has even attracted buyers from Toronto who have been drawn to region, as well as people who work from home. renxhomes.ca)
1.05.2024 3:13:13 gen. range from ... to находиться в пределах от ... до (Rents for studios, for example, would range from $1,000 to $1,320, which associate to incomes of $41,520 to $52,800. Rents for three-bedroom units would range from $1,700 to $2,970, which relate to incomes of $68,000 to $118,000.)
1.05.2024 3:12:36 gen. ranging from ... to размером от ... до (Whale Beach will have 73 executive townhomes ranging from 1,562 square feet to 1,895 square feet. Units will be two-bedroom-plus-den or three-bedroom versions.)
1.05.2024 3:08:50 gen. smaller меньшего размера (We have worked on smaller projects in the past but this is something much bigger and very exciting.)
1.05.2024 3:04:31 formal curate тщательно подбирать (с какой-л. целью: to select and bring together people or groups for a purpose that is dependent on the specific skills or talents of the members (Merriam-Webster): The historic village that once hosted mine workers is being rebuilt into an area featuring a grocery store with a liquor license, various food and beverage businesses, and a bar. The intent is to curate tenants that can foster a “well-rounded, functional and practically useful village,” Andreasen said. A building will have on-site daycare for residents and employees in the commercial area. There has been a diverse spectrum of buyers, he noted, but one uniting factor is a yearning for active living in an outdoors setting. Younger families or downsizing empty nesters are the demographics, and they have come from across the country. He said the community has even attracted buyers from Toronto who have been drawn to region, as well as people who work from home. renxhomes.ca)
1.05.2024 2:34:40 real.est. remote community удалённый населённый пункт (To complement the residential side, Whale Beach will also have a commercial area that aims to give a fairly remote community more amenities.)
1.05.2024 2:34:24 real.est. remote community отдалённый населённый пункт (To complement the residential side, Whale Beach will also have a commercial area that aims to give a fairly remote community more amenities.)
30.04.2024 7:06:04 gen. come back to haunt потом пожалеть о чём-л. (If the mayor wants to play partisan politics with this issue, it's going to come back to haunt him.)
30.04.2024 7:04:08 gen. regret sth. пожалеть о чём-л. (You're going to regret this, Arlena. I promise. • She didn't know she was going to regret that.)
30.04.2024 5:50:43 gen. strictly forbid строго запретить (These beliefs are perceived as such a problem that the president of Tajikistan went so far as to give a speech earlier this year wherein he stressed to residents that "the Prophet of Islam strictly forbade going to fortune tellers and sorcerers." (coasttocoastam.com))
30.04.2024 5:29:48 busin. expand upon развить (Paul has developed the family business, expanding upon his father's work and adding five more locations across Canada. -- развил семейное дело отца, опираясь на проделанную им работу)
29.04.2024 10:39:55 gen. all the more ещё сильнее (Their trip turned truly unforgettable when the pair noticed "a long break in the water which was otherwise still and calm" approximately 600 feet from shore. Puzzled by the curious disturbance, the pair were all the more mystified by a "black lump" that emerged from the spot out on the loch and then submerged after around 30 seconds. -- были ещё сильнее / ещё больше озадачены coasttocoastam.com)
29.04.2024 10:39:43 gen. all the more гораздо более (при сравнении: Chimpanzees have large brains and rich cultural lives, but the discovery among bumblebees, Thornton argues, is "all the more remarkable because it focuses not on humanity's primate cousins, but on an animal with a brain that is barely 0.0005 percent of the size of a chimpanzee's." (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:40:05 cliche. common opinion распространённая точка зрения (When trained in the lab to open a two-step puzzle box, bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris could teach the solution to another bee that had never seen the box before. "This finding challenges a common opinion in the field: that the capacity to socially learn behaviors that cannot be innovated through individual trial and error is unique to humans," write the team of researchers based in the United Kingdom and United States. -- Результаты эксперимента оспаривают распространённую точку зрения ... (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:37:09 gen. at a basic level на примитивном уровне (When trained in the lab to open a two-step puzzle box, bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris could teach the solution to another bee that had never seen the box before. Obviously, no animal can put together an iPhone or read an article on animal intelligence. But at a basic level, bumblebees join chimpanzees in "casting serious doubt on this supposed human exceptionalism," writes Alex Thornton, an ecologist at the University of Exeter, in a review of the bumblebee research for Nature. (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:37:09 gen. at a basic level на элементарном уровне (When trained in the lab to open a two-step puzzle box, bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris could teach the solution to another bee that had never seen the box before. Obviously, no animal can put together an iPhone or read an article on animal intelligence. But at a basic level, bumblebees join chimpanzees in "casting serious doubt on this supposed human exceptionalism," writes Alex Thornton, an ecologist at the University of Exeter, in a review of the bumblebee research for Nature. (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:39:31 psychol. keep sb. motivated поддерживать мотивацию кого-л. (When trained in the lab to open a two-step puzzle box, bumblebees of the species Bombus terrestris could teach the solution to another bee that had never seen the box before. This naive bee would not have solved the puzzle on its own. To teach the 'demonstrator' bees the non-intuitive solution in the first place, researchers had to show them what to do and offer them a reward after the first step to keep them motivated. (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:38:29 formal wholly unique to в полной мере присущий лишь (The humble bumblebee is proof that brain size isn't everything. This little insect with its wee, seed-sized brain has shown a level of collective intelligence in experiments that scientists thought was wholly unique to humans. (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 7:38:45 formal wholly unique to в полной мере свойственный лишь (The humble bumblebee is proof that brain size isn't everything. This little insect with its wee, seed-sized brain has shown a level of collective intelligence in experiments that scientists thought was wholly unique to humans. (sciencealert.com))
29.04.2024 6:57:31 formal challenge a misconception оспорить заблуждение (Dennett talked about the phenomenon of UFO swarms, where large numbers of UFOs are observed simultaneously. He mentioned cases where astronomers have witnessed UFOs, including through telescopes, and emphasized that sightings by credible professionals challenge misconceptions about UFOs being seen only by the uninformed.)
29.04.2024 6:53:39 gen. cite examples such as привести такие примеры, как (Dennett talked about the phenomenon of UFO swarms, where large numbers of UFOs are observed simultaneously. He cited examples such as the Topanga Canyon incident in 1992 and the Farmington, New Mexico event in 1950. -- Он привёл такие примеры, как ... (coasttocoastam.com))
29.04.2024 6:50:20 inf. let me throw this out приведу такой пример (suggesting a possible course of action: Let me throw this out – ...)
29.04.2024 6:29:03 real.est. be up for sale продаваться (This Metro Vancouver home is up for sale for the low price of $99,000. This 5-bedroom, 2-bathroom New Westminster home boasts 1,677 sq ft of space. What's the catch? -- продаётся за низкую цену dailyhive.com)
29.04.2024 2:54:30 fig.of.sp. on the brink of на пороге (on the brink of discovery – на пороге открытия)
28.04.2024 8:45:26 gen. take a break передохнуть (Take a break for a second. -- Передохни́ минутку.)
28.04.2024 7:51:44 gen. get sb. a great big thank-you передать огромное спасибо
28.04.2024 7:51:44 gen. get sb. a great big thank-you передать большое спасибо
28.04.2024 7:33:50 formal withdraw from пасовать перед (... taking on challenges rather than withdrawing from them. -- справляться с трудностями, а не пасовать перед ними)
28.04.2024 7:06:30 formal through experimentation with экспериментируя с
28.04.2024 7:04:53 industr. operate equipment эксплуатировать оборудование (costs to purchase, maintain and operate this equipment)
28.04.2024 7:02:54 gen. tour operations экскурсионное обслуживание (a diploma in tour operations management)
28.04.2024 6:05:46 law, court Petition for Injunction ходатайство об обеспечительных мерах (There is no fee to file a Petition for Injunction Against Harassment.; ходатайство - нормальный перевод и вполне используется, но более частотным термином в этом контексте является "заявление" (о принятии/применении обеспечительных мер) 'More)
28.04.2024 6:05:06 immigr. make a refugee claim ходатайствовать о получении статуса беженца
28.04.2024 6:04:52 immigr. claim refugee status ходатайствовать о получении статуса беженца
28.04.2024 5:58:27 gen. slap sb. on the back хлопнуть по спине (-as a sign of chumminess)
28.04.2024 5:51:00 disappr. make a nuisance of oneself издеваться ("There ought to be a law. Probably was and the guy in the speedboat didn't give a damn. He enjoyed making a nuisance of himself, like other people I was meeting." (Raymond Chandler) – Ему нравилось издеваться над другими людьми.)
28.04.2024 5:48:40 gen. handiwork изделия ручной работы
28.04.2024 5:23:01 canad. Public Prosecution Service of Canada Прокуратура Канады (The Public Prosecution Service of Canada (PPSC) is a federal government organization responsible for prosecuting offences under more than 40 federal statutes and for providing prosecution-related legal advice to law enforcement agencies.)
28.04.2024 3:42:06 HR put on a black list внести в чёрный список (Carol also questioned whether she was sabotaged by a manager and put on some kind of blacklist. (coasttocoastam.com))
28.04.2024 3:39:46 HR extensive experience in большой опыт работы в (... her extensive experience in commercials and TV shows)
28.04.2024 3:34:35 inf. snap photos фотографировать (Tim from Carson City, Nevada, related a personal story about a 1995 camping trip with his dog in the Sierra Nevada mountains, where he snapped photos with a disposable camera but did not develop the film until nine years later. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 11:09:27 gen. give sb. a black eye поставить синяк под глазом
27.04.2024 9:57:25 cliche. be vehemently opposed to быть категорически против (McMullen acknowledges how polarizing robots like his can be. “I think it’s very subjective, person-to-person,” he says. “Some people are fully fascinated and very open to the idea of a robot that could look like a human being. Other people are vehemently opposed to it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:49:56 cliche. become less of an issue потерять свою остроту (There’s the “uncanny valley” effect, for starters, which was coined by pioneering Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in the early ’70s, and refers to the feelings of unease some people have when confronted by human-like robots. Though the concept has been much debated over the years, Oh, the UNLV professor, suggests that uncanny valley could become less of an issue as this kind of tech becomes more ingrained in the every-day lives of successive generations. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:49:56 cliche. become less of an issue потерять свою актуальность (There’s the “uncanny valley” effect, for starters, which was coined by pioneering Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in the early ’70s, and refers to the feelings of unease some people have when confronted by human-like robots. Though the concept has been much debated over the years, Oh, the UNLV professor, suggests that uncanny valley could become less of an issue as this kind of tech becomes more ingrained in the every-day lives of successive generations. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:46:13 robot. human-like человекоподобный (There’s the “uncanny valley” effect, for starters, which was coined by pioneering Japanese robotics professor Masahiro Mori in the early ’70s, and refers to the feelings of unease some people have when confronted by human-like robots. • Человекоподобные роботы, или андроиды, — витрина современной робототехники. (rbc.ru) reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:36:26 inf. tweak подправить (обычно какую-то деталь, внести небольшие изменения: Hi Bob, just checking if there is anything else that needs tweaking on the sample page before we build out the rest of them? – нужно ли ещё что-нибудь подправить?)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with поколдовать над (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with подрегулировать (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with подкрутить (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with подработать (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with подправить (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:34:22 idiom. tinker around with подкорректировать (to make small changes to something, especially in an attempt to repair or improve it (Сambridge Dictionary): McMullen’s currently working on AI technology where customers could essentially build a robot’s psyche from the ground up. “They can tinker around with one of the AI controllers that we’re working on,” he elaborates, “where they’ll be able to go through a web interface and really get in there and kind of write a backstory, like, where did he come from? Where did he grow up? And you can make it as detailed as you want and it will keep it and retain it.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 9:08:21 gen. be mindful of учитывать (be conscious or aware of something (Oxford Dictionary): “Now that we’re past the pandemic, we are also seeing a Gen Z and a Gen Alpha that have a different interaction with technologies than older folks like myself. So I think what responses you get about uncanny valley, one needs to be mindful of the demographic.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 8:57:55 gen. in a different way than you do иначе, чем вы (At the end of the special, there’s behind-the-scenes footage capturing the making of the robot, which culminates with Cummings meeting her mechanized-self for the first time. She tears up because of how incredibly lifelike it is. “I’m just curious if you feel emotion?” she asks it. “Yes, I do have feelings, emotions and desires, but in a different way than you do,” it responds. “Emotions are mainly a human quality that I hope to fully experience someday.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 7:40:26 inf. super important крайне важный (“Everybody has these very little idiosyncrasies in their face,” he notes, “and so you really try to capture that. Maybe they have a couple of freckles here or something like that, maybe there’s a little bit of asymmetry to their face. All those things are super important.” -- Всё это крайне важно. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 7:35:12 cliche. wouldn't it be cool + verb? вот было бы здорово, если бы ...! (He began sculpting when he was a teenager, attending art school for a time in his 20s, before landing a job with San Diego Halloween design company Disguise. One day around this time, he had an epiphany in a department store. “They had hired an actress to pretend to be a mannequin — and she was really good at it,” McMullen recalls. “For some reason that stuck with me, I was like, ‘Wouldn’t it be cool to have a mannequin that looks so real, that people would think that it was?’ Kind of like an inverse of that experience. I started coming up with this, like, crazy idea of a hyper-realistic, pose-able mannequin.” reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 7:29:23 inf. old pro at it мастер в чём-л. (Despite these difficulties, McMullen sounds far more enthused than exasperated when addressing said challenges — he’s an old pro at it by now, having been creating realistic figures since the late ’90s. Unlike many of his peers, McMullen comes from a fine arts background rather than one in robotics. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 7:17:07 gen. nondescript неприметный с виду (But McMullen’s not only embracing those fears, he’s turning them on their meticulously-sculpted robot heads. And he’s doing it all in a nondescript, mid-sized studio tucked behind his home in the northwest side of town. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 7:12:34 commer. aisle товарная секция (в супермаркете: McMullen’s attempting to take things even further: He wants his robots to appear and act more like people, to serve any number of hypothetical purposes, from greeting you at the grocery and guiding you to the shampoo aisle if you need some Head and Shoulders to delivering meds and checking your vitals at the hospital to being an always-there-for-you life companion when you need someone — or some thing — to have a chat with. -- провести вас в секцию, где продаются шампуни reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 6:47:24 gen. guide to провести куда-л. (McMullen’s attempting to take things even further: He wants his robots to appear and act more like people, to serve any number of hypothetical purposes, from greeting you at the grocery and guiding you to the shampoo aisle if you need some Head and Shoulders to delivering meds and checking your vitals at the hospital to being an always-there-for-you life companion when you need someone — or some thing — to have a chat with. -- провести вас в секцию, где продаются шампуни reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 6:30:40 inf. knock back хлопнуть (рюмашку / по стаканчику | consume a drink *quickly and entirely* (Oxford Dictionary): There’s the five Aura humanoid robots that interact with visitors in the atrium of the Sphere, as well as the Tipsy Robot bars at Planet Hollywood and The Venetian, where you can knock back a rum and Coke poured by a made-from-metal bartender. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 6:23:55 gen. at a rapid pace быстро (As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a rapid pace — which frightens some and excites others — enabling robots to approximate their human creators to increasingly greater degrees, Las Vegas is getting in on the game. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 6:22:20 gen. evolve at a rapid pace быстро развиваться (As artificial intelligence continues to evolve at a rapid pace — which frightens some and excites others — enabling robots to approximate their human creators to increasingly greater degrees, Las Vegas is getting in on the game. • Ускоренно развиваются наука и техника, образование и культура. (из рус. источников) reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 4:46:57 appr. one of a kind нет равных (He’s been at it for decades now, and this is his most realistic creation yet, a supermodel-esque woman with long blonde-brown hair and bared midriff who speaks with what sounds like a mild Scottish accent. “This one is more advanced than the last one we built,” McMullen notes. “She’s one of a kind.” -- Ей нет равных. reviewjournal.com)
27.04.2024 4:44:42 disappr. narrative официальное изложение (событий, от официальных СМИ: There is a further agenda for a "great reset" where people "will own nothing and be happy" and it will likely involve a new financial system with such things as universal basic income and a central bank digital currency that is completely tracked and traceable, Jacob cautioned. He advocated for citizenry asking questions, pushing back against the narratives they're being told, sensing things more from a gut feeling, and being open and aware to new information. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 4:21:41 disappr. narrative официальная пропаганда (There is a further agenda for a "great reset" where people "will own nothing and be happy" and it will likely involve a new financial system with such things as universal basic income and a central bank digital currency that is completely tracked and traceable, Jacob cautioned. He advocated for citizenry asking questions, pushing back against the narratives they're being told, sensing things more from a gut feeling, and being open and aware to new information. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 4:13:58 idiom. set one's sights on поставить себе цель (Retired US Navy captain James E. Fanell pointed out that while China prefers not to use military force, as this decade goes on, it has set its sights on taking Taiwan back. He also warned that Chinese nationals have increasingly been coming across the US border. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 4:14:47 idiom. set one's sights on наметить (какую-л. цель: Retired US Navy captain James E. Fanell pointed out that while China prefers not to use military force, as this decade goes on, it has set its sights on taking Taiwan back. He also warned that Chinese nationals have increasingly been coming across the US border. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 4:00:47 fig. come to a crashing end с треском закончиться (о неудачной стратегии: "After weeks of troubling stories about problematic street drug use in hospitals, parks and at bus stops, the province of British Columbia announced plans to recriminalize the use of drugs in public places Friday — radically altering a pilot program aimed at addressing the toxic drug crisis." (cbc.ca) -- This program was obviously going to come to a crashing end. Funny how pending elections cause elected parties to finally listen to their public. (Twitter))
27.04.2024 3:56:31 econ. economic might экономическое могущество (The Communist leader Deng Xiaoping executed a deliberate strategy of deception against the US and, in a sense, made "Wall Street, if you will, the US Chamber of Commerce partners with the Chinese Communist Party," said Thayer. This increased China's economic might so that it rose from creating just .6% of the world's gross domestic product in 1990 to 19% by 2019, "and they used that economic might...to convert it into military power, which is why we see the rise of this great existential threat to the United States today," he continued. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 3:52:59 econ. cheap labor дешёвая рабочая сила (US labor, BrE labour: Retired US Navy captain James E. Fanell served twenty-nine years in the military. Bradley A. Thayer, Ph.D., is a founding member of the Committee on Present Danger China. In the first half, they outlined concerns about China, and argued that America directly contributed to China's rise by using them as a source of cheap labor and allowing them to enter the Western economic system. The Communist leader Deng Xiaoping executed a deliberate strategy of deception against the US and, in a sense, made "Wall Street, if you will, the US Chamber of Commerce partners with the Chinese Communist Party," said Thayer. (coasttocoastam.com))
27.04.2024 3:12:06 canad. members of the... First Nation индейцы племени (In the hours before she left, federal fisheries officers and members of the Ehattesaht First Nation fed her chunks of seal meat, gradually luring her towards a bottleneck in the lagoon. theguardian.com)
27.04.2024 2:40:04 gen. roughly translates переводится примерно (as / to – как: The two-year-old calf, known as kʷiisaḥiʔis (pronounced kwee-sahay-is) – a name that roughly translates to Brave Little Hunter – became trapped with her mother in shallow waters of the Little Espinosa inlet in the north-western reaches of Vancouver Island in late March. theguardian.com)
26.04.2024 9:15:02 disappr. be out of touch оторваться от действительности ("There's nothing wacky about it! B.C.'s housing minister is slamming the opposition leader for making light of renting during the debate over the budget and gives the NDP some easy political points. "What we heard yesterday really demonstrates how the BC Liberals are out of touch," said Selina Robinson." (News 1130) – насколько они оторваны от действительности / от реальной жизни • I’ll bet that Harry and Meghan found something better at half the price in California. City Hall is so out of touch. wordpress.com)
26.04.2024 9:14:41 disappr. lose touch with reality оторваться от действительности
26.04.2024 8:58:40 busin. recognize отметить призом (Some of our products have been recogized at international competitions. – отмечены призами)
26.04.2024 8:59:08 busin. recognize отметить наградой (Some of our products have been recogized at international competitions. – отмечены наградами)
26.04.2024 8:54:34 gen. hand deliver отдать лично в руки ("Karen, I'm expecting a letter from Klein & Associates. I want it on my desk as soon as you get it." "No problem. When it comes I will hand deliver it to you.")
26.04.2024 8:45:46 fig.of.sp. come to a halt for a red light остановиться на красный свет
26.04.2024 7:36:34 disappr. a pumpkin-headed oaf олух царя небесного
26.04.2024 6:43:59 gen. from the line с фронта (Canadian soldier writing home from the line. May, 1917 (подпись к архивному фото))
26.04.2024 6:42:36 inf. catch a hockey game сходить на хоккей (Josh came down from Castlegar to catch a hockey game at GM Place tonight.)
26.04.2024 6:41:42 gen. use the washroom сходить в туалет (также a washroom)
26.04.2024 6:39:38 inf. scam схема обмана (В Сочи мошенники придумали оригинальную схему обмана и научились продавать одну и ту же машину бесконечное количество раз.)
26.04.2024 6:38:46 gen. drain сходить (The bathroom sink is a bit slow to drain. – В умывальнике в ванной комнате немного медленно сходит вода.)
26.04.2024 5:56:50 inf. nab схватить преступника (One imagines that, should authorities nab the phantom motorcyclist, they will likely throw the proverbial book at them for all of the annoyance and embarrassment that they have caused the department. (coasttocoastam.com))
26.04.2024 5:52:22 gen. curb consumption сократить потребление (to control or limit something that is not wanted (cambridge.org): ... his coffee consumption, something his wife was trying to get him to curb with little success (coasttocoastam.com))
26.04.2024 5:39:30 gen. wander забрести (into – в/на: Officials say a large alligator that made its way onto the runway at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa has been captured and moved to a nearby river. According to wildlife officials, alligators become more likely to wander into unfamiliar territory in April as they search for mates. (abcnews.go.com))
26.04.2024 3:18:29 gen. there's a bad omen if ever I've seen one не к добру это ("Five Household Cavalry horses, including one soaked with blood, have run loose in central London after throwing their military riders during their morning exercise." "Well, there's a bad omen if ever I've seen one." youtube.com)
25.04.2024 11:25:11 disappr. dumbing-down оболванивание (The media is responsible for the gradual dumbing-down of the population. • The dumbing-down of America has never stopped.)

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