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| Russian | English |
| готовиться стать врачом | study for the medical profession |
| его мечта – стать врачом | his ambition is to become a doctor |
| ей бы следовало стать врачом | she ought to have been a doctor |
| он мечтал стать врачом | he aspired to a career in medicine |
| он решил стать врачом | he is bent on being a doctor |
| он собирается стать врачом | he is aiming at becoming a doctor |
| он стал врачом | he became a doctor |
| отцу хотелось, чтобы сын стал врачом | father intended his son for the medical profession |
| родители хотят, чтобы их сын стал врачом | his parents want to make a doctor a lawyer, a soldier, an actor, etc. of their son (и т.д.) |
| сначала он был врачом, а потом стал юристом | primarily a doctor, he later became a lawyer |
| стать врачом | become a doctor (a statesman, a soldier, a man of business, a famous man, smb.'s favourite, the laughing-stock, a matter of highest importance, etc., и т.д.) |