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Вряд ли она поселится в Саннидейл-Эйкерс — это район зажиточных семей, но по крайней мере без сюрпризов. Она найдёт себе место не там, а, может быть, на Парк-Авеню, радикально изменив свои устремления. А может, и её ждет трагический конец. "Ромео и Джульетта" в современном варианте.	Instead of settling in Sunnydale Acres, middle class but pleasantly predictable, she will end up elsewhere. Perhaps on Park Avenue with vastly altered dreams. Or maybe she, too, ends tragically. A modern "Romeo and Juliet.' (C. Baehr)
Ему неловко было представить её в роли дамы-благотворительницы а он не сомневался, что она эту роль играет: в то же время он был реалистом и не мог отделаться от мысли, что в обозримом будущем некая благотворительность ему может понадобиться.	It made him ill at ease to think of her in the role—which he was sure she was playing — of Lady Bountiful: yet was too realistic to shrug off the idea that, in the foreseeable future, he might need a degree of bounty. (P. H. Johnson)
если не можешь поступать правильно, будь осторожен.	if you can't be good, be careful (The saying was first published in this form in 1903, when Arthur M. Binstead said in his Pitcher in Paradise, "Always bear in mind what the country mother said to her daughter who was coming up to town to be apprenticed to the Bond Street millinery, ‘For heaven's sake be good; but if you can't be good, be careful'." However, the meaning behind the expression is a lot older than that. It comes from the 11th century Latin proverb Si non caste, tamen caute, which translates as "if not chastely, nevertheless cautiously." There are many variations on this saying, several along the lines of "Be good. And if you can't be good, be careful. And if you can't be careful, name it after me." Given those additions, you have a hierarchy of behavior to work with! konstanzhoglo)
Президент США, может быть, и глупец, но он, по крайней мере, не считает, что земля квадратная, что ведьм надо казнить и что Иона проглотил кита.	The President of the United States may be an ass, but he at least doesn't believe that the earth is square, and that witches should be put to death, and that Jonah swallowed the whale. (J. Garraty)

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