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⇒ if you will excuse my expression |
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если угодно (if you wish it to be so called, if you will allow me to use this phrase: I admit I am visionary, a dreamer, if you will. • So that critique doesn't challenge the prerogatives of military expansion or aggression, if you will, or empire. • He wasn't a very honest person; a liar, if you will. Charikova); извините за выражение (=if you will excuse my expression: One day, in about the second grade, I needed to drain the pipes, if you will, and the door was ajar. • Putting our balls out there means "we don't have to take crap, if you will, from China or North Korea or anybody." 4uzhoj); если позволите (= if you will allow me to use this phrase, if you will permit the analogy); если можно так выразиться (= so to speak / in a manner of speaking; used to indicate that what one has just said is an uncommon, metaphorical, or original way of saying something, or to signal hedging about vocabulary choice: She's very kind-minded, if you will. • This arrangement will allow us to eliminate our debt and get back to solid ground, if you will.• This is where I spend most of my time... my man cave, if you will 4uzhoj); с вашего позволения (=if you will excuse my expression); прошу прощения (в знач. "простите за выражение": Putting our balls out there means "we don't have to take crap, if you will, from China or North Korea or anybody." 4uzhoj); если хотите (Vadim Rouminsky) |
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если хотите (= if you like/wish: And you may call me John, if you will. snowleopard); так сказать (= so to speak; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит: These are "partial artifacts", if you will. • And so it seems that the lapse, the failure to connect the dots, if you will, really is more egregious than we even knew about. • I think it's a reason we've done well; part of our mystique, if you will.
4uzhoj); если хочешь (= if you like/wish: Well, marry him if you will. • And you may call me John, if you will.); можно (=if you like: And you may call me John, if you will. – И да, можно просто "Джон". 4uzhoj); если позволите мне такое сравнение (контекстуальный перевод Ремедиос_П); как говорится (= as they say, as the saying goes; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит 4uzhoj); что называется (= as they say, as the saying goes; в т.ч. как фраза-паразит 4uzhoj) |
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переводится глаголом в предлагательном наклонении со словом "давайте" или без него (
=please/kindly; a polite way of asking people who are listening to you to think about something: Imagine, if you will, that you are in a new city. – Представьте, что вы оказались в незнакомом городе. • Imagine, if you will, a typical silversmith's shop. • But imagine, if you will, a world where these logistical problems were solved. – Давайте представим себе мир...• Now, recall, if you will, the words of general Washington. – Вспомним слова генерала Вашингтона.) |
