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1 камень преткновения
1) General subject: rub, sticking point, stumbling block, stumbling-block, the rock on which we split, stumbling rock2) Colloquial: deal breaker3) Mathematics: stumbling block (for)4) Religion: stone of stumbling, stumbling stone, stumblingstone5) Advertising: key objection6) Mass media: large stumbling block7) Saying: a stumbling blockУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > камень преткновения
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2 камень преткновения
•The misapplication of pushbutton and selector switches has been a stumbling block for many control systems.
* * *Камень преткновенияThe stumbling block was the absence of the thermophysical property values needed to evaluate the correlations.The widespread concern that the balance of system costs requires a higher efficiency is a major stumbling block for this technology.Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > камень преткновения
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КАМЕНЬ ПРЕТКНОВЕНИЯ lit NP sing only subj-compl with copula, nom or instrum ( subj: abstr, concr, or human) fixed WOan impediment, obstacle, difficultystumbling block.По вечерам ходил я и в сад... Главный предмет занятий и разговоров было волокитство и подсматривание друг за другом... Я был страшным камнем преткновения для всей тайной полиции нашего сада, дамы и мужчины удивлялись моей скрытности... (Герцен 1). In the evenings I used to walk into the garden....The chief subject of talk and interest was flirtation and spying on one another....! was a terrible stumbling block for all the secret police in our garden, the ladies and the men wondered at my reserve... (1a).From the Bible (Isa. 8:14, Rom. 9:32-33 et al.). -
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• КАМЕНЬ ПРЕТКНОВЕНИЯ lit[NP; sing only; subj-compl with copula, nom or instrum (subj: abstr, concr, or human); fixed WO]=====⇒ an impediment, obstacle, difficulty:- stumbling block.♦ По вечерам ходил я и в сад... Главный предмет занятий и разговоров было волокитство и подсматривание друг за другом... Я был страшным камнем преткновения для всей тайной полиции нашего сада, дамы и мужчины удивлялись моей скрытности... (Герцен 1). In the evenings I used to walk into the garden....The chief subject of talk and interest was flirtation and spying on one another....! was a terrible stumbling block for all the secret police in our garden; the ladies and the men wondered at my reserve... (1a).—————← From the Bible (Isa. 8:14, Rom. 9:32-33 et al.).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > камень преткновения
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5 камень преткновения
•The misapplication of pushbutton and selector switches has been a stumbling block for many control systems.
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6 широко распространённое опасение
Широко распространенное опасение-- The widespread concern that the balance of system costs requires a higher efficiency (on the order of ten percent) is a major stumbling block for this technology.Русско-английский научно-технический словарь переводчика > широко распространённое опасение
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7 камень преткновения
библ.- Сталинград имеет для немцев первостепенное значение только потому, что на Кавказе дела у них неважны стали. Опасаются быть отрезанными. Поэтому вот эта операция для них - камень преткновения. (Ю. Бондарев, Горячий снег) — 'The supreme importance of Stalingrad for the Germans is due only to their predicament in the Caucasus. They're afraid of being cut off there. That's why this operation is their stumbling-block.'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > камень преткновения
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8 зацепка
1. ЗАЦЕПКАan excuse / a foothold / a foot in the door предлог, повод an excuse for sth (or for doing sth)Он любит футбол. Заговори с ним об этом. Это будет хорошая зацепка. А потом обратись к нему с нашей просьбой. He loves soccer. Start a conversation with him about that - it will get your foot in the door. Then tell him our request.
2. ЗАЦЕПКА a sticking point / a stumbling block / a catch препятствие, помеха an obstacle, a hindrance
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block — block1 W2S2 [blɔk US bla:k] n ▬▬▬▬▬▬▬ 1¦(solid material)¦ 2¦(streets/area)¦ 3¦(large building)¦ 4¦(quantity of things)¦ 5 block booking/voting 6¦(inability to think)¦ 7¦(stopping movement)¦ 8¦(punishment)¦ 9 put your he … Dictionary of contemporary English
block — I UK [blɒk] / US [blɑk] noun [countable] Word forms block : singular block plural blocks *** 1) a) a large building with a lot of different levels There s a flat available in the block where I live. an apartment/office/high rise block block of… … English dictionary
block — 1 noun (C) 1 SOLID MASS a solid mass of hard material such as wood or stone with straight sides (+ of): a block of ice 2 STREET/STREETS a) AmE the distance along a city street from where one street crosses it to the next: It s three blocks to the … Longman dictionary of contemporary English
block*/*/ — [blɒk] noun [C] I 1) a large building with a lot of different levels an apartment/office block[/ex] The whole block of flats was destroyed.[/ex] 2) a solid piece of wood, stone, ice etc with straight sides a block of marble[/ex] 3) an amount of… … Dictionary for writing and speaking English
