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1 отговорка отговорк·а
excuse, make-believe reply, subterfuge; (предлог) pretextотделываться отговорками — to try to get out of doing smth. with lame excuses
придумать отговорку — trump up / concoct an excuse
пустая отговорка — hollow excuse / pretence
Russian-english dctionary of diplomacy > отговорка отговорк·а
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2 оправдание
1. absolution2. absolutions3. acquittal4. defencesв защиту, в оправдание — in defence
5. defenses6. justification; excuse; acquittal7. excuseшаткое оправдание, отговорка — a slim excuse
плохое оправдание, неубедительная отговорка — weak excuse
8. plea9. justifyingСинонимический ряд:1. извинение (сущ.) извинение2. обеление (сущ.) обелениеАнтонимический ряд:обвинение; осуждение -
3 придумать
1. think out; devise; contrive2. concoct3. contrive4. devise5. thinkСинонимический ряд:выдумать (глаг.) выдумать; измыслить; изобрести; сочинить -
4 придумать отговорку
1) General subject: (объяснение) invent an excuse, invent an excuse (объяснение), (объяснение) invent an explanation, invent an explanation (объяснение), trump up an excuse, trump up an excuse (предлог)2) Diplomatic term: concoct an excuse3) Makarov: dish up some excuse or otherУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > придумать отговорку
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5 неубедительное оправдание
шаткое оправдание, отговорка — a slim excuse
Русско-английский большой базовый словарь > неубедительное оправдание
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6 придумать предлог
1) General subject: manufacture an excuse, trump up an excuse2) Diplomatic term: concoct an excuse3) Makarov: cook an excuse -
7 придумать
1) General subject: cogitate, concoct (небылицу, сюжет рассказа и т. п.), construct, contrive, cook (что-либо в извинение), engineer, excogitate, fabulate, invent, strike, strike out, think, write out of one's own head, think of, think up (об отговорке, предлоге и т.п.), strike out (план), come up with an invention (что-л.), come up with (idea, slogan, etc.)4) Literal: hammer out5) Rare: feign6) Mathematics: devise7) Law: concoct an excuse, feign (извинение, версию, обвинение)9) Makarov: come up -
8 состряпать
1. spin2. concoctпридумать, изобрести, состряпать оправдание — to concoct an excuse
3. cookСинонимический ряд:накропать (глаг.) накропать; намарать -
9 придумать оправдание
1) General subject: feign an excuse2) Makarov: concoct an excuseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > придумать оправдание
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10 оправдание
сущ.justification; ( извинение) excuse; юр absolution; acquittal; discharge; ( реабилитация) exculpation; rehabilitation; vindicationдобиться оправдания — ( по суду) to secure an acquittal
не найти оправдания — ( каких-л действий) to find no justification (of)
в оправдание — ( преступления) in palliation ( of a crime)
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11 выдумать отговорку
Diplomatic term: concoct an excuseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > выдумать отговорку
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12 выдумать предлог
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13 изобрести
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14 изобрести оправдание
Makarov: concoct an excuseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > изобрести оправдание
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15 состряпать оправдание
Makarov: concoct an excuseУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > состряпать оправдание
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16 выдумывать
vt; св - вы́думать1) измысливать то, чего не было to make up; to invent, to concoct, to contrive2) изобретать to invent, to deviseвыду́мывать приспособле́ние — to devise a gadget
выду́мывать игру́/отгово́рку — to think up a game/an excuse
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