had+i+known

a temporary disposition, state of one's feelings

frame (state) of mind

X пропустил Y мимо ушей = X turned a deaf ear to Y

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⇒ a temporary disposition, state of one's feelings:

- frame (state) of mind;

- mood;

- spirits;

- humor.

     ♦ А Чичиков в довольном расположении духа сидел в своей бричке, катившейся давно по столбовой дороге (Гоголь 3). As for Chichikov, he was in a contented frame of mind, sitting in his britska, which had for some time been rolling along the highroad (3c).

     ♦ Я приехал в довольно миролюбивом расположении духа, но все это начинало меня бесить (Лермонтов 1). I had arrived in a fairly peaceable state of mind, but all this was beginning to annoy me (1a).

     ♦ "Ты сегодня в дурном расположении духа? " - " Да". - "Жаль..." (Федин 1). "You're in a bad mood today?" "Yes." "A pity..." (1a)

     ♦ В хорошем расположении духа Гитлер лег спать (Войнович 4). Hitler went to bed in excellent spirits (4a).

     ♦ Однажды он [ отец] пришел ко мне в добром расположении духа, чего с ним давно не бывало... (Тургенев 3). One day Father came to me in a good humor - a mood I had not known him to be in for a long time (3c)

     ♦ Старик находился в хорошем расположении духа после дообеденного сна (Толстой 4). The old gentleman was in excellent humor after his nap (4a)

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⇒ a temporary disposition, state of one's feelings:

- frame (state) of mind;

- mood;

- spirits;

- humor.

     ♦ А Чичиков в довольном расположении духа сидел в своей бричке, катившейся давно по столбовой дороге (Гоголь 3). As for Chichikov, he was in a contented frame of mind, sitting in his britska, which had for some time been rolling along the highroad (3c).

     ♦ Я приехал в довольно миролюбивом расположении духа, но все это начинало меня бесить (Лермонтов 1). I had arrived in a fairly peaceable state of mind, but all this was beginning to annoy me (1a).

     ♦ "Ты сегодня в дурном расположении духа? " - " Да". - "Жаль..." (Федин 1). "You're in a bad mood today?" "Yes." "A pity..." (1a)

     ♦ В хорошем расположении духа Гитлер лег спать (Войнович 4). Hitler went to bed in excellent spirits (4a).

     ♦ Однажды он [ отец] пришел ко мне в добром расположении духа, чего с ним давно не бывало... (Тургенев 3). One day Father came to me in a good humor - a mood I had not known him to be in for a long time (3c)

     ♦ Старик находился в хорошем расположении духа после дообеденного сна (Толстой 4). The old gentleman was in excellent humor after his nap (4a)

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⇒ intentionally not to take notice of or react to what is being said or has been said:

- X пропустил Y мимо ушей≈ X turned a deaf ear to Y;

- X took no notice of Y;

- X paid no attention < heed> to Y;

- X let Y pass (unnoticed);

- X ignored Y;

- Y went < X let Y go> in one ear and out the other.

     ♦ Надо сказать, что обычно слушатель пропускал мимо ушей замечание относительно крутизны берега [, куда мельник должен был подняться со своим десятипудовым грузом]... (Искандер 3). Admittedly, the listener usually turned a deaf ear to the remark about the steepness of the bank [that the miller had to climb up with his four-hundred-pound load] (За).

     ♦ "Ты же знаешь, твой Гриша никогда ничего нам не рассказывает о своих делах!" В другой раз Ляля пропустила бы фразу мимо ушей, сочла бы её нормальной, но теперь, когда она едва сдерживалась от того, чтобы не накричать на мать, она не могла смолчать и ответила тоже с нажимом: "Но можно и самой поинтересоваться, правда же?" (Трифонов 1). "You ought to know by now that your Grisha never tells us anything about his work!" Normally Lyalya wouldn't have paid any attention to such a remark, considering it merely normal. But on this occasion, when she could barely keep from screaming at her mother, she simply could not keep quiet and replied in an equally aggressive tone, "But you could at least express an interest, couldn't you?" (1a).

     ♦ Он [Ефим] бросил трубку, но через минуту поднял её снова. "Извини, я погорячился", - сказал он Баранову. "Бывает, - сказал тот великодушно. - Кстати, в поликлинике работает новый психиатр..." Ефим пропустил подковырку мимо ушей и спросил, что именно Баранову известно о шапках (Войнович 6). Не [Yefim] slammed down the receiver, but a minute later picked it up again and dialed Kostya [Baranov]. "Sorry I blew up." "Nerves. I understand," Kostya said magnanimously. "Incidentally, the clinic has a new psychiatrist...." Yefim let the dig pass and asked what, exactly, Kostya knew about the hats (6a).

     ♦ Я усомнился в его компетенции, когда он [философ] сказал мне, что во всяком случае советские люди никогда не знали голода. Я спросил его, слышал ли он что-нибудь о голоде на Украине, стоившем жизни нескольким миллионам людей, или в блокадном Ленинграде... Он пропустил сказанное мною мимо ушей и продолжал спорить (Войнович 1)....I doubted his [the philosopher's] competence when he told me that in any case Soviet people had never known hunger. I asked him if he had ever heard of the famine in the Ukraine which cost several million people their lives or of the siege of Leningrad....What I said went in one ear and out the other, and he continued to argue (1a).

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⇒ intentionally not to take notice of or react to what is being said or has been said:

- X пропустил Y мимо ушей≈ X turned a deaf ear to Y;

- X took no notice of Y;

- X paid no attention < heed> to Y;

- X let Y pass (unnoticed);

- X ignored Y;

- Y went < X let Y go> in one ear and out the other.

     ♦ Надо сказать, что обычно слушатель пропускал мимо ушей замечание относительно крутизны берега [, куда мельник должен был подняться со своим десятипудовым грузом]... (Искандер 3). Admittedly, the listener usually turned a deaf ear to the remark about the steepness of the bank [that the miller had to climb up with his four-hundred-pound load] (За).

     ♦ "Ты же знаешь, твой Гриша никогда ничего нам не рассказывает о своих делах!" В другой раз Ляля пропустила бы фразу мимо ушей, сочла бы её нормальной, но теперь, когда она едва сдерживалась от того, чтобы не накричать на мать, она не могла смолчать и ответила тоже с нажимом: "Но можно и самой поинтересоваться, правда же?" (Трифонов 1). "You ought to know by now that your Grisha never tells us anything about his work!" Normally Lyalya wouldn't have paid any attention to such a remark, considering it merely normal. But on this occasion, when she could barely keep from screaming at her mother, she simply could not keep quiet and replied in an equally aggressive tone, "But you could at least express an interest, couldn't you?" (1a).

     ♦ Он [Ефим] бросил трубку, но через минуту поднял её снова. "Извини, я погорячился", - сказал он Баранову. "Бывает, - сказал тот великодушно. - Кстати, в поликлинике работает новый психиатр..." Ефим пропустил подковырку мимо ушей и спросил, что именно Баранову известно о шапках (Войнович 6). Не [Yefim] slammed down the receiver, but a minute later picked it up again and dialed Kostya [Baranov]. "Sorry I blew up." "Nerves. I understand," Kostya said magnanimously. "Incidentally, the clinic has a new psychiatrist...." Yefim let the dig pass and asked what, exactly, Kostya knew about the hats (6a).

     ♦ Я усомнился в его компетенции, когда он [философ] сказал мне, что во всяком случае советские люди никогда не знали голода. Я спросил его, слышал ли он что-нибудь о голоде на Украине, стоившем жизни нескольким миллионам людей, или в блокадном Ленинграде... Он пропустил сказанное мною мимо ушей и продолжал спорить (Войнович 1)....I doubted his [the philosopher's] competence when he told me that in any case Soviet people had never known hunger. I asked him if he had ever heard of the famine in the Ukraine which cost several million people their lives or of the siege of Leningrad....What I said went in one ear and out the other, and he continued to argue (1a).

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agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).

As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

Quint. 8, 3, 71:

cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

Liv. 7, 39:

veterem amicum,

Verg. A. 3, 82:

matrem,

id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

Tac. G. 5:

agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

id. Agr. 32:

nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

id. Or. 21:

quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—

Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

natum,

Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

agnoscere aes alienum,

ib. 28, 5, 1:

facti gloriam,

Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

id. Rab. Perd. 6:

fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

Tac. A. 6, 8:

sortilegos,

Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

si irascare, agnita videntur,

Tac. A. 4, 34.—

To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

accipio agnoscoque deos,

Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

Tac. H. 2, 68:

Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

id. A. 2, 21:

terram non agnoscebant,

Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).

As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

Quint. 8, 3, 71:

cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

Liv. 7, 39:

veterem amicum,

Verg. A. 3, 82:

matrem,

id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

Tac. G. 5:

agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

id. Agr. 32:

nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

id. Or. 21:

quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—

Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

natum,

Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

agnoscere aes alienum,

ib. 28, 5, 1:

facti gloriam,

Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

id. Rab. Perd. 6:

fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

Tac. A. 6, 8:

sortilegos,

Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

si irascare, agnita videntur,

Tac. A. 4, 34.—

To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

accipio agnoscoque deos,

Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

Tac. H. 2, 68:

Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

id. A. 2, 21:

terram non agnoscebant,

Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

agnosco ( adgn-; also adn-; cf. Wagn. Orthog. Verg. p. 407), nōvi, nitum (like cognĭtum from cognosco; cf. pejĕro and dejĕro from jūro), 3, v. a. [ad, intens. -gnosco, nosco] ( part. perf. agnōtus, Pac. ap. Prisc. p. 887 P.; part. fut. act. agnoturus, Sall. H. Fragm. 2, 31; cf. Diom. 383 P.; class.; used very freq. by Cicero).

As if to know a person or thing well, as having known it before, to recognize: agnoscere always denotes a subjective knowledge or recognition; while cognoscere designates an objective perception; another distinction v. in II.): in turbā Oresti cognitā agnota est soror, was recognized by Orestes as his sister, Pac. ap. Prisc. 887 P.:

virtus cum se extollit et ostendit suum lumen et idem aspexit agnovitque in alio,

and when she has perceived the same in another, and has recognized it, Cic. Lael. 27, 100:

id facillime accipiunt animi, quod agnoscunt,

Quint. 8, 3, 71:

cum se collegit (animus) atque recreavit, tum agnoscit illa reminiscendo,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 24, 58:

quod mihi de filiā gratularis, agnosco humanitatem tuam,

id. Fam. 1, 7 (cf. on the contr. id. ib. 5, 2, where Cic., speaking of himself, says: Cognosce nunc humanitatem meam, learn from this, etc.):

nomine audito extemplo agnovere virum,

Liv. 7, 39:

veterem amicum,

Verg. A. 3, 82:

matrem,

id. ib. 1, 405: Figulum in patriam suam venisse atque ibi agnosci, and is there recognized (by those who had already known him), Quint. 7, 2, 26:

formas quasdam nostrae pecuniae agnoscunt,

Tac. G. 5:

agnoscent Britanni suam causam,

id. Agr. 32:

nitorem et altitudinem horum temporum agnoscimus,

id. Or. 21:

quam (tunicam) cum agnovisset pater,

Vulg. Gen. 37, 33.—

Transf., as a result of this knowledge or recognition, to declare, announce, allow, or admit a thing to be one's own, to acknowledge, own: qui mihi tantum tribui dicis, quantum ego nec agnosco ( neither can admit as due to me) nec postulo, Cic. Lael. 9:

natum,

Nep. Ages. 1, 4:

Aeacon agnoscit summus prolemque fatetur Juppiter esse suam,

Ov. M. 13, 27 (cf. in Pandects, 25, Tit. 3:

de agnoscendis vel alendis liberis): an me non agnoscetis ducem?

will you not acknowledge me as your general? Liv. 6, 7:

agnoscere bonorum possessionem,

to declare the property as one's own, to lay claim to it, Dig. 26, 8, 11 (cf. agnitio, I.):

agnoscere aes alienum,

ib. 28, 5, 1:

facti gloriam,

Cic. Mil. 14 fin.:

susciperem hoc crimen, agnoscerem, confiterer,

id. Rab. Perd. 6:

fortasse minus expediat agnoscere crimen quam abnuere,

Tac. A. 6, 8:

sortilegos,

Cic. Div. 1, 58, 132: et ego ipse me non esse verborum admodum inopem agnosco, and I myself confess, allow, etc., id. Fam. 4, 4:

id ego agnovi meo jussu esse factum,

id. ib. 5, 20, 3: carmina spreta exolescunt;

si irascare, agnita videntur,

Tac. A. 4, 34.—

To understand, recognize, know, perceive by, from, or through something:

ut deum agnoscis ex operibus ejus, sic ex memoriā rerum et inventione, vim divinam mentis agnoscito,

Cic. Tusc. 1, 28, 70; id. Planc. 14, 35:

ex fructu arbor agnoscitur,

Vulg. Matt. 12, 33:

inde agnosci potest vis fortunae,

Vell. 2, 116, 3.—Also, absol.: Augusti laudes agnoscere possis, you can recognize the praises of Augustus, * Hor. Ep. 1, 16, 29:

accipio agnoscoque deos,

Verg. A. 12, 260 (cf. accipio):

agniti dempsere sollicitudinem,

Tac. H. 2, 68:

Germanicus, quo magis agnosceretur, detraxerat tegimen,

id. A. 2, 21:

terram non agnoscebant,

Vulg. Act. 27, 39.—In gen., to become acquainted with, to know; to perceive, apprehend, understand, discern, remark, see:

quin puppim flectis, Ulixe, Auribus ut nostros possis agnoscere cantus,

Cic. Fin. 5, 18, 49 (as transl. of Hom. Od. 12, 185, Nêa katastêson, hina nôïterên op akousêis):

haec dicta sunt subtilius ab Epicuro quam ut quivis ea possit agnoscere,

understand, id. N. D. 1, 18, 49; Verg. A. 10, 843; Phaedr. 2, 5, 19:

alienis pedibus ambulamus, alienis oculis agnoscimus,

Plin. 29, 1, 8, § 19.

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Li Gao was Prince of Cao (Tshao). He was interested in acoustics and carried out experiments on both hydrostatic and air pressure. He constructed "trick" hydrostatic vessels that could take up different positions according to the amount of water in them. Such vessels had been known since the third century BC and were popular at court for over a thousand years: Li's were made of lacquered wood, c. 790, probably in quantity. He made successful use of paddle warships operated by treadmills. Similar vessels may have been in use as early as the late fifth century, but this is not at all certain. Li Gao's ships are therefore the first practical achievement of an idea for ship propulsion that, probably independently, had been mooted but not realized in early Byzantine times in Europe. His experiments with this type of vessel were made during 782 to 785, while he was Governor of Hungchow. It was said that the ships "went like the wind", faster than a charging horse.

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[PrepP; Invar; usu. subj-compl with быть, приходить etc (subj: human)]

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⇒ in a drunken state:

- drunk;

- under the influence;

- feeling one's liquor.

     ♦ Он рассказал жене и дочери случай, который они обе знали ешё с довоенных времён, - Сталин ночью появился в метро, он был в лёгком подпитии, сел рядом с молодой женщиной, спросил её: "Чем бы я мог вам помочь?" (Гроссман 2). He told [his wife and daughter] a story they had all known even before the war. One night Stalin appeared in the metro, slightly drunk, sat beside a young woman, and asked: "What can I do for you?" (2a).