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1 болеть цингой
to have the scurvyБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > болеть цингой
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2 eat dirt
(eat dirt (тж. eat humble (-) pie one's или the leek, eat the dust амер. жарг. eat crow или boiled crow, eat dog))унижаться, пресмыкаться; быть в унизительном положении, снести оскорбление, проглотить обиду [eat dirt происходит от уст.; посл. every man must eat a peck of dirt before he dies; eat humble(-)pie первонач. диал.; humble pie искажённое umble pie, т. е. пирог с потрохами (кушанье бедняков); eat one's leek переосмысленное шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]Fluellen: "I peseech you heartily, scurvy, lousy knave, at my desires, and my requests, and my petitions, to eat, look you, this leek; because, look you, you do not love it, nor your affections, and your appetites, and your digestions, does not agree with it, I would desire you to eat it." (W. Shakespeare, ‘King Henry V’, act V, sc. 1) — Флюэллен: "Прошу вас от всего сердца, вшивый и паршивый негодяй, исполнить мою просьбу, желание и ходатайство: съешьте - как бы это сказать - этот порей; потому что - как бы это сказать - вы его не очень любите и ваши вкусы, аппетит и пищеварение вас к нему не располагают. Именно поэтому я и предлагаю вам его съесть." (перевод Е. Бируковой)
Leon did so with a proper pantomime if indifference but it was a leek to eat... (R. L. Stevenson, ‘New Arabian Nights’, ‘Providence and the Guitar’, ch. II) — Леон последовал за комиссаром полиции, делая вид, что ему все безразлично, но в глубине души он чувствовал всю унизительность своего положения...
The Squire broke in: ‘Don't think that I'll have any humble pie eaten to that fellow Bellew!’ (B. Shaw, ‘An Unsocial Socialist’, ch. VIII) — Сквайр вмешался в разговор: "Не думайте, что я буду унижаться перед этим типом Белью!"
Dickie: "...I suppose you want me to eat the dust... I have behaved like a perfect brute. I'm awfully sorry, and I'll never do it again." (W. S. Maugham, ‘Penelope’, act III) — Дики: "...Мне кажется, ты хочешь, чтобы я пришел с повинной... Я вел себя как самая настоящая скотина. Я очень сожалею и больше такого никогда не сделаю."
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