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81 Ученье - свет, а неученье - тьма
When you study, you know much; when you do not, you know nothing and are helplessCf: The lamp of knowledge burns brightly (Am.). Learning is the eye of he mind (Br.). Your ignorance is your worst enemy (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Ученье - свет, а неученье - тьма
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82 Человек два раза глуп живет - стар и мал
Old people become silly and helpless and behave like childrenCf: An old man is twice a boy (Am.). An old man is twice a child (Br.). Old men are twice children (Am., Br.). Once a man and twice a child (Am., Br.). When the age is in the wit is out (Br.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Человек два раза глуп живет - стар и мал
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83 беспомощный
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84 беспомощный
1. helpless2. (бессильный, бездарный) feeble, impotent, effete -
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прил.weak, feeble; (перен.) powerless; ( беспомощный) helpless; (о злобе и т. п.) impotent -
86 лежмя
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87 нежизнеспособный
lacking vital capacity, lacking vitality; ( хрупкий) frail; ( беспомощный) helpless -
88 разводить
1. развести (вн.)1. (куда-л.) take* (d.), conduct (d.)разводить по домам — take* to their homes (d.)
разводить войска по квартирам воен. — take* / disperse troops to their billets
разводить ветки — part the branches
разводить мост — ( подъёмный) raise a bridge; ( поворотный) swing* a bridge open
разводить пилу — set* a saw
3. ( разбавлять) dilute (d.)4. ( растворять) dissolve (d.)5.:разводить огонь — light* / kindle a fire
разводить костёр — light* a camp-fire
разводить пары — raise steam, get* up steam
2. развести воен.♢
разводить руками — make a helpless gesture, lift one's hands (in dismay)mount (d.)3. развести (о супругах)divorce (d.)4. развести (вн.)(о животных, птицах) breed* (d.), rear (d.); ( о растениях) cultivate (d.), grow* (d.); (о саде, парке и т. п.) make* (d.), plant (d.), lay* out (d.) -
89 шляпа
1. ж. hat; (дамская тж.) bonnetнадеть шляпу — put* on one's hat
снять шляпу — take* off one's hat
ходить в шляпе — wear* a hat
он был в шляпе — he wore a hat, he had a hat on
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90 беззащитный
defenseless* * ** * *defenseless, unprotected* * *defencelessdefenselessdeferentfencelesshelplessnakedunkeptunprotected -
91 неумелый
unskilful* * ** * *unskilful, awkward; clumsy* * *amateurishartlessawkwardblunderingfootlesshelplessinaptincompetentineffectiveinefficientinexpertshiftlessunaccomplishedunaptunskilfulunskilledunwitty -
92 шляпа
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hat; (тж. дамская) bonnet
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93 беспомощнейший
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94 развести руками
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95 разводить руками
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96 беспомощный
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прил.helpless; powerless; ( немощный) feeble -
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1) ( нуждающийся в помощи) helpless2) ( бездарный) feeble, impotent, effeteбеспо́мощный ум — feeble intellect
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99 бессильный
1) ( слабый) weak, feeble; ( беспомощный) helpless2) ( лишённый возможности действовать) powerless; impotent -
100 лежмя
нареч.••лежмя́ лежа́ть прост. — be lying / down without stirring; lie helpless; ( быть лежачим больным) be bed-ridden; be flat on one's back
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