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1 insatiable
adjectiveunersättlich; unstillbar [Verlangen, Neugierde]* * *[in'seiʃəbl]- academic.ru/88252/insatiably">insatiably- insatiableness* * *in·sa·tiable[ɪnˈseɪʃəbl̩]Bob is simply \insatiable! Bob ist einfach nicht satt zu bekommen!* * *[In'seɪʃəbl]adjunersättlich; curiosity, desire also unstillbaran insatiable hunger/thirst for sth — ein unersättlicher Hunger/unstillbarer Durst nach etw
he/his mind is insatiable for knowledge — er hat einen unersättlichen Wissensdurst
* * *insatiable desire for knowledge unstillbarer Wissensdurst* * *adjectiveunersättlich; unstillbar [Verlangen, Neugierde]* * *adj.unersättlich adj. -
2 curiosité
curiosité [kyʀjozite]feminine noun• par curiosité out of curiosity (PROV) la curiosité est un vilain défaut(PROV) curiosity killed the cat* * *kyʀjozite1) ( défaut) curiosity2) ( désir de connaître) curiosity ( pour about)avec curiosité — [dévisager, regarder] curiously
3) ( objet) strange object4) ( étrangeté)* * *kyʀjozite nf1) (soif de découvrir) curiosity2) (= indiscrétion) curiosity3) (= objet de collection) curio4) (= site intéressant) place of interest* * *curiosité nf1 ( défaut) curiosity; par curiosité out of curiosity; par pure or simple curiosité purely ou simply out of curiosity; il est d'une curiosité! he is so curious!; susciter des curiosités to make a lot of people curious; la curiosité est un vilain défaut curiosity killed the cat;2 ( désir de connaître) curiosity; curiosité intellectuelle intellectual curiosity; sa curiosité pour his/her curiosity about; avec curiosité [dévisager, regarder] curiously; se demander avec curiosité si to be curious to know if;3 ( objet) strange object; ( de collection) curio, curiosity; cabinet des curiosités cabinet of curios; magasin de curiosité curiosity shop;4 ( étrangeté) objet d'une grande curiosité very curious object.[kyrjozite] nom fémininpar (pure) curiosité out of (sheer) curiosity, just for curiosity's sake2. [intérêt] curiosity————————curiosités nom féminin pluriel -
3 Leonardo da Vinci
[br]b. 15 April 1452 Vinci, near Florence, Italy,d. 2 May 1519 St Cloux, near Amboise, France.[br]Italian scientist, engineer, inventor and artist.[br]Leonardo was the illegitimate son of a Florentine lawyer. His first sixteen years were spent with the lawyer's family in the rural surroundings of Vinci, which aroused in him a lifelong love of nature and an insatiable curiosity in it. He received little formal education but extended his knowledge through private reading. That gave him only a smattering of Latin, a deficiency that was to be a hindrance throughout his active life. At sixteen he was apprenticed in the studio of Andrea del Verrochio in Florence, where he received a training not only in art but in a wide variety of crafts and technical arts.In 1482 Leonardo went to Milan, where he sought and obtained employment with Ludovico Sforza, later Duke of Milan, partly to sculpt a massive equestrian statue of Ludovico but the work never progressed beyond the full-scale model stage. He did, however, complete the painting which became known as the Virgin of the Rocks and in 1497 his greatest artistic achievement, The Last Supper, commissioned jointly by Ludovico and the friars of Santa Maria della Grazie and painted on the wall of the monastery's refectory. Leonardo was responsible for the court pageants and also devised a system of irrigation to supply water to the plains of Lombardy. In 1499 the French army entered Milan and deposed Leonardo's employer. Leonardo departed and, after a brief visit to Mantua, returned to Florence, where for a time he was employed as architect and engineer to Cesare Borgia, Duke of Romagna. Around 1504 he completed another celebrated work, the Mona Lisa.In 1506 Leonardo began his second sojourn in Milan, this time in the service of King Louis XII of France, who appointed him "painter and engineer". In 1513 Leonardo left for Rome in the company of his pupil Francesco Melzi, but his time there was unproductive and he found himself out of touch with the younger artists active there, Michelangelo above all. In 1516 he accepted with relief an invitation from King François I of France to reside at the small château of St Cloux in the royal domain of Amboise. With the pension granted by François, Leonardo lived out his remaining years in tranquility at St Cloux.Leonardo's career can hardly be regarded as a success or worthy of such a towering genius. For centuries he was known only for the handful of artistic works that he managed to complete and have survived more or less intact. His main activity remained hidden until the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, during which the contents of his notebooks were gradually revealed. It became evident that Leonardo was one of the greatest scientific investigators and inventors in the history of civilization. Throughout his working life he extended a searching curiosity over an extraordinarily wide range of subjects. The notes show careful investigation of questions of mechanical and civil engineering, such as power transmission by means of pulleys and also a form of chain belting. The notebooks record many devices, such as machines for grinding and polishing lenses, a lathe operated by treadle-crank, a rolling mill with conical rollers and a spinning machine with pinion and yard divider. Leonardo made an exhaustive study of the flight of birds, with a view to designing a flying machine, which obsessed him for many years.Leonardo recorded his observations and conclusions, together with many ingenious inventions, on thousands of pages of manuscript notes, sketches and drawings. There are occasional indications that he had in mind the publication of portions of the notes in a coherent form, but he never diverted his energy into putting them in order; instead, he went on making notes. As a result, Leonardo's impact on the development of science and technology was virtually nil. Even if his notebooks had been copied and circulated, there were daunting impediments to their understanding. Leonardo was left-handed and wrote in mirror-writing: that is, in reverse from right to left. He also used his own abbreviations and no punctuation.At his death Leonardo bequeathed his entire output of notes to his friend and companion Francesco Melzi, who kept them safe until his own death in 1570. Melzi left the collection in turn to his son Orazio, whose lack of interest in the arts and sciences resulted in a sad period of dispersal which endangered their survival, but in 1636 the bulk of them, in thirteen volumes, were assembled and donated to the Ambrosian Library in Milan. These include a large volume of notes and drawings compiled from the various portions of the notebooks and is now known as the Codex Atlanticus. There they stayed, forgotten and ignored, until 1796, when Napoleon's marauding army overran Italy and art and literary works, including the thirteen volumes of Leonardo's notebooks, were pillaged and taken to Paris. After the war in 1815, the French government agreed to return them but only the Codex Atlanticus found its way back to Milan; the rest remained in Paris. The appendix to one notebook, dealing with the flight of birds, was later regarded as of sufficient importance to stand on its own. Four small collections reached Britain at various times during the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries; of these, the volume in the Royal Collection at Windsor Castle is notable for its magnificent series of anatomical drawings. Other collections include the Codex Leicester and Codex Arundel in the British Museum in London, and the Madrid Codices in Spain.Towards the end of the nineteenth century, Leonardo's true stature as scientist, engineer and inventor began to emerge, particularly with the publication of transcriptions and translations of his notebooks. The volumes in Paris appeared in 1881–97 and the Codex Atlanticus was published in Milan between 1894 and 1904.[br]Principal Honours and Distinctions"Premier peintre, architecte et mécanicien du Roi" to King François I of France, 1516.Further ReadingE.MacCurdy, 1939, The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, 2 vols, London; 2nd edn, 1956, London (the most extensive selection of the notes, with an English translation).G.Vasari (trans. G.Bull), 1965, Lives of the Artists, London: Penguin, pp. 255–271.C.Gibbs-Smith, 1978, The Inventions of Leonardo da Vinci, Oxford: Phaidon. L.H.Heydenreich, Dibner and L. Reti, 1981, Leonardo the Inventor, London: Hutchinson.I.B.Hart, 1961, The World of Leonardo da Vinci, London: Macdonald.LRD / IMcN -
4 (to) endow
(to) endow /ɪnˈdaʊ/v. t.1 dotare; fare una donazione in perpetuo a; assegnare in lascito a: to endow a charity, fare una donazione a un ente benefico2 dotare di fondi; sovvenzionare con una donazione; creare con un lascito: to endow a ward in a hospital, dotare di fondi il reparto di un ospedale; to endow a professorship, fondare una cattedra universitaria (con una donazione o un lascito)3 (fig.) dotare; provvedere; fornire: He is endowed with an insatiable curiosity, è dotato di una curiosità insaziabile4 (arc.) provvedere di dote; dotare. -
5 (to) endow
(to) endow /ɪnˈdaʊ/v. t.1 dotare; fare una donazione in perpetuo a; assegnare in lascito a: to endow a charity, fare una donazione a un ente benefico2 dotare di fondi; sovvenzionare con una donazione; creare con un lascito: to endow a ward in a hospital, dotare di fondi il reparto di un ospedale; to endow a professorship, fondare una cattedra universitaria (con una donazione o un lascito)3 (fig.) dotare; provvedere; fornire: He is endowed with an insatiable curiosity, è dotato di una curiosità insaziabile4 (arc.) provvedere di dote; dotare. -
6 poke and pry
неодобр.On the morning after the murder her insatiable curiosity led her to poke and pry, as the housemaid put it. (A. Christie, ‘Three Act Tragedy’, ‘Third Act’, ch. 15) — На другое утро после убийства мисс Уиллс, подстрекаемая нестерпимом любопытством, пошла "совать нос в чужие дела", как выразилась ее служанка.
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7 Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus)
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. c. 23 AD Como, Italyd. 25 August 79 AD near Pompeii, Italy[br]Roman encyclopedic writer on the natural world.[br]Pliny was well educated in Rome, and for ten years or so followed a military career with which he was able to combine literary work, writing especially on historical subjects. He completed his duties c. 57 AD and concentrated on writing until he resumed his official career in 69 AD with administrative duties. During this last phase he began work on his only extant work, the thirty-seven "books" of his Historia Naturalis (Natural History), each dealing with a broad subject such as astronomy, geography, mineralogy, etc. His last post was the command of the fleet based at Misenum, which came to an end when he sailed too near Vesuvius during the eruption that engulfed Pompeii and he was overcome by the fumes.Pliny developed an insatiable curiosity about the natural world. Unlike the Greeks, the Romans made few original contributions to scientific thought and observation, but some made careful compilations of the learning and observations of Greek scholars. The most notable and influential of these was the Historia Naturalis. To the ideas about the natural world gleaned from earlier Greek authors, he added information about natural history, mineral resources, crafts and some technological processes, such as the extraction of metals from their ores, reported to him from the corners of the Empire. He added a few observations of his own, noted during travels on his official duties. Not all the reports were reliable, and the work often presents a tangled web of fact and fable. Gibbon described it as an immense register in which the author has "deposited the discoveries, the arts, and the errors of mankind". Pliny was indefatigable in his relentless note-taking, even dictating to his secretary while dining.During the Dark Ages and early Middle Ages in Western Europe, Pliny's Historia Naturalis was the largest known collection of facts about the natural world and was drawn upon freely by a succession of later writers. Its influence survived the influx into Western Europe, from the twelfth century, of translations of the works of Greek and Arab scholars. After the invention of printing in the middle of the fifteenth century, Pliny was the first work on a scientific subject to be printed, in 1469. Many editions followed and it may still be consulted with profit for its insights into technical knowledge and practice in the ancient world.[br]BibliographyThe standard Latin text with English translation is that edited by H.Rackham et al.(1942– 63, Loeb Classical Library, London: Heinemann, 10 vols). The French version is by A.Further ReadingThe editions mentioned above include useful biographical and other details. For special aspects of Pliny, see K.C.Bailey, 1929–32, The Elder Pliny's Chapters on Chemical Subjects, London, 2 vols.LRDBiographical history of technology > Pliny the Elder (Gaius Plinius Secundus)
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8 pry
̈ɪpraɪ I
1. сущ.
1) любопытный человек( шутл. тж. Paul Pry) He is an insatiable pry who revels in all the sights of his day. ≈ Он ужасно любопытный человек, который старается получить удовольствие от всех зрелищ жизни.
2) а) любопытство Syn: curiosity б) высматривающий, любопытный взгляд Syn: inquisitive glance
2. гл.
1) а) вглядываться, всматриваться He went prying about into the corners of the hall. ≈ Он шел, рыская взглядом по углам зала. Syn: peep I
2., peer II б) подглядывать, подсматривать;
любопытствовать Syn: be curious
2) вмешивать, совать нос в чужие дела I don't want our neighbours prying into our affairs. ≈ Не хочу, чтобы соседи совали свой нос в наши дела.
3) выведывать, выпытывать Syn: find out, worm out ∙ pry about pry out II
1. сущ.
1) рычаг
2) а) действие рычага б) система действия сил на рычаге Syn: leverage
2. гл.
1) поднимать, передвигать;
вскрывать, взламывать при помощи рычага Syn: prize III
2.
2) а) извлекать с трудом б) перен. выведывать, допытываться I pried the secret out of my sister. ≈ Я выведал у сестры ее секрет. любопытство любопытный взгляд, вопрос любопытный человек подглядывать, подсматривать, любопытствовать - to * into every corner шарить по всем углам, заглядывать во все углы вмешиваться, совать нос в чужие дела выведывать, выпытывать - to * into smb.'s secrets выпытывать чьи-либо секреты (диалектизм) (американизм) рычаг (диалектизм) (американизм) подъем, перемещение, вскрытие или взламывание с помощью рычага, лома поднимать, передвигать, вскрывать или взламывать при помощи рычага;
двигать, открывать с трудом - to * the lid off a can сорвать крышку с банки извлекать с трудом, вырывать - to * military information out of a prisoner выпытывать у пленного военную тайну ~ любопытный, (шутл. тж.) Paul Pry pry извлекать с трудом ~ любопытный, (шутл. тж.) Paul Pry ~ любопытство ~ осматривать с излишним любопытством;
любопытствовать ~ подглядывать, подсматривать (часто pry about, pry into) ~ поднимать, передвигать, вскрывать или взламывать при помощи рычага ~ рычаг ~ совать нос (в чужие дела;
обыкн. pry into) ;
pry out допытываться, выведывать ~ совать нос (в чужие дела;
обыкн. pry into) ;
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9 omnivorous
1. a всеядный, неразборчивый в еде2. a всеядный, всепожирающий3. a жадно поглощающий, впитывающийomnivorous curiosity — ненасытное любопытство, неукротимая любознательность
Синонимический ряд:gluttonous (adj.) avid; carnivorous; devouring; gluttonous; greedy; insatiable; rapacious; ravenous; starved; unappeasable; voracious -
10 unquenchable
unquenchable [‚ʌn'kwentʃəbəl]Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > unquenchable
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11 unsatisfiable
Un panorama unique de l'anglais et du français > unsatisfiable
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