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  • 1 С-597

    HE СТОЛЬКО... СКОЛЬКО... (Conj, correlative) (one thing, quality etc) to a lesser degree than (another)
    not so much...as...
    less...than......Он не столько переживал сейчас из-за ног, сколько из-за сапог. Ноги - что. На ногах новая кожа вырастет, а вот на сапогах не вырастет (Абрамов 1)....Не was not so much worried about his feet as about his boots. His feet-so what? New skin would grow on his feet, but not on his boots (1a).
    Явились даже опасные мечтатели. Руководимые не столько разумом, сколько движениями благодарного сердца, они утверждали, что при новом градоначальнике процветёт торговля... (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). There were even some dangerous day-dreamers, who, moved less by reason than by the stirrings of a grateful heart, declared that under the new governor trade would flourish... (1b).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > С-597

  • 2 не столько... сколько...

    НЕ СТОЛЬКО... СКОЛЬКО...
    [Conj, correlative]
    =====
    (one thing, quality etc) to a lesser degree than (another):
    - not so much...as...;
    - less...than...
         ♦...Он не столько переживал сейчас из-за ног, сколько из-за сапог. Ноги - что. На ногах новая кожа вырастет, а вот на сапогах не вырастет (Абрамов 1)....He was not so much worried about his feet as about his boots. His feet-so what? New skin would grow on his feet, but not on his boots (1a).
         ♦ Явились даже опасные мечтатели. Руководимые не столько разумом, сколько движениями благодарного сердца, они утверждали, что при новом градоначальнике процветёт торговля... (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). There were even some dangerous day-dreamers, who, moved less by reason than by the stirrings of a grateful heart, declared that under the new governor trade would flourish... (1b).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > не столько... сколько...

  • 3 час от часу

    with every hour; from hour to hour; hour by hour

    Час от часу пленённый боле / Красами Ольги молодой, / Владимир сладостной неволе / Предался полною душой. (А. Пушкин, Евгений Онегин) — From hour to hour yet more enraptured / By the young Olga's winning ways, / Vladimir was completely captured / And found his chains a thing to praise.

    Состояние Сергея час от часу становилось всё хуже и хуже. Оттягивать ампутацию второй руки стало опасно. (В. Титов, Всем смертям назло...) — Hour by hour Sergei's condition worsened. It would be dangerous to postpone amputation of the second arm any longer.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > час от часу

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