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  • 1 talk a different language

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  • 2 speak a different language

    (from smb.)
       "гoвopить нa paзныx языкax", нe нaйти oбщeгo языкa c кeм-л.
        Colonel....as for Jimmy - he just speaks a different language from any of us (J. Osborne). A difficulty with this debate is that the main protagonists speak quite different languages. The culture clash between trade experts and environmentalists is striking (The Economist)

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  • 3 Language

       Philosophy is written in that great book, the universe, which is always open, right before our eyes. But one cannot understand this book without first learning to understand the language and to know the characters in which it is written. It is written in the language of mathematics, and the characters are triangles, circles, and other figures. Without these, one cannot understand a single word of it, and just wanders in a dark labyrinth. (Galileo, 1990, p. 232)
       It never happens that it [a nonhuman animal] arranges its speech in various ways in order to reply appropriately to everything that may be said in its presence, as even the lowest type of man can do. (Descartes, 1970a, p. 116)
       It is a very remarkable fact that there are none so depraved and stupid, without even excepting idiots, that they cannot arrange different words together, forming of them a statement by which they make known their thoughts; while, on the other hand, there is no other animal, however perfect and fortunately circumstanced it may be, which can do the same. (Descartes, 1967, p. 116)
       Human beings do not live in the object world alone, nor alone in the world of social activity as ordinarily understood, but are very much at the mercy of the particular language which has become the medium of expression for their society. It is quite an illusion to imagine that one adjusts to reality essentially without the use of language and that language is merely an incidental means of solving specific problems of communication or reflection. The fact of the matter is that the "real world" is to a large extent unconsciously built on the language habits of the group.... We see and hear and otherwise experience very largely as we do because the language habits of our community predispose certain choices of interpretation. (Sapir, 1921, p. 75)
       It powerfully conditions all our thinking about social problems and processes.... No two languages are ever sufficiently similar to be considered as representing the same social reality. The worlds in which different societies live are distinct worlds, not merely the same worlds with different labels attached. (Sapir, 1985, p. 162)
       [A list of language games, not meant to be exhaustive:]
       Giving orders, and obeying them- Describing the appearance of an object, or giving its measurements- Constructing an object from a description (a drawing)Reporting an eventSpeculating about an eventForming and testing a hypothesisPresenting the results of an experiment in tables and diagramsMaking up a story; and reading itPlay actingSinging catchesGuessing riddlesMaking a joke; and telling it
       Solving a problem in practical arithmeticTranslating from one language into another
       LANGUAGE Asking, thanking, cursing, greeting, and praying-. (Wittgenstein, 1953, Pt. I, No. 23, pp. 11 e-12 e)
       We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native languages.... The world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... No individual is free to describe nature with absolute impartiality but is constrained to certain modes of interpretation even while he thinks himself most free. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 153, 213-214)
       We dissect nature along the lines laid down by our native languages.
       The categories and types that we isolate from the world of phenomena we do not find there because they stare every observer in the face; on the contrary, the world is presented in a kaleidoscopic flux of impressions which has to be organized by our minds-and this means largely by the linguistic systems in our minds.... We are thus introduced to a new principle of relativity, which holds that all observers are not led by the same physical evidence to the same picture of the universe, unless their linguistic backgrounds are similar or can in some way be calibrated. (Whorf, 1956, pp. 213-214)
       9) The Forms of a Person's Thoughts Are Controlled by Unperceived Patterns of His Own Language
       The forms of a person's thoughts are controlled by inexorable laws of pattern of which he is unconscious. These patterns are the unperceived intricate systematizations of his own language-shown readily enough by a candid comparison and contrast with other languages, especially those of a different linguistic family. (Whorf, 1956, p. 252)
       It has come to be commonly held that many utterances which look like statements are either not intended at all, or only intended in part, to record or impart straightforward information about the facts.... Many traditional philosophical perplexities have arisen through a mistake-the mistake of taking as straightforward statements of fact utterances which are either (in interesting non-grammatical ways) nonsensical or else intended as something quite different. (Austin, 1962, pp. 2-3)
       In general, one might define a complex of semantic components connected by logical constants as a concept. The dictionary of a language is then a system of concepts in which a phonological form and certain syntactic and morphological characteristics are assigned to each concept. This system of concepts is structured by several types of relations. It is supplemented, furthermore, by redundancy or implicational rules..., representing general properties of the whole system of concepts.... At least a relevant part of these general rules is not bound to particular languages, but represents presumably universal structures of natural languages. They are not learned, but are rather a part of the human ability to acquire an arbitrary natural language. (Bierwisch, 1970, pp. 171-172)
       In studying the evolution of mind, we cannot guess to what extent there are physically possible alternatives to, say, transformational generative grammar, for an organism meeting certain other physical conditions characteristic of humans. Conceivably, there are none-or very few-in which case talk about evolution of the language capacity is beside the point. (Chomsky, 1972, p. 98)
       [It is] truth value rather than syntactic well-formedness that chiefly governs explicit verbal reinforcement by parents-which renders mildly paradoxical the fact that the usual product of such a training schedule is an adult whose speech is highly grammatical but not notably truthful. (R. O. Brown, 1973, p. 330)
       he conceptual base is responsible for formally representing the concepts underlying an utterance.... A given word in a language may or may not have one or more concepts underlying it.... On the sentential level, the utterances of a given language are encoded within a syntactic structure of that language. The basic construction of the sentential level is the sentence.
       The next highest level... is the conceptual level. We call the basic construction of this level the conceptualization. A conceptualization consists of concepts and certain relations among those concepts. We can consider that both levels exist at the same point in time and that for any unit on one level, some corresponding realizate exists on the other level. This realizate may be null or extremely complex.... Conceptualizations may relate to other conceptualizations by nesting or other specified relationships. (Schank, 1973, pp. 191-192)
       The mathematics of multi-dimensional interactive spaces and lattices, the projection of "computer behavior" on to possible models of cerebral functions, the theoretical and mechanical investigation of artificial intelligence, are producing a stream of sophisticated, often suggestive ideas.
       But it is, I believe, fair to say that nothing put forward until now in either theoretic design or mechanical mimicry comes even remotely in reach of the most rudimentary linguistic realities. (Steiner, 1975, p. 284)
       The step from the simple tool to the master tool, a tool to make tools (what we would now call a machine tool), seems to me indeed to parallel the final step to human language, which I call reconstitution. It expresses in a practical and social context the same understanding of hierarchy, and shows the same analysis by function as a basis for synthesis. (Bronowski, 1977, pp. 127-128)
        t is the language donn eґ in which we conduct our lives.... We have no other. And the danger is that formal linguistic models, in their loosely argued analogy with the axiomatic structure of the mathematical sciences, may block perception.... It is quite conceivable that, in language, continuous induction from simple, elemental units to more complex, realistic forms is not justified. The extent and formal "undecidability" of context-and every linguistic particle above the level of the phoneme is context-bound-may make it impossible, except in the most abstract, meta-linguistic sense, to pass from "pro-verbs," "kernals," or "deep deep structures" to actual speech. (Steiner, 1975, pp. 111-113)
       A higher-level formal language is an abstract machine. (Weizenbaum, 1976, p. 113)
       Jakobson sees metaphor and metonymy as the characteristic modes of binarily opposed polarities which between them underpin the two-fold process of selection and combination by which linguistic signs are formed.... Thus messages are constructed, as Saussure said, by a combination of a "horizontal" movement, which combines words together, and a "vertical" movement, which selects the particular words from the available inventory or "inner storehouse" of the language. The combinative (or syntagmatic) process manifests itself in contiguity (one word being placed next to another) and its mode is metonymic. The selective (or associative) process manifests itself in similarity (one word or concept being "like" another) and its mode is metaphoric. The "opposition" of metaphor and metonymy therefore may be said to represent in effect the essence of the total opposition between the synchronic mode of language (its immediate, coexistent, "vertical" relationships) and its diachronic mode (its sequential, successive, lineal progressive relationships). (Hawkes, 1977, pp. 77-78)
       It is striking that the layered structure that man has given to language constantly reappears in his analyses of nature. (Bronowski, 1977, p. 121)
       First, [an ideal intertheoretic reduction] provides us with a set of rules"correspondence rules" or "bridge laws," as the standard vernacular has it-which effect a mapping of the terms of the old theory (T o) onto a subset of the expressions of the new or reducing theory (T n). These rules guide the application of those selected expressions of T n in the following way: we are free to make singular applications of their correspondencerule doppelgangers in T o....
       Second, and equally important, a successful reduction ideally has the outcome that, under the term mapping effected by the correspondence rules, the central principles of T o (those of semantic and systematic importance) are mapped onto general sentences of T n that are theorems of Tn. (P. Churchland, 1979, p. 81)
       If non-linguistic factors must be included in grammar: beliefs, attitudes, etc. [this would] amount to a rejection of the initial idealization of language as an object of study. A priori such a move cannot be ruled out, but it must be empirically motivated. If it proves to be correct, I would conclude that language is a chaos that is not worth studying.... Note that the question is not whether beliefs or attitudes, and so on, play a role in linguistic behavior and linguistic judgments... [but rather] whether distinct cognitive structures can be identified, which interact in the real use of language and linguistic judgments, the grammatical system being one of these. (Chomsky, 1979, pp. 140, 152-153)
        23) Language Is Inevitably Influenced by Specific Contexts of Human Interaction
       Language cannot be studied in isolation from the investigation of "rationality." It cannot afford to neglect our everyday assumptions concerning the total behavior of a reasonable person.... An integrational linguistics must recognize that human beings inhabit a communicational space which is not neatly compartmentalized into language and nonlanguage.... It renounces in advance the possibility of setting up systems of forms and meanings which will "account for" a central core of linguistic behavior irrespective of the situation and communicational purposes involved. (Harris, 1981, p. 165)
       By innate [linguistic knowledge], Chomsky simply means "genetically programmed." He does not literally think that children are born with language in their heads ready to be spoken. He merely claims that a "blueprint is there, which is brought into use when the child reaches a certain point in her general development. With the help of this blueprint, she analyzes the language she hears around her more readily than she would if she were totally unprepared for the strange gabbling sounds which emerge from human mouths. (Aitchison, 1987, p. 31)
       Looking at ourselves from the computer viewpoint, we cannot avoid seeing that natural language is our most important "programming language." This means that a vast portion of our knowledge and activity is, for us, best communicated and understood in our natural language.... One could say that natural language was our first great original artifact and, since, as we increasingly realize, languages are machines, so natural language, with our brains to run it, was our primal invention of the universal computer. One could say this except for the sneaking suspicion that language isn't something we invented but something we became, not something we constructed but something in which we created, and recreated, ourselves. (Leiber, 1991, p. 8)

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  • 4 talk

    [tɔːk] 1. гл.
    1)
    а) говорить, разговаривать, вести беседу

    to talk bluntly / candidly / frankly / freely / fluently — говорить открыто, свободно, искренне, бегло

    to talk loud(ly) / talk openly — во весь голос, открыто, громогласно заявлять о чём-л.

    to need smb. to talk to — иметь потребность в собеседнике

    to talk on a topic / subject — говорить, вести беседу на какую-л. тему

    to talk of one thing and another, to talk of this and that — говорить, толковать о том о сём

    to talk sense / business / амер. shop — говорить дело

    She has found somebody to talk to. — Она нашла, с кем поговорить.

    They were talking about the elections. — Они разговаривали о выборах.

    She was talking of her trip. — Она рассказывала о своём путешествии.

    I will talk to them about this problem. — Я обсужу с ними этот вопрос.

    It is talked of placing me into asylum. — Речь идет о том, чтобы упечь меня в психушку.

    She surely got herself talked about. — Она, разумеется, заставила всех говорить о себе.

    I didn't / couldn't care to talk. — Мне не хотелось разговаривать.

    б) вести переговоры, совместно и официально обсуждать (что-л.)

    The both parts were talking about the crisis of overproduction. — Обе стороны говорили о кризисе перепроизводства.

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    The lecturer talked on youth drug problems. — Лектор говорил о проблеме молодёжи и наркотиков.

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    Ships usually talk to each other by wireless. — Корабли обычно переговариваются друг с другом по радио.

    The ships were talking on the river. — На реке были слышны корабли.

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    Syn:
    converse I 2.
    2)
    а) говорить на (каком-л. языке, диалекте)
    б) говорить (издавать какие-л. звуки)

    to talk in one's sleep — бормотать, говорить во сне

    The water bubbles talked so noisily. — Пузыри на воде громко лопались.

    Dolphins were talking their own dolphin talk. — Дельфины говорили на своём дельфиньем языке.

    We could certainly hear the birds talking throughout the forest. — Мы, конечно же, слышали голоса птиц, которые разносились по всему лесу.

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    3)
    а) болтать, трепать языком; пустословить

    to talk big / large / tall / horse — хвастать, важничать

    to talk by the hour — тараторить, трещать; болтать без умолку, чесать языком

    to talk small — вести пустой разговор, салонную беседу

    to talk nonsense — говорить чепуху, полную ерунду

    Syn:
    prate 2.
    б) = talk about сплетничать, судачить, злословить, распространять слухи

    to talk behind smb.'s back — говорить за спиной у кого-л., за глаза; злословить на чей-л. счёт

    to talk scandal / treason — распускать слухи, сплетничать / вести преступные разговоры

    Let them talk. — Пусть себе болтают.

    My wife's cheating on me gave people something to talk about. — Измены моей женушки дали пищу для толков и пересудов.

    People were beginning to talk about new head officer's perversions and addictions. — Уже пошли толки об извращениях и пристрастиях нового директора.

    Everybody is sure to talk now. — Да, теперь-то везде пойдут слухи.

    Syn:
    gossip 2.
    4) разг. признаваться, расколоться, заговорить ( о допрашиваемом)

    Do you think the prisoners will talk? — Ты думаешь, заключённый расколется?

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    5) выговориться; наговориться, договориться (до какого-л. состояния)

    to talk oneself sick / hoarse — договориться до болезненного состояния / хрипоты

    It seemed you talked yourself into trouble - getting this bullet right into your stomach. — Похоже, что ты, наконец, дотрепался и получил пулю в живот.

    6) (talk about / off) начать поговаривать о (чём-л.), (начать) размышлять о (чём-л.), подумывать о (чём-л.)

    Are you still talking about moving to another city, or have you made up your minds? — Вы все ещё подумываете о том, чтобы переехать в другой город или вы уже окончательно решились?

    7) ( talk into) уговорить (кого-л.) сделать (что-л.)

    I don't think Father is willing to lend us the car tomorrow, but I'll see if I can talk him into it. — Не думаю, что отец горит желанием дать нам машину на завтра, но я попробую уговорить его.

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    - talk around
    - talk round
    - talk away
    - talk back
    - talk big
    - talk down
    - talk out
    - talk over
    - talk profusely
    - talk scandal
    - talk smut
    - talk through
    - talk to the point
    - talk up
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    to talk Greek / Hebrew / Double-Dutch / gibberish — говорить по-турецки, на тарабарщине, на непонятном языке

    to talk smb.'s head off — заговорить кого-л. до потери сознания, замучать разговорами

    to talk a good game, to talk a great ball game — амер. красиво говорить, мягко стелить

    to talk oneself black in the face — говорить до посинения, позеленения

    to talk one's head / one's arm, a donkey's hind leg, arse / off — наговориться вволю, всласть

    to talk through one's hat / through (the back of) one's neck — говорить или нести вздор, пороть чепуху

    to talk bullshit / crap / nuts — разг. нести ахинею, пороть чушь

    to talk big / large / tall — разг. хвастать, бахвалиться

    talk of the devil (and he will come / and he is sure to appear) — лёгок на помине

    Look who's talking. — Чья бы корова мычала.

    You can't talk. — разг. Не тебе говорить, ты бы лучше помалкивал

    That was beer talking. — Это я под хмельком от пива сболтнул лишнего. ( реплика извинения за высказанную грубость или резкость)

    - talk against time
    - talk cold turkey
    - talk turkey     2. сущ.
    1)
    а) разговор; диалог; беседа

    heart-to-heart / loose / pep talk — разговор по душам / свободная, раскованная / живая беседа

    blunt / plain / straight talk — прямой разговор, разговор без обиняков

    to lead an idle / intimate / disjointed / small / double talk — вести пустой / интимный / бессвязный / пустячный / двусмысленный разговор

    to engage smb. in talk, make a talk, fall into a talk — завязать беседу, начинать разговор, разговориться

    The talk turned to sports. — Разговор перешёл на спортивную тему.

    I think it's time we had a talk. — Я думаю, нам пора поговорить.

    She had a long talk with him about his work. — Она долго говорила с ним о его работе.

    We fell into a plain talk. — Мы с ней поговорили начистоту.

    It seemed they met for a good talk. — Казалось, они встретились, чтобы всласть потрепаться.

    - tall talk
    - sweet talk
    - walk the talk
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    б) ( talks) переговоры; обсуждение

    high-level / top-level / summit talks — переговоры на высшем уровне

    to conduct / hold talk — вести переговоры

    to break off talk — срывать переговоры, внезапно прекращать переговоры

    talks about talks — предварительное обсуждение (предмета переговоров и т. п.)

    Syn:

    I was given this usual talk on bringing up children subject. — Мне прочитали обычную в таких случаях лекцию по вопросам воспитания детей.

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    3)
    а) пустой разговор, пустословие; болтовня, трёп

    It will end in talk. — Дальше разговоров дело не пойдёт.

    It's just / mere talk. — Это так, трёп один.

    Don't give me that never-smoke-again crap talk and all. — Хватит тут заливать мне про то, что больше не будешь курить и прочее.

    Enough of these ill grandma talks. — Хватит уже историй про больную бабушку.

    We need no talk here, show us what you can do. — Мы сюда не трепаться пришли - покажи, на что ты способен.

    idle talk — пустословие, болтовня

    б) вода, переливание из пустого в порожнее ( о бессодержательном или небрежно написанном тексте)
    Syn:
    4)
    а) молва; толки, слухи; россказни

    There is talk of her resigning. — Поговаривают о том, что она уходит в отставку.

    He was a man of principle and risked talk. — Он был человеком принципа и не боялся сплетен.

    Syn:
    б) предмет разговоров, толков, сплетен

    She was the talk of the whole town. — О ней судачил весь город.

    His receiving Nobel Prize will make talk. — Теперь, когда он получил Нобелевскую премию, о нём будут много говорить.

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    5) разг. диалект, жаргон; язык, речь

    thieves' talk — воровской, блатной язык

    Stop that baby talk! — разг. Перестань сюсюкать! Говори серьёзно!

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    all talk and no cider — амер. много шуму, мало толку

    that's the talk! — вот это дело!, вот это я понимаю!

    talk(ing) shop — разг. говорильня (о правительстве, парламенте, особенно о Палате общин)

    talk-master — амер.; разг. ведущий теле- или радио- ток-шоу

    Англо-русский современный словарь > talk

  • 5 speak smb.'s language

    (speak (или talk) smb.'s (или the same) language)
    найти общий язык с кем-л.; см. тж. speak a different language

    Bobby... had presumed that since he and I "spoke the same language", I should naturally dislike the Director as much as he did. (A. Wilson, ‘The Old Men at the Zoo’, ch. 1) — Бобби... считал, раз мы нашли с ним общий язык, я, естественно, должен испытывать к директору такую же неприязнь, какую испытывал он.

    Large English-Russian phrasebook > speak smb.'s language

  • 6 various

    ['ve(ə)rɪəs]
    adj
    1) разный, различный, разнообразный

    There are various ways of improving spelling, but they are not very different. — Есть много способов исправить орфографию, но между ними нет принципиальной разницы.

    Various people come to see him on various reasons. — Разные люди приходят к нему по разным причинам.

    - various motives
    - various duties
    - for various reasons
    - known under various names
    - meet on various occasions
    - talk about various things
    2) отдельный, по отдельности (обыкновенно с определенным артиклем)
    - various territories of the country
    - talk with the various members of the family
    - various are the tastes of men
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    CHOICE OF WORDS:
    Английские эквиваленты русского прилагательного "другой" various, different, diverse, divergent имеют сходные, но и различные значения и употребления. Various - разного вида, разнообразный внутри одного типа: I had to sign various documents before they would let me into the country. Мне пришлось подписать массу разных документов, прежде чем мне разрешили въезд в страну. They discussed advantages of various teaching methods used in schools. Обсуждались достоинства разнообразных методов, применяемых в школе. Various styles of hats. Шляпы разных стилей. Different описывает два или более объекта (предмета, существа) отличных друг от друга: Everyone in the room spoke a different language. Все в комнате разговаривали на разных языках. We tried different kinds of food before we chose the menu for the party. Мы перепробовали разные блюда, прежде чем составили определенное меню для приема. Diverse - различный - подчеркивает расхождение свойств: All the members of the team come from totally diverse background. Все члены команды различаются происхождением и воспитанием. The newspaper aims to cover a diverse range of issues. Газета стремится отражать самые разнообразные проблемы/самый широкий круг проблем. Divergent - различный, противоположный, несовместимый: journalists with divergent political views журналисты разных политических взглядов; the problems of the two countries are widely divergent and one solution alone will not solve them. Проблемы этих двух стран совершенно различны, и для их преодоления нет единого решения
    USAGE:
    (1.) Прилагательное various, как и его синоним different, употребляется всегда перед существительным, но в отличие от different требует существительного во множественном числе. (2.) Существительное, определяемое прилагательным various 2., обычно употребляется с определенным артиклем: I spoke with the various members of the family. Я разговаривал с каждым членом семьи в отдельности; in the various districts/parts of the country в отдельных районах страны. (3.) For various 1.; See different, adj; USAGE (2.), (3.).

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  • 7 Mind

       It becomes, therefore, no inconsiderable part of science... to know the different operations of the mind, to separate them from each other, to class them under their proper heads, and to correct all that seeming disorder in which they lie involved when made the object of reflection and inquiry.... It cannot be doubted that the mind is endowed with several powers and faculties, that these powers are distinct from one another, and that what is really distinct to the immediate perception may be distinguished by reflection and, consequently, that there is a truth and falsehood which lie not beyond the compass of human understanding. (Hume, 1955, p. 22)
       Let us then suppose the mind to be, as we say, white Paper, void of all Characters, without any Ideas: How comes it to be furnished? Whence comes it by that vast store, which the busy and boundless Fancy of Man has painted on it, with an almost endless variety? Whence has it all the materials of Reason and Knowledge? To this I answer, in one word, from Experience. (Locke, quoted in Herrnstein & Boring, 1965, p. 584)
       The kind of logic in mythical thought is as rigorous as that of modern science, and... the difference lies, not in the quality of the intellectual process, but in the nature of things to which it is applied.... Man has always been thinking equally well; the improvement lies, not in an alleged progress of man's mind, but in the discovery of new areas to which it may apply its unchanged and unchanging powers. (Leґvi-Strauss, 1963, p. 230)
       MIND. A mysterious form of matter secreted by the brain. Its chief activity consists in the endeavor to ascertain its own nature, the futility of the attempt being due to the fact that it has nothing but itself to know itself with. (Bierce, quoted in Minsky, 1986, p. 55)
       [Philosophy] understands the foundations of knowledge and it finds these foundations in a study of man-as-knower, of the "mental processes" or the "activity of representation" which make knowledge possible. To know is to represent accurately what is outside the mind, so to understand the possibility and nature of knowledge is to understand the way in which the mind is able to construct such representation.... We owe the notion of a "theory of knowledge" based on an understanding of "mental processes" to the seventeenth century, and especially to Locke. We owe the notion of "the mind" as a separate entity in which "processes" occur to the same period, and especially to Descartes. We owe the notion of philosophy as a tribunal of pure reason, upholding or denying the claims of the rest of culture, to the eighteenth century and especially to Kant, but this Kantian notion presupposed general assent to Lockean notions of mental processes and Cartesian notions of mental substance. (Rorty, 1979, pp. 3-4)
       Under pressure from the computer, the question of mind in relation to machine is becoming a central cultural preoccupation. It is becoming for us what sex was to Victorians-threat, obsession, taboo, and fascination. (Turkle, 1984, p. 313)
       7) Understanding the Mind Remains as Resistant to Neurological as to Cognitive Analyses
       Recent years have been exciting for researchers in the brain and cognitive sciences. Both fields have flourished, each spurred on by methodological and conceptual developments, and although understanding the mechanisms of mind is an objective shared by many workers in these areas, their theories and approaches to the problem are vastly different....
       Early experimental psychologists, such as Wundt and James, were as interested in and knowledgeable about the anatomy and physiology of the nervous system as about the young science of the mind. However, the experimental study of mental processes was short-lived, being eclipsed by the rise of behaviorism early in this century. It was not until the late 1950s that the signs of a new mentalism first appeared in scattered writings of linguists, philosophers, computer enthusiasts, and psychologists.
       In this new incarnation, the science of mind had a specific mission: to challenge and replace behaviorism. In the meantime, brain science had in many ways become allied with a behaviorist approach.... While behaviorism sought to reduce the mind to statements about bodily action, brain science seeks to explain the mind in terms of physiochemical events occurring in the nervous system. These approaches contrast with contemporary cognitive science, which tries to understand the mind as it is, without any reduction, a view sometimes described as functionalism.
       The cognitive revolution is now in place. Cognition is the subject of contemporary psychology. This was achieved with little or no talk of neurons, action potentials, and neurotransmitters. Similarly, neuroscience has risen to an esteemed position among the biological sciences without much talk of cognitive processes. Do the fields need each other?... [Y]es because the problem of understanding the mind, unlike the wouldbe problem solvers, respects no disciplinary boundaries. It remains as resistant to neurological as to cognitive analyses. (LeDoux & Hirst, 1986, pp. 1-2)
       Since the Second World War scientists from different disciplines have turned to the study of the human mind. Computer scientists have tried to emulate its capacity for visual perception. Linguists have struggled with the puzzle of how children acquire language. Ethologists have sought the innate roots of social behaviour. Neurophysiologists have begun to relate the function of nerve cells to complex perceptual and motor processes. Neurologists and neuropsychologists have used the pattern of competence and incompetence of their brain-damaged patients to elucidate the normal workings of the brain. Anthropologists have examined the conceptual structure of cultural practices to advance hypotheses about the basic principles of the mind. These days one meets engineers who work on speech perception, biologists who investigate the mental representation of spatial relations, and physicists who want to understand consciousness. And, of course, psychologists continue to study perception, memory, thought and action.
    ... [W]orkers in many disciplines have converged on a number of central problems and explanatory ideas. They have realized that no single approach is likely to unravel the workings of the mind: it will not give up its secrets to psychology alone; nor is any other isolated discipline-artificial intelligence, linguistics, anthropology, neurophysiology, philosophy-going to have any greater success. (Johnson-Laird, 1988, p. 7)

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  • 8 same

    seim
    1. adjective
    1) (alike; very similar: The houses in this road are all the same; You have the same eyes as your brother (has).) parecido; mismo; igual
    2) (not different: My friend and I are the same age; He went to the same school as me.) mismo
    3) (unchanged: My opinion is the same as it always was.) mismo, igual

    2. pronoun
    ((usually with the) the same thing: He sat down and we all did the same.) lo mismo

    3. adverb
    ((usually with the) in the same way: I don't feel the same about you as I did.) del mismo modo, de la misma manera
    - at the same time
    - be all the same to
    - same here
    - same-sex marriage
    same1 adj mismo
    at the same time a la vez / al mismo tiempo
    same2 adv igual / de la misma manera
    same3 pron igual
    the same to you! ¡igualmente!
    tr[seɪm]
    1 (not different) mismo,-a
    2 (alike) mismo,-a, igual, idéntico,-a
    ■ you men are all the same! ¡los hombres sois todos iguales!
    1 SMALLCOMMERCE/SMALL (previously mentioned thing) el mismo, la misma
    1 the same lo mismo
    1 the same (same person) el mismo, la misma
    ■ are you Phil Rogers? - The same! ¿es usted Phil Rogers? - ¡El mismo!
    ■ the very same el mismísimo, la mismísima
    1 igual, del mismo modo
    \
    SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALL
    all the same a pesar de todo
    at the same time (simultaneously) a la vez, al mismo tiempo 2 (however) sin embargo, aun así
    in the same breath inmediatamente después
    it's all the same to me me da igual, me da lo mismo
    just the same a pesar de todo
    on the same wavelength en la misma onda
    one and the same el mismo, la misma, lo mismo
    same difference es igual
    same here yo también
    thanks all the same gracias de todas maneras
    the same again, please lo mismo de antes, por favor, otro por favor
    the same as igual que, como
    the same old story la misma historia de siempre
    the same to you! ¡igualmente!
    to amount the same thing venir a ser lo mismo
    to be in the same boat estar en el mismo barco, estar en la misma situación
    to be of the same mind opinar lo mismo
    same ['seɪm] adj
    : mismo, igual
    the results are the same: los resultados son iguales
    he said the same thing as you: dijo lo mismo que tú
    same pron
    : mismo
    it's all the same to me: me da lo mismo
    the same to you!: ¡igualmente!
    adj.
    • idéntico, -a adj.
    • igual adj.
    • mero, -a adj.
    • mismo, -a adj.
    • propio, -a adj.
    adj.indef.
    • mismo adj.indef.
    n.
    • mismo s.m.
    pron.
    • mismo pron.

    I seɪm
    adjective (before n) mismo, misma

    the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día


    II
    a)

    I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)

    b)

    all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)

    it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual


    III

    they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual

    how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual

    [seɪm]
    1.
    ADJ mismo

    • if it's all the same to you * — si a ti te da igual or lo mismo

    • we sat at the same table as usual — nos sentamos en la (misma) mesa de siempre

    "how's Derek?" - "same as usual/ever" — -¿qué tal está Derek? -como siempre

    • the same day — el mismo día

    same day delivery — entrega f en el mismo día

    • same difference * — lo mismo da *

    • they are much the same — son más o menos iguales

    • they ask the same old questions — siempre hacen las mismas preguntas, hacen las mismas preguntas de siempre

    • the same one — el mismo

    • it comes to the same thing — viene a ser lo mismo

    • at the same time — (=at once) al mismo tiempo, a la vez; (=on the other hand) por otro lado

    • the very same day/person — justo ese mismo día/esa misma persona

    • in the same way — de la misma manera or forma

    do you still feel the same way about me? — ¿aún sientes lo mismo por mí?

    do you still feel the same way about it? — ¿sigues pensando lo mismo?, ¿lo sigues viendo de la misma forma?

    to go the same way as sth/sb — (fig) pej seguir el mismo camino que algo/algn

    boat 1., breath 1., 1), language 1., 1), mind 1., 6), story I, 1., 1), tar 2., token 1., wavelength
    2. PRON
    1)

    I'd do the same again — volvería a hacer lo mismo, haría lo mismo otra vez

    the same again! — (in bar etc) ¡otra de lo mismo!

    • all or just the same — (as adverb) (=even so) de todas formas or maneras

    no, but thanks all the same — no, pero de todas formas, gracias

    • I want the best for him, the same as you — quiero lo mejor para él, igual que tú

    • the same goes for you — eso también va por ti

    • same here! * — ¡yo también!

    • one and the same — el mismo/la misma

    • (and the) same to you! * — (returning insult) ¡lo mismo digo!; (returning good wishes) ¡igualmente!

    • "Mr. Smith?" - "the very same!" — -¿el Sr. Smith? -¡el mismo!

    2) (Comm)
    * * *

    I [seɪm]
    adjective (before n) mismo, misma

    the same AS something: we're in the same position as before/as you estamos igual que antes/en tu misma situación; that dress is the same as mine ese vestido es igual al mío; the same thing happened to me a mí me pasó lo mismo; same time, same place a la misma hora en el mismo sitio; I'm glad you see things the same way (as) I do me alegro de que veas las cosas como yo; they are one and the same (person/thing) son la mismísima persona/cosa; on that very same day — ese mismísimo día


    II
    a)

    I've had enough - same here! — (colloq) ya estoy harto - ya somos dos (fam)

    b)

    all the same, just the same — igual; (as linker) de todas formas or maneras, así y todo, sin embargo, no obstante (frml)

    it's all the same to me/you/them — me/te/les da lo mismo, me/te/les da igual


    III

    they're written differently but pronounced the same — se escriben distinto, pero se pronuncian igual

    how do you feel? - about the same — ¿qué tal estás? - más o menos igual

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  • 9 Memory

       To what extent can we lump together what goes on when you try to recall: (1) your name; (2) how you kick a football; and (3) the present location of your car keys? If we use introspective evidence as a guide, the first seems an immediate automatic response. The second may require constructive internal replay prior to our being able to produce a verbal description. The third... quite likely involves complex operational responses under the control of some general strategy system. Is any unitary search process, with a single set of characteristics and inputoutput relations, likely to cover all these cases? (Reitman, 1970, p. 485)
       [Semantic memory] Is a mental thesaurus, organized knowledge a person possesses about words and other verbal symbols, their meanings and referents, about relations among them, and about rules, formulas, and algorithms for the manipulation of these symbols, concepts, and relations. Semantic memory does not register perceptible properties of inputs, but rather cognitive referents of input signals. (Tulving, 1972, p. 386)
       The mnemonic code, far from being fixed and unchangeable, is structured and restructured along with general development. Such a restructuring of the code takes place in close dependence on the schemes of intelligence. The clearest indication of this is the observation of different types of memory organisation in accordance with the age level of a child so that a longer interval of retention without any new presentation, far from causing a deterioration of memory, may actually improve it. (Piaget & Inhelder, 1973, p. 36)
       4) The Logic of Some Memory Theorization Is of Dubious Worth in the History of Psychology
       If a cue was effective in memory retrieval, then one could infer it was encoded; if a cue was not effective, then it was not encoded. The logic of this theorization is "heads I win, tails you lose" and is of dubious worth in the history of psychology. We might ask how long scientists will puzzle over questions with no answers. (Solso, 1974, p. 28)
       We have iconic, echoic, active, working, acoustic, articulatory, primary, secondary, episodic, semantic, short-term, intermediate-term, and longterm memories, and these memories contain tags, traces, images, attributes, markers, concepts, cognitive maps, natural-language mediators, kernel sentences, relational rules, nodes, associations, propositions, higher-order memory units, and features. (Eysenck, 1977, p. 4)
       The problem with the memory metaphor is that storage and retrieval of traces only deals [ sic] with old, previously articulated information. Memory traces can perhaps provide a basis for dealing with the "sameness" of the present experience with previous experiences, but the memory metaphor has no mechanisms for dealing with novel information. (Bransford, McCarrell, Franks & Nitsch, 1977, p. 434)
       7) The Results of a Hundred Years of the Psychological Study of Memory Are Somewhat Discouraging
       The results of a hundred years of the psychological study of memory are somewhat discouraging. We have established firm empirical generalisations, but most of them are so obvious that every ten-year-old knows them anyway. We have made discoveries, but they are only marginally about memory; in many cases we don't know what to do with them, and wear them out with endless experimental variations. We have an intellectually impressive group of theories, but history offers little confidence that they will provide any meaningful insight into natural behavior. (Neisser, 1978, pp. 12-13)
       A schema, then is a data structure for representing the generic concepts stored in memory. There are schemata representing our knowledge about all concepts; those underlying objects, situations, events, sequences of events, actions and sequences of actions. A schema contains, as part of its specification, the network of interrelations that is believed to normally hold among the constituents of the concept in question. A schema theory embodies a prototype theory of meaning. That is, inasmuch as a schema underlying a concept stored in memory corresponds to the mean ing of that concept, meanings are encoded in terms of the typical or normal situations or events that instantiate that concept. (Rumelhart, 1980, p. 34)
       Memory appears to be constrained by a structure, a "syntax," perhaps at quite a low level, but it is free to be variable, deviant, even erratic at a higher level....
       Like the information system of language, memory can be explained in part by the abstract rules which underlie it, but only in part. The rules provide a basic competence, but they do not fully determine performance. (Campbell, 1982, pp. 228, 229)
       When people think about the mind, they often liken it to a physical space, with memories and ideas as objects contained within that space. Thus, we speak of ideas being in the dark corners or dim recesses of our minds, and of holding ideas in mind. Ideas may be in the front or back of our minds, or they may be difficult to grasp. With respect to the processes involved in memory, we talk about storing memories, of searching or looking for lost memories, and sometimes of finding them. An examination of common parlance, therefore, suggests that there is general adherence to what might be called the spatial metaphor. The basic assumptions of this metaphor are that memories are treated as objects stored in specific locations within the mind, and the retrieval process involves a search through the mind in order to find specific memories....
       However, while the spatial metaphor has shown extraordinary longevity, there have been some interesting changes over time in the precise form of analogy used. In particular, technological advances have influenced theoretical conceptualisations.... The original Greek analogies were based on wax tablets and aviaries; these were superseded by analogies involving switchboards, gramophones, tape recorders, libraries, conveyor belts, and underground maps. Most recently, the workings of human memory have been compared to computer functioning... and it has been suggested that the various memory stores found in computers have their counterparts in the human memory system. (Eysenck, 1984, pp. 79-80)
       Primary memory [as proposed by William James] relates to information that remains in consciousness after it has been perceived, and thus forms part of the psychological present, whereas secondary memory contains information about events that have left consciousness, and are therefore part of the psychological past. (Eysenck, 1984, p. 86)
       Once psychologists began to study long-term memory per se, they realized it may be divided into two main categories.... Semantic memories have to do with our general knowledge about the working of the world. We know what cars do, what stoves do, what the laws of gravity are, and so on. Episodic memories are largely events that took place at a time and place in our personal history. Remembering specific events about our own actions, about our family, and about our individual past falls into this category. With amnesia or in aging, what dims... is our personal episodic memories, save for those that are especially dear or painful to us. Our knowledge of how the world works remains pretty much intact. (Gazzaniga, 1988, p. 42)
       The nature of memory... provides a natural starting point for an analysis of thinking. Memory is the repository of many of the beliefs and representations that enter into thinking, and the retrievability of these representations can limit the quality of our thought. (Smith, 1990, p. 1)

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  • 10 some

    1. adjective
    1) (one or other) [irgend]ein

    some shop/book or other — irgendein Laden/Buch

    some person or other — irgendjemand; irgendwer

    2) (a considerable quantity of) einig...; etlich... (ugs. verstärkend)

    speak at some length/wait for some time — ziemlich lang[e] sprechen/warten

    some time/weeks/days/years ago — vor einiger Zeit/vor einigen Wochen/Tagen/Jahren

    some time soon — bald [einmal]

    3) (a small quantity of) ein bisschen

    would you like some wine? — möchten Sie [etwas] Wein?

    do some shopping/reading — einkaufen/lesen

    4) (to a certain extent)

    that is some proof — das ist [doch] gewissermaßen ein Beweis

    5)

    this is some war/poem/car! — (coll.) das ist vielleicht ein Krieg/Gedicht/Wagen! (ugs.)

    6) (approximately) etwa; ungefähr
    2. pronoun
    einig...

    she only ate some of it — sie hat es nur teilweise aufgegessen

    some say... — manche sagen...

    some..., others... — manche..., andere...; die einen..., andere...

    ... and then some — und noch einige/einiges mehr

    3. adverb
    (coll.): (in some degree) ein bisschen; etwas
    * * *
    1. pronoun, adjective
    1) (an indefinite amount or number (of): I can see some people walking across the field; You'll need some money if you're going shopping; Some of the ink was spilt on the desk.)
    2) ((said with emphasis) a certain, or small, amount or number (of): `Has she any experience of the work?' `Yes, she has some.'; Some people like the idea and some don't.) einige
    3) ((said with emphasis) at least one / a few / a bit (of): Surely there are some people who agree with me?; I don't need much rest from work, but I must have some.) einige
    4) (certain: He's quite kind in some ways.) gewisse
    2. adjective
    1) (a large, considerable or impressive (amount or number of): I spent some time trying to convince her; I'll have some problem sorting out these papers!) beachtlich
    2) (an unidentified or unnamed (thing, person etc): She was hunting for some book that she's lost.) einige
    3) ((used with numbers) about; at a rough estimate: There were some thirty people at the reception.) ungefähr
    3. adverb
    ((American) somewhat; to a certain extent: I think we've progressed some.) etwas
    - academic.ru/68805/somebody">somebody
    - someday
    - somehow
    - someone
    - something
    - sometime
    - sometimes
    - somewhat
    - somewhere
    - mean something
    - or something
    - something like
    - something tells me
    * * *
    [sʌm, səm]
    I. adj inv, attr
    1. + pl n (unknown amount) einige, ein paar; + sing n etwas
    he played \some records for me er spielte mir ein paar Platten vor
    here's \some news you might be interested in ich habe Neuigkeiten, die dich interessieren könnten
    there's \some cake in the kitchen es ist noch Kuchen in der Küche
    I made \some money running errands ich habe mit Gelegenheitsjobs etwas Geld verdient
    I've got to do \some more work ich muss noch etwas arbeiten
    2. + pl n (certain) gewisse
    \some people actually believed it gewisse Leute haben es tatsächlich geglaubt
    there are \some questions you should ask yourself es gibt [da] gewisse Fragen, die du dir stellen solltest
    3. (general, unknown) irgendein(e)
    clearly the treatment has had \some effect irgendeine Wirkung hat die Behandlung sicher gehabt
    there must be \some mistake da muss ein Fehler vorliegen
    he's in \some kind of trouble er steckt in irgendwelchen Schwierigkeiten
    could you give me \some idea of when you'll finish? können Sie mir ungefähr sagen, wann sie fertig sind?
    it must have been \some teacher/pupils das muss irgendein Lehrer/müssen irgendwelche Schüler gewesen sein
    \some idiot's locked the door irgend so ein Idiot hat die Tür verschlossen fam
    \some day or another irgendwann
    4. (noticeable) gewiss
    to \some extent bis zu einem gewissen Grad
    there's still \some hope es besteht noch eine gewisse Hoffnung
    5. (slight, small amount) etwas
    there is \some hope that he will get the job es besteht noch etwas Hoffnung, dass er die Stelle bekommt
    6. (considerable amount, number) beträchtlich; ( fam: intensifies noun) ziemlich
    it was \some years later when they next met sie trafen sich erst viele Jahre später wieder
    we discussed the problem at \some length wir diskutierten das Problem ausgiebig
    I've known you for \some years now ich kenne dich nun schon seit geraumer Zeit
    that took \some courage! das war ziemlich mutig!
    he went to \some trouble er gab sich beträchtliche [o ziemliche] Mühe
    that was \some argument/meal! das war vielleicht ein Streit/Essen!
    \some mother she turned out to be sie ist eine richtige Rabenmutter
    \some hotel that turned out to be! das war vielleicht ein Hotel!
    \some chance! we have about one chance in a hundred of getting away ( iron) tolle Aussichten! die Chancen stehen eins zu hundert, dass wir davonkommen iron
    perhaps there'll be \some left for us — \some hopes! ( iron) vielleicht bleibt was für uns übrig — [das ist] sehr unwahrscheinlich!
    II. pron
    1. (unspecified number of persons or things) welche
    have you got any drawing pins? — if you wait a moment, I'll get you \some haben Sie Reißnägel? — wenn Sie kurz warten, hole ich [Ihnen] welche
    do you have children? — if I had \some I wouldn't be here! haben Sie Kinder? — wenn ich welche hätte, wäre ich wohl kaum hier!
    2. (unspecified amount of sth) welche(r, s)
    if you want whisky I'll give you \some wenn du Whisky möchtest, gebe ich dir welchen
    if you need more paper then just take \some wenn du mehr Papier brauchst, nimm es dir einfach [o nimm dir einfach welches]
    if you need money, I can lend you \some wenn du Geld brauchst, kann ich dir gerne was [o welches] leihen
    3. (at least a small number) einige, manche
    surely \some have noticed einige [o manche] haben es aber sicher bemerkt
    4. + pl vb (proportionate number) einige, ein paar
    no, I don't want all the green beans, \some are enough nein, ich möchte nicht alle grünen Bohnen, ein paar genügen
    I've already wrapped \some of the presents ich habe einige [o ein paar] der Geschenke schon eingepackt
    \some of you have already met Imran einige von euch kennen Imran bereits
    5. (certain people) gewisse Leute
    \some just never learn! gewisse Leute lernen es einfach nie!
    6. + sing vb (proportionate number) ein bisschen
    no, I don't want all the mashed potatoes, \some is enough nein, ich möchte nicht das ganze Püree, ein bisschen genügt
    have \some of this champagne, it's very good trink ein wenig Champagner, er ist sehr gut
    \some of the prettiest landscape in Germany is found nearby eine der schönsten Landschaften Deutschlands liegt ganz in der Nähe
    7.
    ▶ and then \some ( fam) und [noch] mehr
    we got our money's worth and then \some wir bekamen mehr als unser Geld wert war
    III. adv inv
    1. (roughly) ungefähr, in etwa
    \some twenty or thirty metres deep/high ungefähr zwanzig oder dreißig Meter tief/hoch
    \some thirty different languages are spoken in this country in diesem Land werden etwa dreißig verschiedene Sprachen gesprochen
    2. AM ( fam: a little) etwas, ein bisschen
    I'm feeling \some better mir geht es [schon] etwas [o ein bisschen] besser
    could you turn the heat down \some? könntest du bitte die Heizung etwas herunterstellen?
    3. AM ( fam: a lot) viel
    he sure does talk \some, your brother dein Bruder spricht wirklich viel
    he needs feeding up \some er muss ganz schön aufgepäppelt werden fam
    we were really going \some on the highway wir hatten auf der Autobahn ganz schön was drauf fam
    4.
    ▶ \some few einige, ein paar
    ▶ \some little ziemlich
    we are going to be working together for \some little time yet wir werden noch ziemlich lange zusammenarbeiten müssen
    * * *
    [sʌm]
    1. adj
    1) (with plural nouns) einige; (= a few, emph) ein paar; (= any in "if" clauses, questions) meist nicht übersetzt

    did you bring some records? — hast du Schallplatten mitgebracht?

    some suggestions, please! — Vorschläge bitte!

    2) (with singular nouns) etwas, meist nicht übersetzt (= a little, emph) etwas, ein bisschen

    some more ( tea)? — noch etwas (Tee)?

    leave some cake for me — lass mir ein bisschen or etwas Kuchen übrig

    did she give you some money/sugar? — hat sie Ihnen Geld/Zucker gegeben?

    3) (= certain, in contrast) manche(r, s)

    some people say... — manche Leute sagen...

    some people just don't care —

    there are some things you just don't say some questions were really difficult — es gibt (gewisse or manche) Dinge, die man einfach nicht sagt manche (der) Fragen waren wirklich schwierig

    4) (vague, indeterminate) irgendein

    some book/man or other — irgendein Buch/Mann

    some woman rang up — da hat eine Frau angerufen

    some woman, whose name I forget... — eine Frau, ich habe ihren Namen vergessen,...

    some idiot of a driver — irgend so ein Idiot von (einem) Autofahrer

    in some way or another —

    or some such — oder so etwas Ähnliches

    (at) some time last week — irgendwann letzte Woche

    5) (intensifier) ziemlich; (in exclamations) vielleicht ein (inf)

    it took some courage — dazu brauchte man schon (einigen) or ziemlichen Mut

    (that was) some argument/party! — das war vielleicht ein Streit/eine Party!

    6) (iro) vielleicht ein (inf)

    some help you are/this is — du bist/das ist mir vielleicht eine Hilfe (inf)

    2. pron
    1) (= some people) einige; (= certain people) manche; (in "if" clauses, questions) welche

    some..., others... — manche..., andere...

    there are still some who will never understand — es gibt immer noch Leute, die das nicht begreifen werden

    2) (referring to plural nouns = a few) einige; (= certain ones) manche; (in "if" clauses, questions) welche

    they're lovely, try some — die schmecken gut, probieren Sie mal

    I've still got some —

    tell me if you see some —

    3) (referring to singular nouns = a little) etwas; (= a certain amount, in contrast) manches; (in "if" clauses, questions) welche(r, s)

    here is the milk, if you feel thirsty drink some — hier ist die Milch, wenn du Durst hast, trinke etwas

    I drank some of the milk —

    I drank some of the milk but not all — ich habe etwas von der Milch getrunken, aber nicht alles

    have some! — nehmen Sie sich (dat), bedienen Sie sich

    it's lovely cake, would you like some? — das ist ein sehr guter Kuchen, möchten Sie welchen?

    would you like some money/tea? – no, I've got some — möchten Sie Geld/Tee? – nein, ich habe Geld/ich habe noch

    have you got money? – no, but he has some — haben Sie Geld? – nein, aber er hat welches

    he only believed/read some of it — er hat es nur teilweise geglaubt/gelesen

    some of his work is good — manches, was er macht, ist gut

    4)

    this is some of the oldest rock in the world — dies gehört zum ältesten Gestein der Welt

    3. adv
    1) ungefähr, etwa, circa
    2) (US inf) (= a little) etwas, ein bisschen; (= a lot) viel
    * * *
    some [sʌm; unbetont səm, sm]
    A adj
    1. (vor Substantiven) (irgend)ein:
    some day eines Tages;
    some day you’ll pay for this dafür wirst du noch einmal bezahlen;
    some other time ein andermal;
    some person irgendeiner, (irgend)jemand
    2. (vor pl) einige, ein paar: → few A 1
    3. manche:
    4. ziemlich (viel)
    5. gewiss(er, e, es):
    some extent in gewissem Maße, einigermaßen
    6. etwas, ein wenig, ein bisschen:
    take some more nimm noch etwas
    7. ungefähr, gegen, etwa:
    8. umg ‚toll:
    some player! ein klasse Spieler!;
    that was some race! das war vielleicht ein Rennen!
    B adv
    1. besonders US etwas, ziemlich
    2. umg enorm, toll
    C pron
    1. (irgend)ein(er, e, es):
    some of these days dieser Tage, demnächst
    2. etwas:
    some of it etwas davon;
    some of these people einige dieser Leute;
    will you have some? möchtest du welche oder davon haben?;
    and then some umg und noch einige(s) mehr
    3. besonders US sl darüber hinaus, noch mehr
    4. some …, some … die einen …, die anderen …
    * * *
    1. adjective
    1) (one or other) [irgend]ein

    some shop/book or other — irgendein Laden/Buch

    some person or other — irgendjemand; irgendwer

    2) (a considerable quantity of) einig...; etlich... (ugs. verstärkend)

    speak at some length/wait for some time — ziemlich lang[e] sprechen/warten

    some time/weeks/days/years ago — vor einiger Zeit/vor einigen Wochen/Tagen/Jahren

    some time soon — bald [einmal]

    3) (a small quantity of) ein bisschen

    would you like some wine? — möchten Sie [etwas] Wein?

    do some shopping/reading — einkaufen/lesen

    that is some proof — das ist [doch] gewissermaßen ein Beweis

    5)

    this is some war/poem/car! — (coll.) das ist vielleicht ein Krieg/Gedicht/Wagen! (ugs.)

    6) (approximately) etwa; ungefähr
    2. pronoun
    einig...

    some say... — manche sagen...

    some..., others... — manche..., andere...; die einen..., andere...

    ... and then some — und noch einige/einiges mehr

    3. adverb
    (coll.): (in some degree) ein bisschen; etwas
    * * *
    adj.
    einig adj.
    irgendein adj.
    irgendetwas adj.
    manch adj.

    English-german dictionary > some

  • 11 regard

    1. III
    1) regard smth., smb. usually in the negative regard smb.'s advice (smb.'s wishes, etc.) считаться с чьими-л. советами и т.д., I do not regard his opinion я не считаюсь с его мнением; she did not regard the warning она не обратила внимания на /оставила без внимания/ это предупреждение; he regards nobody он ни с кем не считается /никого не боится/
    2) as regard s smb., smth. as regards his manners (his appearance, his character, money, discipline, his sister, etc.) что касается /в отношении/ его манер и т.д.; as regards wheat, prices are rising что касается пшеницы, то цены растут; I cannot agree with you as regards that что касается этого, то [тут] я с вами не согласен, as regards money... что касается денег...
    2. IV
    1) regard smb., smth. in some manner regard smb., smth. contemptuously (fixedly, icily, sternly, affectionately, attentively, appraisingly, skeptically, intently, etc.) смотреть на /разглядывать/ кого-л., что-л. презрительно и т.д.
    2) regard smth. in some manner I do not regard the prospects of the company favourably виды /перспективы/ этой фермы на будущее не представляются /не кажутся/ мне благоприятными
    3) regard smb. in some manner regard smb. highly (kindly, so much that..., etc.) очень и т.д. уважать кого-л. /считаться с кем-л./; regard smth. at some time he seldom regards my advice он редко считается с моими советами /принимает во внимание мои советы/; she always regards her parents' wishes она всегда считается с желаниями своих родителей
    3. VII
    regard smth. to be smth. regard it to be an insult считать это оскорблением
    4. XI
    1) be regarded with smth. I was regarded with suspicion на меня смотрели с подозрением
    2) be regarded as smth. he is [generally] regarded as an expert (as a great pianist, as the best scholar in this field, etc.) его [все] считают специалистом и т.д.; the dove is poetically regarded as the symbol of purity, gentleness and peace в поэзии голубь считается символом чистоты, кротости и миролюбия; be regarded as being in some state the matter may be regarded as closed это дело /этот вопрос/ можно считать законченным /решенным/; this is regarded as essential to the matter это считается существенным для данного вопроса; be regarded with smth. Friday is popularly regarded with superstition с пятницей обычно связаны суеверные представления
    3) be regarded under (from) smth. it is regarded under a separate heading это рассматривается в специальной рубрике; the study of a language may be regarded under two aspects изучение языка может рассматриваться в двух аспектах; the plan was regarded from every point of view план подвергся всестороннему рассмотрению
    4) be regarded in some manner he is much regarded он пользуется большим уважением; his rights were strictly regarded его права строго соблюдались
    5. XIV
    as regards doing smth. as regards allowing her daughters to meet young men... что касается того, чтобы разрешить ее дочерям встречаться с молодыми людьми...
    6. XXI1
    1) regard smb., smth. with smth. regard smb., smth. with curiosity (with wonder, with admiration, with an angry /disapproving/ look, with a fixed eye, with a look of disappointment, with a look of horror, with a stony stare, etc.) разглядывать кого-л. с любопытством и т.д.
    2) regard smb., smth. with smth. regard smb., smth. with favour (with reverence, with dislike, with contempt, with horror, with suspicion, with anxiety, with sympathy, etc.) относиться к кому-л., чему-л. с одобрением и т.д.
    3) regard smth. from (in) smth. he regarded my proposal from every point of view он рассмотрел мое предложение со всех сторон; they regarded the results in a different light они рассматривали результаты в ином свете
    7. XXIV1
    regard smb. as smb. regard smb. as a hero (as a friend, as a fool, as one's patron, as a great connoisseur of music, as the best doctor /dentist/ in town, as one's mortal enemy, as a dangerous person, etc.) считать кого-л. героем и т.д.; regard oneself as an heir считать себя наследником; regard smth. as smth. regard smth. as a crime (as a scandal, as madness, as an anachronism, as a danger to society, as an insult, etc.) расценивать /рассматривать/ что-л. как преступление и т.д.; regard the amount of money a man makes as a criterion of his ability считать критерием способностей человека количество денег, которые он зарабатывает
    8. XXIV2
    regard smth. as having some quality regard smth. as impossible (as indispensable, as impracticable, as serious, as childish, as closed, etc.) считать что-л. невозможным и т.д.; he regarded the offer as absurd он считал это предложение абсурдным; he regarded the money as gone он считал, что деньги пропали; please regard our talk as confidential пожалуйста, считайте нашу беседу конфиденциальной; regard smb. as having some quality regard smb. as lazy считать кого-л. ленивым /лентяем/

    English-Russian dictionary of verb phrases > regard

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