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1 GRAPES
• Black grape is as sweet as a white (A) - На вкус, на цвет товарища нет (H)• Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe - Зелен виноград (3)• Grapes are sour (The) - Зелен виноград (3)• One cannot gather grapes of thorns or figs of thistles - От совы не родятся соколы (O)• Sour grapes can never make sweet wine - Из рогожи не сделаешь кожи (И), Из худого не сделаешь хорошее (H)• "Sour grapes, " said the fox when he could not reach them - Зелен виноград (3) -
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ЗЕЛЕН ВИНОГРАД (sent (with copula) usu. pres) said when s.o. criticizes, badmouths sth. unjustly, simply because he himself does not possess it or cannot get itthatis just sour grapesthe grapes are sour.Я был стыдлив от природы, но стыдливость моя ещё увеличивалась убеждением в моей уродливости... Я был слишком самолюбив, чтобы привыкнуть к своему положению, утешался, как лисица, уверяя себя, что виноград ещё зелен, то есть старался презирать все удовольствия, доставляемые приятной наружностью, которыми на моих глазах пользовался Володя и которым я от души завидовал... (Толстой 2). I was bashful by nature, but my bashfulness was increased by the conviction that I was ugly.... I was too vain to reconcile myself to my situation and comforted myself, like the fox, by reassuring myself that the grapes were still sour, that is, I tried to despise all the pleasures that were obtainable through a pleasant appearance, that Volodya enjoyed before my eyes and that I envied with all my heart (2b).From Ivan Krylov's fable "The Fox and the Grapes" («Лисица и Виноград»), 1808. English source: Aesop's fable. -
3 зелен виноград
[sent (with copula); usu. pres]=====⇒ said when s.o. criticizes, badmouths sth. unjustly, simply because he himself does not possess it or cannot get it:- the grapes are sour.♦ Я был стыдлив от природы, но стыдливость моя ещё увеличивалась убеждением в моей уродливости... Я был слишком самолюбив, чтобы привыкнуть к своему положению, утешался, как лисица, уверяя себя, что виноград ещё зелен, то есть старался презирать все удовольствия, доставляемые приятной наружностью, которыми на моих глазах пользовался Володя и которым я от души завидовал... (Толстой 2). I was bashful by nature, but my bashfulness was increased by the conviction that I was ugly.... I was too vain to reconcile myself to my situation and comforted myself, like the fox, by reassuring myself that the grapes were still sour; that is, I tried to despise all the pleasures that were obtainable through a pleasant appearance, that Volodya enjoyed before my eyes and that I envied with all my heart (2b).—————← From Ivan Krylov's fable "The Fox and the Grapes" ("Лисица и Виноград"), 1808. English source: Aesop's fable.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > зелен виноград
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4 Зелен виноград
То belittle the worth of a thing desired one says this just because he cannot have itCf: Foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe (Am.). The grapes are sour (Am., Br.). It is easy to despise what you cannot get (Am.). "Sour grapes," said the fox when he could not reach them (Am.)Русско-английский словарь пословиц и поговорок > Зелен виноград
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5 зелён виноград
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м. тк. ед.мускатный виноград — muscat / muscadine grapes
сбор винограда — grape-gathering; ( время сбора) vintage; grape harvest
2. ( растение) vineразведение винограда — viticulture, vine-growing
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м.1) собир. ( плоды) grapes plмуска́тный виногра́д — muscat / muscadine grapes
сбор виногра́да — grape gathering; ( время сбора) vintage; grape harvest
2) ( растение) vineразведе́ние виногра́да — viticulture, wine-growing
••зе́лен виногра́д! — (it's) sour grapes!, the grapes are sour!
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9 виноград
муж.; только ед.1) ( растение) vineразведение винограда — viticulture, vine-growing
2) ( плоды) grapes мн. ч.сбор винограда — vintage; grape-gathering
гроздь винограда, кисть винограда — grape, bunch of grapes
••зелен виноград! — sour grapes!, the grapes are sour!
сохраняющий аромат винограда — ( о вине) fruity
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10 близок локоть, да не укусишь
Set phrase: between the cup and the lip a morsel may slip, if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach, sour grapes, the grapes are sour, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, you cannot touch your eye with your elbow (it is( was) so near and yet out of reach), your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dear, so near and yet so farУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > близок локоть, да не укусишь
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11 видит око, да зуб неймёт
Set phrase: it catches your eye, but you can't catch it, sour grapes!, the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine, the grapes are sour (someone cannot have (get) the desired thing though it is near at hand or may seem so)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > видит око, да зуб неймёт
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12 видит око, да зуб неймет
Set phrase: it catches your eye, but you can't catch it, sour grapes!, the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine, the grapes are sour (someone cannot have (get) the desired thing though it is near at hand or may seem so)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > видит око, да зуб неймет
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13 хоть видит око, да зуб неймёт
Set phrase: it catches your eye, but you can't catch it, sour grapes!, the girl looks fine, but she isn't mine, the grapes are sour (someone cannot have (get) the desired thing though it is near at hand or may seem so)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > хоть видит око, да зуб неймёт
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14 хоть видит око, да зуб неймёт
(И. Крылов)the eye sees, but the tooth cannot reach (trans. by I. Walshe and V. Berkov); so near and yet so far; there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip; cf. the grapes are sour; sour grapes!Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > хоть видит око, да зуб неймёт
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15 благими намерениями ад вымощен
1) General subject: hell is paved with good intentions2) Set phrase: if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach, sour grapes)благими намерениями ад вымощен there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, the grapes are sour, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, you cannot touch your eye with your elbow (it is( was) so near and yet out of reach), your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dearУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > благими намерениями ад вымощен
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16 ближе локоть, да не укусишь
Set phrase: if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach, sour grapes, the grapes are sour, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, you cannot touch your eye with your elbow (it is( was) so near and yet out of reach), your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dearУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > ближе локоть, да не укусишь
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17 добрыми намерениями ад вымощен
Set phrase: if what you want is out of reach, there's nobody to impeach, sour grapes, the grapes are sour, there's many a slip 'twixt cup and lip a how near, and yet, so far!, your elbow is near, but you cannot bite it, dearУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > добрыми намерениями ад вымощен
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18 зелёный
1) ( о цвете) green2) ( растительный или покрытый растительностью) greenзелёные насажде́ния — trees and shrubs
зелёная зо́на (вокруг города) — greenbelt
зелёные корма́ — green fodder / forage sg
3) ( незрелый) greenзелёный юне́ц — green young man, greenhorn
зе́лен виногра́д! — the grapes are sour!
4) зоол., бот.зелёный кузне́чик — katydid
зелёная черепа́ха — green turtle
зелёные во́доросли — confere
••зелёный горо́шек — green peas pl
зелёный коридо́р (на таможне) — green corridor
зелёная волна́ (для транспорта) — green time (mode)
зелёная ка́рта (разрешение на жительство и работу в США) — green card
зелёная револю́ция с.-х. — the green revolution
зелёная у́лица — green light
дать зелёную у́лицу — give the green light, give the go-ahead
зелёное мы́ло — green soap
мо́лодо-зе́лено — см. молодой
тоска́ зелёная — drowsy boredom
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19 зелёный
(в разн. знач.)greenзелёный горошек — green peas pl.
зелёные корма — green forage sg.
зелёный юнец разг. — green young man*, greenhorn
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зелёная улица — green, «go» ( of traffic signals)дать зелёную улицу — give* open passage, give* the go-ahead
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