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Общая лексика: жить на скромные средстваУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > be in modest circumstances
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modest [ˊmɒdəst] a1) скро́мный; уме́ренный;to be in modest circumstances жить на скро́мные сре́дства
2) засте́нчивый, стесни́тельный3) благопристо́йный; сде́ржанный -
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ˈmɔdɪst прил.
1) скромный, сдержанный modest behaviour ≈ скромное поведение Syn: frugal, moderate, humble, lowly, meek, retiring, shy, unassuming, unpretentious, inexpensive Ant: conceited, overbearing, pretentious, showy
2) скромный, умеренный, ограниченный to be in modest circumstances ≈ жить на скромные средства
3) скромный, благопристойный, застенчивый modest woman ≈ скромная женщина Syn: decent скромный;
сдержанный - with a * air со скромным видом, скромно, сдержанно - to be * in speech быть скромным в разговоре - to be * about one's achievements скромно /сдержанно/ говорить о своих успехах скромный, застенчивый;
благопристойный - * girl скромная девушка умеренный, небольшой, ограниченный - * means скромные /граниченные/ средства - * fortune скромное /небольшое/ состояние - * gift скромный подарок - * house скромный /непритязательный/ дом - to be * in one's demands быть скромным /умеренным/ в своих требованиях - by a * computation по скромным подсчетам ~ скромный;
умеренный;
to be in modest circumstances жить на скромные средства modest благопристойный;
сдержанный ~ небольшой ~ ограниченный ~ сдержанный ~ скромный;
умеренный;
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[ˈmɔdɪst]modest скромный; умеренный; to be in modest circumstances жить на скромные средства modest благопристойный; сдержанный modest небольшой modest ограниченный modest сдержанный modest скромный; умеренный; to be in modest circumstances жить на скромные средства modest скромный modest умеренный -
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['mɔdɪst]прил.1) скромный, сдержанныйSyn:Ant:2) скромный, умеренный, ограниченный3) скромный, благопристойный, застенчивыйSyn: -
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adjective1) скромный; умеренный; to be in modest circumstances жить на скромные средства2) благопристойный; сдержанныйSyn:humble, lowly, meek, retiring, shy, afbc.htm>unassuming, unpretentioussee inexpensiveAnt:conceited, overbearing, pretentious, showy* * *(a) скромный* * ** * *[mod·est || 'mɑdɪst /'mɒ-] adj. скромный, сдержанный, стеснительный, застенчивый; благопристойный, умеренный; нетребовательный, неприхотливый* * *благопристойныйневзыскательныйнепритязателеннепритязательныйнеприхотливнеприхотливыйнетребователенсдержансдержанныйскроменскромныйумеренный* * *1) скромный 2) скромный 3) скромный -
9 Fairbairn, William
SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping[br]b. 19 February 1789 Kelso, Roxburghshire, Scotlandd. 18 August 1874 Farnham, Surrey, England[br]Scottish engineer and shipbuilder, pioneer in the use of iron in structures.[br]Born in modest circumstances, Fairbairn nevertheless enjoyed a broad and liberal education until around the age of 14. Thereafter he served an apprenticeship as a millwright in a Northumberland colliery. This seven-year period marked him out as a man of determination and intellectual ability; he planned his life around the practical work of pit-machinery maintenance and devoted his limited free time to the study of mathematics, science and history as well as "Church, Milton and Recreation". Like many before and countless thousands after, he worked in London for some difficult and profitless years, and then moved to Manchester, the city he was to regard as home for the rest of his life. In 1816 he was married. Along with a workmate, James Lillie, he set up a general engineering business, which steadily enlarged and ultimately involved both shipbuilding and boiler-making. The partnership was dissolved in 1832 and Fairbairn continued on his own. Consultancy work commissioned by the Forth and Clyde Canal led to the construction of iron steamships by Fairbairn for the canal; one of these, the PS Manchester was lost in the Irish Sea (through the little-understood phenomenon of compass deviation) on her delivery voyage from Manchester to the Clyde. This brought Fairbairn to the forefront of research in this field and confirmed him as a shipbuilder in the novel construction of iron vessels. In 1835 he operated the Millwall Shipyard on the Isle of Dogs on the Thames; this is regarded as one of the first two shipyards dedicated to iron production from the outset (the other being Tod and MacGregor of Glasgow). Losses at the London yard forced Fairbairn to sell off, and the yard passed into the hands of John Scott Russell, who built the I.K. Brunel -designed Great Eastern on the site. However, his business in Manchester went from strength to strength: he produced an improved Cornish boiler with two firetubes, known as the Lancashire boiler; he invented a riveting machine; and designed the beautiful swan-necked box-structured crane that is known as the Fairbairn crane to this day.Throughout his life he advocated the widest use of iron; he served on the Admiralty Committee of 1861 investigating the use of this material in the Royal Navy. In his later years he travelled widely in Europe as an engineering consultant and published many papers on engineering. His contribution to worldwide engineering was recognized during his lifetime by the conferment of a baronetcy by Queen Victoria.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCreated Baronet 1869. FRS 1850. Elected to the Academy of Science of France 1852. President, Institution of Mechnical Engineers 1854. Royal Society Gold Medal 1860. President, British Association 1861.BibliographyFairbairn wrote many papers on a wide range of engineering subjects from water-wheels to iron metallurgy and from railway brakes to the strength of iron ships. In 1856 he contributed the article on iron to the 8th edition of Encyclopaedia Britannica.Further ReadingW.Pole (ed.), 1877, The Life of Sir William Fairbairn Bart, London: Longmans Green; reprinted 1970, David and Charles Reprints (written in part by Fairbairn, but completed and edited by Pole).FMW -
10 Lovelock, James Ephraim
SUBJECT AREA: Domestic appliances and interiors, Electricity, Electronics and information technology[br]b. 26 July 1919 Brixton, London, England[br]English biologist and philosopher, inventor of the microwave oven and electron capture detector.[br]Lovelock was brought up in Brixton in modest circumstances. At the age of 4 he was given a toy electrical set, which first turned his attention towards the study of science. From the Strand School, Brixton, he went on to the universities of Manchester and London, and after graduating in science, in 1941 he joined the National Institute for Medical Research, Mill Hill, as a staff scientist, remaining there for twenty years. During the early 1950s, he and his colleagues were engaged in research into freezing live animals and bringing them back to life by heating: Lovelock was struck by the intense pain this process caused the animals, and he sought a more humane method. He tried diathermy or internal heating through the effect of a continuous wave magnetron borrowed from the Navy. He found that the animals were brought back to life painlessly, and impressed with his success he tried baking a potato for his lunch in the apparatus and found that it cooked amazingly quickly compared with the one hour normally needed in an ordinary oven. Lovelock had invented the microwave oven, but its commercial possibilities were not at first realized.In the late 1950s he invented the electron capture detector, which proved to be more sensitive than any other analytical equipment in detecting and measuring toxic substances. The apparatus therefore had obvious uses in testing the quality of the environment and so offered a tremendous boost to the "green" movement. In 1961 he was invited to joint the US National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) to employ the apparatus in an attempt to detect life in space.In the early 1970s Lovelock relinquished his biological work in order to devote his attention to philosophical matters, specifically to develop his theory of the Universe, now widely celebrated as the "Gaia theory". In this controversial theory, Lovelock regards our planet and all its living beings, including humans, as a single living organism.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsCBE 1990. FRS 1974. Many academic awards and honorary degrees. Visiting Professor, University of Reading 1967–90.Bibliography1979, Gaia.1983, The Great Extinction.1988, The Ages of Gaia.1991, Gaia: The Practical Science of Planetary Medicine.LRDBiographical history of technology > Lovelock, James Ephraim
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11 Petty, Sir William
SUBJECT AREA: Medical technology[br]b. 26 May 1623 Romsey, Hampshire, Englandd. 16 December 1687 London, England[br]English scientist, medical practitioner, researcher and founder member of the Royal Society of London.[br]Despite coming from modest circumstances, Petty had an illustrious career, which started with college in France at the age of 13, followed by service on a small coastal ship and then studies at the medical schools of Ley den and Paris. In 1651 he was appointed Professor of Anatomy at Oxford, and by this time was attending meetings of fellow scientists and philosophers which culminated in the founding of the Royal Society of London for Improving Natural Knowledge. In 1652 Petty was sent to Ireland as PhysicianGeneral for the Army; he was soon involved in many matters of an intellectual and experimental nature. He took responsibility for the first proper survey of the country and produced maps and an Irish atlas, Hiberniae Delineatio, published in 1685. His investigations into political economics had a profound effect on seventeenth-century thinking. Of equal importance were his radical proposals for ship design; he presented many papers on naval architecture to the Royal Society and at one time suggested floating harbours similar to the Mulberry harbours of nearly three centuries later. In 1662 he built the pioneer catamaran Invention II (described at the time as a double-bottomed ship!), which was capable of lifting 5 tons of cargo.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1661.Further ReadingP.G.Dale, 1987, Sir W.P. of Romsey, Romsey: LTVAS Group.FMW -
12 humble
I1. adjective1) скромный2) простой, бедный; in humble circumstances в стесненных обстоятельствах3) покорный, смиренный; a humble request покорная просьба4) застенчивый, робкийSyn:modest2. verbунижать; смирятьII= hummel* * *1 (a) покорный; смиренный2 (v) унижать; унизить* * *скромный; покорный, смиренный* * *[hum·ble || 'hʌmbl] v. смирить, смириться, унизить adj. скромный, застенчивый, робкий, смиренный, покорный, простой, бессловесный, бедный, униженный, безрогий* * *бедныйзастенчивыйпокоренпокорныйпосрамлятьпростойскроменскромныйсмиренный* * *I 1. прил. 1) а) скромный б) покорный 2) простой, скромный; небольшой, умеренный; недорогой 2. гл. а) унижать б) попирать II прил. безрогий -
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I ['hʌmbl] 1. прил.1) простой, незнатный по происхождению2) скромный, непритязательный; застенчивый, робкийSyn:3) покорный, смиренный; униженный- humble pieSyn:4) простой, скромный; небольшой (о достатке, имуществе)- frugal2. гл.1) унижатьSyn:2) попирать, смирятьTo humble the Church was the king's next step. — Следующим шагом короля было усмирить церковь.
Syn:I am humbled to do it. — Для меня большая честь сделать это.
Syn:II ['hʌmbl] прил.безрогий, комолыйSyn:
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