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  • 1 setback

    ['setbæk]
    сущ.
    1)
    а) регресс, движение назад, повторение (чего-л.)
    б) эк. понижение цен
    в) мед. рецидив ( болезни)

    It is now feared that a setback in the patient's present weakened condition may result in collapse. — Сейчас существует опасность того, что рецидив при таком ослабленном состоянии пациента может привести к коллапсу.

    He had a setback. — У. него был рецидив, ему (опять) стало хуже

    Syn:

    business / financial setback — финансовый крах

    to have / receive / suffer a setback — потерпеть неудачу

    3) архит.
    4)
    б) воен. отход, отступление

    Англо-русский современный словарь > setback

  • 2 knock

    [nɔk] 1. гл.
    1) стучать, барабанить

    to knock at / on the door — стучать в дверь

    We have knocked double-knocks at the street-door. — Мы дважды постучали во входную дверь.

    I've been knocking away for ages, but nobody has answered the door. — Я стучал целую вечность, но никто так и не открыл дверь.

    2)
    а) ударять, бить, колотить

    to knock smb. unconscious — выбить из кого-либо дух, вырубить кого-либо

    б) = knock about / around пинать, гонять ( мяч)

    There's nothing to do here; let's go into that field and knock a ball about for an hour or so. — Здесь нечего делать; пойдём на то поле, попинаем мяч с часок.

    в) ( knock into) = knock in вбивать во (что-л.)
    Syn:
    г) ( knock down) опрокидывать, сбивать

    Jim was knocked down by a bus. — Джим был сбит автобусом.

    д) ( knock off) сбрасывать, сталкивать

    Just when I had put the glass safely down on the table, the cat jumped up and knocked it off. — Только-только я поставил стакан на стол, как туда запрыгнула кошка и столкнула его на пол.

    е) ( knock out) выбивать, вытряхивать

    Knock the ash out before you refill your pipe. — Прежде чем заново набить трубку, вытряхните из неё пепел.

    ж) ( knock up) подбросить, толкнуть вверх

    A man in the crowd knocked my arm up and I dropped my bag. — Человек в толпе двинул мне по руке и выхватил у меня сумку.

    3) = knock together резко ударяться, стукаться; сталкиваться; неожиданно встречаться
    Syn:
    bump I 2., clash 1., collide
    4) разг. поражать, ошеломлять

    Wasn't she in pantomime? Bet she knocked them. — А она участвовала в пантомиме? Бьюсь об заклад, она их ошеломила.

    The unexpected news fairly knocked me back. — Неожиданная новость просто ошеломила меня.

    Her beauty knocked out every man in the room. — Её красота ошеломила всех мужчин в комнате.

    Syn:
    5) груб. трахать; обрюхатить

    I've knocked some girls in my time but I've never had such a rabbiter as you. — Каких я только девиц не трахал в своей жизни, но такой похотливой бабы, как ты, ещё не встречал.

    6) амер.; разг. резко критиковать; наезжать, нападать

    I shouldn't like you to get the idea I'm trying to knock Portugal and the Portuguese. — Мне бы не хотелось, чтобы ты думал, будто я качу бочку на Португалию и португальцев.

    7) работать с перебоями, стучать ( о двигателе)
    - knock back
    - knock down
    - knock in
    - knock off
    - knock on
    - knock out
    - knock over
    - knock through
    - knock together
    - knock under
    - knock up
    ••

    to knock smb. off his pins — ошеломить кого-л.

    to knock their heads together — привести в чувство, заставить образумиться

    to knock smb. into a cocked hat — исколошматить кого-л., одолеть кого-л., нанести поражение (кому-л.); разбить в пух и прах; превзойти, затмить

    to knock smb. into the middle of next week — всыпать кому-л. по первое число; потрясти, ошеломить кого-л.

    - knock home
    - knock the bottom out of
    - knock on the head
    - knock the spots off
    2. сущ.

    The bag have tough exterior materials to protect its contents against knocks, rain and dust. — У сумки плотная наружная ткань, чтобы предохранить ее содержимое от ударов, дождя и пыли.

    Syn:
    blow I
    2) стук ( в дверь); шум
    Syn:
    rap I 1.
    3) разг. удар, неприятность, неудача

    to take the knock — потерпеть неудачу; получить моральный удар

    He's taken quite a few hard knocks lately. — В последнее время его постиг ряд серьёзных неудач.

    Syn:
    4) ( knocks) амер.; разг. придирки, нападки; резкая критика

    He likes praise but can't stand the knocks. — Он любит похвалу, но не выносит критики.

    5) тех. детонация
    6) разг. совокупление, половой акт
    ••

    Англо-русский современный словарь > knock

  • 3 Holland, John Philip

    SUBJECT AREA: Ports and shipping
    [br]
    b. 29 February 1840 Liscanor, Co. Clare, Ireland
    d. 12 August 1915 Newark, New Jersey, USA
    [br]
    Irish/American inventor of the successful modern submarine
    [br]
    Holland was educated first in his native town and later in Limerick, a seaport bustling with coastal trade ships. His first job was that of schoolteacher, and as such he worked in various parts of Ireland until he was about 32 years old. A combination of his burning patriotic zeal for Ireland and his interest in undersea technology (then in its infancy) made him consider designs for underwater warships for use against the British Royal Navy in the fight for Irish independence. He studied all known works on the subject and commenced drawing plans, but he was unable to make real headway owing to a lack of finance.
    In 1873 he travelled to the United States, ultimately settling in New Jersey and continuing in the profession of teaching. His work on submarine design continued, but in 1875 he suffered a grave setback when the United States Navy turned down his designs. Help came from an unexpected source, the Irish Republican Brotherhood, or Fenian Society, which had been founded in Dublin and New York in 1858. Financial help enabled Holland to build a 4 m (13 ft) one-person craft, which was tested in 1878, and then a larger boat of 19 tonnes' displacement that was tested with a crew of three to depths of 20 m (65 ft) in New York's harbour in 1883. Known as the Fenian Ram, it embodied most of the principles of modern submarines, including weight compensation. The Fenians commandeered this boat, but they were unable to operate it satisfactorily and it was relegated to history.
    Holland continued work, at times independently and sometimes with others, and continuously advocated submarines to the United States Navy. In 1895 he was successful in winning a contract for US$150,000 to build the US Submarine Plunger at Baltimore. With too much outside interference, this proved an unsatisfactory venture. However, with only US$5,000 of his capital left, Holland started again and in 1898 he launched the Holland at Elizabeth, New Jersey. This 16 m (52 ft) vessel was successful, and in 1900 it was purchased by the United States Government.
    Six more boats were ordered by the Americans, and then some by the Russians and the Japanese. The British Royal Navy ordered five, which were built by Vickers Son and Maxim (now VSEL) at Barrow-in-Furness in the years up to 1903, commencing their long run of submarine building. They were licensed by another well-known name, the Electric Boat Company, which had formerly been the J.P.Holland Torpedo Boat Company.
    Holland now had some wealth and was well known. He continued to work, trying his hand at aeronautical research, and in 1904 he invented a respirator for use in submarine rescue work. It is pleasing to record that one of his ships can be seen to this day at the Royal Navy Submarine Museum, Gosport: HM Submarine Holland No. 1, which was lost under tow in 1913 but salvaged and restored in the 1980s.
    [br]
    Principal Honours and Distinctions
    Order of the Rising Sun, Japan, 1910.
    Bibliography
    1900, "The submarine boat and its future", North American Review (December). Holland wrote several other articles of a similar nature.
    Further Reading
    R.K.Morris, 1966 John P.Holland 1841–1914, Inventor of the Modern Submarine, Annapolis, MD: US Naval Institute.
    F.W.Lipscomb, 1975, The British Submarine, London: Conway Maritime Press. A.N.Harrison, 1979, The Development of HM Submarines from Holland No. 1 (1901) to
    Porpoise (1930), Bath: MoD Ships Department (internal publication).
    FMW

    Biographical history of technology > Holland, John Philip

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