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1 Lucy and the football
•• * В статье обозревателя Washington Post Чарльза Краутхаммера, резко критической в отношении «виртуального мирного договора», подписанного израильскими и палестинскими политиками в Женеве, встретился следующий пассаж, который сначала привел меня в некоторое замешательство:
•• Arafat pocketed every Israeli concession and betrayed every promise he signed in Oslo. It’s Lucy and the football all over again, and the same chorus of delusionals who so applauded Oslo – Jimmy Carter, Sandy Burger, Tom Friedman – is applauding again. This time, however, the Israeli surrender is so breathtaking, it makes Oslo look rational.
•• Смысл фразы Lucy and the football all over again – сильно напоминающей знаменитую сентенцию Йоги Берра (it’s déjà vu all over again) – конечно, ясен, но захотелось все-таки выяснить ее происхождение, точное значение и статус. Помог, как почти всегда, гугл, выдавший следующую статью из Princeton Alumni Weekly:
•• Lucy and the football
•• Will basketball once again break our young columnist’s heart? I grew up in a Peanuts household. My father, a man with a deep appreciation for pathos, fell in love with Charlie Brown as a child, and numerous Peanuts anthologies lined the walls of our library.
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•• One annual segment involving Charlie Brown did capture my imagination. Every fall Charlie Brown and Lucy would go outside to kick a field goal with a football. Every fall Charlie Brown would recall that the previous year Lucy had pulled the football away at the last possible moment, causing Charlie Brown to fly 10 feet in the air and land flat on his back. Every fall Lucy would patiently explain to Charlie Brown that this was the year that things would be different. And every fall Charlie Brown would again end up flat on his back as Lucy reminded him of the cruel realities of our world.
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•• This season I worry that the men’s basketball team may be preparing to perform a milder version of the Lucy and the football trick on me. After I watched the Tigers get thoroughly dissected by California and St. Josephs – and as Penn made some serious noise in early-season games – I made peace with the notion that this was a rebuilding year. In fact, as we entered the Ivy League season at 4-7, I was even prepared to concede that we might ( shudder) finish lower than second in the league.
•• So what happens? On the Monday after the first full weekend of the season, I check the scores, fully prepared for terrible news. But what I discover is that Princeton has swept Harvard and Dartmouth while Penn has managed to lose in Cambridge. And suddenly I’m a believer again.
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•• But warning signs already abound. <...> For the moment, however, my early-season jitters are long forgotten. I am a convert, a true believer, orange and black to the hilt. I have trotted back to the bandwagon like a pathetic puppy and I am ready for another unexpected and magical run to the NCAA Tournament. At least until Lucy again pulls that football away.
•• Итак, речь идет о героях комиксов серии Peanuts. В американском футболе гол «с поля» забивается игроком, для которого другой игрок (в данном случае Lucy) придерживает овальный мяч на земле. Если в последний момент мяч убирается, то бьющий с разбега теряет равновесие и действительно падает на спину. Так что можно понимать это выражение как подвох и даже подлость. Но можно посмотреть на это и с другой стороны. Чарли Браун, как сказали бы в аналогичной ситуации по-русски, опять наступает на грабли. Конечно, рекомендовать это как перевод вряд ли можно – ведь у слушающего появляется соблазн развития метафоры. Но для понимания это сравнение полезно.
•• Остается вопрос о статусе этого выражения. Что это – реалия, крылатое выражение, аллюзия? Или вошедшее в язык фразеологическое сочетание? Судя по отсутствию этого выражения в словарях, последнее – вряд ли. Но если начнет работать механизм языковой моды, то переход в категорию фразеологизма может произойти довольно быстро.
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2 TAP
1) Компьютерная техника: Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol2) Медицина: tricuspid annuloplasty3) Американизм: Technological Assistance Program, Transportation Adjudication Panel4) Военный термин: Tactical Application Police, Targeted Access Program, Technology Assessment Program, Terrain Analysis Program, Theater Analysis and Planning, Training Access Point, Training Access Points, table of authorized personnel, tactical action program, tactical armament plan, target aim point, target aircraft program, target approach point, target assignment panel, technical advisory panel, technical area plan, technical assistance program, trajectory analysis program, transferable assets program5) Техника: Tape And Pipe, Thornton Adjustable Positioner, target acquisition panel, telemetry acceptance pattern, telemetry antenna pedestal, thermally activated polarization, time-sharing assembly program, tracking alarms processor, transistor analysis program, triammonium phosphate6) Религия: Theology And A Pub, Tolerance Among People, Trinity Access Program7) Юридический термин: To Agonize People8) Автомобильный термин: transmission adaptive pressure9) Грубое выражение: Terrible And Pathetic, Toyota Assholes Priced10) Оптика: target angular position11) Телекоммуникации: Telecommunity Appalachian Project, Test Access Path, Transferred Account Procedure12) Сокращение: Technology Application Panel, Toxicological Agents Protective, Transition Assistance Program (USA)13) Театр: The Art Police14) Университет: Teacher Advisor Program, Teacher Advisory Program, Technology Assurance Program, Training Achievement Program, Tuition Account Plan, Tuition Assistance Program15) Физиология: Tape16) Электроника: Test Access Point, Tool Application Program, Touch Activated Power17) Вычислительная техника: Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol, Telocator Alphanumeric Paging, The Ada Project, test access port, Test Access Port (IC, IEEE 1149.1), Terminal Access Point (Kabel), Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol (SNPP, PCIA, SMS, USA)19) Нефть: tubing annulus pressure20) Иммунология: Tip Associated Protein, Toxicological Agent Protective, Transporter For Antigen Processing, Twin Affinity Purification, транспортёры, связанные с процессингом антигена21) Биотехнология: Tobacco Acid Pyrophosphatase, Tandem affinity purification22) Транспорт: Take Another Plane, Total Audi Performance23) Пищевая промышленность: The Amazing Pudding24) Фирменный знак: Talent Ashland And Phoenix25) Экология: Toxic Air Pollutant26) СМИ: Total Audience Plan27) Деловая лексика: Technology Assistance Program, Temporary Applicant Pool, Top Application Performers28) Образование: Targeted Achievement Program, Teach And Assist Progress, Teacher Assistance Program, Teachers And Parents, Teachers As Partners, Team Achievement Points, Teens For Aids Prevention, Test of Achievement and Proficiency, Tests Of Achievement And Proficiency, Tobacco Awareness Program, Trainer Assessment Program29) Океанография: Trans- Alaskan Pipeline30) Химическое оружие: The Army Plan31) Авиационная медицина: target aiming function32) Расширение файла: Tape file, Tape file (Spectrum emulator, ZX Spectrum emulator)33) Нефть и газ: TAP pipeline, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline, газопровод ТАП (ТАП), ТАП (Трансафганский трубопровод (Туркменистан-Афганистан-Пакистан), теперь ТАПИ (+Индия)), Трансадриатический трубопровод (сокр. от "Trans-Adriatic Pipeline"; англ. термин взят из статьи в газете Financial Times, Великобритания)34) Общественная организация: Teens Against Polio35) Должность: Trainer Activity Profile, Training And Placement36) NYSE. Travelers Property Casualty Corporation37) Международная торговля: Technical Assistance Partnership -
3 tap
1) Компьютерная техника: Telocator Alphanumeric Protocol2) Медицина: tricuspid annuloplasty3) Американизм: Technological Assistance Program, Transportation Adjudication Panel4) Военный термин: Tactical Application Police, Targeted Access Program, Technology Assessment Program, Terrain Analysis Program, Theater Analysis and Planning, Training Access Point, Training Access Points, table of authorized personnel, tactical action program, tactical armament plan, target aim point, target aircraft program, target approach point, target assignment panel, technical advisory panel, technical area plan, technical assistance program, trajectory analysis program, transferable assets program5) Техника: Tape And Pipe, Thornton Adjustable Positioner, target acquisition panel, telemetry acceptance pattern, telemetry antenna pedestal, thermally activated polarization, time-sharing assembly program, tracking alarms processor, transistor analysis program, triammonium phosphate6) Религия: Theology And A Pub, Tolerance Among People, Trinity Access Program7) Юридический термин: To Agonize People8) Автомобильный термин: transmission adaptive pressure9) Грубое выражение: Terrible And Pathetic, Toyota Assholes Priced10) Оптика: target angular position11) Телекоммуникации: Telecommunity Appalachian Project, Test Access Path, Transferred Account Procedure12) Сокращение: Technology Application Panel, Toxicological Agents Protective, Transition Assistance Program (USA)13) Театр: The Art Police14) Университет: Teacher Advisor Program, Teacher Advisory Program, Technology Assurance Program, Training Achievement Program, Tuition Account Plan, Tuition Assistance Program15) Физиология: Tape16) Электроника: Test Access Point, Tool Application Program, Touch Activated Power17) Вычислительная техника: Telelocator Alphanumeric Protocol, Telocator Alphanumeric Paging, The Ada Project, test access port, Test Access Port (IC, IEEE 1149.1), Terminal Access Point (Kabel), Telocator Alphanumeric input Protocol (SNPP, PCIA, SMS, USA)19) Нефть: tubing annulus pressure20) Иммунология: Tip Associated Protein, Toxicological Agent Protective, Transporter For Antigen Processing, Twin Affinity Purification, транспортёры, связанные с процессингом антигена21) Биотехнология: Tobacco Acid Pyrophosphatase, Tandem affinity purification22) Транспорт: Take Another Plane, Total Audi Performance23) Пищевая промышленность: The Amazing Pudding24) Фирменный знак: Talent Ashland And Phoenix25) Экология: Toxic Air Pollutant26) СМИ: Total Audience Plan27) Деловая лексика: Technology Assistance Program, Temporary Applicant Pool, Top Application Performers28) Образование: Targeted Achievement Program, Teach And Assist Progress, Teacher Assistance Program, Teachers And Parents, Teachers As Partners, Team Achievement Points, Teens For Aids Prevention, Test of Achievement and Proficiency, Tests Of Achievement And Proficiency, Tobacco Awareness Program, Trainer Assessment Program29) Океанография: Trans- Alaskan Pipeline30) Химическое оружие: The Army Plan31) Авиационная медицина: target aiming function32) Расширение файла: Tape file, Tape file (Spectrum emulator, ZX Spectrum emulator)33) Нефть и газ: TAP pipeline, Turkmenistan-Afghanistan-Pakistan pipeline, газопровод ТАП (ТАП), ТАП (Трансафганский трубопровод (Туркменистан-Афганистан-Пакистан), теперь ТАПИ (+Индия)), Трансадриатический трубопровод (сокр. от "Trans-Adriatic Pipeline"; англ. термин взят из статьи в газете Financial Times, Великобритания)34) Общественная организация: Teens Against Polio35) Должность: Trainer Activity Profile, Training And Placement36) NYSE. Travelers Property Casualty Corporation37) Международная торговля: Technical Assistance Partnership
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