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1 urban legend
•• * American Heritage Dictionary дает довольно очевидное определение этого популярного выражения:
•• An apocryphal story involving incidents of the recent past, often including elements of humor and horror, that spreads quickly and is popularly believed to be true.
•• Однако в реальном его употреблении часто возникает дополнительный элемент – это не просто «миф», а «подброшенная кем-то версия». Так, в статье в New York Times говорится о признании некоторыми сотрудниками администрации Буша отсутствия оружия массового уничтожения в Ираке:
•• These admission have been accompanied by an urban legend about what went wrong.
•• Недостоверность многих urban legends следует из такого заголовка: Urban Legends: Don’t Believe Everything You Read.
•• В приведенном выше примере не будет неверным такой перевод:
•• Эти признания сопровождаются надуманной версией причин случившегося.
•• Правда, как заметил один из читателей, «в современной российской фольклористике термин городская легенда достаточно успешно существует». Название кинофильма Джейми Бланка переведено бесхитростно – «Городская легенда». Однако это не всем понятно, к тому же в большинстве контекстов слово городская может даже ввести в заблуждение. Скорее подойдет современная.
•• То же относится к выражению urban myth. Вот примеры «современных мифов» (т.е. поверий, а возможно предрассудков), которые либо подтверждаются, либо опровергаются в передаче MTV Big Urban Myth:
•• Fact or Fiction: Is it true chocolate causes acne? Is it true putting a coin under your tongue helps you pass a breathalyzer? Do smart drinks really improve your grades? Is it true doctors are leaving things in patients during operations?
•• Интересный вопрос – «откуда ноги растут» в этом английском выражении. Видимо, предполагается, что «мифы и легенды» – нечто характерное для архаичного, «деревенского» сознания и, таким образом, urban legend – своего рода парадокс. В переводе так же парадоксально может прозвучать современное мифотворчество. Вот пример из статьи в журнале New Yorker:
•• Russian composers seem especially vulnerable to urban legends, as if facts mattered even less behind the old Iron Curtain. – Русские композиторы почему-то особенно часто становятся объектом современного мифотворчества, как будто за бывшим « железным занавесом» факты совсем ничего не значат.
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2 creencia popular
(n.) = urban legend, popular beliefEx. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex. In popular belief the human being who went to live with a mermaid or a merman lost his or her soul and became as one of these.* * *(n.) = urban legend, popular beliefEx: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.
Ex: In popular belief the human being who went to live with a mermaid or a merman lost his or her soul and became as one of these. -
3 mito popular
(n.) = popular myth, urban legend, folk mythEx. It became a popular myth because people love to hear about experts being confounded by simple common sense.Ex. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex. To determine whether ' folk myths' regarding the relationships of penile size to body height and foot size have any basis, 63 virile men were studied.* * *(n.) = popular myth, urban legend, folk mythEx: It became a popular myth because people love to hear about experts being confounded by simple common sense.
Ex: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex: To determine whether ' folk myths' regarding the relationships of penile size to body height and foot size have any basis, 63 virile men were studied. -
4 acosar
v.1 to pursue relentlessly.2 to harass.3 to besiege, to irritate, to nag, to accost.El policía persigue a Ricardo The policeman persecutes=harasses Richard.* * *1 to pursue, chase\acosar a preguntas to bombard with questions* * *verbto harass, hound* * *VT1) (=atosigar) to hound, harassser acosado sexualmente — to suffer (from) sexual harassment, be sexually harassed
2) (=perseguir) to pursue relentlessly; [+ animal] to urge on* * *verbo transitivoa) < persona> to houndme acosaron con preguntas — they plagued o bombarded me with questions
b) < presa> to hound, pursue relentlessly* * *= plague, press upon, bait, besiege, harass, bully, dog, persecute, hound, nag (at), pelt, pressurise [pressurize, -USA], importune, pester, nobble, stalk, bedevil, bear down on, harry.Ex. Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.Ex. For example, the latter are unlikely to engage themselves in conservation issues as these now press upon the professional consciousness of librarians.Ex. I guess Ms Lipow should be admired for coming into the lion's den and baiting it, but I find some of her arguments facile and superficial.Ex. Concurrently, libraries are besieged with greater demands from the academic community for access to and instruction in electronic information resources such as the Internet.Ex. I have reason to believe that my boss, the head of reference, has been sexually harassing me.Ex. The director returned to his paperwork, nothing in his heart but hot shame at having permitted himself to be bullied into submission by this disagreeable public official.Ex. The title of the article is 'Sweeping away the problems that dog the industry?'.Ex. Why does the ALA ignore, deny or cover up the actions of the only government in the world which persecutes people for the alleged crime of opening uncensored libraries?.Ex. Jefferson, like Clinton, was hounded by reports of adultery and cowardice in wartime.Ex. This a book that I had admired but that had nagged at me for years.Ex. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex. Shearer also made an arse of himself by perpetuating the myth of the noble English sportsman who never dives or pressurises referees.Ex. He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.Ex. And there are those whom I have pestered from time to time over the past four years, and who have patiently answered my importunity.Ex. He was the best striker I ever saw, certainly before the injuries that nobbled him twice.Ex. So Hutchins arranges her drawings in such a way that as your eye travels leftwards across the page you see the fox who is stalking the hen and trying to catch her.Ex. The article has the title 'Piracy, crooked printers, inflation bedevil Russian publishing'.Ex. And here was the war, implacably bearing down on us.Ex. They stayed there for the winter, and spent the succeeding three summers harrying the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, after which they returned to Norway.----* acosar a Alguien con preguntas = pepper + Nombre + with questions.* problema + acosar = problem + dog.* * *verbo transitivoa) < persona> to houndme acosaron con preguntas — they plagued o bombarded me with questions
b) < presa> to hound, pursue relentlessly* * *= plague, press upon, bait, besiege, harass, bully, dog, persecute, hound, nag (at), pelt, pressurise [pressurize, -USA], importune, pester, nobble, stalk, bedevil, bear down on, harry.Ex: Title indexes have always been plagued by the absence of terminology control.
Ex: For example, the latter are unlikely to engage themselves in conservation issues as these now press upon the professional consciousness of librarians.Ex: I guess Ms Lipow should be admired for coming into the lion's den and baiting it, but I find some of her arguments facile and superficial.Ex: Concurrently, libraries are besieged with greater demands from the academic community for access to and instruction in electronic information resources such as the Internet.Ex: I have reason to believe that my boss, the head of reference, has been sexually harassing me.Ex: The director returned to his paperwork, nothing in his heart but hot shame at having permitted himself to be bullied into submission by this disagreeable public official.Ex: The title of the article is 'Sweeping away the problems that dog the industry?'.Ex: Why does the ALA ignore, deny or cover up the actions of the only government in the world which persecutes people for the alleged crime of opening uncensored libraries?.Ex: Jefferson, like Clinton, was hounded by reports of adultery and cowardice in wartime.Ex: This a book that I had admired but that had nagged at me for years.Ex: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex: Shearer also made an arse of himself by perpetuating the myth of the noble English sportsman who never dives or pressurises referees.Ex: He was a shiftless, good-for-nothing man and his shrewish wife was constantly importuning him.Ex: And there are those whom I have pestered from time to time over the past four years, and who have patiently answered my importunity.Ex: He was the best striker I ever saw, certainly before the injuries that nobbled him twice.Ex: So Hutchins arranges her drawings in such a way that as your eye travels leftwards across the page you see the fox who is stalking the hen and trying to catch her.Ex: The article has the title 'Piracy, crooked printers, inflation bedevil Russian publishing'.Ex: And here was the war, implacably bearing down on us.Ex: They stayed there for the winter, and spent the succeeding three summers harrying the coasts of Ireland and Scotland, after which they returned to Norway.* acosar a Alguien con preguntas = pepper + Nombre + with questions.* problema + acosar = problem + dog.* * *acosar [A1 ]vt1 ‹persona› to houndlo acosan sus acreedores his creditors are hounding him o are after himun compañero que la acosaba sexualmente a colleague who was sexually harassing herse ven acosados por el hambre y las enfermedades they are beset by hunger and diseaseme acosaron con preguntas sobre su paradero they plagued o bombarded me with questions regarding his whereabouts2 ‹presa› to hound, pursue relentlessly* * *
acosar ( conjugate acosar) verbo transitivo
( sexualmente) to harass;◊ me acosaron con preguntas they plagued o bombarded me with questions
acosar verbo transitivo
1 to harass
2 fig (asediar) to pester: la oposición acosó al Presidente del Gobierno con sus preguntas, the opposition pestered the Prime Minister with questions
' acosar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
arrinconar
- asediar
- hostigar
English:
assault
- beset
- harass
- hound
- mob
- molest
- persecute
- plague
- ply
- stalk
- bait
- goad
- harry
- worry
* * *1. [perseguir] to pursue relentlessly2. [hostigar] to harass;fue acosada sexualmente en el trabajo she was sexually harassed at work* * *v/t hound, pursue;me acosaron a preguntas they bombarded me with questions* * *acosar vtperseguir: to pursue, to hound, to harass -
5 acribillar
v.1 to perforate, to pepper with holes.acribillar a alguien a balazos to riddle somebody with bulletsme han acribillado los mosquitos the mosquitoes have bitten me all over2 to riddle, to fill with perforations, to pierce with numerous holes, to honeycomb.3 to bite all over, to cover with stings.La costurera abatanó la tela The seamstress fulled the fabric.4 to bring down, to shatter.Ella se abandonó al amor She gave herself over to love.* * *1 to riddle, pepper2 figurado to harass, pester* * *verb* * *VT1) to riddle, pepper2) (=fastidiar) to pester, badger* * *verbo transitivoa) ( llenar de agujeros)b) ( asediar)* * *= pelt.Ex. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.----* acribillar a Alguien a preguntas = pepper + Nombre + with questions.* * *verbo transitivoa) ( llenar de agujeros)b) ( asediar)* * *= pelt.Ex: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.
* acribillar a Alguien a preguntas = pepper + Nombre + with questions.* * *acribillar [A1 ]vt1(llenar de agujeros): lo acribillaron a balazos they riddled him with bulletslos mosquitos me han acribillado the mosquitoes have bitten me all over2(asediar): me acribillaron a preguntas they fired a barrage of questions at me, they bombarded me with questions* * *
acribillar ( conjugate acribillar) verbo transitivoa) ( llenar de agujeros):
b) ( asediar):
acribillar verbo transitivo to riddle, pepper: los mosquitos me acribillaron esta noche, I was bombarded by mosquitoes last night o the mosquitoes had a field day on me
fig (a preguntas) to bombard
' acribillar' also found in these entries:
Spanish:
freír
- freírse
English:
mow
* * *acribillar vt1. [llenar de agujeros] to perforate, to pepper with holes;acribillar a alguien a balazos to riddle sb with bullets;me han acribillado los mosquitos the mosquitos have bitten me all overlos acribillaron a fotografías cuando salieron del hotel they were caught in a blaze of flashbulbs as they left the hotel* * *v/t:acribillar a alguien a balazos riddle s.o. with bullets;me acribillaron a preguntas they bombarded me with questions* * *acribillar vt1) : to riddle, to pepper (with bullets, etc.)2) : to hound, to harass -
6 apedrear
v.1 to stone (person).2 to throw stones at, to lapidate, to stone, to pelt.* * *1 (tirar piedras) to throw stones at2 (matar a pedradas) to stone (to death)► verbo intransitivo (Used only in the 3rd person; it does not take a subject)1 (granizar) to hail1 (estropearse por granizo) to be damaged by hail* * *verbto stone, throw stones at* * *1.VT [como castigo] to stone; [en pelea] to throw stones at2. VI1) (=granizar) to hail2) Méx ** (=apestar) to stink, reek3.See:* * *verbo transitivoa) ( tirar piedras a) to throw stones atb) ( matar a pedradas) to stone (to death)* * *= pelt, stone.Ex. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex. Government militiamen attempting to supress the rallies were beaten and stoned by the crowds.----* apedrear hasta la muerte = stone to + death.* * *verbo transitivoa) ( tirar piedras a) to throw stones atb) ( matar a pedradas) to stone (to death)* * *= pelt, stone.Ex: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.
Ex: Government militiamen attempting to supress the rallies were beaten and stoned by the crowds.* apedrear hasta la muerte = stone to + death.* * *apedrear [A1 ]vt1 (tirar piedras a) ‹persona/automóvil› to throw stones at2 (matar a pedradas) to stone (to death)* * *
apedrear ( conjugate apedrear) verbo transitivo
apedrear verbo transitivo to throw stones at
' apedrear' also found in these entries:
English:
stone
* * *apedrear vt1. [tirar piedras a] [persona, cosa] to throw stones at2. [matar] to stone* * *v/t throw stones at; matar stone (to death)* * *apedrear vt: to stone, to throw stones at* * *apedrear vb2. (matar) to stone -
7 bombardear
v.to bombard (also figurative).* * *1 (con artillería) to bombard, shell; (desde el aire) to bomb2 figurado to bombard* * *verb1) to bomb, shell2) bombard* * *VT1) (=lanzar bombas) [desde el aire] to bomb; [desde tierra] to bombard, shell2) (=lanzar preguntas) to bombard (a, con with)* * *verbo transitivoa) <territorio/ciudad> ( desde avión) to bomb; ( con artillería) to bombard, shell* * *= bombard, bomb, pelt, shell.Ex. Librarians are bombarded by requests from vendors to use their services for ordering books.Ex. The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was bombed and burnt out with the loss of 90 per cent of its stock.Ex. Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex. The building had been shelled several times in the few days previous to the closing (by which I assume he meant mortar fire).----* bombardear destruyendo completamente Algo = bomb to + the ground.* * *verbo transitivoa) <territorio/ciudad> ( desde avión) to bomb; ( con artillería) to bombard, shell* * *= bombard, bomb, pelt, shell.Ex: Librarians are bombarded by requests from vendors to use their services for ordering books.
Ex: The National Library of Bosnia and Herzegovina in Sarajevo was bombed and burnt out with the loss of 90 per cent of its stock.Ex: Every day, Internet users are pelted with spam, hoaxes, urban legends, and scams - in other words, untrustworthy data.Ex: The building had been shelled several times in the few days previous to the closing (by which I assume he meant mortar fire).* bombardear destruyendo completamente Algo = bomb to + the ground.* * *bombardear [A1 ]vt1 ‹territorio/ciudad› (desde un avión) to bomb; (con artillería) to bombard, shellme bombardearon a preguntas they bombarded me with questionsnos bombardearon con propaganda we were bombarded with propaganda2 ‹átomo› to bombard3 ‹nubes› to seed* * *
bombardear ( conjugate bombardear) verbo transitivo ( desde avión) to bomb;
( con artillería) to bombard, shell;
bombardear verbo transitivo to bomb, shell
' bombardear' also found in these entries:
English:
blitz
- bomb
- bombard
- shell
- dive
* * *bombardear vt1. [con bombas] to bomb;[con artillería] to bombard2. [átomo] to bombard3. [con preguntas, peticiones] to bombard;la televisión bombardea a los niños con publicidad television bombards children with adverts* * ** * *bombardear vt1) : to bomb2) : to bombard* * *bombardear vb1. (desde el aire) to bomb2. (con artillería, preguntas, acusaciones) to bombard -
8 SOFTWARE ROT
компьютерная порча. Есть такое поверье в среде программистов, что после долгого употребления программа начинает сама портиться, гнить. Это типичный пример того, что называют urban legends (городские сказки). -
9 Schauermärchen, die verbreitet werden, um Leuten Angst einzujagen
plurban legendsDeutsch-Englisches Wörterbuch > Schauermärchen, die verbreitet werden, um Leuten Angst einzujagen
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10 leggenda
f legend* * *leggenda s.f.1 legend: leggende medievali, medieval legends // entrare nella leggenda, to enter into legend2 (estens.) legend, myth: la leggenda napoleonica, the Napoleonic legend // leggenda metropolitana, urban myth (o legend)3 (diceria) tale, story4 (spiegazione dei segni convenzionali) key, legend; (iscrizione) inscription; (inform.) callout.* * *[led'dʒɛnda]sostantivo femminile1) (favola) legend, tale, fable2) (di carta geografica) legend•* * *leggenda/led'dʒεnda/sostantivo f.1 (favola) legend, tale, fable; leggenda popolare folk tale; leggenda vivente living legend; entrare nella leggenda to pass into legend2 (di carta geografica) legendleggenda metropolitana urban myth.
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