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acted (verb)

  • 1 Л-89

    В ЛИЦАХ рассказывать, изображать кого-что и т. п. PrepP Invar adv
    (to tell about sth.) expressively, portraying s.o. 's manner of behavior and/or speech: (the idiom is translated together with the verb) act sth. out
    mimic (imitate) how (the way) s.o. speaks (does sth.).
    ...Офицеры начинали хором петь песенку о начальнике станции... Офицеры разыгрывали эту песенку в лицах. Особенно хорош был пожилой полковник - «колонель» - с желтой бородкой, изображавший разъяренного начальника станции (Паустовский 1)...The officers would begin to sing in chorus a song about a stationmaster... The officers acted out this song. The best of them all was an elderly colonel with a yellow beard who played the part of the infuriated stationmaster (1b).
    ...(Я) весело его (Эренбурга) высмеивала, изображая в лицах, как он меня поучает (Мандельштам 2)....(I) made fun of him (Ehrenburg) to the others, mimicking the way he had tried to lecture me (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > Л-89

  • 2 в лицах

    • В ЛИЦАХ рассказывать, изображать кого-что и т.п.
    [PrepP; Invar; adv]
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    ⇒ (to tell about sth.) expressively, portraying s.o.'s manner of behavior and/ or speech:
    - [the idiom is translated together with the verb] act sth. out;
    - mimic (imitate) how (the way) s.o. speaks (does sth.).
         ♦...Офицеры начинали хором петь песенку о начальнике станции... Офицеры разыгрывали эту песенку в лицах. Особенно хорош был пожилой полковник - "колонель" - с желтой бородкой, изображавший разъяренного начальника станции (Паустовский 1)....The officers would begin to sing in chorus a song about a stationmaster... The officers acted out this song. The best of them all was an elderly colonel with a yellow beard who played the part of the infuriated stationmaster (1b).
         ♦...[ Я] весело его [Эренбурга] высмеивала, изображая в лицах, как он меня поучает (Мандельштам 2).... made fun of him [Ehrenburg] to the others, mimicking the way he had tried to lecture me (2a).

    Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в лицах

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