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  • 101 look

    I [lʊk] n
    1) взгляд, взор

    Let me have a look at it. — Дайте мне на это взглянуть.

    I didn't get a good look at him. — Я его хорошенько не рассмотрел.

    There was an angry look in his eyes. — Он смотрел злыми глазами.

    There was a contemptious look in his eyes. — В его взгляде сквозило презрение.

    After one look, I knew he was someone I had seen before. — Взглянув на него, я понял, что я его где-то видел.

    - quick look
    - kind look
    - eloquent look
    - blank look
    - threatening look
    - startled look
    - with a curious look
    - with a last look
    - with a furtive look
    - with a downcast look
    - by the look of things
    - avoid smb's look
    - cast a backward look
    - cast a parting look
    - crush smb with a haughty look
    - exchange looks of intelligence
    - express smth by a look
    - fasten one's look upon smth, smb
    - get a good look at smth
    - give a last look round
    - give smb a proud look
    - give smb a severe look
    - give a disapproving look
    - have a quick look at smth
    - regard smb with a look of hatred
    - soften one's look
    - take another look
    - take a look into the matter
    - throw a fleeting look
    - talk in looks
    - watch smb's every look
    2) вид, видимость, положение вещей

    It rained very heavily here, by the look of it. — Здесь, по-видимому, шел сильный дождь.

    He didn't have a sick look about him any more. — Он более не выглядел больным.

    Everything had a sad look. — Все выглядело печально.

    Everything had a sad, faded look. — На всем лежала печать грусти и увядания.

    - neglected look
    - give a new look to smth
    - streets have been given a new look
    - town has a Europian look
    - house has an impressive look
    - house had a desolate look
    - place had a desolate look
    - house was given a new look
    - street has been given a new look
    - place has taken on a new look
    - affairs took on an ugly look

    A hungry (wild, fierce) look came into his eyes. — У него в глазах появилось голодное (дикое, яростное) выражение.

    A look of pleasure (of disappointment) came to his face. — У него на лице появилось выражение удовольствия (разочарования).

    - strange look
    - with a look of surprise on one's face
    - put on a serious look
    4) (обыкновенно pl looks) внешность, вид

    I don't like his looks. — Мне не нравится его внешность.

    Don't judge a man by his looks. — Не судите о человеке по его внешности.

    The twins were almost identical in looks. — Близнецы были похожи друг на друга как две капли воды

    - identical in looks
    - have good looks
    - improve one's looks
    - judge smb by smb's looks
    - keep one's good looks
    - lose one's looks
    - take care of one's looks
    II [lʊk] v
    1) смотреть, глядеть

    Look at it from my point of view. — Взгляните на это с моей точки зрения.

    - look in some manner
    - look attentively
    - look out of the window
    - look out in the mirror
    - look behind you!
    - look here!
    2) выглядеть, иметь какой-либо вид, казаться

    It looks like rain (snow). — Похоже на то, что пойдет дождь (снег).

    - look well
    - look like smb, smth
    3) ухаживать, смотреть, присматривать, заботиться
    - look after smb
    - look after a child
    - look after an old woman
    - look for smb, smth
    - look for it everywhere
    - look upon smb, smth as smb, smth
    - look upon smb as one responsible for smth
    - look on smb
    - look upon smb as one's best friend
    6) брать пример, считать примером

    I look up to him. — Я его уважаю. /Он для меня всегда пример.

    To look twice at every penny. — Трястись над каждой копейкой.

    Don't look a gift horse in the mouse. /Never look a given horse into the mouth. — Дареному коню в зубы не смотрят.

    Things aren't as hard as they look. — Не так всё страшно, как кажется.

    Things are looking up. — Дела идут на лад.

    USAGE:
    (1.) Глагол to look в значении "выглядеть как-либо, иметь какой-либо вид" 2. употребляется с последующим прилагательным: to look ill (young, happy). B сочетании хорошо выглядеть (о внешности) глагол to look употребляется с прилагательным well: she looks well она выглядит хорошо/у нее здоровый вид. Сочетание to look good обозначает быть на вид хорошего качества: the meat looks good мясо на вид свежее/хорошее/неиспорченное. (2.) Русское предложение Как он выглядит? имеет разные английские соответствия: в случае, если имеется в виду человек незнакомый (и предложение соответственно обозначает Каков он из себя?), то употребляется What does he look like? B том случае, если человек знакомый (и предложение обозначает Как он себя чувствует?), эта фраза соответствует How does he look? (3.) Выражение to look like smth соответствует русскому похоже: it looks like rain (snow, storm) похоже, что будет дождь (снег, гроза).
    WAYS OF DOING THINGS:
    Глагол to look даёт общее, нейтральное название действия "смотрения", не конкретизируя его характера. Характер этого действия находит выражение в ряде других глаголов, таких как to glance и to give a glance, to gaze, to stare, to gape, to glimpse, to scowl, to squint.
    To squint - "посмотреть искоса, пристально, прищурившись; смотреть на что-либо, кого-либо, чтобы лучше разглядеть": she squinted at the paper but it was imposible to read what was written there она прищурившись посмотрела на документ, но прочитать то, что там было написано было невозможно; squinting through the frosted glass window I could just make out my sister's car in the distance вглядываясь через замёрзшее стекло окна, я мог только рассмотреть вдали машину моей сестры.
    To glance, to give a glance - "бросить беглый взгляд; посмотреть бегло, скользя глазами вверх и вниз": during the meal he kept glancing at the door, obviously expecting someone to walk in за едой он всё время посматривал на дверь, явно ожидая, что кто-то войдёт; I saw them glancing at each other as if they knew something I did not я видел, как они бросали друг другу быстрые взгляды, как будто знали что-то, чего я не знал; glancing into the kitchen she realized no one was home заглянув в кухню, она поняла, что никого дома не было; Greg glanced sideways at his friend, trying to catch his eye Грэг искоса взглянул на друга, стараясь поймать его взгляд; a glance at my watch told one it was nearly five o'clock взглянув на часы, я увидел, что было уже пять часов.
    To shoot/cast/throw a glance - "бросить быстрый взгляд, посмотреть вверх и вниз": she shot a quick glance over her shoulder to see who was following her она быстро взглянула через плечо, чтобы увидеть, кто за ней шел; she cast a glance around the room, taking in her surrounding она быстро окинула комнату взглядом, чтобы понять, кто её окружает.
    To gape - "глазеть; смотреть на что-либо, разинув рот от удивления": she stood there gaping at me too shocked to speak она в изумлении уставилась на меня, не в состоянии сказать что-либо; Jim gaped, open-mouthed, trying to take in what they had told him Джим (обалдело) смотрел на них, широко разинув рот, пытаясь понять, что они ему сказали; I could only gape in astonishment as he picked up the gun and pointed it at me в изумлении я уставился на него, видя как он схватил пистолет и направил его на меня.
    To peep, to have a peep - "украдкой, быстро бросить взгляд, особенно через узкое и маленькое отверстие": the house seemed empty, but I peeped in through the window to see if anyone was there дом, казалось, был пуст, но я заглянул внутрь через окно, чтобы убедиться, что там никого нет; close your eyes, I have a surprise for you; no peeping! закрой глаза и не подсматривай, у меня для тебя сюрприз; she felt tempted to have a peep at her neighbours' garden у нее был большой соблазн украдкой заглянуть в сад соседей; the children could never attend their parents' parties, but they were allowed to peep through the door дети не имели права участвовать, когда у родителей были гости, но им разрешалось заглянуть в дверь.
    To stare - "смотреть, вглядываться во что-либо, смотреть долгое время не сводя глаз": don't stare at people, it is very rude нельзя, уставившись, смотреть на людей - это очень невежливо; as the fire destroyed the house we just stood and stared in disbelief пока огонь пожирал наш дом, мы просто стояли и не сводили с него глаз, не веря тому, что происходит; every night it is the same, staring up at the ceiling, unable to sleep каждую ночь повторяется одно и то же, я лежу, устремив глаза в потолок, будучи не в состоянии заснуть.
    To gaze - "пристально, продолжительно разглядывать что-либо, не отводя взгляда, особенно потому, что объект вызывает гнев, раздражение или большой интерес, разглядывать, уставиться, устремить взгляд": they lay down and gazed at the clouds floating overhead они лежали и бездумно смотрели на проплывающие над ними облака; Amy gazed steadily at the singer unable to believe she was so close to him Эми пристально смотрела на певца, не веря, что он стоит рядом с ней; she sat and gazed into the distance lost in thought она сидела глубоко задумавшись, всматриваясь в даль; I could see from the difrection of his gaze that he was looking at my new car по направлению его пристального взгляда я понимал, что он разглядывал мою новую машину.
    To peer - "с трудом разглядывать что-либо, особенно, если вы не очень хорошо видите или если недостаточно света": Tom peered into the dark corridor to see what was making the noise Том всматривался в темный корридор, чтобы разглядеть откуда исходил шум; Jane peered at the writing under the picture Джейн старалась рассмотреть надпись под картиной.
    To scowl - "злобно смотреть на что-либо, кого-либо; недовольно хмуриться": he scowled and told John to get out он злобно/сердито нахмурился и выгнал Джона; "Oh, what do you want? " said the old man scowling "Что вам нужно? " - сердито спросил старик; James scowled at me furiously as I left the room, his whole body trembling with rage Джеймс, трясясь от бешенства, со злостью взглянул на меня, когда я выходил из комнаты.
    To glare - "сердито и долго, не отрывая глаз, смотреть на кого-либо, что-либо": she didn't say anything, but just sat there glaring at me она ничего не сказала, просто сидела и сердито смотрела на меня; she sat down and glared fiercely, knowing that the witness I had beaten her она села и свирепо посмотрела на свидетеля, зная, что это он побил ее; as soon as he heard this, he glared fiercely in our direction как только он это услышал, он свирепо посмотрел на нас

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  • 102 way

    [weɪ]
    n
    1) дорога, путь

    We were behind them all the way. — Всю дорогу мы шли позади них.

    The first impression goes a long way with one. — Человек надолго остается под первым впечатлением.

    The people stood over the way. — Люди, стояли по ту сторону дороги/улицы.

    He made his way through the crowd. — Он пробился через толпу.

    - shortest way
    - all the way
    - half the way
    - six-foot way
    - way to the centre
    - long way from here
    - half way to the river
    - rest of the way
    - parting of the ways
    - on one's way to the office
    - on one's way home
    - by the same way
    - on the way back to the hotel
    - on the way down here
    - on both sides of the way
    - ask the way to the station
    - go smb's way
    - take this way
    - stand in the way
    - be in smb's way
    - get out of the way
    - run all the way
    - try and find another way
    - walk along a well lighted way
    - go the nearest way
    - come a long way
    - go this way
    - take any car going that way
    - take the right way
    - go the opposite way
    - go part way
    - stop half way
    - find the way up
    - lead smb the way
    - make one's way home
    - force one's way home
    - pay one's way home
    - bar the way to the door
    - go by way of Sweeden
    - prepare the way for cooperation
    - make way for smb, smth
    - forget the way to one's house
    - go one's way
    - give way to tears
    - make one's way to the boat
    2) способ, образ действия, манера, манеры, привычка, привычки

    We were to blame in our different ways. — Мы все были по-своему виноваты.

    I shall lose both ways. — И в том и в другом случае я проигрываю.

    It might be just the other way. — Это может быть совершенно иначе.

    The project was in no way new. — План был совсем не нов.

    The wind blows six months one way and six months the other (way). — Ветер полгода дует в одном направлении, а другие полгода - в другом.

    - my father's ways
    - only way left
    - better way of life
    - way of doing smth
    - other way about
    - way of knowledge is the true way
    - way of the world
    - way of all flesh
    - way of dancing
    - silly way to stop this
    - curious way of finding smth out
    - way of living
    - one way or the other
    - imposible in a way
    - in one's own way
    - in a matter-of-fact way
    - in every way
    - in other ways
    - in two ways
    - in a hundred ways
    - in one way or another
    - in a lot of ways
    - in one's friendly ways
    - in one's college way
    - in smb's joking way
    - by way of excuse
    - in any way connected with it
    - do smth in this way
    - have one's own way
    - put the question another way
    - do smth in the same way
    - do smth in a new way
    - do smth in various ways
    - talk this way
    - be this way
    - look for a way of escape
    - go out of one's way to do smth
    - know the way to get things done
    - find out the way to get things done
    - have a way with animals
    - change smb's ways
    - have a peculiar way of touching his hair
    - have a way with children
    - have it your way
    - way you move
    - way she wears things
    - way they dress
    - way to do smth
    3) решение, выход из положения
    - easy way out
    - way out
    - way out of the difficulty
    - find a way out
    - see no way out
    4) на расстоянии, далеко, значительно
    - walk a little way along the platform
    - stop a little short way behind smb
    - stop a little way from the gates
    - stick way out
    - sit way up in bed
    - stay way out of it
    - it was way past the time
    - by the way

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  • 103 catch smb. tripping

    уличить, поймать кого-л. на ошибке [этим. спорт.; жарг.]

    Now I had spent two or three months in that part of the country before the war; and I knew just enough about it to be easily taken in by that boy, whereas a born Louisianian would probably have caught him tripping before he had talked fifteen minutes. (M. Twain, ‘A Curious Experience’, ‘American Short Stories’) — До войны я провел здесь два или три месяца и знал об этих местах ровно столько, сколько нужно, чтобы этот мальчишка мог запросто меня обмануть; уроженец Луизианы уличил бы его через десять минут.

    She had... so good a memory for the lies she told that she was never caught tripping... (W. S. Maugham, ‘The Merry-Go-Round’. part I) — У леди Визард была очень хорошая память, и, хотя она и говорила неправду, уличить ее во лжи было невозможно...

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  • 104 give smb. the shivers

    разг.
    (give smb. the (cold) shivers (тж. send a (cold) shiver или cold shivers down или up (или up and down) smb.'s back или spine))
    нагнать страх(у) на кого-л., привести кого-л. в трепет, заставить кого-л. содрогнуться; ≈ мороз по коже подирает, мурашки по спине бегают

    It was curious that it should send a cold shiver down her back to think that people were talking about her. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Theatre’, ch. XVII) — Странно, одна мысль о том, что о ней пойдут сплетни, приводила Джулию в трепет.

    I hate that thoughtful look you get sometimes. It gives me the shivers. (M. Wilson, ‘My Brother, My Enemy’, ch. XI) — Терпеть не могу этот твой многозначительный взгляд. У меня от него начинают мурашки бегать.

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  • 105 independent as a hog on ice

    амер.; разг.; пренебр.
    ≈ нахал, самоуверенный, развязный человек

    Curiosity about the origin of an expression that my mother frequently used started the investigation which has led to the contents of this book. Whenever she saw a pompous person strutting down the street... a young man with hat atilt jauntily striding along without a care in the world... such a person, she always said with a toss of her own head, was "as independent as a hog on ice". (Ch. E. Funk, ‘A Hog on Ice and Other Curious Expressions’) — Желание узнать происхождение фразы, которую часто употребляла моя мать, положило начало исследованию, в результате которого появилась эта книга. Когда мать встречала надутого человека, с важным видом шествующего по улице... молодого человека с лихо надетой набекрень шляпой, которому на все наплевать... она всегда качала головой и говорила: "До чего же он по-свински самоуверен"

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  • 106 the narrow path

    стезя добродетели [этим. библ. Matthew VII, 14]

    What sort of influence would enter his life, who would be at hand to aid and council and guide him in the straight and narrow path, as they had done? (Th. Dreiser, ‘An American Tragedy’, book I, ch. LV) — С какими людьми он столкнется в жизни, кто будет рядом, чтобы помочь ему, кто даст добрый совет, направит по стезе добродетели, как делали родители?

    In his younger gallivantings about places of ill repute, and his subsequent occasional variations from the straight and narrow path, he had learned much of the curious resources of immorality. (Th. Dreiser, ‘The Financier’, ch. XX) — В дни юности он таскался по всевозможным злачным местам, да и впоследствии, когда был женат, случалось, сворачивал с пути истинного, так что ему были хорошо известны все ухищрения и лазейки, которыми пользуется порок.

    Women are subject to two defects, curiosity and vanity. They lead these fair creatures to abandon the narrow path of virtue more often than passion. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Then and Now’, ch. XVIII) — Женщинам свойственны два недостатка: любопытство и тщеславие. Эти недостатки чаще, чем страсть, заставляют представительниц прекрасного пола свернуть со стези добродетели.

    You are, and always will be, a no good heel. It suits you, and you're dead out of character when you try to tread the straight and narrow path. (A. J. Cronin, ‘A Pocketful of Rye’, ch. XVII) — Ты субъект непутевый и всегда таким будешь. Это тебя устраивает. И уж очень неестественно выглядит, когда ты пытаешься изобразить из себя добродетельного человека.

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  • 107 uppermost in smb.'s mind

    (uppermost in smb.'s mind (или in the mind of smb.))
    стоящий на первом плане у кого-л., находящийся в центре внимания кого-л.

    It is curious that the thought uppermost in his mind at that moment was the wish that his cousin Jane could see him. (H. G. Wells, ‘The Food of the Gods’, book I, ch. III) — Странно, что первой его мыслью в то время было желание, чтобы кузина Джен могла видеть его в такой обстановке.

    Not once during dinner did he mention what was uppermost in his mind... (M. Wilson, ‘My Brother, My Enemy’, ch. 6) — Во время обеда Дейви ни разу не заговорил на тему, все время занимавшую его мысли...

    But her anxiety about Dick going to Wiluna was uppermost in her mind. (K. S. Prichard, ‘Golden Miles’, ch. 45) — Но тревога за Дика, который собирался в Вилуну, не покидала ее.

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  • 108 odd

    1. n непарная вещь
    2. n нечётное число
    3. n спорт. дополнительный, лишний удар

    odd man out — «третий лишний»

    4. n спорт. фора
    5. n спорт. карт. решающая взятка
    6. a нечётный

    odd months — месяцы, имеющие 31 день

    7. a непарный
    8. a превышающий

    the odd money — сдача, мелочь

    9. a немногим больший; дополнительный, ещё один или несколько
    10. a лишний, избыточный
    11. a разрозненный
    12. a случайный, нерегулярный

    odd man — человек, выполняющий случайную работу

    odd stroke of luck — случайная удача, неожиданное везение

    13. a странный, необычный, эксцентричный

    odd fish — чудак, странный человек

    odd card — чудак, странный тип, человек с причудами

    14. a отдалённый, дальний; заброшенный
    Синонимический ряд:
    1. accidental (adj.) accidental; casual; chance; contingent; fluky; fortuitous; inadvertent; incidental; occasional
    2. miscellaneous (adj.) miscellaneous; sundry
    3. secluded (adj.) out-of-the-way; retired; secluded
    4. strange (adj.) bizarre; curious; different; eccentric; erratic; extraordinary; fantastic; freakish; funny; idiosyncratic; oddball; outlandish; peculiar; quaint; queer; quirky; rummy; singular; strange; uncouth; unusual; weird
    5. uncertain (adj.) doubtful; inexplicit; insecure; obscure; uncertain; vague
    6. uneven (adj.) individual; remainder; single; sole; surplus; uneven; unitary; unmatched; unpaired
    7. various (adj.) fragmentary; odd-lot; varied; various
    Антонимический ряд:
    consociate; conventional; customary; even; habitual; lucid; matched; natural; normal; ordinary; rational

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  • 109 Anglo-Portuguese Alliance

       The world's oldest diplomatic connection and alliance, an enduring arrangement between two very different nations and peoples, with important practical consequences in the domestic and foreign affairs of both Great Britain (England before 1707) and Portugal. The history of this remarkable alliance, which has had commercial and trade, political, foreign policy, cultural, and imperial aspects, can be outlined in part with a list of the main alliance treaties after the first treaty of commerce and friendship signed between the monarchs of England and Portugal in 1373. This was followed in 1386 by the Treaty of Windsor; then in 1654, 1661, 1703, the Methuen Treaty; and in 1810 and 1899 another treaty also signed at Windsor.
       Common interests in the defense of the nation and its overseas empire (in the case of Portugal, after 1415; in the case of England, after 1650) were partly based on characteristics and common enemies both countries shared. Even in the late Middle Ages, England and Portugal faced common enemies: large continental countries that threatened the interests and sovereignty of both, especially France and Spain. In this sense, the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance has always been a defensive alliance in which each ally would assist the other when necessary against its enemies. In the case of Portugal, that enemy invariably was Spain (or component states thereof, such as Castile and Leon) and sometimes France (i.e., when Napoleon's armies invaded and conquered Portugal as of late 1807). In the case of England, that foe was often France and sometimes Spain as well.
       Beginning in the late 14th century, England and Portugal forged this unusual relationship, formalized with several treaties that came into direct use during a series of dynastic, imperial, naval, and commercial conflicts between 1373 and 1961, the historic period when the Anglo-Portuguese Alliance had its most practical political significance. The relative world power and importance of each ally has varied over the centuries. During the period 1373-1580, the allies were similar in respective ranking in European affairs, and during the period 1480-1550, if anything, Portugal was a greater world power with a more important navy than England. During 1580-1810, Portugal fell to the status of a third-rank European power and, during 1810-1914, England was perhaps the premier world power. During 1914-61, England's world position slipped while Portugal made a slow recovery but remained a third- or fourth-rank power.
       The commercial elements of the alliance have always involved an exchange of goods between two seafaring, maritime peoples with different religions and political systems but complementary economies. The 1703 Methuen Treaty establ ished a trade link that endured for centuries and bore greater advantages for England than for Portugal, although Portugal derived benefits: English woolens for Portuguese wines, especially port, other agricultural produce, and fish. Since the signing of the Methuen Treaty, there has been a vigorous debate both in politics and in historical scholarship as to how much each nation benefited economically from the arrangement in which Portugal eventually became dependent upon England and the extent to which Portugal became a kind of economic colony of Britain during the period from 1703 to 1910.
       There is a vast literature on the Alliance, much of it in Portuguese and by Portuguese writers, which is one expression of the development of modern Portuguese nationalism. During the most active phase of the alliance, from 1650 to 1945, there is no doubt but that the core of the mutual interests of the allies amounted to the proposition that Portugal's independence as a nation in Iberia and the integrity of its overseas empire, the third largest among the colonial powers as of 1914, were defended by England, who in turn benefited from the use by the Royal Navy of Portugal's home and colonial ports in times of war and peace. A curious impact on Portuguese and popular usage had also come about and endured through the impact of dealings with the English allies. The idiom in Portuguese, "é para inglês ver," means literally "it is for the Englishman to see," but figuratively it really means, "it is merely for show."
       The practical defense side of the alliance was effectively dead by the end of World War II, but perhaps the most definitive indication of the end of the political significance of an alliance that still continues in other spheres occurred in December 1961, when the army of the Indian Union invaded Portugal's colonial enclaves in western India, Goa, Damão, and Diu. While both nations were now North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies, their interests clashed when it came to imperial and Commonwealth conflicts and policies. Portugal asked Britain for military assistance in the use of British bases against the army of Britain's largest former colony, India. But Portugal was, in effect, refused assistance by her oldest ally. If the alliance continues into the 21st century, its essence is historical, nostalgic, commercial, and cultural.
        See also Catherine of Braganza.

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  • 110 leave

    Ⅰ.
    leave1 [li:v]
    partir1 (a), 1 (b) quitter2 (a), 2 (b), 2 (d) laisser2 (c), 2 (d)-(h), 2 (j), 2 (l) oublier2 (g) léguer2 (n) congé3 (a), 3 (c) permission3 (a), 3 (b)
    (pt & pp left [left])
    (a) (depart) partir;
    my flight leaves at ten mon avion part à dix heures;
    when did you leave? quand est-ce que vous êtes partis?;
    we're leaving for Mexico tomorrow nous partons pour le Mexique demain;
    which station do you leave from? vous partez de quelle gare?;
    he's just left for lunch il vient de partir déjeuner;
    if you'd rather I left... si vous voulez que je vous laisse...
    (b) (quit) partir;
    half of the staff have left la moitié du personnel est partie;
    fewer schoolchildren are now leaving at sixteen les élèves sont aujourd'hui moins nombreux à quitter l'école à seize ans
    Charles, I'm leaving! Charles, je te quitte!
    (a) (depart from → place) quitter;
    she left London yesterday elle est partie de ou elle a quitté Londres hier;
    he left the room il est sorti de ou il a quitté la pièce;
    I leave home at 8 o'clock every morning je pars ou je sors de chez moi tous les matins à 8 heures;
    she never leaves the house elle ne sort jamais de la maison;
    to leave the table se lever de table;
    may I leave the table? est-ce que je peux sortir de table?;
    the boat finally left port at 6 o'clock le bateau quitta finalement le port à 6 heures;
    his brakes failed and the car left the road ses freins ont lâché et la voiture a quitté la route;
    the train left the rails le train a déraillé;
    his eyes never left her il ne la quittait pas des yeux
    (b) (quit → job, institution) quitter;
    she left the firm last year elle a quitté l'entreprise l'année dernière;
    I left home at eighteen je suis parti de chez moi ou de chez mes parents à dix-huit ans;
    to leave school quitter l'école;
    he left Oxford without finishing his studies il a quitté Oxford sans avoir terminé ses études;
    Military to leave the service quitter le service
    you can't leave them alone for a minute on ne peut pas les laisser seuls une minute;
    he left her asleep on the sofa elle était endormie sur le canapé lorsqu'il la quitta;
    I left him to his reading je l'ai laissé à sa lecture;
    I left him to himself je l'ai laissé seul;
    left to himself, who knows what he'd do? qui sait ce qu'il ferait s'il était livré à lui-même?;
    just leave me alone! laissez-moi tranquille!;
    let's leave it at that, we'll leave it at that (not do any more work) arrêtons-nous là; (not argue any more) n'en parlons plus
    (d) (abandon → person) quitter; (take leave of → person) laisser;
    she left him for another man elle l'a quitté pour un autre;
    the prisoners were left to die les prisonniers furent abandonnés à une mort certaine;
    it's getting late, I must leave you now il se fait tard, je dois vous laisser;
    you may leave us now vous pouvez disposer maintenant
    (e) (deposit, set down) laisser;
    it's no trouble to leave you at the station ça ne me dérange pas de vous laisser ou déposer à la gare
    (f) (for someone's use, information etc) laisser;
    I've left your dinner in the oven for you je t'ai laissé de quoi dîner dans le four;
    leave your name with the receptionist laissez votre nom à la réception;
    he's out, do you want to leave (him) a message? il n'est pas là, voulez-vous (lui) laisser un message?;
    she left word for you to call her back elle a demandé que vous la rappeliez
    (g) (forget) laisser, oublier;
    I must have left my gloves at the café j'ai dû oublier mes gants au café
    leave some cake for your brother laisse du gâteau pour ton frère;
    if you don't like your dinner, then leave it si tu n'aimes pas ton dîner, laisse-le;
    leave enough space for the address laissez assez de place pour l'adresse;
    leave the stew to cook for two hours laissez mijoter le ragoût pendant deux heures;
    leave yourself an hour to get to the airport prévoyez une heure pour aller à l'aéroport;
    I only left myself £20 a week to live on je n'avais plus que 20 livres par semaine pour me nourrir;
    don't leave things to the last minute n'attendez pas la dernière minute (pour faire ce que vous avez à faire);
    he left his work unfinished il n'a pas terminé son travail;
    he left his dinner untouched il ne toucha pas à son dîner;
    please leave the windows closed veuillez laisser les fenêtres fermées;
    to leave sth unsaid passer qch sous silence;
    their behaviour leaves a lot to be desired leur conduite laisse beaucoup à désirer;
    her words left me curious to know more le peu qu'elle a dit m'a donné l'envie d'en savoir plus;
    the decision leaves me in a bit of a quandary cette décision me place devant un dilemme;
    I want to be left on/off the list je veux que mon nom reste/je ne veux pas que mon nom figure sur la liste;
    I was left with the bill c'est moi qui ai dû payer l'addition;
    she had been left a widow at thirty elle s'était retrouvée veuve à l'âge de trente ans;
    the flood has left thousands homeless les inondations ont fait des milliers de sans-abri
    (i) (passive use) to be left (remain) rester;
    we finished what was left of the cake on a fini ce qui restait du gâteau;
    there's nothing left il ne reste (plus) rien;
    there wasn't enough left to go round il n'en restait pas assez pour tout le monde;
    I've got £10/10 minutes left il me reste 10 livres/10 minutes;
    there's no doubt left in my mind il n'y a plus le moindre doute dans mon esprit;
    he had nothing left to do but lock up the house il ne lui restait (plus) qu'à fermer la maison
    (j) (mark, trace) laisser;
    the wine left a stain le vin a fait une tache
    can I leave you to deal with it, then? vous vous en chargez, alors?;
    she leaves me to get on with things elle me laisse faire;
    to leave sb in charge of sth confier la responsabilité de qch à qn;
    right then, I'll leave you to it bon, eh bien, je te laisse
    (l) (entrust) laisser, confier;
    can I leave my suitcase with you for a few minutes? puis-je vous confier ma valise quelques instants?;
    she left the detailed arrangements to her secretary elle a laissé à sa secrétaire le soin de régler les détails;
    you should leave such tasks to a specialist vous devriez laisser ou confier ce genre de travail à un spécialiste;
    nothing was left to chance on avait paré à toutes les éventualités;
    I'll leave it to you to finish it off je vous laisse (le soin de) finir;
    leave it to me! je m'en occupe!, je m'en charge!;
    leave it with me laissez-moi faire, je m'en charge
    9 from 16 leaves 7 16 moins 9 égale 7;
    what does 29 from 88 leave? 29 ôté de 88 égale combien?
    (n) (bequeath) léguer;
    she left all her money to charity elle légua toute sa fortune à des œuvres de charité
    he leaves a wife and two children il laisse une femme et deux enfants
    3 noun
    (a) (from work) congé m; Military permission f;
    to be/to go on leave (gen) être/partir en congé; Military être/partir en permission
    (b) (permission) permission f, autorisation f;
    he asked leave to address the meeting il a demandé la permission de prendre la parole devant l'assemblée;
    by or with your leave avec votre permission;
    without so much as a by your leave sans même en demander la permission
    (c) (farewell) congé m;
    to take one's leave (of sb) prendre congé (de qn);
    to take leave of sb prendre congé de qn;
    figurative to take leave of one's senses perdre la tête ou la raison
    ►► leave of absence congé m (exceptionnel); (without pay) congé m sans solde; Military permission f exceptionnelle
    laisser traîner;
    he leaves his stuff around everywhere il laisse traîner ses affaires partout
    laisser de côté;
    leaving aside the question of cost for the moment si on laisse de côté pour le moment la question du coût
    (a) (not take) laisser;
    it's hard to leave all your friends and relations behind c'est dur de laisser tous ses amis et sa famille derrière soi;
    they left me behind ils sont partis sans moi
    (b) (forget) laisser, oublier;
    somebody left their watch behind quelqu'un a laissé ou oublié sa montre
    the cyclone left behind a trail of destruction le cyclone a tout détruit sur son passage
    (d) (outstrip) distancer, devancer;
    she soon left the other runners behind elle a vite distancé tous les autres coureurs;
    if you don't work harder you'll soon get left behind si tu ne travailles pas plus, tu vas vite te retrouver loin derrière les autres
    (word, paragraph) garder, laisser
    (stop) s'arrêter;
    we'll carry on from where we left off nous allons reprendre là où nous nous étions arrêtés;
    British familiar leave off, will you! arrête, tu veux!
    to leave off doing sth arrêter de faire qch ;
    if it leaves off raining, we'll go for a walk s'il s'arrête de pleuvoir ou si la pluie cesse, nous irons nous promener
    (a) (not put on) ne pas remettre;
    who left the top of the toothpaste off? qui a laissé le tube de dentifrice débouché?;
    you can leave your jacket off ce n'est pas la peine de remettre ta veste
    (b) (not switch or turn on → tap, gas) laisser fermé; (→ light) laisser éteint; (not plug in → appliance) laisser débranché;
    we left the heating off while we were away nous avons arrêté ou coupé le chauffage pendant notre absence
    (a) (not take off → garment) garder; (→ top, cover) laisser;
    don't leave the price tag on enlève l'étiquette
    (b) (not switch or turn off → tap, gas) laisser ouvert; (→ light) laisser allumé; (not unplug → appliance) laisser branché;
    I hope I didn't leave the gas on j'espère que j'ai éteint le gaz
    (a) (omit) omettre;
    several names have been left out plusieurs noms ont été omis;
    leave out any reference to her husband in your article dans votre article, évitez toute allusion à son mari
    (b) (exclude) exclure;
    I felt completely left out at the party j'ai eu le sentiment d'être totalement tenu à l'écart ou exclu de leur petite fête;
    leave her out of this! laissez-la en dehors de ça!, ne la mêlez pas à ça!
    (c) (not put away → by accident) ne pas ranger; (→ on purpose) laisser sorti, ne pas ranger;
    he left a meal out for the children il a laissé un repas tout prêt pour les enfants;
    leave the disks out where I can see them laisse les disquettes en évidence;
    who left the milk out overnight? qui a oublié de mettre le lait au frigo hier soir?
    (d) (leave outdoors) laisser dehors;
    to leave the washing out to dry mettre le linge à sécher (dehors)
    leave it out! arrête!
    to be left over rester;
    there are still one or two left over il en reste encore un ou deux
    Ⅱ.
    leave2 [li:v] (pt & pp leaved, cont leaving)

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  • 111 Polhem, Christopher

    [br]
    b. 18 December 1661 Tingstade, Gotland, Sweden d. 1751
    [br]
    Swedish engineer and inventor.
    [br]
    He was the eldest son of Wolf Christopher Polhamma, a merchant. The father died in 1669 and the son was sent by his stepfather to an uncle in Stockholm who found him a place in the Deutsche Rechenschule. After the death of his uncle, he was forced to find employment, which he did with the Biorenklou family near Uppsala where he eventually became a kind of estate bailiff. It was during this period that he started to work with a lathe, a forge and at carpentry, displaying great technical ability. He realized that without further education he had little chance of making anything of his life, and accordingly, in 1687, he registered at the University of Uppsala where he studied astronomy and mathematics, remaining there for three years. He also repaired two astronomical pendulum clocks as well as the decrepit medieval clock in the cathedral. After a year's work he had this clock running properly: this was his breakthrough. He was summoned to Stockholm where the King awarded him a salary of 500 dalers a year as an encouragement to further efforts. Around this time, one of increasing mechanization and when mining was Sweden's principal industry, Pohlem made a model of a hoist frame for mines and the Mines Authority encouraged him to develop his ideas. In 1693 Polhem completed the Blankstot hoist at the Stora Kopparberg mine, which attracted great interest on the European continent.
    From 1694 to 1696 Polhem toured factories, mills and mines abroad in Germany, Holland, England and France, studying machinery of all kinds and meeting many foreign engineers. In 1698 he was appointed Director of Mining Engineering in Sweden, and in 1700 he became Master of Construction in the Falu Mine. He installed the Karl XII hoist there, powered by moving beams from a distant water-wheel. His plan of 1697 for all the machinery at the Falu mine to be driven by three large and remote water-wheels was never completed.
    In 1707 he was invited by the Elector of Hanover to visit the mines in the Harz district, where he successfully explained many of his ideas which were adopted by the local engineers. In 1700, in conjunction with Gabriel Stierncrona, he founded the Stiersunds Bruk at Husby in Southern Dalarna, a factory for the mass production of metal goods in iron, steel and bronze. Simple articles such as pans, trays, bowls, knives, scissors and mirrors were made there, together with the more sophisticated Polhem lock and the Stiersunds clock. Production was based on water power. Gear cutting for the clocks, shaping hammers for plates, file cutting and many other operations were all water powered, as was a roller mill for the sheet metal used in the factory. He also designed textile machinery such as stocking looms and spinning frames and machines for the manufacture of ribbons and other things.
    In many of his ideas Polhem was in advance of his time and Swedish country society was unable to absorb them. This was largely the reason for the Stiersund project being only a partial success. Polhem, too, was of a disputatious nature, self-opinionated almost to the point of conceit. He was a prolific writer, leaving over 20,000 pages of manuscript notes, drafts, essays on a wide range of subjects, which included building, brick-making, barrels, wheel-making, bell-casting, organ-building, methods of stopping a horse from bolting and a curious tap "to prevent serving maids from sneaking wine from the cask", the construction of ploughs and threshing machines. His major work, Kort Berattelse om de Fornamsta Mechaniska Inventioner (A Brief Account of the Most Famous Inventions), was printed in 1729 and is the main source of knowledge about his technological work. He is also known for his "mechanical alphabet", a collection of some eighty wooden models of mechanisms for educational purposes. It is in the National Museum of Science and Technology in Stockholm.
    [br]
    Bibliography
    1729, Kort Berattelse om de Fornamsta Mechaniska Inventioner (A Brief Account of the Most Famous Inventions).
    Further Reading
    1985, Christopher Polhem, 1661–1751, TheSwedish Daedalus' (catalogue of a travelling exhibition from the Swedish Institute in association with the National Museum of Science and Technology), Stockholm.
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  • 112 Wang Zhen (Wang Chen)

    [br]
    b. 14th century China
    d. 14th century China
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    Chinese writer on agricultural affairs and practice.
    [br]
    Wang Zhen was a native of Shandong Province and was employed as a Government official. He wrote the Wang Zhen Nung Shu c. 1313 as a text to be used by local officials in their instruction of the peasantry. The text was also used as a means of spreading information on potentially useful developments from one region to another.
    Curious inaccuracies in the text indicate that Wang Zhen's knowledge of agriculture was not firsthand, but rather that his texts are the distillation of information derived from interviews with farmers. In this the text differs from the other major Chinese texts, which are clearly the work of individuals with personal knowledge of the subject about which they were writing.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    F.Bray, Vol. VI. 2 in J.Needham (ed.), Science and Civilisation in China (discusses her sources in an introductory chapter).
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  • 113 Wankel, Felix

    [br]
    b. 13 August 1902 Lahr, Black Forest, Germany
    d. 9 October 1988 Lindau, Bavaria, Germany
    [br]
    German internal combustion engineer, inventor of the Wankel rotary engine.
    [br]
    Wankel was first employed at the German Aeronautical Research Establishment, where he worked on rotary valves and valve sealing techniques in the early 1930s and during the Second World War. In 1951 he joined NSU Motorenwerk AG, a motor manufacturer based at Neckarsulm, near Stuttgart, and began work on his rotary engine; the idea for this had first occurred to Wankel as early as 1929. He had completed his first design by 1954, and in 1957 his first prototype was tested. The Wankel engine has a three-pointed rotor, like a prism of an equilateral triangle but with the sides bowed outwards. This rotor is geared to a driveshaft and rotates within a closely fitting and slightly oval-shaped chamber so that, on each revolution, the power stroke is applied to each of the three faces of the rotor as they pass a single spark plug. Two or more rotors may be mounted coaxially, their power strokes being timed sequentially. The engine has only two moving parts, the rotor and the output shaft, making it about a quarter less in weight compared with a conventional piston engine; however, its fuel consumption is high and its exhaust emissions are relatively highly pollutant. The average Wankel engine speed is 5,500 rpm. The first production car to use a Wankel engine was the NSU Ro80, though this was preceded by the experimental NSU Spyder prototype, an open two-seater. The Japanese company Mazda is the only other automobile manufacturer to have fitted a Wankel engine to a production car, although licences were taken by Alfa Romeo, Peugeot- Citroën, Daimler-Benz, Rolls-Royce, Toyota, Volkswagen-Audi (the company that bought NSU in the mid-1970s) and many others; Daimler-Benz even produced a Mercedes C-111 prototype with a three-rotor Wankel engine. The American aircraft manufacturer Curtiss-Wright carried out research for a Wankel aero-engine which never went into production, but the Austrian company Rotax produced a motorcycle version of the Wankel engine which was fitted by the British motorcycle manufacturer Norton to a number of its models.
    While Wankel became director of his own research establishment at Lindau, on Lake Constance in southern Germany, Mazda continued to improve the rotary engine and by the time of Wankel's death the Mazda RX-7 coupé had become a successful, if not high-selling, Wankel -engined sports car.
    [br]
    Further Reading
    N.Faith, 1975, Wankel: The Curious Story Behind the Revolutionary Rotary Engine, New York: Stein \& Day.
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  • 114 send a (cold) shiver (cold shivers or shivers) down (up or up and down) one's back

    (или spine)
       paзг. нaгнaть cтpax (у) нa кoгo-л., пpивecти кoгo-л. в тpeпeт, зacтaвить кoгo-л. coдpoгнутьcя; мopoз пo кoжe пoдиpaeт, муpaшки пo cпинe (или пo тeлу) бeгaют It was curious that it should send a cold shiver down her back to think that people were talking about her (W. S. Maugham). Now once again she had the giddy feeling of a myriad eyes concentrated on the nape of her neck and sending shivers down her spine (J. Lindsay)

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  • 115 Knowledge

       It is indeed an opinion strangely prevailing amongst men, that houses, mountains, rivers, and, in a word, all sensible objects, have an existence, natural or real, distinct from their being perceived by the understanding. But, with how great an assurance and acquiescence soever this principle may be entertained in the world, yet whoever shall find in his heart to call it into question may, if I mistake not, perceive it to involve a manifest contradiction. For, what are the forementioned objects but things we perceive by sense? and what do we perceive besides our own ideas or sensations? and is it not plainly repugnant that any one of these, or any combination of them, should exist unperceived? (Berkeley, 1996, Pt. I, No. 4, p. 25)
       It seems to me that the only objects of the abstract sciences or of demonstration are quantity and number, and that all attempts to extend this more perfect species of knowledge beyond these bounds are mere sophistry and illusion. As the component parts of quantity and number are entirely similar, their relations become intricate and involved; and nothing can be more curious, as well as useful, than to trace, by a variety of mediums, their equality or inequality, through their different appearances.
       But as all other ideas are clearly distinct and different from each other, we can never advance farther, by our utmost scrutiny, than to observe this diversity, and, by an obvious reflection, pronounce one thing not to be another. Or if there be any difficulty in these decisions, it proceeds entirely from the undeterminate meaning of words, which is corrected by juster definitions. That the square of the hypotenuse is equal to the squares of the other two sides cannot be known, let the terms be ever so exactly defined, without a train of reasoning and enquiry. But to convince us of this proposition, that where there is no property, there can be no injustice, it is only necessary to define the terms, and explain injustice to be a violation of property. This proposition is, indeed, nothing but a more imperfect definition. It is the same case with all those pretended syllogistical reasonings, which may be found in every other branch of learning, except the sciences of quantity and number; and these may safely, I think, be pronounced the only proper objects of knowledge and demonstration. (Hume, 1975, Sec. 12, Pt. 3, pp. 163-165)
       Our knowledge springs from two fundamental sources of the mind; the first is the capacity of receiving representations (the ability to receive impressions), the second is the power to know an object through these representations (spontaneity in the production of concepts).
       Through the first, an object is given to us; through the second, the object is thought in relation to that representation.... Intuition and concepts constitute, therefore, the elements of all our knowledge, so that neither concepts without intuition in some way corresponding to them, nor intuition without concepts, can yield knowledge. Both may be either pure or empirical.... Pure intuitions or pure concepts are possible only a priori; empirical intuitions and empirical concepts only a posteriori. If the receptivity of our mind, its power of receiving representations in so far as it is in any way affected, is to be called "sensibility," then the mind's power of producing representations from itself, the spontaneity of knowledge, should be called "understanding." Our nature is so constituted that our intuitions can never be other than sensible; that is, it contains only the mode in which we are affected by objects. The faculty, on the other hand, which enables us to think the object of sensible intuition is the understanding.... Without sensibility, no object would be given to us; without understanding, no object would be thought. Thoughts without content are empty; intuitions without concepts are blind. It is therefore just as necessary to make our concepts sensible, that is, to add the object to them in intuition, as to make our intuitions intelligible, that is to bring them under concepts. These two powers or capacities cannot exchange their functions. The understanding can intuit nothing, the senses can think nothing. Only through their union can knowledge arise. (Kant, 1933, Sec. 1, Pt. 2, B74-75 [p. 92])
       Metaphysics, as a natural disposition of Reason is real, but it is also, in itself, dialectical and deceptive.... Hence to attempt to draw our principles from it, and in their employment to follow this natural but none the less fallacious illusion can never produce science, but only an empty dialectical art, in which one school may indeed outdo the other, but none can ever attain a justifiable and lasting success. In order that, as a science, it may lay claim not merely to deceptive persuasion, but to insight and conviction, a Critique of Reason must exhibit in a complete system the whole stock of conceptions a priori, arranged according to their different sources-the Sensibility, the understanding, and the Reason; it must present a complete table of these conceptions, together with their analysis and all that can be deduced from them, but more especially the possibility of synthetic knowledge a priori by means of their deduction, the principles of its use, and finally, its boundaries....
       This much is certain: he who has once tried criticism will be sickened for ever of all the dogmatic trash he was compelled to content himself with before, because his Reason, requiring something, could find nothing better for its occupation. Criticism stands to the ordinary school metaphysics exactly in the same relation as chemistry to alchemy, or as astron omy to fortune-telling astrology. I guarantee that no one who has comprehended and thought out the conclusions of criticism, even in these Prolegomena, will ever return to the old sophistical pseudo-science. He will rather look forward with a kind of pleasure to a metaphysics, certainly now within his power, which requires no more preparatory discoveries, and which alone can procure for reason permanent satisfaction. (Kant, 1891, pp. 115-116)
       Knowledge is only real and can only be set forth fully in the form of science, in the form of system. Further, a so-called fundamental proposition or first principle of philosophy, even if it is true, it is yet none the less false, just because and in so far as it is merely a fundamental proposition, merely a first principle. It is for that reason easily refuted. The refutation consists in bringing out its defective character; and it is defective because it is merely the universal, merely a principle, the beginning. If the refutation is complete and thorough, it is derived and developed from the nature of the principle itself, and not accomplished by bringing in from elsewhere other counter-assurances and chance fancies. It would be strictly the development of the principle, and thus the completion of its deficiency, were it not that it misunderstands its own purport by taking account solely of the negative aspect of what it seeks to do, and is not conscious of the positive character of its process and result. The really positive working out of the beginning is at the same time just as much the very reverse: it is a negative attitude towards the principle we start from. Negative, that is to say, in its one-sided form, which consists in being primarily immediate, a mere purpose. It may therefore be regarded as a refutation of what constitutes the basis of the system; but more correctly it should be looked at as a demonstration that the basis or principle of the system is in point of fact merely its beginning. (Hegel, 1910, pp. 21-22)
       Knowledge, action, and evaluation are essentially connected. The primary and pervasive significance of knowledge lies in its guidance of action: knowing is for the sake of doing. And action, obviously, is rooted in evaluation. For a being which did not assign comparative values, deliberate action would be pointless; and for one which did not know, it would be impossible. Conversely, only an active being could have knowledge, and only such a being could assign values to anything beyond his own feelings. A creature which did not enter into the process of reality to alter in some part the future content of it, could apprehend a world only in the sense of intuitive or esthetic contemplation; and such contemplation would not possess the significance of knowledge but only that of enjoying and suffering. (Lewis, 1946, p. 1)
       "Evolutionary epistemology" is a branch of scholarship that applies the evolutionary perspective to an understanding of how knowledge develops. Knowledge always involves getting information. The most primitive way of acquiring it is through the sense of touch: amoebas and other simple organisms know what happens around them only if they can feel it with their "skins." The knowledge such an organism can have is strictly about what is in its immediate vicinity. After a huge jump in evolution, organisms learned to find out what was going on at a distance from them, without having to actually feel the environment. This jump involved the development of sense organs for processing information that was farther away. For a long time, the most important sources of knowledge were the nose, the eyes, and the ears. The next big advance occurred when organisms developed memory. Now information no longer needed to be present at all, and the animal could recall events and outcomes that happened in the past. Each one of these steps in the evolution of knowledge added important survival advantages to the species that was equipped to use it.
       Then, with the appearance in evolution of humans, an entirely new way of acquiring information developed. Up to this point, the processing of information was entirely intrasomatic.... But when speech appeared (and even more powerfully with the invention of writing), information processing became extrasomatic. After that point knowledge did not have to be stored in the genes, or in the memory traces of the brain; it could be passed on from one person to another through words, or it could be written down and stored on a permanent substance like stone, paper, or silicon chips-in any case, outside the fragile and impermanent nervous system. (Csikszentmihalyi, 1993, pp. 56-57)

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  • 116 cast

    /kɑ:st/ * danh từ - sự quăng, sự ném (lưới...); sự thả (neo...); sự gieo (súc sắc...) - (nghĩa bóng) sự thử làm, sự cầu may =I'll have another cast yet+ tôi sẽ làm thử một lần nữa - khoảng ném; tầm xa (của mũi tên) - mồi và lưỡi câu; chỗ câu (câu cá) - đồ ăn không tiêu mửa ra (chim ưng, cá...); cứt giun; vỏ lột, da lột (rắn...); xác (ve...); cái vứt bỏ đi - sự đúc, khuôn đúc; vật đúc; mẫu đúc; (ngành in) bản in đúc - sự cộng lại (các con số); sự tính - (sân khấu) sự phân phối các vai; bảng phân phối các vai; các vai - bố cục, cách bố trí, cách sắp đặt một câu - loại, vẻ, nét, tính tình, tính chất; thiên hướng =a man of a different cast+ một người thuộc loại khác =to have a curious cast of mind+ có tính tình kỳ cục =cast of features+ vẻ mặt, nét mặt - màu, sắc thái =there is a cast of green in this cloth+ tấm vải này ánh lên một màu phơn phớt lục - sự hơi lác (mắt) =to have a cast in one's eye+ hơi lác mắt - sự đi nhờ xe bò, sự đi nhờ xe ngựa * động từ - quăng, ném, liệng, thả =to cast net+ quăng lưới =to cast anchor+ thả neo - đánh gục, đánh ngã (trong cuộc đấu vật); thắng được (kiện) - lột, tuộc, mất, bỏ, thay =snakes cast their skins+ rắn lột da =my horse has cast a shoe+ con ngựa của tôi tuột mất móng - đẻ non; rụng =cow has cast calf+ con bò đẻ non - đúc, nấu chảy, đổ khuôn (để đúc) - cộng lại, gộp lại, tính =to cast accounts+ tính toán =to cast a horoscope+ lấy số tử vi; đoán số tử vi - (sân khấu) phân đóng vai (một vở kịch) - thải, loại ra =a cast soldier+ một người lính bị thải ra =a cast horse+ một con ngựa bị loại - đưa (mắt nhìn) =to cast an eye (look, a glance...) at...+ đưa mắt nhìn !to cast about - đi tìm đằng này, đằng khác - tìm cách, kiếm cớ, xoay sở (để làm gì) !to cast aside - vứt đi, loại ra, bỏ đi !to cast away - liệng ném, quăng, vứt =to cast away all cares+ vứt hết những nỗi ưu tư !to be cast away - (hàng hải) bị đắm (tàu) !to cast back - quay lại, trở lại - (nghĩa bóng) nhắc lại, hồi tưởng lại !to cast down - vứt xuống, quăng xuống - nhìn xuống (mắt) - làm thất vọng, làm chán nản =to be cast down+ chán nản, thất vọng !to cast off - loại bỏ, thải, vứt bỏ, từ bỏ - thả (chó) - (hàng hải) thả, qăng (dây...) - thai lại (mũi đan) !to cast out - đuổi ra !to cast up - tính, cộng lại, gộp lại - ngẩng (đầu); ngước mắt - vứt lên, quăng lên, ném lên - trách móc =to cast something up to someone+ trách móc ai về việc gì - (y học) nôn ra, mửa ra !to cast lott - (xem) lot !to cast in one's lot with somebody - cùng chia sẻ một số phận với ai !to cast oneself on (upon) somebody's mercy - trông ở lòng thương của ai !to cast something in someone's teeth - trách móc ai về việc gì !to cast a vote - bỏ phiếu !the die is cast - (xem) die

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