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1 virtue
virtue ['vɜ:tju:]1 noun(a) (goodness) vertu f;∎ to make a virtue of necessity faire de nécessité vertu;∎ a woman of easy virtue une femme de petite vertu;∎ proverb virtue is its own reward = la vertu est sa propre récompense∎ she at least has the virtue of being discreet elle a au moins le mérite d'être discrète;∎ the flat has the virtue of being centrally heated l'appartement a l'avantage d'avoir le chauffage central∎ the healing virtues of certain plants les vertus curatives de certaines plantesen vertu ou en raison de;∎ by virtue of her age en vertu ou en raison de son âge;∎ by virtue of being the eldest en vertu ou en raison du fait qu'il est l'aîné -
2 hold the mirror up to nature
правдиво отражать жизнь (об актёрской игре; в соврем. англ. языке тж. hold the mirror up to smth. правдиво изображать, отражать что-л.) [шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]Hamlet: "...suit the action to the word, the word to the action, with this special observance, that you o'erstep not the modesty of nature; for anything so overdone is from the purpose of playing, whose end, both at the first and now, was and is, to hold, as't were, the mirror up to nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time, his form and pressure." (W. Shakespeare, ‘Hamlet’, act III, sc. 2) — Гамлет: "...сообразуйте действие с речью, речь с действием; причем особенно наблюдайте, чтобы не переступать простоты природы; ибо все, что так преувеличено, противно назначению лицедейства, чья цель, как прежде, так и теперь, была и есть - держать как бы зеркало перед природой: являть добродетели ее же черты, спеси - ее же облик, а всякому веку и сословию - его подобие и отпечаток." (перевод М. Лозинского)
In Washington he settled down long enough to write ‘Main Street’, and from its reception discovered that at thirty-five he held up to America what it took, or angrily refused to take, as a mirror to its nature. (C. Van Doren, ‘The American Novel’, Kenk) — В Вашингтоне Синклер Льюис прожил достаточно долгий срок, чтобы создать свой роман "Главная улица". По тому, как публика отнеслась к этому роману, он понял, что ему в тридцать пять лет удалось дать Америке то, что одни с восторгом приняли как зеркало американской жизни, другие же с негодованием отвергли.
In Sinclair Lewis, it was a mirror held up to a whole society. (R. E. Spiller, ‘Litetary History of the United States’, Kenk) — Синклер Льюис в своих произведениях, как в зеркале, отразил жизнь всего американского общества.
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