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1 National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
Abbreviation: NAACPУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > National Association for the Advancement of Coloured People
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2 нередко
1) General subject: all too often, as often as not, frequently, (можно слышать, что) it is not infrequent that (It is not infrequent that one hears people say, "God wants me to be happy".), more often than not, more often that not, not infrequently, oftentimes (Oftentimes, there are rose-coloured glasses that need to be removed.), every so often, not unfrequently2) Medicine: oftimes3) Colloquial: a lot of times4) Mathematics: in many cases -
3 в розовом свете
в розовом свете (цвете) (представить, изобразить что-либо, видеть что-либо)see smth. through rose-coloured spectacles; cast (put) a lively colour (colours) on smth.; depict (paint, represent) smth. in glaring colours- И очень хочется историкам медицины, которая, на мой взгляд, в жизни народов играет никак не меньшую роль, нежели искусства, если не большую, очень им хочется, этим пай-мальчикам, всё изобразить в эдаком розовом или голубом, уютном, пасхальном свете... (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — 'The historians of medicine, which to my mind plays a bigger and certainly not a smaller part in the life of people than art, those goody-goodies are terribly anxious to represent it all as a charming, festive affair, in colours predominantly baby-pink or perhaps baby-blue...'
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > в розовом свете
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4 paru
to crush: he-paru i te kumara, he-hoa ki te vai, to crush sweet potatoes and throw them in water to cook them.to cover with paint or powder: he-paru te ariga, to powder one's face with coloured earth (ki'ea).to recommend, to praise someone: ku-paru-a au i a koe ki te tagata hônui, I recommended you to the authorities (lit.: the important people).
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