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181 смерить взглядом
[VP; subj: human]=====⇒ to look at s.o. intently as if evaluating him:- X measured Y with X'sgaze < eyes>;- X sized Y up;♦ Самозванцы встретились и смерили друг друга глазами (Салтыков-Щедрин 1). The pretenders met and looked each other up and down (1b).♦ Орозкул даже приостановился, смерил старика взглядом (Айтматов 1). Orozkul stopped short and measured the old man with his gaze (1b).♦ Противники стояли, вцепившись в ножки [стула], как коты или боксёры, мерили друг друга взглядами, похаживая из стороны в сторону (Ильф и Петров 1). The two opponents stood clutching the chair and, moving from side to side, sized one another up like cats or boxers (1a).♦ [author's usage] Стоявшие кучкою поодаль любопытные мешали знахарке. Она недобрым взглядом смеривала их с головы до ног (Пастернак 1). The knot of curious onlookers who stood at a distance annoyed the witch, and she measured them from top to toe with a hostile look (1a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > смерить взглядом
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Curious — Cu ri*ous (k? r? ?s), a. [OF. curios, curius, F. curieux, L. curiosus careful, inquisitive, fr. cura care. See {Cure}.] 1. Difficult to please or satisfy; solicitous to be correct; careful; scrupulous; nice; exact. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] Little… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
curious — 1 Curious, inquisitive, prying, snoopy, nosy are comparable when meaning interested in finding out or in a search for facts that are not one s personal concern. Curious need not imply objectionable qualities such as intrusiveness or impertinence … New Dictionary of Synonyms
curious — [kyoor′ē əs] adj. sometimes compar.curiouser: often in allusion to Lewis Carroll s Alice s Adventures in Wonderland [ME < OFr curios < L curiosus, careful, diligent, curious; akin to cura, care: see CURE] 1. eager to learn or know 2.… … English World dictionary
curious — [adj1] desiring knowledge, understanding analytical, disquisitive, examining, impertinent, inquiring, inquisitive, inspecting, interested, interfering, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, meddling, nosy, peeping, peering, prurient, prying,… … New thesaurus
curious — index eccentric, extraordinary, inquisitive, noteworthy, prodigious (amazing), rare, remarkable, u … Law dictionary
curious — (adj.) mid 14c., eager to know (often in a bad sense), from O.Fr. curios solicitous, anxious, inquisitive; odd, strange (Mod.Fr. curieux) and directly from L. curiosus careful, diligent; inquiring eagerly, meddlesome, akin to cura care (see CURE… … Etymology dictionary
curious — ► ADJECTIVE 1) eager to know or learn something. 2) strange; unusual. DERIVATIVES curiously adverb. ORIGIN Latin curiosus careful , from cura care … English terms dictionary
curious — cu|ri|ous [ kjuriəs ] adjective ** 1. ) someone who is curious wants to find out about something: I didn t mean to pry. I m just curious. That s all. curious about: Children are curious about animals and how they live. curious to see/hear/know… … Usage of the words and phrases in modern English
curious */*/ — UK [ˈkjʊərɪəs] / US [ˈkjʊrɪəs] adjective 1) a) someone who is curious wants to find out about something I didn t mean to pry. I m just curious. That s all. curious about: Children are curious about animals and how they live. curious to… … English dictionary
curious — adj. eager to know 1) curious about (curious about smb. s past) 2) curious to + inf. (I would be curious to know what really happened) odd 3) curious that + clause (it is curious that she didn t remember the incident) * * * [ kjʊ(ə)rɪəs] curious… … Combinatory dictionary
curious — adj. 1 eager to find out about sb/sth VERBS ▪ be, feel, seem ▪ became, get, grow ▪ remain ▪ … Collocations dictionary
