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1 devastating disaster
Общая лексика: огромное бедствие -
2 disaster
dɪˈzɑ:stə сущ. беда, бедствие, несчастье to experience, meet, suffer (a) disaster ≈ попасть в беду to cope with (a) disaster, recover from (a) disaster ≈ справляться с бедой a catastrophic, devastating, major, tragic, unqualified disaster ≈ страшное несчастье an impending disaster ≈ приближающаяся/надвигающаяся беда a national disaster ≈ национальная катастрофа a natural disaster ≈ стихийное бедствие avert a disaster invite disaster cause a disaster court disaster Syn: catastrophe бедствие - political * политическая катастрофа - public * народное бедствие - railway * железнодорожная катастрофа - to scent * чуять( надвигающуюся) беду - to reach * proportions достичь катастрофических масштабов - to bring * upon smb. накликать беду на кого-л., принести кому-л. несчастье - to meet with /to suffer/ * попасть в беду - the trip turned into an unqualified * поездка обернулась подлинной катастрофой - he is courting /heading for/ * он идет навстречу гибели, его ждет неминуемая катастрофа /гибель/ disaster аварийный ~ авария ~ бедствие, несчастье;
to invite disaster накликать беду ~ бедствие ~ катастрофа ~ несчастье environmental ~ экологическая катастрофа ~ бедствие, несчастье;
to invite disaster накликать бедуБольшой англо-русский и русско-английский словарь > disaster
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3 disaster
[dɪ'zɑːstə]сущ.беда, бедствие, несчастьеcatastrophic / devastating / major / tragic / unqualified disaster — страшное несчастье
impending disaster — приближающаяся / надвигающаяся беда
to experience / meet / suffer (a) disaster — попасть в беду
to cope with / recover from (a) disaster — справляться с бедой
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4 DMC
1) Компьютерная техника: Direct Mapped Cache, Dump Memory Contents2) Авиация: Data Management Computer(Aids), Demand Measuring Computer, Design Modification Committee, Display Management Computer (eis)3) Медицина: Detroit Medical Center, (Data Monitoring Committee) Независимый комитет по мониторингу данных4) Спорт: Drugs Make Champions5) Военный термин: Dedicated Medical Corps, Defense Management Center, Defense Manpower Commission, Defense Materiel Council, Deputy Chairman, Military Committee, degraded mission capability, direct maintenance cost, direct manufacturing cost6) Техника: DSIF monitor and control subsystem, Dual Molded Crossline, data management channel, data management computer, data management console, digital monitor computer, dimethylcarbinol, dip-chlorophenylmethylcarbinol, direct multiplex control, discrete memoryless channel, disk memory controller, dynamic memory cell7) Шутливое выражение: Dark Ministry Clan, Donate More Cash8) Химия: Dough Moulding Compounds9) Юридический термин: Deranged Mental Condition10) Сокращение: Defence Manufacturers Council (Australia), Digital Magnetic Compass, Distributed Master Control, Digital Media Controller11) Театр: Dance Music Community12) Университет: Dubai Men's College13) Физиология: Diagnose Manage Cure14) Электроника: Dual Matrix Coupling, Dual Mode Circuit15) Вычислительная техника: Desktop Multimedia Conferencing, digital microcircuit16) Нефть: demercaptanisation17) Иммунология: Direct Microscopic Count18) Онкология: Data Monitoring Commitee19) Связь: Disaster Monitoring Constellation20) Транспорт: Defense Movement Coordinator21) Фирменный знак: Daniels Manufacturing Corporation, Destination Management Company, Digital Music Center, Disco Mixing Club23) Деловая лексика: Direct Mail Consulting, Drawings Must Change24) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: демеркаптанизация25) Сетевые технологии: direct multiplexed control, прямое управление с мультиплексированием26) Полимеры: dough molding composition27) Автоматика: dedicated machining cell, digital motion controller28) Сахалин Ю: demercaptanization, demercaptanization unit, demercaptanizing unit29) Химическое оружие: Data Management Center30) Маркетология: Direct Marketing Communications31) Имена и фамилии: Dave Mc Cann33) Правительство: Dark Mouse Cove34) AMEX. Dairy Mart Convenience Stores35) Клинические исследования: Комитет по мониторингу данных, Data Monitoring Committee -
5 DmC
1) Компьютерная техника: Direct Mapped Cache, Dump Memory Contents2) Авиация: Data Management Computer(Aids), Demand Measuring Computer, Design Modification Committee, Display Management Computer (eis)3) Медицина: Detroit Medical Center, (Data Monitoring Committee) Независимый комитет по мониторингу данных4) Спорт: Drugs Make Champions5) Военный термин: Dedicated Medical Corps, Defense Management Center, Defense Manpower Commission, Defense Materiel Council, Deputy Chairman, Military Committee, degraded mission capability, direct maintenance cost, direct manufacturing cost6) Техника: DSIF monitor and control subsystem, Dual Molded Crossline, data management channel, data management computer, data management console, digital monitor computer, dimethylcarbinol, dip-chlorophenylmethylcarbinol, direct multiplex control, discrete memoryless channel, disk memory controller, dynamic memory cell7) Шутливое выражение: Dark Ministry Clan, Donate More Cash8) Химия: Dough Moulding Compounds9) Юридический термин: Deranged Mental Condition10) Сокращение: Defence Manufacturers Council (Australia), Digital Magnetic Compass, Distributed Master Control, Digital Media Controller11) Театр: Dance Music Community12) Университет: Dubai Men's College13) Физиология: Diagnose Manage Cure14) Электроника: Dual Matrix Coupling, Dual Mode Circuit15) Вычислительная техника: Desktop Multimedia Conferencing, digital microcircuit16) Нефть: demercaptanisation17) Иммунология: Direct Microscopic Count18) Онкология: Data Monitoring Commitee19) Связь: Disaster Monitoring Constellation20) Транспорт: Defense Movement Coordinator21) Фирменный знак: Daniels Manufacturing Corporation, Destination Management Company, Digital Music Center, Disco Mixing Club23) Деловая лексика: Direct Mail Consulting, Drawings Must Change24) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: демеркаптанизация25) Сетевые технологии: direct multiplexed control, прямое управление с мультиплексированием26) Полимеры: dough molding composition27) Автоматика: dedicated machining cell, digital motion controller28) Сахалин Ю: demercaptanization, demercaptanization unit, demercaptanizing unit29) Химическое оружие: Data Management Center30) Маркетология: Direct Marketing Communications31) Имена и фамилии: Dave Mc Cann33) Правительство: Dark Mouse Cove34) AMEX. Dairy Mart Convenience Stores35) Клинические исследования: Комитет по мониторингу данных, Data Monitoring Committee -
6 Lisbon Earthquake
On 1 November 1755, All Saints' Day,Lisbon experienced the worst earthquake known during its recorded history. The earthquake destroyed large sections of the city. The greatest destruction occurred in the central downtown ( baixa) and the great Royal Palace square, now in a different form known as "Commerce Square," but still referred to by the old name, "Square of the Palace" (Terreiro do Paço). Thousands of buildings, including more than 100 churches and 300 palaces, collapsed, and tens of thousands of people died. The shocks from the earthquake were followed by a giant tidal wave from down the Tagus River, which drowned many, and then by devastating fires that were started by candles' lit during the All Saint's Day religious observances.The Marquis de Pombal, the king's prime minister, was decisive in his rehabilitation and reconstruction efforts. Much of the Lisbon downtown, the baixa, was rebuilt according to a master plan that laid out a grid pattern of streets upon which were erected buildings of a uniform height and design. The Lisbon earthquake became a great issue and discussion point in mid-l8th century Europe and Great Britain, and the British Parliament voted 100,000 pounds in humanitarian aid and relief to Portugal and the earthquake victims, one of the first cases of massive humanitarian aid for an international disaster from a foreign nation, albeit Portugal's oldest ally. -
7 Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
[br]b. 26 September 1887 Ripley, Derbyshire, Englandd. 30 October 1979 Leatherhead, Surrey, England[br]English aeronautical designer and inventor.[br]Wallis was apprenticed first at Thames Engineering Works, and then, in 1908, at John Samuel White's shipyard at Cowes. In 1913, the Government, spurred on by the accelerating development of the German Zeppelins (see Zeppelin, Ferdinand von), ordered an airship from Vickers; Wallis was invited to join the design team. Thus began his long association with aeronautical design and with Vickers. This airship, and the R80 that followed it, were successfully completed, but the military lost interest in them.In 1924 the Government initiated a programme for the construction of two airships to settle once and for all their viability for long-dis-tance air travel. The R101 was designed by a Government-sponsored team, but the R100 was designed by Wallis working for a subsidiary of Vickers. The R100 took off on 29 July 1930 for a successful round trip to Canada, but the R101 crashed on its first flight on 4 October, killing many of its distinguished passengers. The shock of this disaster brought airship development in Britain to an abrupt end and forced Wallis to direct his attention to aircraft.In aircraft design, Wallis is known for his use of geodesic construction, which combined lightness with strength. It was applied first to the single-engined "Wellesley" and then the twin-en-gined "Wellington" bomber, which first flew in 1936. With successive modifications, it became the workhorse of RAF Bomber Command during the Second World War until the autumn of 1943, when it was replaced by four-engined machines. In other areas, it remained in service until the end of the war and, in all, no fewer than 11,461 were built.Wallis is best known for his work on bomb design, first the bouncing bomb that was used to breach the Möhne and Eder dams in the Ruhr district of Germany in 1943, an exploit immortalized in the film Dambusters. Encouraged by this success, the authorities then allowed Wallis to realize an idea he had long urged, that of heavy, penetration bombs. In the closing stages of the war, Tallboy, of 12,000 lb (5,400 kg), and the 10-ton Grand Slam were used to devastating effect.After the Second World War, Wallis returned to aeronautical design and was given his own department at Vickers to promote his ideas, principally on variable-geometry or swing-wing aircraft. Over the next thirteen years he battled towards the prototype stage of this revolutionary concept. That never came, however; changing conditions and requirements and increasing costs led to the abandonment of the project. Bit-terly disappointed, Wallis continued his researches into high-speed aircraft until his retirement from Vickers (by then the British Aircraft Corporation), in 1971.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsKnighted 1968. FRS 1945.Further ReadingJ.Morpurgo, 1972, Barnes Wallis: A Biography, London: Longman (a readable account, rather biased in Wallis's favour).C.J.Heap, 1987, The Papers of Sir Barnes Wallis (1887–1979) in the Science Museum Library, London: Science Museum; with a biographical introd. by L.R.Day.LRDBiographical history of technology > Wallis, Sir Barnes Neville
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