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81 задавать трепку
• ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ТРЕПКУ кому highly coll[VP]=====1. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ (ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ) ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to beat s.o. severely:- X knocked < beat> the tar (the crap, the shit etc) out of Y;- [in limited contexts] X whipped (flogged) Y.♦ [Горецкий:] Глафира Алексеевна, хотите, весь этот забор изломаю?.. [Глафира:] Нет, зачем? [Горецкий:] Как бы я для вас прибил кого-нибудь, вот бы трёпку задал весёлую!.. Глафира Алексеевна, прикажите какую-нибудь подлость сделать! (Островский 5). [Goretsky:] Glafira Alekseyevna, if you want me to, I'll break this fence down. [Glafira:] No. What for? [Goretsky:] If I could thrash someone for your sake, I'd give him a good beating....Glafira Alekseyevna, do command me to do some dirty trick (5a).=====2. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to rebuke s.o. severely, reprimand s.o. harshly:- X gave it to Y (but good).♦ Оставалось и Русанову заснуть. Скоротать ночь, не думать - а уж утром дать взбучку врачам (Солженицын 10). All Rusanov, too, had to do was get to sleep, while away the night, think of nothing, and then tomorrow give the doctors a dressing-down (10a).3. [subj: human (usu. pl) or collect]⇒ to overwhelm and defeat a hostile army, the enemy:- X-ы задали трёпку Y-ам≈ Xs crushed (routed, clobbered) Ys;- Xs gave Ys a bashing.♦...Фомин предложил Григорию занять должность начальника штаба. "Надо нам грамотного человека, чтобы ходить... по карте, а то когда-нибудь зажмут нас и опять дадут трёпки" (Шолохов 5)....Fomin offered Grigory the post of chief of staff. "We need someone who can read, so that we can go by the map, or one day they'll comer us and give us another bashing" (5a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > задавать трепку
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82 задать взбучку
• ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ТРЕПКУ кому highly coll[VP]=====1. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ (ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ) ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to beat s.o. severely:- X knocked < beat> the tar (the crap, the shit etc) out of Y;- [in limited contexts] X whipped (flogged) Y.♦ [Горецкий:] Глафира Алексеевна, хотите, весь этот забор изломаю?.. [Глафира:] Нет, зачем? [Горецкий:] Как бы я для вас прибил кого-нибудь, вот бы трёпку задал весёлую!.. Глафира Алексеевна, прикажите какую-нибудь подлость сделать! (Островский 5). [Goretsky:] Glafira Alekseyevna, if you want me to, I'll break this fence down. [Glafira:] No. What for? [Goretsky:] If I could thrash someone for your sake, I'd give him a good beating....Glafira Alekseyevna, do command me to do some dirty trick (5a).=====2. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to rebuke s.o. severely, reprimand s.o. harshly:- X gave it to Y (but good).♦ Оставалось и Русанову заснуть. Скоротать ночь, не думать - а уж утром дать взбучку врачам (Солженицын 10). All Rusanov, too, had to do was get to sleep, while away the night, think of nothing, and then tomorrow give the doctors a dressing-down (10a).3. [subj: human (usu. pl) or collect]⇒ to overwhelm and defeat a hostile army, the enemy:- X-ы задали трёпку Y-ам≈ Xs crushed (routed, clobbered) Ys;- Xs gave Ys a bashing.♦...Фомин предложил Григорию занять должность начальника штаба. "Надо нам грамотного человека, чтобы ходить... по карте, а то когда-нибудь зажмут нас и опять дадут трёпки" (Шолохов 5)....Fomin offered Grigory the post of chief of staff. "We need someone who can read, so that we can go by the map, or one day they'll comer us and give us another bashing" (5a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > задать взбучку
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83 задать выволочку
• ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ТРЕПКУ кому highly coll[VP]=====1. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ (ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ) ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to beat s.o. severely:- X knocked < beat> the tar (the crap, the shit etc) out of Y;- [in limited contexts] X whipped (flogged) Y.♦ [Горецкий:] Глафира Алексеевна, хотите, весь этот забор изломаю?.. [Глафира:] Нет, зачем? [Горецкий:] Как бы я для вас прибил кого-нибудь, вот бы трёпку задал весёлую!.. Глафира Алексеевна, прикажите какую-нибудь подлость сделать! (Островский 5). [Goretsky:] Glafira Alekseyevna, if you want me to, I'll break this fence down. [Glafira:] No. What for? [Goretsky:] If I could thrash someone for your sake, I'd give him a good beating....Glafira Alekseyevna, do command me to do some dirty trick (5a).=====2. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to rebuke s.o. severely, reprimand s.o. harshly:- X gave it to Y (but good).♦ Оставалось и Русанову заснуть. Скоротать ночь, не думать - а уж утром дать взбучку врачам (Солженицын 10). All Rusanov, too, had to do was get to sleep, while away the night, think of nothing, and then tomorrow give the doctors a dressing-down (10a).3. [subj: human (usu. pl) or collect]⇒ to overwhelm and defeat a hostile army, the enemy:- X-ы задали трёпку Y-ам≈ Xs crushed (routed, clobbered) Ys;- Xs gave Ys a bashing.♦...Фомин предложил Григорию занять должность начальника штаба. "Надо нам грамотного человека, чтобы ходить... по карте, а то когда-нибудь зажмут нас и опять дадут трёпки" (Шолохов 5)....Fomin offered Grigory the post of chief of staff. "We need someone who can read, so that we can go by the map, or one day they'll comer us and give us another bashing" (5a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > задать выволочку
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84 задать трепку
• ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ТРЕПКУ кому highly coll[VP]=====1. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ (ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ) ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to beat s.o. severely:- X knocked < beat> the tar (the crap, the shit etc) out of Y;- [in limited contexts] X whipped (flogged) Y.♦ [Горецкий:] Глафира Алексеевна, хотите, весь этот забор изломаю?.. [Глафира:] Нет, зачем? [Горецкий:] Как бы я для вас прибил кого-нибудь, вот бы трёпку задал весёлую!.. Глафира Алексеевна, прикажите какую-нибудь подлость сделать! (Островский 5). [Goretsky:] Glafira Alekseyevna, if you want me to, I'll break this fence down. [Glafira:] No. What for? [Goretsky:] If I could thrash someone for your sake, I'd give him a good beating....Glafira Alekseyevna, do command me to do some dirty trick (5a).=====2. Also: ЗАДАВАТЬ/ЗАДАТЬ <ДАВАТЬ/ДАТЬ> ВЗБУЧКУ < ВЫВОЛОЧКУ> highly coll [subj: human]⇒ to rebuke s.o. severely, reprimand s.o. harshly:- X gave it to Y (but good).♦ Оставалось и Русанову заснуть. Скоротать ночь, не думать - а уж утром дать взбучку врачам (Солженицын 10). All Rusanov, too, had to do was get to sleep, while away the night, think of nothing, and then tomorrow give the doctors a dressing-down (10a).3. [subj: human (usu. pl) or collect]⇒ to overwhelm and defeat a hostile army, the enemy:- X-ы задали трёпку Y-ам≈ Xs crushed (routed, clobbered) Ys;- Xs gave Ys a bashing.♦...Фомин предложил Григорию занять должность начальника штаба. "Надо нам грамотного человека, чтобы ходить... по карте, а то когда-нибудь зажмут нас и опять дадут трёпки" (Шолохов 5)....Fomin offered Grigory the post of chief of staff. "We need someone who can read, so that we can go by the map, or one day they'll comer us and give us another bashing" (5a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > задать трепку
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85 et
et [e]a. and• je n'ai rien vu, et toi ? I didn't see anything, what about you?• une belle et grande maison a beautiful, big houseb. (valeur emphatique) et ensuite ? and then?• et moi alors ? and what about me then?• et moi, je peux venir ? can I come too?• et vous osez revenir ? (indignation) and you dare to come back?• et ces livres que tu devais me prêter ? and what's happened to those books that you were supposed to lend me?• et vous, vous y allez ? and what about you, are you going?* * *econjonction andil y a expert et expert — ( ils ne se valent pas tous) there are experts and experts
et tu en es fier? — ( exprimant la désapprobation) and you're proud of it?
et moi de répondre... — so I replied...
moi j'y vais, et toi? — I'm going, are you? ou what about you?
et alors?, et après? — so what?
* * *e conjet alors?; et (puis) après? — so what?, (= ensuite) and then?
* * *et conj1 gén and; mon père et ma mère my father and mother; et lui et son frère sont alcooliques both he and his brother are alcoholics; une écharpe rouge et blanche a red and white scarf; il est grand et fort he's tall and strong; un homme grand et fort a tall strong man; une vieille femme laide et acariâtre an ugly cantankerous old woman; elle sait lire et écrire she can read and write; trois et deux (font) cinq three and two makes five; il est tombé et s'est cassé la jambe he fell and broke his leg; il n'est pas venu, et c'est aussi bien he didn't come, and it's just as well; allez chercher un docteur, et faites vite go and get a doctor, and be quick about it; et voilà qu'il sort un couteau de sa poche! and next thing he whips a knife out of his pocket!; il y a expert et expert ( ils ne se valent pas tous) there are experts and experts; et tu en es fier? ( exprimant la désapprobation) and you're proud of it?; et les enfants de rire! liter and the children laughed; et moi de répondre… liter so I replied…; et le pourboire (alors)? what about the tip?; et si on allait au cinéma? how ou what about going to the cinema?; et moi alors? what about me, then?; je ne les connais pas, et toi? I don't know them, do you?; moi j'y vais, et toi? I'm going, are you? ou what about you?; et alors?, et après? so what?; je ne l'aime pas; il est laid et d'un, il est avare et de deux I don't like him: for one thing he's ugly and for another he's stingy; elle riait et lui pleurait she was laughing and he was crying;2 ( dans les nombres) vingt et un/trente et un twenty-one/thirty-one; trois heures et quart (a) quarter past three GB, three fifteen; huit heures et demie half-past eight GB, eight thirty.[e] conjonction1. [reliant des termes, des propositions] andune belle et brillante jeune fille a beautiful, clever girltoi et moi, nous savons ce qu'il faut faire you and I know what should be doneil y a mensonge et mensonge there are lies, and then there are liesil connaît l'anglais, et très bien he speaks English, and very well at that2. [exprimant une relation de simultanéité, de succession ou de conséquence]j'ai bien aimé ce film, et toi ? I really liked the film, how ou what about you ?3. [reliant des propositions comparatives]plus ça va, et plus la situation s'aggrave as time goes on, the situation just gets worse4. [avec une valeur emphatique]et d'un, je n'ai pas faim, et de deux, je n'aime pas ça for one thing I'm not hungry and for another I don't like itj'ai dû supporter et les enfants et les parents! I had to put up with both the parents and the children ou with the parents and the children!je l'ai dit et répété I've said it over and over again, I've said it more than onceet pourtant... and yet ou still...et voilà! there you are!, there you go!5. [dans les nombres composés, les horaires, les poids et les mesures] -
86 མངོན་ཤེས་ཅན་
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87 perché
[per'ke]1. avv2. cong1) (causale: poiché) becausenon posso uscire perché ho molto da fare — I can't go out because o as I've a lot to do
2) (finale: affinché) so (that), in order that3)(consecutivo: cosicché)
l'ostacolo era troppo alto perché si potesse scavalcarlo — the obstacle was too high to climb overè troppo forte perché si possa vincerlo — he's too strong to be beaten o for anyone to beat him
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88 bacarmaq
be able; canUşaq oxumağı bacarır – The child can read -
89 طريقة
طَرِيقَة \ approach: a way (to a place, of doing sth.): Every approach to the town was guarded. This problem requires a different approach. fashion: manner: It was done in a careless fashion. manner: the way in which sth. is done: It was tied in a very strange manner. means: the way by which a result may be obtained: There is (or are) no means of finding out where he is. A donkey is a slow means of travel. method: a way of doing sth.: modern methods of building. style: a particular way of doing sth.: a writer’s style; a swimmer’s style; the latest style of dress. way: manner: That’s the wrong way to do it. Foreigners don’t understand our ways (our customs). She is in no way (not at all) to blame. \ See Also أسلوب( أسلوب)، نمط (نَمَط)، منهاج (مِنْهَاج)، وسيلة (وَسِيلَة) \ بِالطَّريقة نَفْسِها \ alike: in the same way: He treats us all alike. \ بِأَيّةِ طَرِيقَة \ anyhow: in any way; by any means: I tried each door but couldn’t get anyhow. \ See Also بأَيّةِ وَسِيلَة \ بِطَريقةٍ أفْضَل \ better, well, best: in a better way: He drives better than I do. \ بِطَريقةٍ عَمَليّة \ practically: (to act) in a practical way. \ بِطَريقةٍ غريبة \ peculiarly: strangely. \ بِطَريقةٍ غير مُرْضِية تمامًا \ after a fashion: not very well: He speaks English after a fashion. \ بِطَريقةٍ مُسْتَهْجَنة \ oddly: strangely: She behaved very oddly last night. \ بِنَفْس الطّريقة \ likewise: in the same way: Watch what he does, and do likewise. \ بِهَذِه الطَّريقة \ like this, like that: in this or that way: Don’t shout like that!. so: in this way; in that way: Don’t shout so!. \ طَرِيقَةُ بريل للكِتَابَة (خاصةٌ بالمكفوفين) \ braille: a way of writing using patterns of raised marks instead of letters, so that blind people can read by touch. \ طَرِيقَة حياة \ way: manner: That’s the wrong way to do it. Foreigners don’t understand our ways (our customs). \ See Also سلوك (سُلُوك) \ طَرِيقَة سِبَاحَة \ crawl: a way of swimming. \ طَرِيقَة سِبَاحَة على الظَّهر بِضَرب الماءِ بقَفَا اليَد \ backstroke: a way of swimming on the back. \ طَرِيقَة سُلوك \ manner: a personal way of behaving or speaking to other people: Although he has a friendly manner, you can’t trust him. \ طَرِيقَة السَّيْر \ gait: a way of walking or running along: The steady gait of the long-distance walker. \ طَرِيقَة عَمَل \ process: (in factories, etc.) a way of making or treating sth.: Colour films are printed by a special chemical process. -
90 Это ж надо!
1) General subject: Well, well! (expressing amazement)2) Ironical: What do you know! (What do you know! He can read!) -
91 он глотает книги
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92 он умеет читать на нескольких языках
General subject: he can read several languagesУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > он умеет читать на нескольких языках
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93 она умеет читать и писать
General subject: she can read and writeУниверсальный русско-английский словарь > она умеет читать и писать
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94 перевести электронный документ в формат PDF
Computers: adobify (Let's adobify those documents so that everyone can read them.)Универсальный русско-английский словарь > перевести электронный документ в формат PDF
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95 по лицу можно определить характер человека
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > по лицу можно определить характер человека
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96 я читаю романы на французском языке с удовольствием и почти все понимаю
Универсальный русско-английский словарь > я читаю романы на французском языке с удовольствием и почти все понимаю
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97 Л-13
КАК (БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО) НА ЛАДОНИ (НА ЛАДОШКЕ, НА ЛАДОНКЕо') coll (как etc + PrepP these forms only)1. (видно, видеть кого-что и т. п.) \Л-13\Л-13 ( adv or subj-compl with бытьв ( subj: usu. concr, often всё)) sth. is very clearly and distinctly visible, (to see s.o. or sth.) very clearly: (be) in full (plain) view(be (stand)) open to view (be as clearly visible) as if it were (spread out) on the palm of one's hand.Городок стоит открыто, как на ладони, кругом ни ветлы где-то очень далеко, на самом краю неба, чернеется лесок (Достоевский 3). The town stands open to view, there is not a single willow tree around itsomewhere very far off, at the very edge of the sky, is the black line of a little forest (3c).По стеклянным ступеням мы поднялись наверх. Всё - под нами внизу - как на ладони... (Замятин 1). We ascended the glass stairs. Everything below was as clearly visible as if it were spread out on the palm of my hand (1a).2. ( subj-compl with бытье (subj: human or, less often, abstr)) everything about (a person, his life etc) is clear, evident, there is nothing secretive, hidden from viewX как на ладони - person X is an open book(you can read person X) like a book thing X is so (absolutely) clear (transparent, plain)....Ведь ты же знаешь все мои институтские штучки, ведь я у тебя весь как на ладони (Аксёнов 1).... You know all my college-kid tricks, I'm an open book to you... (1a)....Его безупречное притворство было как на ладони (Окуджава 2)....His impeccable pretense was so transparent (2a).3. - выложить (кому) что, показать кому что и т. п.adv(to tell, reveal sth. to s.o.) straightforwardly, clearly, and completelycandidlyopenly concealing (withholding, suppressing) nothing. -
98 будто на ладони
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> НА ЛАДОНИ <НА ЛАДОШКЕ, НА ЛАДОНКЕ obs> coll[ как etc + PrepP; these forms only]=====⇒ sth. is very clearly and distinctly visible, (to see s.o. or sth.) very clearly:- (be < stand>) open to view;- (be as clearly visible) as if it were (spread out) on the palm of one's hand.♦ Городок стоит открыто, как на ладони, кругом ни ветлы; где-то очень далеко, на самом краю неба, чернеется лесок (Достоевский 3). The town stands open to view; there is not a single willow tree around it; somewhere very far off, at the very edge of the sky, is the black line of a little forest (Зс).♦ По стеклянным ступеням мы поднялись наверх. Всё - под нами внизу - как на ладони... (Замятин 1). We ascended the glass stairs. Everything below was as clearly visible as if it were spread out on the palm of my hand (1a).2. [subj-compl with быть (subj: human or, less often, abstr)]⇒ everything about (a person, his life etc) is clear, evident, there is nothing secretive, hidden from view:- thing X is so (absolutely) clear (transparent, plain).♦...Ведь ты же знаешь все мои институтские штучки, ведь я у тебя весь как на ладони (Аксёнов 1).... You know all my college-kid tricks, I'm an open book to you... (1a)....Его безупречное притворство было как на ладони (Окуджава 2)....His impeccable pretense was so transparent (2a).⇒ (to tell, reveal sth. to s.o.) straightforwardly, clearly, and completely:- candidly;- openly;- concealing (withholding, suppressing) nothing.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > будто на ладони
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99 будто на ладонке
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> НА ЛАДОНИ <НА ЛАДОШКЕ, НА ЛАДОНКЕ obs> coll[ как etc + PrepP; these forms only]=====⇒ sth. is very clearly and distinctly visible, (to see s.o. or sth.) very clearly:- (be < stand>) open to view;- (be as clearly visible) as if it were (spread out) on the palm of one's hand.♦ Городок стоит открыто, как на ладони, кругом ни ветлы; где-то очень далеко, на самом краю неба, чернеется лесок (Достоевский 3). The town stands open to view; there is not a single willow tree around it; somewhere very far off, at the very edge of the sky, is the black line of a little forest (Зс).♦ По стеклянным ступеням мы поднялись наверх. Всё - под нами внизу - как на ладони... (Замятин 1). We ascended the glass stairs. Everything below was as clearly visible as if it were spread out on the palm of my hand (1a).2. [subj-compl with быть (subj: human or, less often, abstr)]⇒ everything about (a person, his life etc) is clear, evident, there is nothing secretive, hidden from view:- thing X is so (absolutely) clear (transparent, plain).♦...Ведь ты же знаешь все мои институтские штучки, ведь я у тебя весь как на ладони (Аксёнов 1).... You know all my college-kid tricks, I'm an open book to you... (1a)....Его безупречное притворство было как на ладони (Окуджава 2)....His impeccable pretense was so transparent (2a).⇒ (to tell, reveal sth. to s.o.) straightforwardly, clearly, and completely:- candidly;- openly;- concealing (withholding, suppressing) nothing.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > будто на ладонке
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100 будто на ладошке
• КАК <БУДТО, СЛОВНО, ТОЧНО> НА ЛАДОНИ <НА ЛАДОШКЕ, НА ЛАДОНКЕ obs> coll[ как etc + PrepP; these forms only]=====⇒ sth. is very clearly and distinctly visible, (to see s.o. or sth.) very clearly:- (be < stand>) open to view;- (be as clearly visible) as if it were (spread out) on the palm of one's hand.♦ Городок стоит открыто, как на ладони, кругом ни ветлы; где-то очень далеко, на самом краю неба, чернеется лесок (Достоевский 3). The town stands open to view; there is not a single willow tree around it; somewhere very far off, at the very edge of the sky, is the black line of a little forest (Зс).♦ По стеклянным ступеням мы поднялись наверх. Всё - под нами внизу - как на ладони... (Замятин 1). We ascended the glass stairs. Everything below was as clearly visible as if it were spread out on the palm of my hand (1a).2. [subj-compl with быть (subj: human or, less often, abstr)]⇒ everything about (a person, his life etc) is clear, evident, there is nothing secretive, hidden from view:- thing X is so (absolutely) clear (transparent, plain).♦...Ведь ты же знаешь все мои институтские штучки, ведь я у тебя весь как на ладони (Аксёнов 1).... You know all my college-kid tricks, I'm an open book to you... (1a)....Его безупречное притворство было как на ладони (Окуджава 2)....His impeccable pretense was so transparent (2a).⇒ (to tell, reveal sth. to s.o.) straightforwardly, clearly, and completely:- candidly;- openly;- concealing (withholding, suppressing) nothing.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > будто на ладошке
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