he+was+here

1) General subject: while (he was) here, he studied a great deal

2) Makarov: while he was here, he studied a great deal

• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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• ПЕРЕМЫВАТЬ < МЫТЬ>/ПЕРЕМЫТЬ КОСТОЧКИ < КОСТИ> (кому, чьи) coll

[VP; subj: human, pi; more often impfv]

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⇒ to talk unkindly about s.o. behind his back, discuss and criticize s.o.'s behavior in detail:

- X-ы перемывают косточки Y-y ≈ Xs are picking (tearing) Y to pieces;

- Xs are gossiping about Y;

- Xs are dishing the dirt about Y.

     ♦ "Слыхал, наверно, что тут про меня плели?.. Ну про фронтовика моего? Слыхал. Был тут у нас в войну один человек... Ну дак от него письмо. Сюда собирается... То-то опять начнут перемывать косточки..." (Абрамов 1). "I'm sure you've heard the gossip about me, haven't you?... You know-about my soldier. You heard. About the man who was here during the war....Well, the letter's from him. He's planning on coming here, so they'll start tearing me to pieces again soon" (1a).

     ♦ Женщины оживают, встряхиваются, их освеженный мозг вспоминает совершенно неожиданного человека, чьи косточки они, оказывается, забыли перемыть (Искандер 3). The women would revive and rouse themselves, their refreshed minds would suddenly recall that there was someone they had completely forgotten to gossip about (3a).

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= yonks and yonks

Ex. Yonks and yonks since I was here - 20 years or more!.

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= yonks and yonks

Ex. Yonks and yonks since I was here - 20 years or more!.

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1) time; eptir tíma liðinn, after a little time; í þann tíma, at that time; fyrstan tíma, er ek var hér, the first time that I was here;

2) time, fit time (þeim þótti t. til at ganga á fund konungs); á hœfiligum tíma, in due time; í tíma, betimes;

3) good luck, prosperity (gangi þér allt til tírs ok tíma).

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a, m. [A. S. tîma; Engl. time; Dan. time; it is strange that Ulf. uses no word analogous either to ‘tíð’ or ‘tími’]:—time; langr tími, Fms. vi. 92; eptir tíma liðinn, after a little time, Bs. i. 857; eigi langan tíma upp frá þessu, Fs. 61; í þann tíma, at that time, Eg. 15, Stj. 50; í þenna tíma, at the time, then, Fms. x. 27, Sd. 138; einn tíma, once, a time, H. E. i. 516; tvá tíma, twice, Fms. xi. 159; um tíma, for a time, Mar.; hann sat þar um tíma, Ann. 1363; í annan tíma, the second time, again, Stj. 50, Fb. i. 145, 211; þriðja tíma, the third time, D. N. i. 263; fyrstan tíma er ek var hér, the first time that I was here, Fb. i. 512: gramm., Skálda 159, 175; a time, season, allir ársins tímar, Stj. 148.

2. time, fit time (= Gr. καιρός); er þeim þótti tími til at ganga á fund konungs, Eg. 28; þeir héldu vörð á nær tími mundi vera at hitta konung, 421; eigi hittu þér nú í tíma til, Fms. vii. 197; ú-tími, the wrong time; í ótíma, too late; ákveðinn tími, a fixed time, Grett. 161; á hæfiligum tíma, in due time, Fms. vi. 133; í tíma, betimes, Karl. 12; hón fór at mólka kýr eptir tíma, Grett. 80 new Ed.

II. metaph. a good time, prosperity; en sá tími fylgði ferð þeirra, at …, Edda 152 (pref.); gefi Guð ykkr góðan tíma, Stj. 426; hann skyldi þar vel kominn ok með tíma á þenna enn nýja bólstað, Ld. 98; halda tíma sínum öllum, Al. 59; gangi þér allt til tírs ok tíma, Fb. i. 566; en upp frá þessu gékk Eyjólfi hvárki (til) tírs né tíma, E. had henceforth bad times, Bs. i. 286; meðan ríki stóð með beztum tíma ok siðum, Sks. 526; með betra tíma, with better times, Al. 100.

COMPDS: tímadagr, tímahald, tímaland, tímalauss, tímaleysi, tímaliga, tímaligr, tímasamliga, tímaskipti.

прост., неодобр.

1) (бездействовать, молчать) not protest against smth., remain idle, keep quiet; keep (play) mum

2) (проявлять растерянность, полное непонимание, удивление и т. п.) blink one's eyes; look blank; understand nothing

कृष्ण a. [कृष्-नक्]

1 Black, dark, dark-blue.

-2 Wicked, evil; मनो गुणान्वै सृजते बलीयस्ततश्च कर्माणि विलक्षणानि । शुक्लानि कृष्णान्यथ लोहितानि तेभ्यः सवर्णाः सृतयो भवन्ति ॥ Bhāg. 11.23.44.

-ष्णः 1 The black colour.

-2 The black antelope; Bhāg.1.35.19.

-3 A crow.

-4 The (Indian) cuckoo.

-5 The dark half of a lunar month (from full to new moon); Bg.8.25.

-6 The Kali age.

-7 Viṣṇu in his eighth incarnation, born as the son of Vasudeva and Devakī. [Kṛiṣna is the most celebrated hero of Indian mythology and the most popular of all the deities. Though the real son of Vasu- deva and Devakī and thus a cousin of Kaṁsa, he was, for all practical purposes, the son of Nanda and Yaśodā, by whom he was brought up and in whose house he spent his childhood. It was here that his divine character began to be gradually discovered, when he easily crushed the most redoubtable demons, such as Baka, Pūtanā &c., that were sent to kill him by Kaṁsa, and performed many other feats of surpri- sing strength. The chief companions of his youth were the Gopis or wives of the cowherds of Gokula, among whom Rādhā was his special favourite (cf. Jayadeva's Gitagovinda). He killed Kaṁsa, Naraka, Keśin, Ariṣṭa and a host of other powerful demons. He was a particular friend of Arjuna, to whom he acted as charioteer in the great war, and his staunch support of the cause of the Pāṇḍavas was the main cause of the overthrow of the Kauravas. On several critical occasions, it was Kṛiṣṇa's assistance and inventive mind that stood the Pāṇḍavas in good stead. After the general destruction of the Yādavas at Prabhāsa, he was killed unintentionally by a hunter named Jaras who shot him with an arrow mistaking him at a distance for a deer. He had more than 16 wives, but Rukmiṇi and Satyabhāmā, (as also Rādhā) were his favourites. He is said to have been of dark-blue or cloud-like colour; cf. बहिरिव मलिनतरं तव कृष्ण मनो$पि भविष्यति नूनं Gīt.8. His son was Pradyumna].

-8 N. of Vyāsa, the reputed author of the Mahābhārata; कुतः सञ्चोदितः कृष्णः कृतवान्संहितां मुनिः Bhāg.1.4.3.

-9 N. of Arjuna.

-1 Aloe wood.

-11 The Supreme spirit.

-12 Black pepper.

-13 Iron.

-14 A Śūdra; कृष्णस्तु केशवे व्यासे कोकिले$र्जुनकाकयोः । शूद्रे तामिस्रपक्षे$ग्निकलिनीलगुणेषु च ॥ Nm.

-15 The marking nut (भल्लातक); विरक्तं शोध्यते वस्त्रं न तु कृष्णोपसंहितम् Mb.12.291.1.

-ष्णा 1 N. of Drau- padī, wife of the Pāṇḍavas; तेजो हृतं खलु मयाभिहतश्च मत्स्यः सज्जीकृतेन धनुषाधिगता च कृष्णा Bhāg.1.15.7; प्रविश्य कृष्णासदनं महीभुजा Ki.1.26.

-2 N. of a river in the Dec- can that joins the sea at Machhalipaṭṭaṇa.

-3 A kind of poisonous insect.

-4 N. of several plants.

-5 A grape.

-6 A kind of perfume.

-7 An epithet of Durgā Bhāg.4.6.7.

-8 One of the 7 tongues of fire.

-9 N. of the river Yamunā; विलोक्य दूषितां कृष्णां कृष्णः कृष्णाहिना विभुः Bhāg.1.16.1.

-ष्णी A dark night; रिणक्ति कृष्णीर- रुषाय पन्थाम् Rv.7.71.1.

-ष्णम् 1 Blackness, darkness (moral also); शुक्रा कृष्णादजनिष्ट श्वितीची Rv.1.123.9.

-2 Iron.

-3 Antimony.

-4 The black part of the eye.

-5 Black pepper.

-6 Lead.

-7 An inauspicious act.

-8 Money acquired by gambling.

-Comp. -अगुरु n. a kind of sandal-wood.

-अचलः an epithet of the moun- tain Raivataka.

-अजिनम् the skin of the black ante- lope.

-अध्वन्, -अर्चिस् m. an epithet of fire; cf. कृष्ण- वर्त्मन्.

-अयस्, n.

-अयसम्, -आमिषम् iron, crude or black iron. -कृष्णायसस्येव च ते संहत्य हृदयं कृतम् Mb.5.135. 1; वाचारम्भणं विकारो नामधेयं कृष्णायसमित्येव सत्यम् Ch. Up. 6.1.6.

-अर्जकः N. of a tree.

-अष्टमी, -जन्माष्टमी the 8th day of the dark half of Śrāvaṇa when Kṛiṣṇa, was born; also called गोकुलाष्टमी.

-आवासः the holy fig-tree.

-उदरः a kind of snake.

-कञ्चुकः a kind of gram.

-कन्दम् a red lotus.

-कर्मन् a. of black deeds, criminal, wicked, depraved, guilty, sinful.

-काकः a raven.

-कायः a buffalo.

-काष्ठम् a kind of sandal-wood, agallochum.

-कोहलः a gambler.

-गङ्गा the river कृष्णावेणी.

-गति fire; ववृधे स तदा गर्भः कक्षे कृष्णगतिर्यथा Mb.13.85.56; आयोघने कृष्णगतिं सहायम् R.6.42.

-गर्भाः (f. pl.)

1 the pregnant wives of the demon Kṛiṣṇa; यः कृष्णगर्भा निरहन्नृजिश्वना Rv.1.11.1.

-2 waters in the interiors of the clouds.

-गोधा a kind of poisonous insect.

-ग्रीवः N. of Śiva.

-चञ्चुकः a kind of pea.

-चन्द्रः N. of Vasudeva.

-चर a. what formerly belonged to Kṛiṣṇa.

-चूर्णम् rust of iron, iron-filings.

-च्छविः f.

1 the skin of the black antelope.

-2 a black cloud; कृष्णच्छविसमा कृष्णा Mb.4.6.9.

-ताम्रम् a kind of sandal wood.

-तारः 1 a species of antelope.

-2 an antelope (in general)

-तालु m. a kind of horse having black palate; cf. शालिहोत्र of भोज, 67.

-त्रिवृता N. of a tree.

-देहः a large black bee.

-धनम् money got by foul means.

-द्वादशी the twelfth day in the dark half of Āṣaḍha.

-द्वैपायनः N. of Vyāsa; तमहमरागमकृष्णं कृष्णद्वैपायनं वन्दे Ve.1.4.

-पक्षः 1 the dark half of a lunar month; रावणेन हृता सीता कृष्णपक्षे$- सिताष्टमी Mahān.

-2 an epithet of Arjuna;

-पदी a female with black feet,

-पविः an epithet of Agni.

-पाकः N. of a tree (Mar. करवंद).

-पिङ्गल a. dark-brown. (

-ला) N. of Durgā.

-पिण्डीतकः (-पिण्डीरः) N. of a tree (Mar. काळा गेळा).

-पुष्पी N. of a tree (Mar. काळा धोत्रा).

-फलः (-ला) N. of a tree (Mar. काळें जिरें).

-बीजम् a watermelon.

-भस्मन् sulphate of mecury.

-मृगः the black antelope; शृङ्गे कृष्णमृगस्य वामनयनं कण्डूयमानां मृगीम् Ś.6.17.

-मुखः, -वक्त्रः, -वदनः the black-faced monkey.

-मृत्तिका 1 black earth.

-2 the gunpowder.

-यजुर्वेदः the Taittirīya or black Yajurveda.

-यामः an epithet of Agni; वृश्चद्वनं कृष्णयामं रुशन्तम् Rv.6.6.1.

-रक्तः dark-red colour.

-रूप्य =

˚चर q. v.

-लवणम् 1 a kind of black salt.

-2 a factitious salt.

-लोहः the loadstone.

-वर्णः 1 black colour.

-2 N. of Rāhu.

-3 a Śūdra; विडूरुङ्घ्रिश्रितकृष्णवर्णः Bhāg.2.1.37.

-वर्त्मन् m.

1 fire; श्रद्दधे त्रिदशगोपमात्रके दाहशक्तिमिव कृष्णवर्त्मनि R.11.42; Ms.2.94.

-2 N. of Rāhu.

-3 a low man, profligate, black-guard.

-विषाणा Ved. the horns of the black antelope.

-वेणी N. of a river.

-शकुनिः a crow; Av.19.57.4.

-शारः, -सारः, -सारङ्गः the spotted antelope; कृष्णसारे ददच्चक्षुस्त्वयि चाधिज्यकार्मुके Ś.1.6; V.4.31; पीयूषभानाविव कृष्णसारः Rām. Ch.1.3.

-शृङ्गः a buffalo.

-सखः, -सारथिः an epithet of Arjuna. (

-खी) cummin seed (Mar. जिरें).

-स्कन्धः N. of a tree (Mar. तमाल).

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Cotton was originally employed in Loughborough and became one of the first specialized hosiery-machine builders. After the introduction of the latch needle by Matthew Townsend in 1856, knitting frames developed rapidly. The circular frame was easier to work automatically, but attempts to apply power to the flat frame, which could produce fully fashioned work, culminated in 1863 with William Cotton's machine. In that year he invented a machine that could make a dozen or more stockings or hose simultaneously and knit fashioned garments of all kinds. The difficulty was to reduce automatically the number of stitches in the courses where the hose or garment narrowed to give it shape. Cotton had early opportunities to apply himself to the improvement of hosiery machines while employed in the patent shop of Cartwright \& Warner of Loughborough, where some of the first rotaries were made. He remained with the firm for twenty years, during which time sixty or seventy of these machines were turned out. Cotton then established a factory for the manufacture of warp fabrics, and it was here that he began to work on his ideas. He had no knowledge of the principles of engineering or drawing, so his method of making sketches and then getting his ideas roughed out involved much useless labour. After twelve years, in 1863, a patent was issued for the machine that became the basis of the Cotton's Patent type. This was a flat frame driven by rotary mechanism and remarkable for its adaptability. At first he built his machine upright, like a cottage piano, but after much thought and experimentation he conceived the idea of turning the upper part down flat so that the needles were in a vertical position instead of being horizontal, and the work was carried off horizontally instead of vertically. His first machine produced four identical pieces simultaneously, but this number was soon increased. Cotton was induced by the success of his invention to begin machine building as a separate business and thus established one of the first of a class of engineering firms that sprung up as an adjunct to the new hosiery manufacture. He employed only a dozen men and turned out six machines in the first year, entering into an agreement with Hine \& Mundella for their exclusive use. This was later extended to the firm of I. \& R.Morley. In 1878, Cotton began to build on his own account, and the business steadily increased until it employed some 200 workers and had an output of 100 machines a year.

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The son of an engineer, Szilard, after service in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, studied electrical engineering at the University of Berlin. Obtaining his doctorate there in 1922, he joined the faculty and concentrated his studies on thermodynamics. He later began to develop an interest in nuclear physics, and in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, Szilard emigrated to Britain because of his Jewish heritage.

In 1934 he conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction through the breakdown of beryllium into helium and took out a British patent on it, but later realized that this process would not work. In 1937 he moved to the USA and continued his research at the University of Columbia, and the following year Hahn and Meitner discovered nuclear fission with uranium; this gave Szilard the breakthrough he needed. In 1939 he realized that a nuclear chain reaction could be produced through nuclear fission and that a weapon with many times the destructive power of the conventional high-explosive bomb could be produced. Only too aware of the progress being made by German nuclear scientists, he believed that it was essential that the USA should create an atomic bomb before Hitler. Consequently he drafted a letter to President Roosevelt that summer and, with two fellow Hungarian émigrés, persuaded Albert Einstein to sign it. The result was the setting up of the Uranium Committee.

It was not, however, until December 1941 that active steps began to be taken to produce such a weapon and it was a further nine months before the project was properly co-ordinated under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project. In the meantime, Szilard moved to join Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and it was here, at the end of 1942, in a squash court under the football stadium, that they successfully developed the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reactor. Szilard, who became an American citizen in 1943, continued to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, however, when the Western Allies began to believe that only the atomic bomb could bring the war against Japan to an end, Szilard and a number of other Manhattan Project scientists objected that it would be immoral to use it against populated targets.

Although he would continue to campaign against nuclear warfare for the rest of his life, Szilard now abandoned nuclear research. In 1946 he became Professor of Biophysics at the University of Chicago and devoted himself to experimental work on bacterial mutations and biochemical mechanisms, as well as theoretical research on ageing and memory.

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when a person is hungry

on an empty stomach (belly).

• НА ПУСТОЙ <ТОЩИЙ, ГОЛОДНЫЙ> ЖЕЛУДОК coll; НА ГОЛОДНОЕ БРЮХО highly coll, rude

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⇒ when a person is hungry:

- on an empty stomach (belly).

     ♦...Замечал Ленин, что сегодняшний библиотекарь не всегда ходит обедать. Подошел к нему, спросил. Не пойдет. А нельзя в перерыв остаться? Можно. Вот это удача... На пустой желудок лучше работается. И лишний час (Солженицын 5)....Lenin had noticed that the librarian on duty today did not always go to lunch. He went over and inquired. No, he wasn't going. Was it at all possible to stay through the lunch break? It was. Here was a bit of luck....It was easier to work on an empty stomach. And he would gain time (5a).

     ♦ "...Тухлая краска, тридцать градусов Реомюра, спертый воздух, куча людей, рассказ об убийстве лица, у которого был накануне, и все это - на голодное брюхо! Да как тут не случиться обмороку!" (Достоевский 3). "...Stinking paint, eighty degrees, stifling air, a crowd of people, talk about the murder of somebody he had visited the day before-and all this on an empty belly. How could anybody not faint!" (3a).

• НА ПУСТОЙ <ТОЩИЙ, ГОЛОДНЫЙ> ЖЕЛУДОК coll; НА ГОЛОДНОЕ БРЮХО highly coll, rude

[PrepP; these forms only; adv; fixed WO]

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⇒ when a person is hungry:

- on an empty stomach (belly).

     ♦...Замечал Ленин, что сегодняшний библиотекарь не всегда ходит обедать. Подошел к нему, спросил. Не пойдет. А нельзя в перерыв остаться? Можно. Вот это удача... На пустой желудок лучше работается. И лишний час (Солженицын 5)....Lenin had noticed that the librarian on duty today did not always go to lunch. He went over and inquired. No, he wasn't going. Was it at all possible to stay through the lunch break? It was. Here was a bit of luck....It was easier to work on an empty stomach. And he would gain time (5a).

     ♦ "...Тухлая краска, тридцать градусов Реомюра, спертый воздух, куча людей, рассказ об убийстве лица, у которого был накануне, и все это - на голодное брюхо! Да как тут не случиться обмороку!" (Достоевский 3). "...Stinking paint, eighty degrees, stifling air, a crowd of people, talk about the murder of somebody he had visited the day before-and all this on an empty belly. How could anybody not faint!" (3a).