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1 Lucy and the football
•• * В статье обозревателя Washington Post Чарльза Краутхаммера, резко критической в отношении «виртуального мирного договора», подписанного израильскими и палестинскими политиками в Женеве, встретился следующий пассаж, который сначала привел меня в некоторое замешательство:
•• Arafat pocketed every Israeli concession and betrayed every promise he signed in Oslo. It’s Lucy and the football all over again, and the same chorus of delusionals who so applauded Oslo – Jimmy Carter, Sandy Burger, Tom Friedman – is applauding again. This time, however, the Israeli surrender is so breathtaking, it makes Oslo look rational.
•• Смысл фразы Lucy and the football all over again – сильно напоминающей знаменитую сентенцию Йоги Берра (it’s déjà vu all over again) – конечно, ясен, но захотелось все-таки выяснить ее происхождение, точное значение и статус. Помог, как почти всегда, гугл, выдавший следующую статью из Princeton Alumni Weekly:
•• Lucy and the football
•• Will basketball once again break our young columnist’s heart? I grew up in a Peanuts household. My father, a man with a deep appreciation for pathos, fell in love with Charlie Brown as a child, and numerous Peanuts anthologies lined the walls of our library.
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•• One annual segment involving Charlie Brown did capture my imagination. Every fall Charlie Brown and Lucy would go outside to kick a field goal with a football. Every fall Charlie Brown would recall that the previous year Lucy had pulled the football away at the last possible moment, causing Charlie Brown to fly 10 feet in the air and land flat on his back. Every fall Lucy would patiently explain to Charlie Brown that this was the year that things would be different. And every fall Charlie Brown would again end up flat on his back as Lucy reminded him of the cruel realities of our world.
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•• This season I worry that the men’s basketball team may be preparing to perform a milder version of the Lucy and the football trick on me. After I watched the Tigers get thoroughly dissected by California and St. Josephs – and as Penn made some serious noise in early-season games – I made peace with the notion that this was a rebuilding year. In fact, as we entered the Ivy League season at 4-7, I was even prepared to concede that we might ( shudder) finish lower than second in the league.
•• So what happens? On the Monday after the first full weekend of the season, I check the scores, fully prepared for terrible news. But what I discover is that Princeton has swept Harvard and Dartmouth while Penn has managed to lose in Cambridge. And suddenly I’m a believer again.
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•• But warning signs already abound. <...> For the moment, however, my early-season jitters are long forgotten. I am a convert, a true believer, orange and black to the hilt. I have trotted back to the bandwagon like a pathetic puppy and I am ready for another unexpected and magical run to the NCAA Tournament. At least until Lucy again pulls that football away.
•• Итак, речь идет о героях комиксов серии Peanuts. В американском футболе гол «с поля» забивается игроком, для которого другой игрок (в данном случае Lucy) придерживает овальный мяч на земле. Если в последний момент мяч убирается, то бьющий с разбега теряет равновесие и действительно падает на спину. Так что можно понимать это выражение как подвох и даже подлость. Но можно посмотреть на это и с другой стороны. Чарли Браун, как сказали бы в аналогичной ситуации по-русски, опять наступает на грабли. Конечно, рекомендовать это как перевод вряд ли можно – ведь у слушающего появляется соблазн развития метафоры. Но для понимания это сравнение полезно.
•• Остается вопрос о статусе этого выражения. Что это – реалия, крылатое выражение, аллюзия? Или вошедшее в язык фразеологическое сочетание? Судя по отсутствию этого выражения в словарях, последнее – вряд ли. Но если начнет работать механизм языковой моды, то переход в категорию фразеологизма может произойти довольно быстро.
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2 WS
1) Общая лексика: steam2) Компьютерная техника: Weak Script, Weather Satellite3) Авиация: узел подвески на крыле4) Морской термин: мировая шкала, мировая шкала базисных ставок фрахта, тариф шкалы WS, фиксированная ставка тарифа World Scale, шкала базисных номинальных фрахтовых ставок для танкеров, Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale5) Военный термин: Wallops station, Weapons School, Weather Service, Women's Services, Word Send, war scale, war service, war site, war strength, war-like stores, warhead section, weapon specification, weapon system, weather squadron, weather station, wind shield (снаряда), windsonde, wing station, wireless section, wireless set, стабилизатор вооружения (weapons stabilizer)6) Техника: warm shop, watts per steradian, weak signal, weapons system, winding specification, windshield, Wet Scrubber (Gasification Technology Conference)7) Сельское хозяйство: Wire Shear, (water solution) ВР (используется для определения состояния гербицидов)8) Химия: Wash Solution9) Математика: Weight and Sum, сумма квадратов внутри блока (within-group sum of squares)10) Метеорология: Warmer South11) Юридический термин: Winchester Special, witness statements12) Страхование: Worldscale (Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale)13) Ветеринария: Week's Spawn, Working Samoyed14) Грубое выражение: Wanker Shitface, Watery Shit, Worth Shit15) Телекоммуникации: рабочее место16) Сокращение: Samoa, Walk Sequence rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Weapon Subsystem (for the "Electronically-Enhanced Soldier"), Work Station, waste stack, weather stripping, wetted surface, yard, writer to the signet (// attorney), WAN (Wide Area Network) Server, Waardenburg Syndrome, Wadley Southern Railway Company, Wage Supervisor, Walkersville Southern (railroad), Walking Stick, Wall Slide (strength-building exercise), Wall Street, Wally Szczerbiak (basketball player), Ward Save (Warhammer gaming), Ware Shoals Railroad Company, Warp Star (gaming), Warpstorm (forum), Warren Sapp (football player), Warren Shepell Consultants Corporation (Toronto, ON, Canada), Warsong (gaming, World of Warcraft), Wartungssystem, Washington Star, Watch Supervisor, Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Water Solubility, Water Sports, Wave Shape, Wave Soldering, Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), Wayward Spouse, Weapon Science, Weapon Skill (Warhammer gaming), Weapon Specification/System, Weapon(s) Specification, Weapon(s) System, Web Services, Web Site, Weber-Schafheitlin Integral, Wechselstrom (German: Alternating Current), Weebl's Stuff (website), Week Starting, Weekly Summary, Weird Silence, Wembley Stadium (England), Wesley Snipes (actor), West Seattle (Washington), West Side, West-Saxon (linguistics), Western Samoa, Western Shelter (manufacturer), Wet Season, Wheelin' Sportsmen, White Sheet, Whittaker - Shannon (sampling theorem), Widescreen, Width Skew, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Services, Wildlife Society, Will Shortz (creator of popular wordless crossword puzzle Sudoku), Will Smith (actor), William Shakespeare, William Shatner (actor), Williams Syndrome, Win Shares (arcane baseball stat), Wind Shear, Wind Speed, Wing Stow, Wing Support, Winston Salem (North Carolina), Winter Sonata (Korean TV show), Winter Springs (Florida), Wintersemester (German: winter semester), Wire Send, Wisselstroom (Dutch: Alternating Current), Women in Science, Women's Studies, WonderSwan, WordStar, Work Safe, Work Server, Work Space, Work Statement, Work Status, Work Surface, Worker Safety and Health, Worksheet, Workstation, World Senior, World Series, World Service (BBC), World Services, World Studies (course/class), Write Set, Writer to the Signet, Written Submission, Wrought Steel, water surface17) Физиология: Watt Seconds18) Вычислительная техника: Web Server (Corel), (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WorkStation (RedHat, Linux)19) Нефть: well site, whipstock, wireless station, отклонитель (whipstock), отклоняющий клин20) Бумажная промышленность: wire side21) Силикатное производство: water solid ratio22) Фирменный знак: Williams- Sonoma cookware23) Экология: Water Survey, water solution24) СМИ: Wine Spectator25) SAP. график рабочего времени27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: water station, well services, wellsite28) Полимеры: water spray, water supply, wet spinning29) Программирование: Web-сервисы (см. Web Services)30) Автоматика: working station31) Химическое оружие: work station/site32) Макаров: wait state, weather strip, wheel slide, working storage33) Велосипеды: wheel size34) Расширение файла: APL Worksheet35) Нефть и газ: World Scale36) Керамика: Water Solid37) Фармация: Working Standard38) Общественная организация: The Wildlife Society39) Правительство: Warm Springs, Georgia, White Sands, New Mexico40) Программное обеспечение: Windows Sockets -
3 ws
1) Общая лексика: steam2) Компьютерная техника: Weak Script, Weather Satellite3) Авиация: узел подвески на крыле4) Морской термин: мировая шкала, мировая шкала базисных ставок фрахта, тариф шкалы WS, фиксированная ставка тарифа World Scale, шкала базисных номинальных фрахтовых ставок для танкеров, Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale5) Военный термин: Wallops station, Weapons School, Weather Service, Women's Services, Word Send, war scale, war service, war site, war strength, war-like stores, warhead section, weapon specification, weapon system, weather squadron, weather station, wind shield (снаряда), windsonde, wing station, wireless section, wireless set, стабилизатор вооружения (weapons stabilizer)6) Техника: warm shop, watts per steradian, weak signal, weapons system, winding specification, windshield, Wet Scrubber (Gasification Technology Conference)7) Сельское хозяйство: Wire Shear, (water solution) ВР (используется для определения состояния гербицидов)8) Химия: Wash Solution9) Математика: Weight and Sum, сумма квадратов внутри блока (within-group sum of squares)10) Метеорология: Warmer South11) Юридический термин: Winchester Special, witness statements12) Страхование: Worldscale (Worldwide Tanker Nominal Freight Scale)13) Ветеринария: Week's Spawn, Working Samoyed14) Грубое выражение: Wanker Shitface, Watery Shit, Worth Shit15) Телекоммуникации: рабочее место16) Сокращение: Samoa, Walk Sequence rate category abbreviation on letter mail key line, Weapon Subsystem (for the "Electronically-Enhanced Soldier"), Work Station, waste stack, weather stripping, wetted surface, yard, writer to the signet (// attorney), WAN (Wide Area Network) Server, Waardenburg Syndrome, Wadley Southern Railway Company, Wage Supervisor, Walkersville Southern (railroad), Walking Stick, Wall Slide (strength-building exercise), Wall Street, Wally Szczerbiak (basketball player), Ward Save (Warhammer gaming), Ware Shoals Railroad Company, Warp Star (gaming), Warpstorm (forum), Warren Sapp (football player), Warren Shepell Consultants Corporation (Toronto, ON, Canada), Warsong (gaming, World of Warcraft), Wartungssystem, Washington Star, Watch Supervisor, Watchtower Society (Jehovah's Witnesses), Water Solubility, Water Sports, Wave Shape, Wave Soldering, Waylon Smithers (The Simpsons), Wayward Spouse, Weapon Science, Weapon Skill (Warhammer gaming), Weapon Specification/System, Weapon(s) Specification, Weapon(s) System, Web Services, Web Site, Weber-Schafheitlin Integral, Wechselstrom (German: Alternating Current), Weebl's Stuff (website), Week Starting, Weekly Summary, Weird Silence, Wembley Stadium (England), Wesley Snipes (actor), West Seattle (Washington), West Side, West-Saxon (linguistics), Western Samoa, Western Shelter (manufacturer), Wet Season, Wheelin' Sportsmen, White Sheet, Whittaker - Shannon (sampling theorem), Widescreen, Width Skew, Wilderness Society, Wildlife Services, Wildlife Society, Will Shortz (creator of popular wordless crossword puzzle Sudoku), Will Smith (actor), William Shakespeare, William Shatner (actor), Williams Syndrome, Win Shares (arcane baseball stat), Wind Shear, Wind Speed, Wing Stow, Wing Support, Winston Salem (North Carolina), Winter Sonata (Korean TV show), Winter Springs (Florida), Wintersemester (German: winter semester), Wire Send, Wisselstroom (Dutch: Alternating Current), Women in Science, Women's Studies, WonderSwan, WordStar, Work Safe, Work Server, Work Space, Work Statement, Work Status, Work Surface, Worker Safety and Health, Worksheet, Workstation, World Senior, World Series, World Service (BBC), World Services, World Studies (course/class), Write Set, Writer to the Signet, Written Submission, Wrought Steel, water surface17) Физиология: Watt Seconds18) Вычислительная техника: Web Server (Corel), (Red Hat Enterprise Linux) WorkStation (RedHat, Linux)19) Нефть: well site, whipstock, wireless station, отклонитель (whipstock), отклоняющий клин20) Бумажная промышленность: wire side21) Силикатное производство: water solid ratio22) Фирменный знак: Williams- Sonoma cookware23) Экология: Water Survey, water solution24) СМИ: Wine Spectator25) SAP. график рабочего времени27) Глоссарий компании Сахалин Энерджи: water station, well services, wellsite28) Полимеры: water spray, water supply, wet spinning29) Программирование: Web-сервисы (см. Web Services)30) Автоматика: working station31) Химическое оружие: work station/site32) Макаров: wait state, weather strip, wheel slide, working storage33) Велосипеды: wheel size34) Расширение файла: APL Worksheet35) Нефть и газ: World Scale36) Керамика: Water Solid37) Фармация: Working Standard38) Общественная организация: The Wildlife Society39) Правительство: Warm Springs, Georgia, White Sands, New Mexico40) Программное обеспечение: Windows Sockets -
4 scratch
I n AmE sl1)She had plenty of scratch being the bank president's daughter — У нее было полно денег, поскольку она была дочерью президента банка
2)Many citizens are wondering where they are going to make a scratch tomorrow — Многие граждане ума не приложат, где им занимать деньги завтра
3) tabooII vi infml1)I hope you're not going to scratch at the last moment — Я надеюсь, что ты не откажешься в последнюю минуту
2) AmEIII vt infml1)2)Scratch him. He can't make the party — Вычеркни его. Он не сможет к нам прийти
IV adj attr infmlWe had to scratch the idea of a new car — Нам пришлось отказаться от мысли приобрести новый автомобиль
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