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[VP; subj: human; usu. this WO]=====⇒ to act against one's nature, habits, or beliefs:- X went against his convictions < principles>.♦ Для русских историков... Наполеон есть предмет восхищения и восторга... Кутузов же, тот человек, который от начала и до конца своей деятельности в 1812 году... ни разу ни одним действием, ни словом не изменяя себе, являет необычайный в истории пример самоотвержения и сознания в настоящем будущего значения события, - Кутузов представляется им чем-то неопределённым и жалким... (Толстой 7). For Russian historians...Napoleon is the object of adulation and enthusiasm....But Kutuzov, the man who from the beginning to the end of his activity in 1812...was never once by word or deed false to himself, who presents an example rare in history of self-sacrifice and of present insight into the future significance of events - Kutuzov seems to them something indeterminate and pitiful... (7a).Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > изменять себе
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