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  • 1 сочинить историю

    1) General subject: put up a yarn, baste up a story

    Универсальный русско-английский словарь > сочинить историю

  • 2 играть в кошки-мышки

    разг., неодобр.
    play cat-and-mouse with smb.; play a cat-and-mouse game with smb.; play blind man's buff with smb.

    - Вот что, коллега! Я бы мог, конечно, играть с вами в кошки-мышки, я бы мог выдумать вам наспех какую-нибудь историю,... но этого я делать не хочу и не буду. (В. Беляев, Старая крепость) — 'Listen to me, friend! I could, of course, play blind man's buff with you, I could invent some story..., but I have no desire or intention of doing anything of the kind.'

    Цоллинтер хотел было возразить, но шеф не позволил. - В ваши кошки-мышки вы можете играть с другими, - строго и сухо сказал он. - Но только не с нами - старыми бойцами. (Ю. Герман, Дорогой мой человек) — Zollinger was about to protest, but his chief did not let him speak. 'You can play your cat-and-mouse game with someone else, but never with us, old soldiers,' he said dryly and sternly.

    Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > играть в кошки-мышки

  • 3 присочинять

    несов. - присочиня́ть, сов. - присочини́ть; (вн.)
    add one's own (d); invent (d)

    они́ присочини́ли коне́ц к э́той исто́рии — they added their own ending to the story

    он ко́е-что́ присочини́л в своём расска́зе — he invented a few things in his story; he stretched the truth somewhat in his description of the events

    Новый большой русско-английский словарь > присочинять

  • 4 придумывать

    vt; св - приду́мать
    to think of/up; приспособление и т. п. to devise, to invent

    приду́мывать нача́ло расска́за — to think of a beginning to a story

    приду́мывать отгово́рку — to think up an excuse

    приду́мывать план — to devise a plan

    Русско-английский учебный словарь > придумывать

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  • invent — inventible, inventable, adj. /in vent /, v.t. 1. to originate or create as a product of one s own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent the telegraph. 2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. 3. to make up… …   Universalium

  • invent — [[t]ɪnve̱nt[/t]] invents, inventing, invented 1) VERB If you invent something such as a machine or process, you are the first person to think of it or make it. [V n] He invented the first electric clock... [V n] Writing had not been invented as… …   English dictionary

  • invent — in•vent [[t]ɪnˈvɛnt[/t]] v. t. 1) to originate as a product of one s own ingenuity, experimentation, or contrivance: to invent a better mousetrap[/ex] 2) to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story[/ex] 3) to make up or fabricate …   From formal English to slang

  • invent — /ɪnˈvɛnt / (say in vent) verb (t) 1. to originate as a product of one s own contrivance: to invent a machine. 2. to produce or create with the imagination: to invent a story. 3. to make up or fabricate as something merely fictitious or false: to… …  

  • Invent Now America — is an annual event hosted by the National Inventors Hall of Fame in conjunction with the United States Patent Trademark Office (USPTO), Time Magazine and The History Channel. Each year, thousands of inventors submit their inventions for inclusion …   Wikipedia

  • invent — in·vent vt: to create or produce for the first time in·ven·tor n Merriam Webster’s Dictionary of Law. Merriam Webster. 1996. invent …   Law dictionary

  • invent — ► VERB 1) create or design (a new device, process, etc.). 2) make up (a false story, name, etc.). DERIVATIVES inventor noun. ORIGIN Latin invenire contrive, discover …   English terms dictionary

  • story — I n. tale 1) to narrate, tell a story 2) to carry, circulate, print, run a story (all the newspapers carried the story about the fire) 3) to edit; rewrite; write a story 4) to concoct, fabricate, invent, make up a story 5) to change, revise;… …   Combinatory dictionary

  • invent */*/ — UK [ɪnˈvent] / US verb [transitive] Word forms invent : present tense I/you/we/they invent he/she/it invents present participle inventing past tense invented past participle invented Collocations: If you are the first person to make a new type of …   English dictionary

  • invent — verb (T) 1 to make, design, or produce something new for the first time: Alexander Bell invented the telephone in 1876. 2 to think of an idea, story etc that is not true, usually in order to deceive people: They invented a very convincing alibi.… …   Longman dictionary of contemporary English

  • story */*/*/ — UK [ˈstɔːrɪ] / US [ˈstɔrɪ] noun [countable] Word forms story : singular story plural stories 1) an account of something that happened. Stories can be imaginary, traditional, or true She s written several children s stories. The book is about the… …   English dictionary

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