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1 moot
1) спорный2) (вопрос) не просто спорный, но утративший практическое значение, неактуальный1. Whether the North Vietnamese came as units or as individuals was soon moot.
2. Moot - 1. debatable, controversial; 2. deprived of practical importance, abstract or purely academic (см. статью academic); 3. concerned with a hypothetical situation. (Webster's Third New International Dictionary)
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2 moot
•• Moot subject to argument or debate (The Random House Dictionary).
•• Даже такие полные двуязычные словари, как Новый БАРС и The Oxford Russian Dictionary, предлагают лишь один перевод этого слова (в значении прилагательного) – спорный (moot question/case/point). Приводится также словосочетание to moot the question – поставить вопрос на обсуждение. Вот и все. Но такое прочтение огрубляет значение этого слова. Не случайно Webster’s Third New International Dictionary толкует это слово как имеющее три значения, которые сводятся к следующим синонимам: 1. debatable, controversial; 2. deprived of practical importance, abstract or purely academic (см. статью academic); 3. concerned with a hypothetical situation. Мне кажется, что в сознании большинства носителей английского языка эти три значения существуют слитно, недифференцированно. Но, например, предложение из мемуаров генерала Уэстморленда Whether the North Vietnamese came as units or as individuals was soon moot воспринимается однозначно: речь идет не просто о спорном вопросе, а о вопросе, утратившем практическое значение, неактуальном. Именно в этом значении, по моим наблюдениям, чаще всего употребляется данное слово в речи образованных американцев и англичан. Кстати, не совсем точно в Новом БАРСе переведено и словосочетание moot court. Это не помещение для учебных судебных процессов в юридических школах, а сами такие процессы на юридических факультетах университетов (попутно заметим неправильный перевод словосочетания law school).
См. также в других словарях:
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