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СИЗИФОВ ТРУД СИЗИФОВА РАБОТА both lit NP sing only fixed WOceaseless, hard, and futile laborlabor of SisyphusSisyphean labor.Где итог? Или все это был сизифов труд? (Залыгин 1). Where was the result? Was it all a labour of Sisyphus? (1a).From the Greek legend of Sisyphus, king of Corinth, who was condemned to roll a heavy stone up a hill in Hades. Each time he neared the top, the stone escaped him and rolled back down to the bottom and he had to start all over again. -
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• СИЗИФОВ ТРУД; СИЗИФОВА РАБОТА both lit[NP; sing only; fixed WO]=====⇒ ceaseless, hard, and futile labor:- Sisyphean labor.♦ Где итог? Или все это был сизифов труд? (Залыгин 1). Where was the result? Was it all a labour of Sisyphus? (1a).—————← From the Greek legend of Sisyphus, king of Corinth, who was condemned to roll a heavy stone up a hill in Hades. Each time he neared the top, the stone escaped him and rolled back down to the bottom and he had to start all over again.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > сизифов труд
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• СИЗИФОВ ТРУД; СИЗИФОВА РАБОТА both lit[NP; sing only; fixed WO]=====⇒ ceaseless, hard, and futile labor:- Sisyphean labor.♦ Где итог? Или все это был сизифов труд? (Залыгин 1). Where was the result? Was it all a labour of Sisyphus? (1a).—————← From the Greek legend of Sisyphus, king of Corinth, who was condemned to roll a heavy stone up a hill in Hades. Each time he neared the top, the stone escaped him and rolled back down to the bottom and he had to start all over again.Большой русско-английский фразеологический словарь > сизифова работа
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