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1 political adventurer
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2 adventurer
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3 pick the plums out of
(pick (или pull) the plums out of (the pudding, etc.))отобрать для себя лучшее (оставив другим то, что похуже); ≈ "снимать пенки"Gwin... went out there as a political adventurer, determined to pull the prize plum out of the pie! What does he know about California? (I. Stone, ‘Immortal Wife’, book IV, ch. 9) — Гвин... этот авантюрист, отправился в Калифорнию, чтобы нажить себе политический капитал. А что он знает о Калифорнии?
Lang's habit of picking out of literature and life the plums of romance, and those alone, comes to be to the dazzled observer of this extraordinary vivid intellectual career, the principal guiding line. (E. Gosse, ‘Collected Essays’, ‘Andrew Lang’, Kenk) — И в жизни, и в литературе Ланг искал только романтику. Ошеломленному наблюдателю этой необыкновенно яркой интеллектуальной карьеры начинало казаться, что именно это было главным принципом его жизни.
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4 without rhyme or reason
1) бессмысленно, без всякого смысла; ≈ ни складу ни ладу; ни к селу ни к городу (тж. neither rhyme nor reason или there is no rhyme or reason) [neither rhyme nor reason шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]Rosalind: "But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?" Orlando: "Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much." (W. Shakespeare, ‘As You Like It’, act III, sc. 2) — Розалинда: "Неужели вы так страстно влюблены, как говорят ваши стихи?" Орландо: "Ни стихи, ни ум человеческий не в силах выразить, как страстно." (перевод Т. Щепкиной-Куперник)
Dromio of Syracuse: "Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season. When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? " (W. Shakespeare, ‘The Comedy of Errors’, act II, sc. 2) — Дромио Сиракузский: "Ну били ли кого-нибудь так, ни за что в награду? В таких "за что" и "почему" ни складу нет, ни ладу. " (перевод А. Некора)
Nowadays when a play is badly constructed, when its people act without rhyme or reason... we sit up and say it has atmosphere. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Don Fernanda’, ch. VIII) — В наше время, когда пьеса плохо построена, когда поступки действующих лиц абсолютно бессмысленны, мы говорим: пьеса хорошо передает атмосферу эпохи.
This proceeding of Poirot's in respect of the cocoa puzzled me intensely. I could see neither rhyme nor reason in it. (A. Christie, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’, ch. VIII) — Отношение Пуаро к какао поставило меня в тупик. Его поведение было необъяснимо.
...it just seems so incongruous for the first citizen of California to gamble over a Senatorial seat with a political adventurer. There is no rhyme or reason in it. (I. Stone, ‘Immortal Wife’, ch. 98) —...так нелепо, когда первый гражданин Калифорнии и политический авантюрист разыгрывают места в сенате. Не лезет ни в какие ворота.
2) ни с того ни с сего; ≈ за здоро/ во живёшьWhen she received it, who had long received no letters... she... sobbed, laughed, clasped her hands on her breast, and without rhyme or reason began singing... (J. Galsworthy, ‘Caravan’, ‘The Bright Side’) — Получив письмо, миссис Гергардт, которая так долго не получала никаких вестей... стала рыдать, смеяться, прижимать письмо к груди и вдруг совершенно неожиданно запела...
Not only was she engaged to be married, the wedding day had been set... when suddenly, without rhyme or reason, she breaks the whole thing off in favour of a total stranger. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Judas Tree’, part II, ch. V) — Моя дочь не только была обручена, но и был назначен даже день ее свадьбы... И вдруг совершенно неожиданно, как говорится, ни с того ни с сего она все порвала, причем ради совершенно незнакомого человека.
Without any rhyme or reason it came to me suddenly that I didn't care about it any more. (P. H. Johnson, ‘The Survival of the Fittest’, part III, ch. IV) — Вдруг неизвестно почему я почувствовала, что Кит мне совершенно безразличен.
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5 without rhyme or reason
1) бeccмыcлeннo, бeз вcякoгo cмыcлa, лишeнo вcякoй лoгики;ни cклaду ни лaду, ни к ceлу ни к гopoду (тж. neither rhyme nor reason или there is no rhyme or reason)Nowadays when a play is badly constructed, when its people act without rhyme or reason, we sit up and say it has atmosphere (W. S. Maugham). This proceeding of Poirot's... puzzled me intensively. I could see neither rhyme nor reason in it (A Christie). It just seems so incongruous for the first citizen of California to gamble over a Senatorial seat with a political adventurer. There is no rhyme or reason in it (J. Stone)2) ни c тoгo ни c ceгo, coвepшeннo нeoжидaннo, нeизвecтнo пoчeмуWhen she received it, who had long received no letters... she... sobbed, laughed, clasped her hands on her breast, and without rhyme or reason began singing (J. Galsworthy). Not only was she engaged to be married, the wedding day had been set... when suddenly, without rhyme or reason, she breaks the whole thing in favour of a total stranger (A. J. Cronin)Concise English-Russian phrasebook > without rhyme or reason
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6 Galvão, Henrique
(1895-1970)Army officer and oppositionist of the Estado Novo. A career army officer with considerable service in the African colonies, especially as an administrator in Angola in the 1930s, Galvão was an enthusiastic supporter of the Estado Novo in its early phase (1926-44). As a young officer, he supported the Twenty- eighth of May coup against the republic, and soon held middle-level posts in the Estado Novo. An early booster of the cultural and political potential of the radio and public spectacles, Galvão did little soldiering but more administration in radio and was appointed to manage the June-December 1940 Exposition of the Portuguese World in Lisbon. After a tour of the African colonies as inspector-general, he presented a confidential report (1947) to the regime's National Assembly in Lisbon. His findings revealed widespread abuse of authority and forced labor and semislavery in Angola and other colonies.The regime's suppression of this report and its negative response precipitated Galvao's break with Prime Minister Antônio de Oliveira Salazar's government. Galvão was harassed by the political police (PIDE) and arrested and tried for treason in 1952. Imprisoned, he escaped, disguised as a woman, from Santa Maria hospital in 1959 and fled to South America, where he organized opposition groups to the Estado Novo. In early 1961, Galvão got world media coverage when he led a group of about a dozen Iberian dissidents who participated in an early act of political terrorism: the hijacking at sea of the Portuguese ocean liner Santa Maria, drawing the attention of the world's journalists and public to the flaws in the Estado Novo and attempting to arouse a revolution against the Lisbon authorities by sailing the liner to Portuguese Africa ( São Tomé or Angola). This bold enterprise failed, the liner and the hijackers were interned in Brazil, and Galvão continued in the political wilderness as an adventurer/oppositionist. He died in South America in 1970, the same year as his bête noire, Dr. Salazar.
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