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1 бедняжка
1) General subject: poor beggar, poor bugger, poor creature, poor fellow, poor soul, poor thing, the poor little soul, thing, wretch, poor lamb, sad case, poor dear2) British English: diddums (Used in a mocking way to a person looking for sympathy or pity) -
2 бедненький
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3 заблудшая овца
книжн."Авось, - думал смотритель, - привезу я домой заблудшую овечку мою". (А. Пушкин, Станционный смотритель) — 'God willing,' thought the postmaster, 'I shall bring my strayed lamb home.'
Аннинька не могла не заметить, что даже эти забитые, изнурённые и бедные люди относятся к ней не так, как к настоящей прихожанке, а скорее с сожалением, как к заблудшей овце. (М. Салтыков-Щедрин, Господа Головлёвы) — And yet Anninka could not help noticing that, poor, downtrodden, and half-starved as those people were, they regarded her with compassion as a lost lamb rather than as an ordinary parishioner.
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4 присмиреть как агнец
см. тж. смирный как агнецbecome (grow) as meek (gentle) as a lamb; sober downВсё притихло так, что можно было расслышать пролетевшую муху. Генеральша присмирела, как агнец. Всё подобострастие этой бедной идиотки перед Фомой Фомичом выступило теперь наружу. (Ф. Достоевский, Село Степанчиково и его обитатели) — There was such a hush that one could have heard a pin drop. Madame la Générale became as meek as a lamb. The cringing infatuation of this poor imbecile for Foma Fomich was apparent now.
Русско-английский фразеологический словарь > присмиреть как агнец
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5 голяк
1) General subject: have-not, nude person (Университеты соревнуются, кто больше выставит голяков. Задал тон Мэрилендский университет — 530 голых парней и девушек бегали по территории учебного городка.), pauper (бедняк, нищий. — Я тебя любил, я люблю тебя без ума, без памяти — и как подумаю я теперь, что ты этак, ни с того ни с сего, здорово живёшь, меня покидаешь да по свету скитаться станешь — ну, и представляется мне, что не будь я голяк гор), poor person2) Agriculture: beaver lamb, slink lambskin, unborn lambskin, golyak, lambskin-golyak, sheepskin-golyak
См. также в других словарях:
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