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1 We are better than them, all put together!
Общая лексика: Мы лучше всех их вместе взятых!Универсальный англо-русский словарь > We are better than them, all put together!
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2 he admires his brother more than them
Общая лексика: своим братом он восхищается больше, чем имиУниверсальный англо-русский словарь > he admires his brother more than them
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3 Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
<01> Никогда не придерживай людей за пуговицу или руку, чтобы они тебя выслушали: если тебя не хотят слушать, лучше придержи свой язык. Chesterfield (Честерфилд).Англо-русский словарь цитат, пословиц, поговорок и идиом > Never hold anyone by the button or the hand in order to be heard out; for if people are unwilling to hear you, you had better hold your tongue than them.
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them [ðem, ðəm]━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When translating them it is necessary to know whether the French verb takes a direct or an indirect object. Verbs followed by à or de take an indirect object.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━a. (direct object: people and things) les━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► les precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• look at them! regarde-les !━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When the French verb consists of avoir + past participle, les precedes the form of avoir. The participle always agrees, adding s for mpl, and es for fpl.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• have you seen my keys? I've lost them avez-vous vu mes clés ? je les ai perduesb. (indirect object: people) leur• what are you going to say to them? qu'est-ce que tu vas leur dire ?━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► leur precedes the verb, except in positive commands.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━c. (indirect object: things)━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━► When them refers to things, en is used when the pronoun replaces de + noun.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• can you give me my notes back? I need them est-ce que tu peux me rendre mes notes ? j'en ai besoin• make sure you admire his pictures, he's very proud of them n'oublie pas d'admirer ses tableaux, il en est très fier• I knew it was them! je savais que c'était eux !• I know her but I don't know them je la connais, mais eux (or elles), je ne les connais pase. ► preposition + them• without them sans eux (or elles)• younger than them plus jeune qu'eux (or qu'elles)• my parents? I was just thinking about them mes parents ? je pensais justement à eux• the passports? I've not thought about them les passeports ? je n'y ai pas pensé━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━• if anyone arrives early ask them to wait si quelqu'un arrive tôt, fais-le attendre• somebody rang -- did you ask them their name? quelqu'un a téléphoné -- est-ce que tu lui as demandé son nom ?* * *[ðem, ðəm]both of them — tous/toutes les deux
both of them work in London — ils/elles travaillent à Londres tous/toutes les deux
some of them — quelques-uns d'entre eux or quelques-unes d'entre elles
take them all — prenez-les tous/toutes
none of them wants it — aucun/-e d'entre eux/elles ne le veut
every single one of them — chacun/-e d'entre eux/elles
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them [ðem, unstressed ðəm]1 pronoun(a) (direct object) les;∎ I met them last week je les ai rencontrés la semaine dernière(b) (indirect object) leur;∎ we bought/gave them some flowers nous leur avons acheté/donné des fleurs∎ it's for them c'est pour eux;∎ the yacht belongs to them le yacht leur appartient;∎ both of them are wool ils sont tous les deux en laine;∎ she's brighter than them elle est plus intelligente qu'eux;∎ neither of them is happy ils ne sont heureux ni l'un ni l'autre;∎ I don't want any of them je n'en veux aucun;∎ a few of them seemed genuinely interested quelques-uns d'entre eux semblaient vraiment intéressés;∎ all of them came ils sont tous venus;∎ most of them are busy la plupart d'entre eux sont occupés;∎ it was good of them to come c'était gentil de leur part ou à eux de venir∎ when anyone comes she says to them… quand quelqu'un vient elle lui dit…□∎ them shoes/kids ces bouquins/gamins -
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pronoun2) (coll.): (him/her) ihn/sie* * *[ðəm, ðem]1) (people, animals, things etc already spoken about, being pointed out etc: Let's invite them to dinner; What will you do with them?) sie,ihnen2) (used instead of him, him or her etc where a person of unknown sex or people of both sexes are referred to: If anyone touches that, I'll hit them.) ihn,sie•* * *[ðem, ðəm]I told \them I was leaving next week ich habe ihnen gesagt, dass ich nächste Woche wegfahrewho? oh \them! wer? ach die!you reckon that's \them? glaubst du, dass sie das sind?we're better than \them wir sind besser als siewe went fishing with \them last year wir fuhren letztes Jahr mit ihnen fischenboth of \them beidea few/none/some of \them ein paar/keine(r)/einige von ihnenneither of \them keine(r) von beiden2. (objects: akk) sieI've lost my keys — I can't find \them anywhere ich habe meine Schlüssel verloren — ich kann sie nirgends findenhow well do you have to know someone before you call \them a friend? wie gut musst du jemanden kennen, bevor du ihn als Freund bezeichnest?the senior staff have their own restaurant — it's definitely a case of \them and us die höheren Angestellten haben ihr eigenes Restaurant — das ist ein klarer Fall von Diskriminierungus against \them wir gegen sieI don't want it to be us against \them but... ich möchte keinen Streit mit ihnen, aber...look at \them eyes schau dir diese Augen an\them as diejenigen, die* * *[ðem] (weak form) [Dəm]1. pers pron plboth of them saw me — beide haben mich gesehen
neither of them saw me — keiner von beiden hat mich gesehen
none of them — keiner/keinen (von ihnen)
them and us (inf) — sie or die (inf) und wir
it's them who did it — SIE or DIE haben es gemacht
3) (dialthem as wants to — die, die wollen2. adj(incorrect) diese* * *them [ðəm; ðem] prona) sie (akk)b) ihnen:they looked behind them sie blickten hinter sich2. sie (nom):them are the ones we saw umg das sind die, die wir gesehen haben3. umg diese:them were the days! das waren noch Zeiten!* * *pronoun1) sie; as indirect object ihnen; see also her I2) (coll.): (him/her) ihn/sie* * *pron.ihnen pron.sie pron. -
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ðəm, ðem1) (people, animals, things etc already spoken about, being pointed out etc: Let's invite them to dinner; What will you do with them?) los, las (complemento directo); les (complemento indirecto); ellos, ellas (con preposición)2) (used instead of him, him or her etc where a person of unknown sex or people of both sexes are referred to: If anyone touches that, I'll hit them.) le, la•them pron1. los / las / les2. ellos / ellaswhy don't you go with them? ¿por qué no te vas con ellos?tr[ðem, ʊnstressed ðəm]■ the Smiths are coming, do you know them? vienen los Smith, ¿los conoces?2 (with preposition, stressed) ellos, ellas3 familiar (used with singular meaning) lo, la, le■ if anyone arrives, tell them to wait si llega alguien, dile que espere\SMALLIDIOMATIC EXPRESSION/SMALLthem and us ellos y nosotrosthem ['ðɛm] pronI know them: los conozcoI sent them a letter: les mandé una cartagive it to them: dáselo (a ellos)go with them: ve con ellosI wasn't expecting them: no los esperaba a ellospron.• ellos pron.• les pron.pron.• les pron.ðem, weak form ðəm1)a) ( as direct object) los, las; ( referring to people) los or (Esp tb) les, laswhere did you buy them? — ¿dónde los/las compraste?
he has two sons, do you know them? — tiene dos hijos ¿los or (Esp tb) les conoces?
b) ( as indirect object) les; ( with direct object pronoun present) sec) ( after preposition) ellos, ellasfor/with them — para/con ellos/ellas
2) ( emphatic use) ellos, ellas3) ( indefinite person)there's someone at the door, shall I show them in? — hay alguien en la puerta ¿lo hago pasar?
if anyone calls, tell them that... — si llama alguien, dile que...
4) ( for themselves) (AmE colloq or dial) se[ðem, ðǝm]PRON1) (direct object) los(-las)look at them! — ¡míralos!
yes, of course I gave them the book — sí, claro que les di el libro
yes, of course I gave it to them — sí, claro que se lo di
I gave the money to them, not their parents — les di el dinero a ellos, no a sus padres
I'm giving it to them not you — se lo doy a ellos, no a ti
give it to them, not me — dáselo a ellos, no a mí
3) (after prepositions, in comparisons, with verb "to be") ellos(-ellas)my sisters didn't go, my mother stayed with them — mis hermanas no fueron, mi madre se quedó con ellas
that's them, they're coming now — son ellos, ya vienen
4) (referring back to "someone", "anyone" etc: direct object) lo or (Sp) le(-la); (indirect object) leif anyone tries to talk to you, ignore them — si alguien trata de hablar contigo, no le hagas caso
* * *[ðem], weak form [ðəm]1)a) ( as direct object) los, las; ( referring to people) los or (Esp tb) les, laswhere did you buy them? — ¿dónde los/las compraste?
he has two sons, do you know them? — tiene dos hijos ¿los or (Esp tb) les conoces?
b) ( as indirect object) les; ( with direct object pronoun present) sec) ( after preposition) ellos, ellasfor/with them — para/con ellos/ellas
2) ( emphatic use) ellos, ellas3) ( indefinite person)there's someone at the door, shall I show them in? — hay alguien en la puerta ¿lo hago pasar?
if anyone calls, tell them that... — si llama alguien, dile que...
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[ðem (полная форма); ðəm,əm (редуцированные формы)] pers pron1. косв. п. от they их, им, ими и т. п.he admires his brother more than them - своим братом он восхищается больше, чем ими
2. разг.1) (вм. they) они2) в усил. конструкциях:they took the keys away with them - разг. они унесли с собой ключи
they made them an idol - арх. они сотворили себе кумира
nobody has so much to worry them - разг. ни у кого нет стольких неприятностей
when anyone comes she says to them - когда кто-нибудь приходит, она ему /им/ говорит
even if you dislike a person you must be fair to them - даже когда кто-то несимпатичен, надо быть к нему справедливым
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[ðem, ðəm] pronI told \them I was leaving next week ich habe ihnen gesagt, dass ich nächste Woche wegfahre;who? oh \them! wer? ach die!;I bathed the kids and read \them stories ich habe die Kinder gebadet und ihnen Geschichten vorgelesen;we went fishing with \them last year wir fuhren letztes Jahr mit ihnen fischen;both/ neither/ a few/ a couple/ some/none of \them beide/keiner/ein paar/zwei/einige/niemand von ihnen;we're better than \them wir sind besser als sie;you reckon that's \them? glaubst du, dass sie das sind?;the cows are getting restless - could you feed \them? die Kühe werden unruhig - könntest du sie füttern?I've lost my keys - I can't find \them anywhere ich habe meine Schlüssel verloren - ich kann sie nirgends finden;we want to show every customer that we appreciate \them wir wollen jedem Kunden zeigen, wie sehr wir ihn schätzen;how well do you have to know someone before you call \them a friend? wie gut musst du jemanden kennen, bevor du ihn als Freund bezeichnest?it's definitely a case of \them and us manche sind eben gleicher;us against \them wir gegen sie;I don't want it to be us against \them but... ich möchte keinen Streit mit ihnen, aber...who gave you \them sweets? wer hat euch diese Süßigkeiten gegeben?;look at \them eyes schau dir diese Augen an -
10 than
than,❢ When than is used as a preposition in expressions of comparison, it is translated by que (or qu' before a vowel or mute ‘h’): he's taller than me = il est plus grand que moi ; London is bigger than Oxford = Londres est plus grand qu'Oxford.For expressions with numbers, temperatures etc see the entry below. See also the entries more, less, hardly, soon, rather, other. When than is used as a conjunction, it is translated by que and the verb following it is preceded by ne: it was farther than I thought = c'était plus loin que je ne pensais. However, French speakers often try to phrase the comparison differently: it was more difficult than we expected = c'était plus difficile que prévu. For other uses see the entry below. See also the entries hardly, rather, soon.A prep1 ( in comparisons) que ; thinner than him plus mince que lui ; he has more than me il a plus que moi ; faster by plane than by boat plus rapide en avion qu'en bateau ; I was more surprised than annoyed j'étais plus étonné qu'ennuyé ; it's more difficult for us than for them c'est plus difficile pour nous que pour eux ;2 (expressing quantity, degree, value) de ; more/less than 100 plus/moins de 100 ; more than half plus de la moitié ; temperatures lower than 30 degrees des températures de moins de 30 degrés.B conj1 ( in comparisons) que ; he's older than I am il est plus âgé que moi ; it took us longer than we thought it would ça nous a pris plus de temps que prévu ; it was further away than I remembered c'était plus loin que dans mon souvenir ; there's nothing better/worse than doing il n'y a rien de mieux/de pire que de faire ;2 ( expressing preferences) I'd sooner ou rather do X than do Y je préférerais faire X que (de) faire Y ;3 ( when) hardly ou no sooner had he left than the phone rang à peine était-il parti que le téléphone a sonné ; -
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ðəm (полная форма) ;
(редуцированные формы) лич. мест.;
косвенный падеж от they их, им, ими и т. п. - two of * двое из них - I like * я их люблю - write * a letter напиши им письмо - I'll tell * so я так им и скажу - don't worry about * не беспокойся о них - look at * посмотри на них - he admires his brother more than * cвоим братом он восхищается больше, чем ими - there were three of * их было трое - both of * saw me они оба видели меня( разговорное) они - it's * это они (разговорное) в усил. конструкциях: - it was not * we wanted нам вовсе не они были нужны( разговорное) в грам. знач. возвр. мест.: (устаревшее) или( разговорное) -ся, -сь, себя, себе, собой - they took the keys away with * (разговорное) они унесли с собой ключи - they made * an idol (устаревшее) они сотворили себе кумира - nobody has so much to worry * (разговорное) ни у кого нет стольких неприятвностей (в сочетании с неопределенным местоимением) (разговорное) его, ему, им и т. п. - when anyone comes she says to * когда кто-нибудь приходит, она ему говорит - even if you dislike a person you must be fair to * даже когда кто-то несимпатичен, надо быть к нему справедливым > to be one of * быть педерастом them pron pers. косв. п. от they they: they pron pers. (в неопределенно-личных оборотах): they say говорят ~ pron pers. они;
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[ðem] ( полная форма); [ðem], [ðm] ( редуцированные формы)мест.2) разг. они (вместо they после than, as, в позиции сказуемого после глагола be)It's them. — Это они.
3) разг. -ся, -сь, себя, собой ( употребляется в функции возвратного местоимения themselves)They took their dog with them. — Они взяли с собой собаку.
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(3rd person pl. and dual forms): As the pronominal ending for “they”, Tolkien hesitated between -ltë and -ntë. For instance, a verb like “they do” is attested both as cariltë and carintë (VT49:16, 17). In one text, the ending -ltë is marked as archaic or poetic (VT49:17), but in other paradigms no such qualification occurs (VT49:51). The alternative form -nte- occurs in UT:317, with a second pronominal marker (-s “it”, denoting the object) following: Tiruvantes "they will keep it". General considerations of euphony may favour -ltë rather than -ntë (e.g. *quenteltë rather than *quententë for “they spoke” – in the past tense, many verbs end in -ntë even before any pronominal endings are supplied, like quentë “spoke” in this example). The ending -ltë (unlike -ntë) would also conform with the general system that the plural pronominal endings include the plural marker l (VT48:11). – In Tolkien’s early material, the ending -ltë appears as -lto instead (e.g. tulielto “they have come”, LT1:270). – A simple plural verb (with ending -r) can have “they” as its implied subject, as in the example quetir en “they still say” (PE17:167). – In the independent pronouns, distinct forms of may be used depending on whether “they, them” refers to living beings (persons, animals or even plants) or to non-living things or abstracts. The “personal” independent pronoun is te, which may have a long vowel when stressed (té, VT49:51). It is also attested in object position (laita te “bless them”, LotR:989 cf. Letters:308, VT43:20). It can receive case endings, e.g. dative ten (VT49:14; variant forms téna and tien, VT49:14, VT43:12, 21). As the “impersonal” they, them referring to non-living things, Tolkien in some sources used ta (VT43:20; 8, 9), but this apparently caused dissatisfaction because he also wanted ta to be the singular pronoun “that, it”. According to VT49:32, the form tai was introduced as the word for impersonal or inanimate “they, them” (in some places changed to te, apparently suggesting that Tolkien considered using te for both personal and impersonal “they/them”, abandoning the distinction). Another source (VT49:51) lists sa as the pl. impersonal form, but all other published sources use this pronoun for singular impersonal “it”, not pl. “they”. – The object “them” can also be expressed by the ending -t following another pronominal suffix (laituvalmet, “we shall bless [or praise] them", LotR:989 cf Letters:308). Presumably this ending -t makes no distinction between personal and impersonal forms. – Quenya also possesses special dual forms of “they, them”, used where only two persons or things are referred to (none of these pronouns distinguish between personal and impersonal forms). In VT49:16, the old ending for dual “they” is given as -stë (marked as archaic or poetic), but this would clash with the corresponding 2nd person ending. According to VT49:51, this ending was changed (also within the imaginary world) from -stë to -ttë, which seems the better alternative (*carittë, “the two of them do”). The independent dual pronoun is given as tú (ibid.) However, it may also be permissible to use te for “they, them” even where only two persons are involved (te is seemingly used with reference to Frodo and Sam in one of the examples above, laita te “bless them”). – Genitive forms, see THEIR; reflexive pronoun, see THEMSELVES. -
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15 trận nên thân trước khi chúng từ bỏ âm mưu
!as well - cũng, cũng được, không hại gì =you can take him as well+ anh có thể đưa nó đi với =you may as well begin at once+ anh có thể bắt đầu ngay cũng được !as well as - như, cũng như, chẳng khác gì =by day as well as by night+ ngày cũng như đêm - và còn thêm =we gave him money as well as food+ chúng tôi cho nó tiền và còn thêm cái ăn nữa !pretty well - hầu như * tính từ better; best - tốt; tốt lành =things are well with you+ anh được mọi sự tốt lành; mọi việc của anh đều ổn c - tốt, hay, đúng lúc, hợp thời, nên, cần =it's well that you have come+ anh đến thật là tốt =it would be well to start early+ có lẽ nên ra đi sớm - khoẻ, mạnh khoẻ, mạnh giỏi =to feel quite well+ cm thấy rất khoẻ =to get well+ đ khỏi (người ốm) - may, may mắn =it was well for him that nobody saw him+ may mà không ai thấy nó !it's (that's) all very well but... -(mỉa mai) hay đấy, nhưng... * thán từ - quái, lạ quá =well, who would have thought it would happen?+ quái!, ai nào có tưởng là việc ấy có thể xy ra được? - đấy, thế đấy =well, here we are at last+ đấy, cuối cùng chúng ta đ đến đây - thế nào, sao =well what about it?+ thế nào, về điểm ấy thì nghĩ sao? =well then?+ rồi sao? - thôi, thôi được, thôi nào; nào nào; thôi thế là =well, such is life!+ thôi, đời là thế well =wellm it may be true!+ thôi được, điều đó có thể đúng! =well, well!, don't cry!+ thôi nào đừng khóc nữa! - được, ừ =very well!+ được!, ừ!, tốt quá! - vậy, vậy thì =well, as I was saying...+ vậy, như tôi vừa nói,... * danh từ - điều tốt, điều hay, điều lành, điều thiện =to wish someone well+ chúc ai gặp điều tốt lành !to let well alone - đ tốt rồi không phi xen vào nữa; đừng có chữa lợn lành thành lợn què * danh từ - giếng (nước, dầu...) =to bore a well+ khoan giếng =to sink a well+ đào giếng - (nghĩa bóng) nguồn (cm hứng, hạnh phúc) - (kiến trúc) lồng cầu thang - lọ (mực) - (hàng hi) khoang cá (trong thuyền đánh cá); buồng máy bm (trên tàu) - chỗ ngồi của các luật sư (toà án) - (hàng không) chỗ phi công ngồi - (địa lý,địa chất) nguồn nước, suối nước - (ngành mỏ) hầm, lòEnglish-Vietnamese dictionary > trận nên thân trước khi chúng từ bỏ âm mưu
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пренебр.(nothing (или not much) to choose between them (тж. there is nothing to choose between them))один другого стоит; ≈ два сапога пара, одного поля ягода, одним лыком шиты; хрен редьки не слаще‘I've been asking myself for the last five-and-twenty years whether the average fool of a woman is a greater fool than the average fool of a man.’ ‘And the answer?’ ‘Well, upon my word, I don't think there's much to choose between them.’ (W. S. Maugham, ‘Mrs. Craddock’, ch. XI) — В последние двадцать пять лет я частенько задавался вопросом, кто глупее - глупый мужчина или глупая женщина? - И каков же ответ? - Скажу прямо, оба хороши.
Large English-Russian phrasebook > nothing to choose between them
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17 be no better than she should be
expr infmlThe new dictionary of modern spoken language > be no better than she should be
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18 (there is) nothing to choose between them
пpeнeбp.oдин дpугoгo cтoит; двa caпoгa пapa, oднoгo пoля ягoдa, oдним лыкoм шиты; xpeн peдьки нe cлaщe'I've been asking myself for the last five-and-twenty years whether the average fool of a woman is a greater fool than the average fool of a man.' 'Well, upon my word, I don't think there's much to choose between them' (W. S. Maugham)Concise English-Russian phrasebook > (there is) nothing to choose between them
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19 with no other object than to help
with no other object than to help/with the object of helping them с единственной целью - помочьEnglish-Russian combinatory dictionary > with no other object than to help
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20 blood is thicker than water
посл.кровь не вода; ≈ свой своему поневоле братRelatives are awful... they have the monstrous impudence to pretend that you ought to love them. "Blood is thicker than water", they say sententiously. (R. Aldington, ‘Death of a Hero’, part II) — Родственники ужасны... Они с чудовищным бесстыдством заявляют, что вы должны их любить. "Кровь - не вода", - говорят они сентенциозно.
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