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1 a cog in the machine
маленький человек; ≈ мелкая сошкаAmong them was this same Stener - a minute cog in the silent machinery of their affairs. (Th. Dreiser, ‘The Financier’, ch. XIV) — Среди этих людей числился и Стинер - мелкое колесико в бесшумно работавшей машине их политических интриг.
But my Left views made such jobs out of the question for me. I just couldn't see myself becoming a cog in the big bureaucratic machine dominating the trade union movement. (W. Foster, ‘The Twilight of World Capitalism’, ch. XII) — Но мои левые взгляды не позволяли мне соглашаться на такую работу. Я никак не мог представить себя винтиком огромной бюрократической машины, командовавшей профсоюзным движением.
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