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1. Iit is raining идет дождь; it's going to rain собирается дождь good wishes (congratulations, compliments, etc.) rained добрые пожелания и т.д. сыпались градом2. IIrain in some manner it is raining hard /'heavily/ (dismally, monotonously, etc.) идет сильный и т.д. дождь; it is raining uninterruptedly дождь идет не переставая: it rained hard шел сильный дождь; it began to rain heavily начался /пошел/ сильный дождь; rain for some time it rained all day весь день шел дождь3. IIIrain smth. rain blows (kisses, gifts, etc.) осыпать [как дождем] ударами и т.д.; it rained invitations (letters, tracts, etc.) приглашения и т.д. шли сплошным потоком; her eyes rained tears из глаз у нее текли /ручьем лились/ слезы; it rained blood кровь лилась рекой4. IVrain smth. at some time it rained presents that day a тот день меня (его и т.п.) осыпали подарками5. XVIrain (up)on (from, down, etc.) smth. it rained on city and village дождь шел /лил/ над городами и деревнями: flowers (bouquets) rained upon (he singer певца осыпали цветами (букетами); sparks rained on the street from the burning house из горящего дома вылетал поток искр; bullets rained all around him вокруг него свистели пули; blows rained on him на него градом сыпались удары; misfortunes rain on her на нее обрушиваются несчастья; letters and telegrams kept raining upon me all day весь день на меня сыпались письма и телеграммы: tears rained from her eyes (down her cheeks) у нее из глаз (по щекам) ручьем полились /побежали/ слезы: rain in smth. it rains in showers /in torrents/ идет сильный дождь6. XXI1rain smth. on /upon/ smb. the clouds rained huge drops on us из туч посыпались на нас крупные капли; rain flowers on the singer (confetti on the dancers, gifts on the children, compliments on the girl, favours on his ladies benefits on the veterans, blows on the helpless man, shells on the soldiers, etc.) осыпать /засыпать/ певца цветами и т.д.; he rained blows upon the door он барабанил в дверь; it rained fire from heaven с небес хлынул потек огня -
2 Cobbett, William
SUBJECT AREA: Agricultural and food technology[br]b. 9 March 1762 Farnham, Surrey, Englandd. 17 June 1835 Guildford, Surrey, England[br]English political writer and activist; writer on rural affairs, with a particular concern for the conditions of the agricultural worker; a keen experimental farmer who claimed responsibility for the import of Indian maize to Britain.[br]The son of a smallholder farmer and self-taught surveyor, William Cobbett was brought up to farm work from an early age. In 1783 he took employment as an attorney's clerk in London, but not finding this to his liking he travelled to Chatham with the intention of joining the Navy. A mistake in "taking the King's shilling" found him in an infantry regiment. After a year's training he was sent out to Nova Scotia and quickly gained the rank of sergeant major. On leaving the Army he brought corruption charges against three officers in his regiment, but did not press with the prosecution. England was not to his taste, and he returned to North America with his wife.In America Cobbett taught English to the growing French community displaced by the French Revolution. He found American criticism of Britain ill-balanced and in 1796 began to publish a daily newspaper under the title Porcupine's Gazetteer, in which he wrote editorials in defence of Britain. His writings won him little support from the Americans. However, on returning to London in 1800 he was offered, but turned down, the management of a Government newspaper. Instead he began to produce a daily paper called the Porcupine, which was superseded in 1802 by Cobbett's Political Register, this publication continued on a weekly basis until after his death. In 1803 he also began the Parliamentary Debates, which later merged into Hansard, the official report of parliamentary proceedings.In 1805 Cobbett took a house and 300-acre (120-hectare) farm in Hampshire, from which he continued to write, but at the same time followed the pursuits he most enjoyed. In 1809 his criticism of the punishment given to mutineers in the militia at Ely resulted in his own imprisonment. On his release in 1812 he decided that the only way to remain an independent publisher was to move back to the USA. He bought a farm at Hampstead, Long Island, New York, and published A Year's Residence in America, which contains, amongst other things, an interesting account of a farmer's year.Returning to Britain in the easier political climate of the 1820s, Cobbett bought a small seed farm in Kensington, then outside London. From there he made a number of journeys around the country, publishing accounts of them in his famous Rural Rides. His experiments and advice on the sowing and cultivation of crops, particularly turnips and swedes, and on forestry, were an important mechanism for the spread of ideas within the UK. He also claimed that he was the first to introduce the acacia and Indian maize to Britain. Much of his writing expresses a concern for the rural poor and he was firmly convinced that only parliamentary reform would achieve the changes needed. His political work and writing led to his election as Member of Parlaiment for Oldham in the 1835 election, which followed the Reform Act of 1832. However, by this time his energy was failing rapidly and he died peacefully at Normandy Farm, near Guildford, at the age of 73.[br]BibliographyCobbett's Observations on Priestley's Emigration, published in 1794, was the first of his pro-British tracts written in America. On the basis of his stay in that country he wrote A Year's Residence in America. His books on agricultural practice included Woodlands (1825) and Treatise on Cobbett's Corn (1828). Dealing with more social problems he wrote an English Grammar for the use of Apprentices, Plough Boys, Soldiers and Sailors in 1818, and Cottage Economy in 1821.Further ReadingAlbert Pell, 1902, article in Journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England 63:1–26 (describes the life and writings of William Cobbett).James Sambrook, 1973, William Cobbett, London: Routledge (a more detailed study).AP
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