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1 wise
1. nспосібon this wise — таким чином, у такий спосіб
in no wise — ні в якому разі, ніяким чином
in like wise — таким же способом, подібним чином
2. adj1) мудрий; велемудрий, умудрений2) розумний, розсудливийyou were wise not to go — ви розумно зробили, що не поїхали
3) амер., розм. обізнаний, знаючий, поінформований; тямущийto put smb. wise to (about, concerning, of) smth. — поінформувати когось про щось; напоумити когось щодо чогось
4) амер., розм. зарозумілий; зухвалий, нахабний5) хитрий; обачний, спритний, проникливий6) ірон. глибокодумнийwise look — заклопотаний (задумливий) вигляд
7) чаклунський, знахарськийwise man — чаклун, знахар
wise woman — чаклунка, знахарка, ворожка; баба-повитуха
8) із здоровим розумом, поміркований3. vпоказати дорогу; направити; напутитиwise up — поінформувати; напоумити; збагнути, зрозуміти
* * *I [ˌwaiz] a1) мудрий, премудрийwise saw — сентенція; прислів'я
the Three Wise Men, the W. Men of the East — бібл. три мудреці
2) розумнийto get /to grow/ wiser — порозумнішати; набути життєвий досвід
you were wise not to go — ви розумно вчинили, що не поїхали
3) розважливий, розсудливий4) cл. обізнаний, тямущийto be /to get wise (to) — дізнатися, зрозуміти; підмітити
to put smb wise to /of, about, concerning/ smth — повідомити /розказати/ кому-н. про що-н.; пояснити кому-н. що-н.
to be none the wiser (for) — нічого не дізнатися (з чого-н.)
they laughed at him and he never the wiser — вони сміялися з нього, а він нічого не помічав
to do smth without anyone being the wiser — зробити що-н. таємно
he came away as wise as he went — він так нічого, не дізнався
5) cл. wise guy розумник; обачний; хитрий, вправний; проникливий; собі на умі6) icт., дiaл. що займається чаклунством7) нахабнийII [ˌwaiz] n; тк.; sing; іст.in this wise — таким способом /чином/
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2 if what men most admire they would despise, it would look like mankind were growing wise
якби люди почали ставитися з презирством до своїх найбільших захоплень, скидалося б на те, що людство мудрішаєEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > if what men most admire they would despise, it would look like mankind were growing wise
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3 _розум; мудрість; думка
advice is something the wise don't need and the fools won't take all great minds run in the same channel all men are fools, but the wisest of fools are called philosophers better an empty purse than an empty head a big head means a big headache bought wisdom is best if you don't pay too dear for it entertain no thoughts which you would blush at in words the doors of wisdom are never shut a flow of words is no proof of wisdom the fool wonders; the wise man asks go where he will, a wise man is always at home happy is the man who finds wisdom and gets understanding he who questions nothing learns nothing high living, low thinking if what men most admire they would despise, it would look like mankind were growing wise it is easy to be wise after the event it needs great wisdom to play the fool little hair, much wit know thyself knowledge and wisdom are far from being one men talk wisely but live foolishly nine-tenths of wisdom consists in being wise in time no man can be always wise no man is born wise or learned one good head is better than a thousand strong hands one hears only what he understands popular opinion is the greatest lie in the world riches serve a wise man but command a fool so many men, so many minds speech is the gift of all but the thought of few a still tongue makes a wise head two heads are better than one where all think alike, no one thinks very much where ignorance is bliss 'tis folly to be wise wisdom doesn't always speak in Greek and Latin wisdom goes not always by years wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead wisdom is ever a blessing, education is sometimes a curse wisdom is the wealth of the wise a wise man changes his mind; a fool never does a wise man is strong a wise man will make more opportunities than he finds a wise man's day is worth a fool's life wise men care not for what they cannot have wise men learn by other men's mistakes; fools insist on learning by their own a word to the wise words are the wise man's counters and the fool's moneyEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _розум; мудрість; думка
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4 _дурість
all asses wag their ears all men are fools, but the wisest of fools are called philosophers arguing with a fool shows there are two ask a silly question and you get a silly answer as the fool thinks, so the bell clinks the ass is known by its ears asses as well as pitchers have ears blame-all and praise-all are two blockheads change of weather is a discourse of fools children and fools have merry lives children and fools must not play with edged tools children and fools tell the truth dreams give wings to fools the darkest place is under the candlestick every ass loves to hear himself bray every ass thinks himself worthy to stand with the king's horses every fool will be meddling experience is the teacher of fools folly grows without watering a fool always finds a bigger fool to admire a fool always rushes to the fore a fool and his money are soon parted a fool believes everything a fool is known by his conversation a fool is known by his laughing a fool may ask more questions in an hour than a wise man answer in seven years a fool over forty is a fool indeed a fool may give a wise man counsel a fool may sometimes speak to the purpose a fool may throw a stone into a well which a hundred wise men cannot pull out a fool who keeps his mouth closed fools the whole world the fool doth think he is wise, but the wise man knows himself to be a fool the fool wonders; the wise man asks a fool's voice is known by a multitude of words fools and bairns should never see half-done work fools go in crowds fools make feasts and wise men eat them fools never know when they are well fools rush in where angels fear to tread fortune favors the fools give a man enough rope and he will hang himself a great talker may be no fool, but he is one that relies on him he is a fool who cannot be angry but a wise man who will not he that makes himself an ass must not complain if men ride him he who is born a fool is never cured honey is not for the ass's mouth if all fools wore white caps, we'd all look like geese if an ass goes traveling, he'll not come back a horse if fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold in spite of colleges and schools, the world remains a ship of fools it is better to remain silent and be thought of as a fool than to speak and prove the same it is ill manners to silence a fool, and it is cruelty to let him go on it is a silly fish, that is caught twice with the same bait a learned blockhead is a greater blockhead than an ignorant one lend and lose is the game of fools little wit in the head makes much work for the feet one fool makes many never bray at an ass never show a fool a half-done work no fool like an old fool none is a fool always, everyone sometimes riches serve a wise man but command a fool silence is the virtue of a fool success ruins a fool there are a great many asses without long ears it is better to lose with a wise man than to win with a fool a wager is a fool's argument the way of a fool is right in his own eyes when a fool has made up his mind, the market has gone by a white wall is the fool's writing paper: he writes his name there a wise man changes his mind, a fool never will a wise man learns by the experiences of others; an ordinary man learns by his own experience; a fool learns by nobody's experiences a wise man's day is worth a fool's life the wise seek wisdom; the fool has found it words are the wise man's counters and the fool's money -
5 _жінка; дружина
all are good lasses, but whence come the bad wives? all women look the same after the sun goes down any woman can keep a secret, but she generally needs one other woman to help her better the devil's than a woman's slave a cat has nine lives; a woman has nine cat's lives a diamond daughter turns to glass as a wife everybody's sweetheart is nobody's wife the fewer the women, the less the trouble the fingers of a housewife do more than a yoke of oxen the first wife is matrimony; the second, company; the third, heresy the grey mare is the better horse the hand that rocks the cradle rules the world handle with care women and glass hanging and wiving goes by destiny happy is the bride that the sun shines on he that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man he who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes hell hath no fury like a woman scorned if it is a secret, don't tell it to a woman it is harder to marry a daughter well than to bring her up well it is a woman's privilege to change her mind it is as great pity to see a woman weep as to see a goose go barefoot ladies don't smoke long hair and short wit the longest five years in a woman's life is between twenty-nine and thirty never choose your woman or your linen by candlelight never praise your wife until you have been married ten years never quarrel with a woman no house was ever big enough for two women no woman is ugly if she is well dressed one tongue is enough for two women the only secret a woman can keep is her age praise from a wife is praise indeed the real housewife is at once a slave and a lady she who is a beauty is half-married she who loves the looking glass hates the saucepan silence is a woman's best garment slander expires at a good woman's door tell a woman and you tell the world ten measures of talk were sent down from heaven, and women took nine there is no fury like a woman's fury there is nothing better than a good woman and nothing worse than a bad one there is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her there's hardly a strife in which a woman has not been a prime mover ugliness is the guardian of women the ugliest woman can look in the mirror and think she is beautiful an undutiful daughter will prove an unmanageable wife when a girl whistles, the angels cry wherever there is a woman, there is gossip a whistling woman and a crowing hen are neither fit for God nor men winter weather and women's thoughts change often a wise woman never outsmarts her husband a woman, a cat, and a chimney should never leave the house a woman fights with her tongue a woman knows a bit more than Satan a woman laughs when she can but cries whenever she wishes the woman who obeys her husband rules him a woman's hair is her crowning glory a woman's hair is long, but her tongue is longer a woman's place is in the home a woman's tongue is one that will never wear out a woman's tongue is the only sharp-edged tool that grows keener with constant use women are necessary evils a woman's work is never done women are strong when they arm themselves with their weaknesses women forgive injuries, but never forget slights women would be more charming if one could fall into their arms without falling into their hands a worthy woman is the crown of her husband -
6 _багатство і бідність
abundance, like want, ruins many at the workingman's house hunger looks in but dares not enter a beggar can never be bankrupt a beggar ennobled does not know his kinsmen beggar is jealous of beggar beggars can't be choosers a beggar's purse is bottomless chains of gold are stronger than chains of iron content makes poor men rich; discontent makes rich men poor the doorstep of a great house is slippery few rich men own their own property – their property owns them a full purse has many friends full stomachs make empty heads God help the rich, for the poor can beg gold dust blinds all eyes gold is tested by fire, men by gold gold may be bought too dear gold rules the world gold will not buy everything a great fortune is a great slavery a handkerchief is a poor woman's purse hunger breaks stone walls hunger is the best sauce hunger knows no friends a hungry belly has no ears if you haven't silver in your purse, you should have silk on your tongue it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than it is for a rich man to enter the kingdom of heaven life and misery begin together a light purse is a heavy purse the more we have, the more we want, the more we want, the less we have much gold, much care much profit, much risk naked we come, naked we go neither beg of him who has been a beggar, nor serve him, who has been a servant old woman's gold is not ugly one day a beggar, the next day a thief a poor man is better than a liar the poor man pays for all poor men's tables are soon set possession is nine points of the law poverty consists in feeling poor poverty is no disgrace, but it is a great inconvenience poverty is no sin poverty is not a shame, but the being ashamed of it is poverty is the mother of all arts poverty parts friends prosperity discovers vice, adversity virtue prosperity makes friends; adversity tries them a rich man never lacks relatives a rich man knows not his friends a rich person ought to have a strong stomach rich men have no faults riches and virtue do not often keep each other company riches serve a wise man but command a fool a rising tide lifts all boats set a beggar on horseback and he will ride to the Devil there is ill talk between a full man and a fasting there is no pride like that of a beggar grown rich there is no virtue that poverty does not destroy a thief passes for a gentleman when stealing has made him rich to be content, look backward on those who possess less than yourself, not forward on those, who possess more when one has a good table, he is always right the weakest goes to the wall wealth and content are not bedfellows wealth is not his that has it, but his who enjoys it wealth makes wit waver when all are poor, it doesn't take much to make a rich man wisdom in a poor man is a diamond set in lead wrinkled purses make wrinkled faces you cannot serve God and MammonEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _багатство і бідність
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7 _випробування; труднощі
adversity is a good discipline adversity makes us wise until next time another's cares will not rob you of sleep any man can be a sailor on a calm sea the best way out of a difficulty is through it a burden becomes lightest when it is well borne crosses are ladders that lead to the heaven, but few of us want to climb difficulties are things that show what men are don't look for trouble every man thinks his own burden the heaviest fire is the test of gold a friend in need is a friend indeed gold is tried by fire, brave men by adversity he deserves not sweet that will not taste of sour he that seeks trouble misses if you're not part of the solution, you're part of the problem it's not the load that breaks you down, it's the way you carry it necessity is the mother of invention needs must when the devil drives no day passes without some grief a person is what he is under pressure prosperity makes friends, and adversity tries them storms make oaks take deeper root take the rough with the smooth there are no hopeless situations, there are only hopeless men temptations, like misfortunes, are sent to test our moral strength trouble is only opportunity in work clothes trouble never comes single-handed trouble shared is trouble halved trouble springs from idlenessEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _випробування; труднощі
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8 _лицемірство; святенництво; хитрість
an angel on top but a devil underneath a clean glove often hides a dirty hand cunning is the ape of wisdom cunning is the fool's substitute for wisdom the devil can cite Scripture for his purpose foxes, when they cannot reach the grapes, say they are not ripe the friar preached against stealing and had a goose in his sleeve he that is not strong should be cunning look twice at a two-faced man many kiss the hand they wish cut off pleasing words and bad deeds deceive both the wise and the simple saint abroad and devil at homeEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _лицемірство; святенництво; хитрість
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9 _чоловік і жінка
all women look the same after the sun goes down a woman knows a bit more than Satan a woman's strength is in her tongue any wise man can be fooled by a foolish woman behind every great man there is a great woman deeds are masculine; words are feminine handle with care women and glass he that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man it takes twenty-one years for one woman to make a man of her son; it takes twenty-one seconds for another woman to make a fool of him a man doesn't want a woman smarter than he is a man is as old as he feels, and a woman as old as she looks man reigns, but woman rules a man thinks he know, but a woman knows better a man who won't lie to a woman has very little consideration for her feelings the man who can govern a woman can govern a nation men are always wooing goddesses and marrying mere mortals tell a woman and you tell the world men are born the slaves of women the only secret a woman can keep is her age men build houses; women build homes two women can never live under one roof while there's a world, it's a woman that will govern it a woman can throw out the window more than a man can bring in at the door women are strong when they arm themselves with their weaknesses women will have last word a young woman married to an old man must behave like an old woman women would be more charming if one could fall into their arms without falling into their hands -
10 _шлюб; дім; сім'я
accidents will happen in the best regulated families a bad husband cannot be a good man before you go in double harness, look well to the other horse better one house spoiled than two big houses have small families, and small houses big families a blind man's wife needs no paint the calmest husbands take the stormiest wives choose your love, then love your choice choose your man as you choose your shoes – for comfort and long wear a deaf husband and a blind wife are always a happy couple don't marry a girl who wants strawberries in January each husband gets the infidelity he deserves earlier wed, sooner dead every family has a black sheep every man can tame a shrew but he that has one everyone can keep house better than her mother until she tries the father is the guest who best becomes the table first thrive and then wife a friend married is a friend lost a good husband makes a good wife the grey mare is the better horse happy is the bride that the sun shines on he that has not got a wife is not yet a complete man he who has a fair wife needs more than two eyes honest men marry soon, wise men not at all he that marries a widow and four children marries four thieves he that takes a wife takes a care he that tells his wife news is but newly wed he that will thrive must first ask his wife he who marries for wealth sells his liberty the husband is always the last to know the husband is the head of the house, but the wife is the neck and the neck moves the head if you wish praise, die; if you wish blame, marry it is not every couple that is a pair keep your eyes wide open before marriage, half shut afterwards a kind wife makes a faithful husband the Lord makes a man, but the wife makes a husband love takes away the sight, and matrimony restores it a man is newly married who tells his wife everything marriage goes by contrasts marriage is a lottery marriage makes or mars a man marriages are made in heaven marry above your match and you get a master marry in haste, and repent at leisure marry a handsome man and you marry trouble marry late or never marry your son when you please and your daughter when you can men are what their mothers made them most men get as good a wife as they deserve the mother-in-law remembers not that she was a daughter-in-law never interfere with family quarrels never marry for money, but marry where money is a nurse spoils a good housewife nurses put one bit in the child's mouth and two in their own observe the mother and take the daughter put not your hand between the bark and the tree a shotgun marriage won't last longer than the honeymoon sweet-talk to the old lady to get to the daughter there are as many good stepmothers as white ravens there is one good wife in the country, and every man thinks he has her to marry once is a duty, twice is folly, thrice is madness the woman who obeys her husband rules him want makes strife between man and wife when going to sea, pray once; when going to war, pray twice; when going to be married, pray thrice when the husband earns well, the wife spends well when you get married you tie a knot with your tongue that you can't untie with your teeth where there's marriage without love, there will be love without marriage whoever is tired of a happy day, let him take a wifeEnglish-Ukrainian dictionary of proverbs > _шлюб; дім; сім'я
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