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21 economy
n1) экономика; хозяйство2) экономия; бережливость•to build up national economy — строить / создавать национальную экономику
to improve one's economy — улучшать состояние экономики
to meet the needs of the national economy for smth — удовлетворять потребности национальной экономики в чем-л.
to rebuild a country's economy — восстанавливать / реконструировать экономику страны
to rehabilitate the war-ravaged national economy — восстанавливать разрушенную войной экономику страны
to remodel the economy — переделывать / изменять экономику
to revitalize / to revive the economy — возрождать / оживлять экономику
to satisfy the needs of the national economy for smth — удовлетворять потребности национальной экономики в чем-л.
to stimulate one's domestic economy — стимулировать рост экономики внутри страны
- adversely affected branches of economyto tighten one's economy hold — усиливать свое экономическое влияние
- agricultural economy
- ailing economy
- ailing economies of the Third World
- all-embracing economy
- appalling state of the economy
- balanced development of the branches of economy
- barter economy
- beleaguered economy
- black economy
- buoyancy in a country's economy
- buoyant economy
- business economy
- capitalist economy
- centralized economy
- centrally planned economy
- closed economy
- cohesive economy
- collapsing economy
- colonialist economy
- command economy
- commanding heights of the economy
- competitive economy
- complementary economies
- consumer economy
- controlled economy
- crippled economy
- crisis-free economy
- critical state of the economy
- day-to-day running of economy
- debt-ridden economy
- defense economy
- developed economy
- developed national economy
- developing economy
- dire state of the economy
- disrupted economy
- domestic economy
- economy catches its breath
- economy constricts
- economy expands
- economy goes deeper into crisis
- economy goes into a decline
- economy is buoyant
- economy is close to collapse
- economy is coming out of recession
- economy is crumbling
- economy is diving into a recession
- economy is facing a slump
- economy is faltering
- economy is headed upward
- economy is in a dreadful state
- economy is in a state of collapse
- economy is in bad condition
- economy is in recession
- economy is in the doldrums
- economy is not out of the woods yet
- economy is rolling downhill
- economy is sagging
- economy is seriously unbalanced
- economy is shrinking
- economy of disarmament
- economy of fuel
- economy of one-sided development
- economy of scarcity
- economy recovers
- economy undergoing charges
- economy will undergo drastic surgical measures
- economy with a high rate of growth in per capita output
- economies of industrialized countries are booming
- economies of scale
- economies on labor
- economies on social services
- emerging economy
- engineering economy
- exchange economy
- expanding economy
- fast developing economy
- flagging economy
- fragile economy
- frail economy
- free economy
- free enterprise economy
- freewheeling economy
- full employment economy
- ghost economy
- gilt-edged economy
- global economy
- gray economy
- green economy
- gross mismanagement of economy
- growth of the economy
- growth rate of the economy
- healthy economy
- high employment economy
- high interest rates further dampen down the economy
- highly developed branches of the economy
- home economy
- humane economy
- industrial economy
- inflationary pressures on the economy
- intensification of economy
- laissez-faire economy
- less centralized grip on the economy
- lop-sided economy
- low pressure economy
- major economy
- management of the economy
- market economy
- market-oriented economy
- mature economy
- mechanics of economy
- militarization of the economy
- militarized economy
- military economy
- mixed economy
- modernization of the economy
- monetary economy
- moribund economy
- multibranch economy
- multisectoral economy
- multistructrural economy
- national economy
- no-growth period of economy
- ongoing trends in the world economy
- overheated economy
- peace-time economy
- peasant economy
- plan-based economy
- planless economy
- plan-market economy
- planned economy
- pluralistic economy - powerful economy
- private economy
- private enterprise economy
- private sector of the economy
- progressive transformation of the economy
- protected economy
- public sector of the economy
- rapid expansion of the economy
- ravaged economy
- recovery in economy
- reforming of the economy along western lines
- regulated market economy
- retooling of the national economy
- revitalization of the economy
- robber economy
- robust economy
- run-down economy
- rural economy
- sagging economy
- sane economy
- self-sustained economy
- shadow economy
- shaky economy
- shattered economy
- shift away from central control of the economy
- shift to a market economy
- sick economy
- siege economy
- simple commodity economy
- size of the economy
- slide in the economy
- slowing of economy
- sluggish economy
- socialist economy
- socialist system of economy
- socialized economy
- sound economy
- Soviet-style economy
- spaceman economy
- spontaneous economy
- stability of economy
- stagnant economy - state-run economy
- stationary economy
- steady-state economy
- strict economy
- strong economy
- study of world economy
- subsistence economy
- sustained growth of economy
- swift transition to market economy
- swiss-cheese economy
- switchover to a market economy
- the country's economy grew by 10 per cent
- the country's economy has been in better shape than before
- the country's economy is in a pretty bad way
- the country's economy is in dire trouble
- tottering economy
- transition to market economy
- troubled economy
- turnaround in the economy
- two interlined economies
- unbalanced economy
- under-the-table economy
- unstable economy
- viable economy
- war economy
- war-ravaged economy
- war-time economy
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22 contract
A n1 Admin, Jur ( agreement) contrat m (for pour ; with avec) ; employment contract, contract of employment contrat m de travail ; a two-year contract un contrat de deux ans ; to enter into a contract with passer un contrat avec ; to be on a contract être sous contrat ; to be under contract with être sous contrat avec ; to be under contract to travailler sous contrat avec ; to be out of contract être libre de tout contrat ;2 Comm ( tender) contrat m ; to win/lose a contract remporter/perdre un contrat ; to award a contract to octroyer un contrat à ; to place a contract for sth with octroyer un contrat pour qch à ; a contract to maintain ou for the maintenance of un contrat d'entretien de ; to do work under contract faire un travail par or sur contrat ; to put work out to contract donner un travail en sous-traitance ;3 ◑ ( for assassination) to put out a contract on payer un tueur à gages pour abattre [person] ; there's a contract out on him un tueur a été engagé pour l'abattre ;B modif [labour, worker] contractuel/-elle ; the work is done on a contract basis le travail est effectué en sous-traitance.C vtr4 ( tighten) contracter [muscles].D vi1 Comm, Jur ( undertake) to contract to do s'engager par contrat à faire ; to contract with sb to do passer un contrat avec qn pour faire ;■ contract into GB:▶ contract into [sth] souscrire à [group, scheme].■ contract out GB:▶ contract out [sth], contract [sth] out donner [qch] en sous-traitance [building maintenance, work] (to à). -
23 Artificial Intelligence
In my opinion, none of [these programs] does even remote justice to the complexity of human mental processes. Unlike men, "artificially intelligent" programs tend to be single minded, undistractable, and unemotional. (Neisser, 1967, p. 9)Future progress in [artificial intelligence] will depend on the development of both practical and theoretical knowledge.... As regards theoretical knowledge, some have sought a unified theory of artificial intelligence. My view is that artificial intelligence is (or soon will be) an engineering discipline since its primary goal is to build things. (Nilsson, 1971, pp. vii-viii)Most workers in AI [artificial intelligence] research and in related fields confess to a pronounced feeling of disappointment in what has been achieved in the last 25 years. Workers entered the field around 1950, and even around 1960, with high hopes that are very far from being realized in 1972. In no part of the field have the discoveries made so far produced the major impact that was then promised.... In the meantime, claims and predictions regarding the potential results of AI research had been publicized which went even farther than the expectations of the majority of workers in the field, whose embarrassments have been added to by the lamentable failure of such inflated predictions....When able and respected scientists write in letters to the present author that AI, the major goal of computing science, represents "another step in the general process of evolution"; that possibilities in the 1980s include an all-purpose intelligence on a human-scale knowledge base; that awe-inspiring possibilities suggest themselves based on machine intelligence exceeding human intelligence by the year 2000 [one has the right to be skeptical]. (Lighthill, 1972, p. 17)4) Just as Astronomy Succeeded Astrology, the Discovery of Intellectual Processes in Machines Should Lead to a Science, EventuallyJust as astronomy succeeded astrology, following Kepler's discovery of planetary regularities, the discoveries of these many principles in empirical explorations on intellectual processes in machines should lead to a science, eventually. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)5) Problems in Machine Intelligence Arise Because Things Obvious to Any Person Are Not Represented in the ProgramMany problems arise in experiments on machine intelligence because things obvious to any person are not represented in any program. One can pull with a string, but one cannot push with one.... Simple facts like these caused serious problems when Charniak attempted to extend Bobrow's "Student" program to more realistic applications, and they have not been faced up to until now. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 77)What do we mean by [a symbolic] "description"? We do not mean to suggest that our descriptions must be made of strings of ordinary language words (although they might be). The simplest kind of description is a structure in which some features of a situation are represented by single ("primitive") symbols, and relations between those features are represented by other symbols-or by other features of the way the description is put together. (Minsky & Papert, 1973, p. 11)[AI is] the use of computer programs and programming techniques to cast light on the principles of intelligence in general and human thought in particular. (Boden, 1977, p. 5)The word you look for and hardly ever see in the early AI literature is the word knowledge. They didn't believe you have to know anything, you could always rework it all.... In fact 1967 is the turning point in my mind when there was enough feeling that the old ideas of general principles had to go.... I came up with an argument for what I called the primacy of expertise, and at the time I called the other guys the generalists. (Moses, quoted in McCorduck, 1979, pp. 228-229)9) Artificial Intelligence Is Psychology in a Particularly Pure and Abstract FormThe basic idea of cognitive science is that intelligent beings are semantic engines-in other words, automatic formal systems with interpretations under which they consistently make sense. We can now see why this includes psychology and artificial intelligence on a more or less equal footing: people and intelligent computers (if and when there are any) turn out to be merely different manifestations of the same underlying phenomenon. Moreover, with universal hardware, any semantic engine can in principle be formally imitated by a computer if only the right program can be found. And that will guarantee semantic imitation as well, since (given the appropriate formal behavior) the semantics is "taking care of itself" anyway. Thus we also see why, from this perspective, artificial intelligence can be regarded as psychology in a particularly pure and abstract form. The same fundamental structures are under investigation, but in AI, all the relevant parameters are under direct experimental control (in the programming), without any messy physiology or ethics to get in the way. (Haugeland, 1981b, p. 31)There are many different kinds of reasoning one might imagine:Formal reasoning involves the syntactic manipulation of data structures to deduce new ones following prespecified rules of inference. Mathematical logic is the archetypical formal representation. Procedural reasoning uses simulation to answer questions and solve problems. When we use a program to answer What is the sum of 3 and 4? it uses, or "runs," a procedural model of arithmetic. Reasoning by analogy seems to be a very natural mode of thought for humans but, so far, difficult to accomplish in AI programs. The idea is that when you ask the question Can robins fly? the system might reason that "robins are like sparrows, and I know that sparrows can fly, so robins probably can fly."Generalization and abstraction are also natural reasoning process for humans that are difficult to pin down well enough to implement in a program. If one knows that Robins have wings, that Sparrows have wings, and that Blue jays have wings, eventually one will believe that All birds have wings. This capability may be at the core of most human learning, but it has not yet become a useful technique in AI.... Meta- level reasoning is demonstrated by the way one answers the question What is Paul Newman's telephone number? You might reason that "if I knew Paul Newman's number, I would know that I knew it, because it is a notable fact." This involves using "knowledge about what you know," in particular, about the extent of your knowledge and about the importance of certain facts. Recent research in psychology and AI indicates that meta-level reasoning may play a central role in human cognitive processing. (Barr & Feigenbaum, 1981, pp. 146-147)Suffice it to say that programs already exist that can do things-or, at the very least, appear to be beginning to do things-which ill-informed critics have asserted a priori to be impossible. Examples include: perceiving in a holistic as opposed to an atomistic way; using language creatively; translating sensibly from one language to another by way of a language-neutral semantic representation; planning acts in a broad and sketchy fashion, the details being decided only in execution; distinguishing between different species of emotional reaction according to the psychological context of the subject. (Boden, 1981, p. 33)Can the synthesis of Man and Machine ever be stable, or will the purely organic component become such a hindrance that it has to be discarded? If this eventually happens-and I have... good reasons for thinking that it must-we have nothing to regret and certainly nothing to fear. (Clarke, 1984, p. 243)The thesis of GOFAI... is not that the processes underlying intelligence can be described symbolically... but that they are symbolic. (Haugeland, 1985, p. 113)14) Artificial Intelligence Provides a Useful Approach to Psychological and Psychiatric Theory FormationIt is all very well formulating psychological and psychiatric theories verbally but, when using natural language (even technical jargon), it is difficult to recognise when a theory is complete; oversights are all too easily made, gaps too readily left. This is a point which is generally recognised to be true and it is for precisely this reason that the behavioural sciences attempt to follow the natural sciences in using "classical" mathematics as a more rigorous descriptive language. However, it is an unfortunate fact that, with a few notable exceptions, there has been a marked lack of success in this application. It is my belief that a different approach-a different mathematics-is needed, and that AI provides just this approach. (Hand, quoted in Hand, 1985, pp. 6-7)We might distinguish among four kinds of AI.Research of this kind involves building and programming computers to perform tasks which, to paraphrase Marvin Minsky, would require intelligence if they were done by us. Researchers in nonpsychological AI make no claims whatsoever about the psychological realism of their programs or the devices they build, that is, about whether or not computers perform tasks as humans do.Research here is guided by the view that the computer is a useful tool in the study of mind. In particular, we can write computer programs or build devices that simulate alleged psychological processes in humans and then test our predictions about how the alleged processes work. We can weave these programs and devices together with other programs and devices that simulate different alleged mental processes and thereby test the degree to which the AI system as a whole simulates human mentality. According to weak psychological AI, working with computer models is a way of refining and testing hypotheses about processes that are allegedly realized in human minds.... According to this view, our minds are computers and therefore can be duplicated by other computers. Sherry Turkle writes that the "real ambition is of mythic proportions, making a general purpose intelligence, a mind." (Turkle, 1984, p. 240) The authors of a major text announce that "the ultimate goal of AI research is to build a person or, more humbly, an animal." (Charniak & McDermott, 1985, p. 7)Research in this field, like strong psychological AI, takes seriously the functionalist view that mentality can be realized in many different types of physical devices. Suprapsychological AI, however, accuses strong psychological AI of being chauvinisticof being only interested in human intelligence! Suprapsychological AI claims to be interested in all the conceivable ways intelligence can be realized. (Flanagan, 1991, pp. 241-242)16) Determination of Relevance of Rules in Particular ContextsEven if the [rules] were stored in a context-free form the computer still couldn't use them. To do that the computer requires rules enabling it to draw on just those [ rules] which are relevant in each particular context. Determination of relevance will have to be based on further facts and rules, but the question will again arise as to which facts and rules are relevant for making each particular determination. One could always invoke further facts and rules to answer this question, but of course these must be only the relevant ones. And so it goes. It seems that AI workers will never be able to get started here unless they can settle the problem of relevance beforehand by cataloguing types of context and listing just those facts which are relevant in each. (Dreyfus & Dreyfus, 1986, p. 80)Perhaps the single most important idea to artificial intelligence is that there is no fundamental difference between form and content, that meaning can be captured in a set of symbols such as a semantic net. (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)Artificial intelligence is based on the assumption that the mind can be described as some kind of formal system manipulating symbols that stand for things in the world. Thus it doesn't matter what the brain is made of, or what it uses for tokens in the great game of thinking. Using an equivalent set of tokens and rules, we can do thinking with a digital computer, just as we can play chess using cups, salt and pepper shakers, knives, forks, and spoons. Using the right software, one system (the mind) can be mapped into the other (the computer). (G. Johnson, 1986, p. 250)19) A Statement of the Primary and Secondary Purposes of Artificial IntelligenceThe primary goal of Artificial Intelligence is to make machines smarter.The secondary goals of Artificial Intelligence are to understand what intelligence is (the Nobel laureate purpose) and to make machines more useful (the entrepreneurial purpose). (Winston, 1987, p. 1)The theoretical ideas of older branches of engineering are captured in the language of mathematics. We contend that mathematical logic provides the basis for theory in AI. Although many computer scientists already count logic as fundamental to computer science in general, we put forward an even stronger form of the logic-is-important argument....AI deals mainly with the problem of representing and using declarative (as opposed to procedural) knowledge. Declarative knowledge is the kind that is expressed as sentences, and AI needs a language in which to state these sentences. Because the languages in which this knowledge usually is originally captured (natural languages such as English) are not suitable for computer representations, some other language with the appropriate properties must be used. It turns out, we think, that the appropriate properties include at least those that have been uppermost in the minds of logicians in their development of logical languages such as the predicate calculus. Thus, we think that any language for expressing knowledge in AI systems must be at least as expressive as the first-order predicate calculus. (Genesereth & Nilsson, 1987, p. viii)21) Perceptual Structures Can Be Represented as Lists of Elementary PropositionsIn artificial intelligence studies, perceptual structures are represented as assemblages of description lists, the elementary components of which are propositions asserting that certain relations hold among elements. (Chase & Simon, 1988, p. 490)Artificial intelligence (AI) is sometimes defined as the study of how to build and/or program computers to enable them to do the sorts of things that minds can do. Some of these things are commonly regarded as requiring intelligence: offering a medical diagnosis and/or prescription, giving legal or scientific advice, proving theorems in logic or mathematics. Others are not, because they can be done by all normal adults irrespective of educational background (and sometimes by non-human animals too), and typically involve no conscious control: seeing things in sunlight and shadows, finding a path through cluttered terrain, fitting pegs into holes, speaking one's own native tongue, and using one's common sense. Because it covers AI research dealing with both these classes of mental capacity, this definition is preferable to one describing AI as making computers do "things that would require intelligence if done by people." However, it presupposes that computers could do what minds can do, that they might really diagnose, advise, infer, and understand. One could avoid this problematic assumption (and also side-step questions about whether computers do things in the same way as we do) by defining AI instead as "the development of computers whose observable performance has features which in humans we would attribute to mental processes." This bland characterization would be acceptable to some AI workers, especially amongst those focusing on the production of technological tools for commercial purposes. But many others would favour a more controversial definition, seeing AI as the science of intelligence in general-or, more accurately, as the intellectual core of cognitive science. As such, its goal is to provide a systematic theory that can explain (and perhaps enable us to replicate) both the general categories of intentionality and the diverse psychological capacities grounded in them. (Boden, 1990b, pp. 1-2)Because the ability to store data somewhat corresponds to what we call memory in human beings, and because the ability to follow logical procedures somewhat corresponds to what we call reasoning in human beings, many members of the cult have concluded that what computers do somewhat corresponds to what we call thinking. It is no great difficulty to persuade the general public of that conclusion since computers process data very fast in small spaces well below the level of visibility; they do not look like other machines when they are at work. They seem to be running along as smoothly and silently as the brain does when it remembers and reasons and thinks. On the other hand, those who design and build computers know exactly how the machines are working down in the hidden depths of their semiconductors. Computers can be taken apart, scrutinized, and put back together. Their activities can be tracked, analyzed, measured, and thus clearly understood-which is far from possible with the brain. This gives rise to the tempting assumption on the part of the builders and designers that computers can tell us something about brains, indeed, that the computer can serve as a model of the mind, which then comes to be seen as some manner of information processing machine, and possibly not as good at the job as the machine. (Roszak, 1994, pp. xiv-xv)The inner workings of the human mind are far more intricate than the most complicated systems of modern technology. Researchers in the field of artificial intelligence have been attempting to develop programs that will enable computers to display intelligent behavior. Although this field has been an active one for more than thirty-five years and has had many notable successes, AI researchers still do not know how to create a program that matches human intelligence. No existing program can recall facts, solve problems, reason, learn, and process language with human facility. This lack of success has occurred not because computers are inferior to human brains but rather because we do not yet know in sufficient detail how intelligence is organized in the brain. (Anderson, 1995, p. 2)Historical dictionary of quotations in cognitive science > Artificial Intelligence
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24 shell
I [ʃel]1) bot. zool. (of egg, nut, snail) guscio m.; (of crab, tortoise) corazza f.to develop a hard shell — fig. [ person] costruirsi una corazza
3) ind. tecn. (of vehicle) scocca f.; (of building) armatura f.; (of machine) carcassa f., intelaiatura f.body shell — aut. carrozzeria
4) (remains) (of building) scheletro m.••II [ʃel]1) mil. bombardare [town, installation]•* * *[ʃel] 1. noun1) (the hard outer covering of a shellfish, egg, nut etc: an eggshell; A tortoise can pull its head and legs under its shell.) guscio, conchiglia2) (an outer covering or framework: After the fire, all that was left was the burned-out shell of the building.) struttura, carcassa3) (a metal case filled with explosives and fired from a gun etc: A shell exploded right beside him.) proiettile2. verb1) (to remove from its shell or pod: You have to shell peas before eating them.) sgusciare, sgranare2) (to fire explosive shells at: The army shelled the enemy mercilessly.) bombardare•- come out of one's shell
- shell out* * *I [ʃel]1) bot. zool. (of egg, nut, snail) guscio m.; (of crab, tortoise) corazza f.to develop a hard shell — fig. [ person] costruirsi una corazza
3) ind. tecn. (of vehicle) scocca f.; (of building) armatura f.; (of machine) carcassa f., intelaiatura f.body shell — aut. carrozzeria
4) (remains) (of building) scheletro m.••II [ʃel]1) mil. bombardare [town, installation]• -
25 grow
<grew, grown> [grəʊ, Am groʊ] vi1) ( increase in size) wachsen;haven't you \grown! bist du aber gewachsen [o groß geworden] !;roses grew up against the wall Rosen rankten sich an der Wand hoch;to \grow taller größer werden, wachsen3) ( increase) wachsen, zunehmen, steigen;football's popularity continues to \grow Fußball wird immer populärer;to \grow by 2 % um 2 % wachsen [o zunehmen];5) ( become) werden;he is finding it hard to cope with \growing old er tut sich mit dem Älterwerden schwer;she has \grown to hate him mit der Zeit lernte sie, ihn zu hassen;to \grow wiser weiser werden;to \grow to like sth langsam beginnen, etw zu mögenPHRASES:money doesn't \grow on trees (doesn't \grow on trees) Geld fällt nicht vom Himmel [o wächst nicht auf Bäumen] ( prov)tall oaks from little acorns \grow (from little acorns \grow) große Dinge beginnen im Kleinen vtto \grow sth1) ( cultivate) etw anbauen;to \grow flowers Blumen züchten;to \grow one's own fruit/ vegetables selbst Obst/Gemüse anbauen;to \grow sth from seed etw aus Samen ziehen2) ( let grow) etw wachsen lassen;to \grow one's hair [sich dat] die Haare wachsen lassen3) ( develop) etw entwickeln;the male deer \grows large antlers dem Hirsch wächst ein mächtiges Geweih;furry animals \grow a thicker coat in winter Pelztiere bekommen im Winter ein dichteres Fell -
26 flower
1. n цветок; цветущее растение2. n тк. цвет, краса3. n цветение4. n расцвет5. n украшение, орнаментflowers of speech — цветы красноречия; красивые обороты речи
6. n полигр. растительный орнамент; виньетка7. n сл. гомосексуалист, гомикto sprinkle the flowers — давать взятки;
8. v цвести9. v находиться в расцветеthe Italian genius flowered at the Renaissance — гений итальянского народа достиг расцвета в эпоху Возрождения
10. v расцветать, развиваться11. v выращивать, доводить до цветения12. v украшать цветами или цветочным орнаментомСинонимический ряд:1. aristocracy (noun) aristocracy; aristoi; blue blood; carriage trade; creme de la creme; gentility; gentry; haut monde; optimacy; patriciate; quality; society; upper class; upper crust; who's who2. best (noun) best; choice; cream; elite; fat; finest; pick; pride; primrose; prize; top3. blossom (noun) blossom; blow; bouquet; bud; cluster; efflorescence; floweret; pompon; posy; spray4. prime (noun) bloom; florescence; floret; flush; prime5. blossom (verb) bloom; blossom; blow; bud; burgeon; effloresce; outbloom6. develop (verb) develop; prosper; thrive7. flourish (verb) flourishАнтонимический ряд:die; dregs; droop; fade; flag; wane; wither -
27 labour
1. n труд2. n работа, задание; задача3. n возвыш. житейские дела, заботы; невзгоды4. n рабочий класс; труд5. n рабочие; работники; рабочая сила6. n лейбористская партия7. n чрезмерное усилие; затруднённость8. n родовые муки, роды9. n арх. продукт или результат трудаlost labour — напрасный труд, тщетные усилия
10. a лейбористскийlabour leader — лейбористский лидер; руководитель тред-юниона
11. v трудиться, работать12. v прилагать усилия, добиваться, стремиться13. v двигаться, продвигаться с трудом14. v мор. испытывать сильную качку; преодолевать волнениеlabour trouble — волнения среди рабочих, стачки
15. v тщательно, кропотливо разрабатывать; рассматривать подробно, во всех деталях16. v быть в затруднении, мучиться, страдать; подвергатьсяto labour under a delusion — впадать в ошибку, быть в заблуждении, жестоко заблуждаться
17. v мучиться родами, рожать18. v арх. поэт. обрабатыватьСинонимический ряд:1. birth (noun) birth; childbearing; childbirth; delivery; parturition; travail2. work (noun) drive; drudgery; exertion; moil; strain; sweat; toil; travail; work3. working class (noun) working class4. belabour (verb) belabour; elaborate; overdo5. develop (verb) amplify; develop; dilate; enlarge; expand6. drive (verb) cultivate; drive; drudge; fag; moil; strain; strive; sweat; task; tax; toil; travail; tug; work7. suffer (verb) be distressed; be troubled; sufferАнтонимический ряд:dawdling; ease; idleness; inactivity; incompetence; indolence; laziness; lethargy; loafing; loitering; relaxation -
28 Champion, William
SUBJECT AREA: Metallurgy[br]b. 1710 Bristol, Englandd. 1789 England[br]English metallurgist, the first to produce metallic zinc in England on an industrial scale.[br]William, the youngest of the three sons of Nehemiah Champion, stemmed from a West Country Quaker family long associated with the metal trades. His grandfather, also called Nehemiah, had been one of Abraham Darby's close Quaker friends when the brassworks at Baptist Mills was being established in 1702 and 1703. Nehemiah II took over the management of these works soon after Darby went to Coalbrookdale, and in 1719, as one of a group of Bristol copper smelters, he negotiated an agreement with Lord Falmouth to develop copper mines in the Redruth area in Cornwall. In 1723 he was granted a patent for a cementation brass-making process using finely granulated copper rather than the broken fragments of massive copper hitherto employed.In 1730 he returned to Bristol after a tour of European metallurgical centres, and he began to develop an industrial process for the manufacture of pure zinc ingots in England. Metallic zinc or spelter was then imported at great expense from the Far East, largely for the manufacture of copper alloys of golden colour used for cheap jewellery. The process William developed, after six years of experimentation, reduced zinc oxide with charcoal at temperatures well above the boiling point of zinc. The zinc vapour obtained was condensed rapidly to prevent reoxidation and finally collected under water. This process, patented in 1738, was operated in secret until 1766 when Watson described it in his Chemical Essays. After encountering much opposition from the Bristol merchants and zinc importers, William decided to establish his own integrated brassworks at Warmley, five meals east of Bristol. The Warmley plant began to produce in 1748 and expanded rapidly. By 1767, when Warmley employed about 2,000 men, women and children, more capital was needed, requiring a Royal Charter of Incorporation. A consortium of Champion's competitors opposed this and secured its refusal. After this defeat William lost the confidence of his fellow directors, who dismissed him. He was declared bankrupt in 1769 and his works were sold to the British Brass Company, which never operated Warmley at full capacity, although it produced zinc on that site until 1784.[br]Bibliography1723, British patent no. 454 (cementation brass-making process).1738, British patent no. 564 (zinc ingot production process).1767, British patent no. 867 (brass manufacture wing zinc blende).Further ReadingJ.Day, 1973, Bristol Brass: The History of the Industry, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.A.Raistrick, 1970, Dynasty of Ironfounders: The Darbys and Coalbrookdale, Newton Abbot: David \& Charles.J.R.Harris, 1964, The Copper King, Liverpool University Press.ASD -
29 thrust
θrʌst
1. сущ.
1) а) выпад, удар;
укол, колющий удар б) резкое выступление (против кого-л.), выпад, колкость в) вооруженное нападение, атака
2) толчок, тычок
3) а) тех. опора, упор б) тех. осевая нагрузка в) геол. горизонтальное или боковое давление, надвиг
2. гл.
1) а) колоть, пронзать, наносить колющий удар;
тыкать, протыкать б) засовывать, совать, пихать;
лезть, пролезать, протискиваться
2) навязывать( кому-л. что-л.), оказывать давление ∙ thrust against thrust aside thrust at thrust away thrust back thrust forth thrust forward thrust in thrust into thrust out thrust through thrust up thrust upon Syn: propel толчок - * with the elbow толчок локтем всовывание, засовывание - she hid the book under the pillow with a quick * быстрым движением она сунула /спрятала/ книгу под подушку колющий удар;
тычок;
выпад - * weapon колющее оружие - with a /one/ * одним ударом - * and parry выпад и отбив (фехтование) ;
пикировка, обмен колкостями;
(военное) (разговорное) бой с переменным успехом колкое замечание, колкость;
выпад - the * went home замечание попало в цель - that was a * at you это было замечание по вашему адресу, это камешек в ваш огород удар - to make a major * at the city нанести главный удар /продвинуться/ в направлении города - to deliver a * наносить удар - to mount a * наносить удар;
(военное) организовать удар - to open a * (военное) начинать наступление - to parry a * парировать выпад (тж. перен.) ;
(военное) (разговорное) отражать удар - the * went home удар достиг цели направление, уклон - the main * of office automation главное направление в автоматизации канцелярской службы - * toward ardent nationalism (резкий) сдвиг в сторону яростного национализма пафос - the * of his teachings пафос его учения дух;
напористость - to lose political * утратить политическую напористость /боевитость/ - the new era lost the * of the previous years новая эпоха утратила неукротимый дух прежних лет давление - the * of a rafter against the supporting wall давление стропила /балки/ на стену - to carry the * выдерживать давление - the * of competition from France( образное) конкурентное давление со стороны Франции (геология) горизонтальное или боковое давление, надвиг (тж. lateral *) (горное) раздавливание( целиков) (техническое) опора, упор напор осевая нагрузка противодавление (авиация) тяга;
сила тяги( двигателя) - to develop /to produce/ a 20000 kilo * at take-off развивать тягу в 20000 кг при взлете - rocket engine * depends on the speed of the gases сила тяги реактивного двигателя зависит от скорости истечения газов (устаревшее) встреча, бой ( на шпагах и т. п.) - to have a * with smb. помериться с кем-л. в искусстве владеть мечом или шпагой > cut and * пикировка, оживленный спор > each autor is subjected to the cut and * of the discussion by other specialists каждый автор является мишенью для критических замечаний других специалистов толкать, тыкать - to * smb. forward подтолкнуть кого-л. (вперед) - to * oneself forward проталкиваться вперед - to * the chair against the door резко придвинуть стул к двери - to * smb. out of the house вытолкать кого-л. из дому;
изгнать кого-л. из дому - to * one's way /oneself/ through the crowd пробивать /прокладывать/ себе дорогу сквозь толпу, проталкиваться сквозь толпу толкаться;
пробиваться, лезть - to * at the door толкаться в дверях;
лезть в дверь - to * in between smb. протиснуться между кем-л. - the woman * past me into the room женщина протиснулась мимо меня в комнату refl навязываться, пролезать, втираться - to * oneself into smb's society навязываться кому-л., втираться в чье-л. общество - to * oneself into the conversation вмешаться в разговор - to * oneself into a highly paid job пролезть на хорошо оплачиваемое место - to * oneself forward обращать на себя внимание - they * themselves into his life они против его воли вошли в его жизнь совать;
засовывать, всовывать, просовывать - to * one's hands into one's pockets засунуть руки в карманы - to * on one's gloves сунуть руки в перчатки, натянуть на руки перчатки - to * a bunch of flowers into her hands сунуть букет цаетов ей в руки - to * smth. under smb.'s nose совать что-л. под нос кому-л. - to * one's nose into smb.'s affairs совать нос в чужие дела - he wrote smth. on the cheque and * it in at the clerk он написал что-то на чеке и сунул его клерку - to * smb. into prison( образное) упрятать кого-л. в тюрьму навязывать - I don't want such things * on me я не хочу, чтобы мне навязывали такие вещи - he played the character parts formerly * upon me он играл характерные роли, которые раньше навязывали мне - I do not * my friendship on those who do not value it я не навязываю своей дружбы тем, кто ее не ценит наносить удар;
всаживать, вколачивать, вонзать;
колоть - to * smth., smb. through пронзать что-л., кого-л. - to * a dagger into smb.'s breast вонзить /всадить/ кинжал в грудь кому-л. - to * a spade into the ground вонзить лопату в землю - to * the tent pole deep into the ground всадить глубоко в землю опорную стойку палатки - the tree * its roots deep into the soil дерево пустило корни глубоко в почву, дерево глубоко вгрызлось корнями в почву делать выпад, наносить удар ( особ. в фехтовании) - to strike and * нападать и колоть - to * at one's opponent нанести удар противнику (военное) двигать, вводить - to * troops into combat бросать войска в бой продвигаться - an armoured battalion * into the southern regions бронетанковый батальон( с боями) продвинулся в южные районы (страны) упирать, подпирать > to cut and * пикироваться > to * smth. down smb.'s throat навязывать кому-л. что-л. (свое мнение и т. п.) home ~ едкое замечание;
удачный ответ home ~ удачный удар ~ навязывать (кому-л.) ;
I don't want such things thrust on me я не хочу, чтобы мне навязывали такие вещи;
thrust aside отталкивать, отбрасывать thrust вооруженное нападение, атака ~ геол. горизонтальное или боковое давление;
надвиг ~ колоть, пронзать ~ навязывать (кому-л.) ;
I don't want such things thrust on me я не хочу, чтобы мне навязывали такие вещи;
thrust aside отталкивать, отбрасывать ~ тех. опора, упор ~ тех. осевая нагрузка ~ протискиваться, лезть, пролезать;
to thrust one's way пробивать себе дорогу ~ резкое выступление (против кого-л.) ;
выпад, колкость ~ совать, засовывать;
to thrust one's hands into one's pockets засунуть руки в карманы ~ (~) толкать;
тыкать ~ толчок ~ удар, выпад ~ навязывать (кому-л.) ;
I don't want such things thrust on me я не хочу, чтобы мне навязывали такие вещи;
thrust aside отталкивать, отбрасывать ~ forth выталкивать;
проталкивать;
thrust in втыкать, всовывать, вонзать;
to thrust in a word вставить слово ~ forth выталкивать;
проталкивать;
thrust in втыкать, всовывать, вонзать;
to thrust in a word вставить слово ~ forth выталкивать;
проталкивать;
thrust in втыкать, всовывать, вонзать;
to thrust in a word вставить слово ~ совать, засовывать;
to thrust one's hands into one's pockets засунуть руки в карманы ~ протискиваться, лезть, пролезать;
to thrust one's way пробивать себе дорогу ~ out выгонять, выселять;
вышвыривать;
to thrust oneself forward обращать на себя внимание to ~ oneself into a well-paid position пролезть на хорошо оплачиваемую должность to ~ oneself into (smb.'s) society втереться в (чье-л.) общество ~ out выгонять, выселять;
вышвыривать;
to thrust oneself forward обращать на себя внимание -
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1. [θrʌst] n1. 1) толчок2) всовывание, засовываниеshe hid the book under the pillow with a quick thrust - быстрым движением она сунула /спрятала/ книгу под подушку
2. 1) колющий удар; тычок; выпадwith a /one/ thrust - одним ударом
thrust and parry - а) выпад и отбив ( фехтование); б) пикировка, обмен колкостями; в) воен. разг. бой с переменным успехом
2) колкое замечание, колкость; выпадthe thrust went home - замечание попало в цель [см. тж. 3]
that was a thrust at you - это было замечание по вашему адресу, это камешек в ваш огород
3. ударto make a major thrust at the city - нанести главный удар /продвинуться/ в направлении города
to deliver [to meet] a thrust - наносить [отражать] удар
to mount a thrust - а) наносить удар; б) воен. организовывать удар
to open a thrust - воен. начинать наступление
to parry a thrust - а) парировать выпад (тж. перен.); б) воен. разг. отражать удар
the thrust went home - удар достиг цели [см. тж. 2, 2)]
4. направление, уклонthe main thrust of office automation - главное направление в автоматизации канцелярской службы
thrust toward ardent nationalism - (резкий) сдвиг в сторону яростного национализма
5. 1) пафос2) дух; напористостьto lose political thrust - утратить политическую напористость /боевитость/
the new era lost the thrust of the previous years - новая эпоха утратила неукротимый дух прежних лет
6. 1) давлениеthe thrust of a rafter against the supporting wall - давление стропила /балки/ на стену
the thrust of competition from France - образн. конкурентное давление со стороны Франции
3) горн. раздавливание (целиков)7. тех.1) опора, упор2) напор3) осевая нагрузка4) противодавление8. ав. тяга; сила тяги ( двигателя)to develop /to produce/ a 20,000 kilo thrust at take-off - развивать тягу в 20 000 кг при взлёте
rocket engine thrust depends on the speed of the gases - сила тяги реактивного двигателя зависит от скорости истечения газов
9. уст. встреча, бой (на шпагах и т. п.)to have a thrust with smb. - помериться с кем-л. в искусстве владеть мечом или шпагой
♢
cut and thrust - пикировка, оживлённый спор2. [θrʌst] v (thrust)each author is subjected to the cut and thrust of the discussion by other specialists - каждый автор является мишенью для критических замечаний других специалистов
1. 1) толкать, тыкатьto thrust smb. forward - подтолкнуть кого-л. (вперёд)
to thrust smb. out of the house - а) вытолкать кого-л. из дому; б) изгнать кого-л. из дому
to thrust one's way /oneself/ through the crowd - пробивать /прокладывать/ себе дорогу сквозь толпу, проталкиваться сквозь толпу
2) толкаться; пробиваться, лезтьto thrust at the door - толкаться в дверях, лезть в дверь
to thrust in between smb. - протиснуться между кем-л.
the woman thrust past me into the room - женщина протиснулась мимо меня в комнату
3) refl навязываться, пролезать, втиратьсяto thrust oneself into smb.'s society - навязываться кому-л., втираться в чьё-л. общество
to thrust oneself into a highly paid job - пролезть на хорошо оплачиваемое место
they thrust themselves into his life - они против его воли вошли в его жизнь
2. 1) совать; засовывать, всовывать, просовыватьto thrust on one's gloves - сунуть руки в перчатки, натянуть на руки перчатки
to thrust a bunch of flowers [money] into her hands - сунуть букет цветов [деньги] ей в руки
to thrust smth. under smb.'s nose - совать что-л. под нос кому-л.
to thrust one's nose into smb.'s affairs - совать нос в чужие дела
he wrote smth. on the cheque and thrust it in at the clerk - он написал что-то на чеке и сунул его клерку
to thrust smb. into prison - образн. упрятать кого-л. в тюрьму
2) навязыватьI don't want such things thrust on me - я не хочу, чтобы мне навязывали такие вещи
he played the character parts formerly thrust upon me - он играл характерные роли, которые раньше навязывали мне
I do not thrust my friendship on those who do not value it - я не навязываю своей дружбы тем, кто её не ценит
3. 1) наносить удар; всаживать, вколачивать, вонзать; колотьto thrust smth., smb. through - пронзить что-л., кого-л.
to thrust a dagger into smb.'s breast - вонзить /всадить/ кинжал в грудь кому-л.
to thrust the tent pole deep into the ground - всадить глубоко в землю опорную стойку палатки
the tree thrust its roots deep into the soil - дерево пустило корни глубоко в почву, дерево глубоко вгрызлось корнями в почву
2) делать выпад, наносить удар (особ. в фехтовании)4. воен.1) двигать, вводить2) продвигатьсяan armoured battalion thrust into the southern regions - бронетанковый батальон (с боями) продвинулся в южные районы (страны)
5. упирать, подпирать♢
to cut and thrust - пикироватьсяto thrust smth. down smb.'s throat - навязывать кому-л. что-л. (свое мнение и т. п.)
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In1) поштовх2) колючий удар; стусан; випадthrust and parry — військ. бій з перемінним успіхом
to parry a thrust — а) військ. відбити удар; б) перен. парирувати випад
a home thrust — а) влучний удар; б) перен. ущипливе зауваження
3) зустріч, бій (на шпагах тощо)4) ав. тяга, сила тяги (двигуна)5) тех. опора, упор; осьове навантаження; напір, натиск; протитиск6) геол. горизонтальний (боковий) тискIIv (past і p.p. thrust)1) штовхати; тикатиto thrust smb. out of the house — а) виштовхати когось з будинку; б) перен. вигнати когось з дому
2) штовхатися; пробиватися, лізти3) засовувати, усовувати, просовувати4) перен. нав'язувати (свою думку)5) завдавати удару; колоти; простромлювати, устромлювати6) підпирати7) військ. рухати; уводити (в бій)8) військ. просуватися9):to thrust oneself — нав'язуватися, пролазити, втиратися (кудись)
thrust aside — відштовхувати, відкидати
thrust forth — а) виштовхувати; б) проштовхувати
thrust on — надіти, накинути
thrust out — виганяти, виселяти; викидати
thrust through — а) простромлювати, проколювати; б) пробиватися
* * *I [arest] n1) поштовхthrust with the elbow — поштовх ліктем; всовування, засування
she hid the book under the pillow with a quick thrust — швидким рухом вона засунула /сховала/ книгу під подушку
2) колючий удар; стусан; випадwith a /one/ thrust — одним ударом
thrust and parry — випад, відбивання ( фехтування); пікіровка, обмін образами; вiйcьк. бій зі перемінним успіхом; кілке зауваження, колючість; випад; the thrust went home зауваження досягло ціль [див.; тж. 3]
3) ударto make a major thrust at the city — завдати головного удару /просунутися/ у напрямку міста
to deliver [to meet]a thrust — наносити [відбивати]удар
to mount a thrust — завдавати удару; вiйcьк. організовувати удар
to open a thrust — вiйcьк. починати наступ
to parry a thrust — парирувати випад (тж. перен.); вiйcьк. відбивати удар
the thrust went home — удар досягнув ціль [див.; тж.2,;]
4) напрямок, ухилthrust toward ardent nationalism — ( різкий) зрушення убік лютого націоналізму
5) пафосthe thrust of his teachings — пафос його навчання; дух; напористість
to lose political thrust — втратити політичну напористість /войовничість/
6) тискthe thrust of a rafter against the supporting wall — тиск крокви /балки/ на стіну
the thrust of competition from France образн. — тиск конкуренції із боку Франції; гeoл. горизонтальний або бічний тиск, насування (тж. lateral thrust) гipн. роздавлювання ( цілини)
7) тex. опора, упор; напір; осьове навантаження; протитиск8) aв. тяга; сила тяги ( двигун)to develop /to produce/ a 20 000 kilo thrust at take-off — розвивати тягу у 20 000 кг при зльоті
9) icт. зустріч, бій ( на шпагах)cut and thrust — пікіровка, жвава суперечка
II [arest] veach author is subjected to the cut and thrust of the discussion by other specialists — кожен автор є мішенню для критичних зауважень інших фахівців
( thrust)1) штовхати, цокатиto thrust smb out of the house — виштовхнути когось з будинку; вигнати когось з будинку
to thrust one's way /oneself/ through the crowd — пробивати /прокладати/ собі дорогу крізь юрбу, проштовхуватися крізь юрбу; штовхатися; пробиватися, лізти
to thrust at the door — штовхатися у дверях, лізти у двері
to thrust in between smb — протиснутися між кимось; refl нав'язувати, пролазити, втискатись
to thrust oneself into smb 's society — нав'язувати комусь, втиснутись у чиюсь компанію
2) сунути; засовувати, всувати, просовуватиto thrust on one's gloves — сунути руки в рукавички, натягнути на руки рукавички
to thrust a bunch of flowers [money]into her hands — сунути букет квітів [гроші]їй у руки
to thrust smth under smb 's nose — сунути щось під ніс комусь
_ to thrust one's nose into smb 's affairs — сунути ніс у чужі справи
to thrust smb into prison — образн. запроторити когось до в'язниці; нав'язувати
he played the character parts formerly thrust upon me — він грав характерні ролі, які раніше нав'язували мені
3) завдавати удару; забивати, всадити; молотитиto thrust a dagger into smb 's breast — встромити /всадити/ кинджал у груди комусь
to thrust the tent pole deep into the ground — всадити глибоко в землю опорну стійку намету; робити випад, завдавати удару (особ. у фехтуванні)
4) вiйcьк. рухати, вводитиto thrust troops into combat — кидати війська в бій; просуватися
an armoured battalion thrust into the southern regions — бронетанковий батальйон ( з боями) просунувся в південні райони ( країни)
5) впирати••to thrust smth down smb 's throat — з кому-л что-л (своя думка е т. п.)
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32 thrust
I [arest] n1) поштовхthrust with the elbow — поштовх ліктем; всовування, засування
she hid the book under the pillow with a quick thrust — швидким рухом вона засунула /сховала/ книгу під подушку
2) колючий удар; стусан; випадwith a /one/ thrust — одним ударом
thrust and parry — випад, відбивання ( фехтування); пікіровка, обмін образами; вiйcьк. бій зі перемінним успіхом; кілке зауваження, колючість; випад; the thrust went home зауваження досягло ціль [див.; тж. 3]
3) ударto make a major thrust at the city — завдати головного удару /просунутися/ у напрямку міста
to deliver [to meet]a thrust — наносити [відбивати]удар
to mount a thrust — завдавати удару; вiйcьк. організовувати удар
to open a thrust — вiйcьк. починати наступ
to parry a thrust — парирувати випад (тж. перен.); вiйcьк. відбивати удар
the thrust went home — удар досягнув ціль [див.; тж.2,;]
4) напрямок, ухилthrust toward ardent nationalism — ( різкий) зрушення убік лютого націоналізму
5) пафосthe thrust of his teachings — пафос його навчання; дух; напористість
to lose political thrust — втратити політичну напористість /войовничість/
6) тискthe thrust of a rafter against the supporting wall — тиск крокви /балки/ на стіну
the thrust of competition from France образн. — тиск конкуренції із боку Франції; гeoл. горизонтальний або бічний тиск, насування (тж. lateral thrust) гipн. роздавлювання ( цілини)
7) тex. опора, упор; напір; осьове навантаження; протитиск8) aв. тяга; сила тяги ( двигун)to develop /to produce/ a 20 000 kilo thrust at take-off — розвивати тягу у 20 000 кг при зльоті
9) icт. зустріч, бій ( на шпагах)cut and thrust — пікіровка, жвава суперечка
II [arest] veach author is subjected to the cut and thrust of the discussion by other specialists — кожен автор є мішенню для критичних зауважень інших фахівців
( thrust)1) штовхати, цокатиto thrust smb out of the house — виштовхнути когось з будинку; вигнати когось з будинку
to thrust one's way /oneself/ through the crowd — пробивати /прокладати/ собі дорогу крізь юрбу, проштовхуватися крізь юрбу; штовхатися; пробиватися, лізти
to thrust at the door — штовхатися у дверях, лізти у двері
to thrust in between smb — протиснутися між кимось; refl нав'язувати, пролазити, втискатись
to thrust oneself into smb 's society — нав'язувати комусь, втиснутись у чиюсь компанію
2) сунути; засовувати, всувати, просовуватиto thrust on one's gloves — сунути руки в рукавички, натягнути на руки рукавички
to thrust a bunch of flowers [money]into her hands — сунути букет квітів [гроші]їй у руки
to thrust smth under smb 's nose — сунути щось під ніс комусь
_ to thrust one's nose into smb 's affairs — сунути ніс у чужі справи
to thrust smb into prison — образн. запроторити когось до в'язниці; нав'язувати
he played the character parts formerly thrust upon me — він грав характерні ролі, які раніше нав'язували мені
3) завдавати удару; забивати, всадити; молотитиto thrust a dagger into smb 's breast — встромити /всадити/ кинджал у груди комусь
to thrust the tent pole deep into the ground — всадити глибоко в землю опорну стійку намету; робити випад, завдавати удару (особ. у фехтуванні)
4) вiйcьк. рухати, вводитиto thrust troops into combat — кидати війська в бій; просуватися
an armoured battalion thrust into the southern regions — бронетанковий батальйон ( з боями) просунувся в південні райони ( країни)
5) впирати••to thrust smth down smb 's throat — з кому-л что-л (своя думка е т. п.)
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33 weight
I [weɪt]to be under, over 1 kilo in weight — pesare meno, più di 1 chilo
not to carry much weight — fig. non avere molto peso ( with per)
to add one's weight to sth. — esercitare la propria influenza in favore di qcs.
to throw one's weight behind sth. — sostenere qcs. con forza
••II [weɪt]1) appesantire [net, boat]2) (bias)to weight sth. against sb., sth. — dare peso a qcs. a scapito di qcn., qcs.
to weight sth. in favour of sb., sth. — dare peso a qcs. a vantaggio di qcn., qcs
3) (in statistics) pesare [index, variable]•* * *[weit]1) (the amount which a person or thing weighs: He's put on a lot of weight (= got much fatter) over the years.) peso2) (a piece of metal etc of a standard weight: seven-pound weight.) peso3) (a heavy object, especially one for lifting as a sport: He lifts weights to develop his muscles.) peso4) (burden; load: You have taken a weight off my mind.) peso5) (importance: Her opinion carries a lot of weight.) peso* * *I [weɪt]to be under, over 1 kilo in weight — pesare meno, più di 1 chilo
not to carry much weight — fig. non avere molto peso ( with per)
to add one's weight to sth. — esercitare la propria influenza in favore di qcs.
to throw one's weight behind sth. — sostenere qcs. con forza
••II [weɪt]1) appesantire [net, boat]2) (bias)to weight sth. against sb., sth. — dare peso a qcs. a scapito di qcn., qcs.
to weight sth. in favour of sb., sth. — dare peso a qcs. a vantaggio di qcn., qcs
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34 contract
1. noun( = agreement) contrat ma. [+ alliance, illness, muscle] contractera. [metal, muscles] se contracter• he has contracted for the building of the motorway il a un contrat pour la construction de l'autoroute4. compounds━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━✦ Lorsque contract est un nom, l'accent tombe sur la première syllabe: ˈkɒntrækt, lorsque c'est un verbe, sur la seconde: kənˈtrækt.━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━━* * *1. ['kɒntrækt]employment contract —
contract of employment — contrat m de travail
2) ( tender) contrat mto win/lose a contract — remporter/perdre un contrat
3) (colloq) ( for assassination)2. ['kɒntrækt] 3. [kən'trækt]transitive verb2) ( arrange) contracter [marriage, debt, loan]3) ( tighten) contracter4. [kən'trækt]1) ( undertake)2) ( shrink) [metal] se contracter; [support, market] diminuer3) Medicine se contracter•Phrasal Verbs: -
35 attack
наступление, наступательный бой; атака; нападение; удар; стрельба; воздействие; высадка десанта; группировка сил и средств для наступательных действий [удара]; наступать; атаковать; наносить удар; нападать; поражать ( цели) ; обстреливать; воздействовать; см. тж. assault, offensive, strikeattack from (march) column (formations) — наступление с ходу [марша]
attack in (successive) waves — наступление с последовательным вводом эшелонов; высадка (морского) десанта «волнами»;
— ballistic missile attack— bombing-missile air attack— chemical agent attack— close-in attack— converging axis attack— illuminated night attack— limited objective attack— low-level bombing attack— low-low attack— massive air attack— massive attack— massive ground attack— multiple pronged attack— night-time bombing attack— nonilluminated night attack— toss air attack— toxic chemical attack— two-prong ed attack -
36 give
1. n податливость, уступчивость2. n смягчение3. n упругость, эластичность; пружинистостьthere was too much give in the rope and it slipped off the box — верёвка легко растягивалась, и поэтому она соскочила с коробки
4. n тех. зазор, игра5. n спец. упругая деформация6. v дарить, одариватьgive away — отдавать; дарить
give gave given — давать; дарить; предоставлять; платить
7. v давать, даровать, жаловатьgive in — подавать, вручать
8. v жертвовать9. v завещать, отказать10. v предоставлять, отдавать11. v поручать, давать поручение12. v передавать, вручатьgive over — передавать, вручать
13. v платить, отдаватьgive back — возвращать, отдавать
14. v придаватьits deep seclusion gives it a peculiar charm — полное уединение придаёт этому месту особое очарование
to give weight to — придавать значение, признавать важность
15. v давать, быть источником, производить16. v сообщать17. v описывать, изображатьthe text is enhanced by a number of plates, all of which are given detailed descriptions — интерес к тексту возрастает благодаря репродукциям, которые сопровождаются подробными подставлять; протягивать
18. v отступить, отпрянуть19. v уступать, соглашатьсяgive way to — уступать; поддаваться
20. v подаваться, ослабевать21. v быть эластичным, сгибаться, гнутьсяthe rod gave but did not break — стержень согнулся, но не сломался
22. v оседать, подаватьсяthe floor of the summer-house gave and some of its boards broke — пол в беседке осел, и половицы кое-где проломились
23. v портиться, изнашиваться24. v спец. коробиться, перекашиватьсяСинонимический ряд:1. allot (verb) admeasure; allocate; allot; allow; apportion; distribute; lot; mete; mete out; portion2. assign (verb) assign; assume; suppose3. bend (verb) afford; bend; break; break down; buckle; cave; cave in; crumple; fail; fold up; go; produce; relax; sag; yield4. bestow (verb) accord; award; bestow; concede; confer; donate; enable; endow; give away; grant; hand out; issue; set forth; show; vouchsafe5. collapse (verb) collapse; crumble; fall6. deal (verb) administer; deal; dispense; inflict; strike7. deliver (verb) contribute; deliver; dish out; feed; find; furnish; hand; hand over; provide; relinquish; supply; transfer; turn over8. do (verb) act; do; dramatise; enact; put on9. express (verb) air; express; put; state; vent; ventilate10. happen (verb) befall; betide; chance; come; come off; develop; fall out; hap; happen; occur; rise; transpire11. have (verb) have; hold; stage12. offer (verb) extend; hold out; offer; pose; proffer; tender13. pass (verb) carry; communicate; convey; divulge; impart; pass; spread; transmit14. perform (verb) make do; perform; present15. pronounce (verb) emit; give out; pronounce; publish; put forth; render; utter16. recede (verb) cede; draw back; give over; give up; recede; retire; retreat17. sell (verb) market; sell; vend18. spend (verb) disburse; expend; fork out; lay out; outlay; pay; shell out; spend19. turn (verb) address; apply; buckle down; concentrate; dedicate; devote; direct; focus; throw; turnАнтонимический ряд:accept; deny; deprive; dispossess; divest; fail; grasp; hoard; hold; keep; neglect; receive; refuse; remove; resist; restrain; retain; take; withstand -
37 crack
A n1 (part of fine network in paint, varnish, cup, ground) craquelure f (in dans) ; (single marked line in wall, cup, mirror, ground, bone) fêlure f (in dans) ; cracks are appearing in the policy/the relationship on commence à déceler des fêlures dans la politique/leurs relations ;2 ( narrow opening) ( in door) entrebâillement m ; ( in curtains) fente f ; (in rock, wall) fissure f ; to open the door a crack entrebâiller la porte ; leave the door open a crack laisse la porte entrebâillée ;4 (sharp noise of twig, bone, whip, shot) craquement m ;5 ○ ( attempt) essai m, tentative f ; to have a crack at doing essayer de faire ; to have a crack at essayer de remporter [title] ; essayer de battre [record] ; tenter [gold medal] ; to have a crack at (playing) Hamlet s'essayer à jouer Hamlet ; she wants (to have) a crack at the champion elle veut se mesurer au champion ; it's his third crack at the title c'est sa troisième tentative de remporter le titre ;6 ○ ( jibe) moquerie f (about à propos de) ; ( joke) plaisanterie f (about à propos de) ; a cheap crack une plaisanterie facile ; to have a crack at sb se moquer de qn ;C vtr1 ( make a crack in) fêler [mirror, bone, wall, cup] ; ( make fine cracks in) fendiller, faire craqueler [paint, varnish, cup] ;2 ( break) casser [nut, egg, casing] ; to crack a safe cambrioler un coffre-fort ; to crack sth open ouvrir qch ; let's crack open a bottle of wine ouvrons une bouteille de vin ; to crack one's head open ○ se fendre le crâne ; she didn't crack a book for that class ○ US elle n'a même pas ouvert un livre pour cette matière ; to crack the market percer sur le marché ;3 ( solve) résoudre [problem, case] ; to crack a code déchiffrer un code ; to crack a spy/crime network démanteler un réseau d'espions/criminel ; I think I've cracked it ○ je crois que j'ai pigé ○ or compris ;4 ( make cracking sound with) faire claquer [whip] ; faire craquer [knuckles, joints, twig] ; to crack sth over sb's head, to crack sb on the head with sth asséner un coup sur la tête de qn avec qch ; to crack one's head on sth se cogner la tête sur qch ; to crack the whip fig agiter le fouet ;5 ( overcome) faire craquer [resistance, defences, opposition] ;6 to crack a joke sortir une blague ○ ;7 Chem craquer [oil].D vi1 ( develop crack(s)) [bone, mirror, cup, wall, ice] se fêler ; [paint, varnish] se craqueler ; [skin] se crevasser ; [ground] ( slightly) se fendiller ; ( severely) se fendre ; the earth cracked in the heat la terre s'est fendillée sous l'effet de la chaleur ;2 ( cease to resist) [person, opposition] craquer ; to crack under interrogation craquer à la suite d'un interrogatoire ; he tends to crack under pressure il a tendance à craquer quand la pression monte ;4 [voice] se casser ; her voice cracked with emotion sa voix s'est cassée tellement elle était émue ;5 her face cracked into a smile elle a souri jusqu'aux oreilles.not all ou not as good as it's cracked up to be pas aussi bon qu'on le prétend ; to get cracking s'y mettre ; go on, get cracking! vas-y, remue-toi! ; to get cracking on ou with a job se mettre au travail ; to have a fair crack of the whip avoir sa chance ; to give sb a fair crack of the whip donner sa chance à qn.■ crack down prendre des mesures énergiques, sévir (on contre).■ crack up ○:▶ crack up1 ( have breakdown) craquer ;2 ( laugh) rire ;3 argot des drogués to crack (it) up fumer du crack ;▶ crack [sb] up faire rire. -
38 Bergius, Friedrich Carl Rudolf
[br]b. 11 October 1884 Goldschmieden, near Breslau, Germanyd. 31 March Buenos Aires, Argentina[br][br]After studying chemistry in Breslau and Leipzig and assisting inter alia at the institute of Fritz Haber in Karlsruhe on the catalysis of ammonia under high pressure, in 1909 he went to Hannover to pursue his idea of turning coal into liquid hydrocarbon under high hydrogen pressure (200 atm) and high temperatures (470° C). As experiments with high pressure in chemical processes were still in their initial stages and the Technical University could not support him sufficiently, he set up a private laboratory to develop the methods and to construct the equipment himself. Four years later, in 1913, his process for producing liquid or organic compounds from coal was patented.The economic aspects of this process were apparent as the demand for fuels and lubricants increased more rapidly than the production of oil, and Bergius's process became even more important after the outbreak of the First World War. The Th. Goldschmidt company of Essen contracted him and tried large-scale production near Mannheim in 1914, but production failed because of the lack of capital and experience to operate with high pressure on an industrial level. Both capital and experience were provided jointly by the BASF company, which produced ammonia at Merseburg, and IG Farben, which took over the Bergius process in 1925, the same year that the synthesis of hydrocarbon had been developed by Fischer-Tropsch. Two years later, at the Leuna works, almost 100,000 tonnes of oil were produced from coal; during the following years, several more hydrogenation plants were to follow, especially in the eastern parts of Germany as well as in the Ruhr area, while the government guaranteed the costs. The Bergius process was extremely important for the supply of fuels to Germany during the Second World War, with the monthly production rate in 1943–4 being more than 700,000 tonnes. However, the plants were mostly destroyed at. the end of the war and were later dismantled.As a consequence of this success Bergius, who had gained an international reputation, went abroad to work as a consultant to several foreign governments. Experiments aiming to reduce the costs of production are still continued in some countries. By 1925, after he had solved all the principles of his process, he had turned to the production of dextrose by hydrolyzing wood with highly concentrated hydrochloric acid.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsNobel Prize 1931. Honorary doctorates, Heidelberg, Harvard and Hannover.Bibliography1907, "Über absolute Schwefelsäure als Lösungsmittel", unpublished thesis, Weida. 1913, Die Anwendung hoher Drucke bei chemischen Vorgängen und eine Nachbildungdes Entstehungsprozesses der Steinkohle, Halle. 1913, DRP no. 301, 231 (coal-liquefaction process).1925, "Verflüssigung der Kohle", Zeitschrift des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, 69:1313–20, 1359–62.1933, "Chemische Reaktionen unter hohem Druck", Les Prix Nobel en 1931, Stockholm, pp. 1–37.Further ReadingDeutsches Bergbau-Museum, 1985, Friedrich Bergius und die Kohleverflüssigung. Stationen einer Entwicklung, Bochum (gives a comprehensive and illustrated description of the man and the technology).H.Beck, 1982, Friedrich Bergius, ein Erfinderschicksal, Munich: Deutsches Museum (a detailed biographical description).W.Birkendfeld, 1964, Der synthetische Treibstoff 1933–1945. Ein Beitragzur nationalsozialistischen Wirtschafts-und Rüstungspolitik, Göttingen, Berlin and Frankfurt (describes the economic value of synthetic fuels for the Third Reich).WKBiographical history of technology > Bergius, Friedrich Carl Rudolf
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39 De Forest, Lee
SUBJECT AREA: Broadcasting, Electronics and information technology, Photography, film and optics, Recording, Telecommunications[br]b. 26 August 1873 Council Bluffs, Iowa, USAd. 30 June 1961 Hollywood, California, USA[br]American electrical engineer and inventor principally known for his invention of the Audion, or triode, vacuum tube; also a pioneer of sound in the cinema.[br]De Forest was born into the family of a Congregational minister that moved to Alabama in 1879 when the father became President of a college for African-Americans; this was a position that led to the family's social ostracism by the white community. By the time he was 13 years old, De Forest was already a keen mechanical inventor, and in 1893, rejecting his father's plan for him to become a clergyman, he entered the Sheffield Scientific School of Yale University. Following his first degree, he went on to study the propagation of electromagnetic waves, gaining a PhD in physics in 1899 for his thesis on the "Reflection of Hertzian Waves from the Ends of Parallel Wires", probably the first US thesis in the field of radio.He then joined the Western Electric Company in Chicago where he helped develop the infant technology of wireless, working his way up from a modest post in the production area to a position in the experimental laboratory. There, working alone after normal working hours, he developed a detector of electromagnetic waves based on an electrolytic device similar to that already invented by Fleming in England. Recognizing his talents, a number of financial backers enabled him to set up his own business in 1902 under the name of De Forest Wireless Telegraphy Company; he was soon demonstrating wireless telegraphy to interested parties and entering into competition with the American Marconi Company.Despite the failure of this company because of fraud by his partners, he continued his experiments; in 1907, by adding a third electrode, a wire mesh, between the anode and cathode of the thermionic diode invented by Fleming in 1904, he was able to produce the amplifying device now known as the triode valve and achieve a sensitivity of radio-signal reception much greater than possible with the passive carborundum and electrolytic detectors hitherto available. Patented under the name Audion, this new vacuum device was soon successfully used for experimental broadcasts of music and speech in New York and Paris. The invention of the Audion has been described as the beginning of the electronic era. Although much development work was required before its full potential was realized, the Audion opened the way to progress in all areas of sound transmission, recording and reproduction. The patent was challenged by Fleming and it was not until 1943 that De Forest's claim was finally recognized.Overcoming the near failure of his new company, the De Forest Radio Telephone Company, as well as unsuccessful charges of fraudulent promotion of the Audion, he continued to exploit the potential of his invention. By 1912 he had used transformer-coupling of several Audion stages to achieve high gain at radio frequencies, making long-distance communication a practical proposition, and had applied positive feedback from the Audion output anode to its input grid to realize a stable transmitter oscillator and modulator. These successes led to prolonged patent litigation with Edwin Armstrong and others, and he eventually sold the manufacturing rights, in retrospect often for a pittance.During the early 1920s De Forest began a fruitful association with T.W.Case, who for around ten years had been working to perfect a moving-picture sound system. De Forest claimed to have had an interest in sound films as early as 1900, and Case now began to supply him with photoelectric cells and primitive sound cameras. He eventually devised a variable-density sound-on-film system utilizing a glow-discharge modulator, the Photion. By 1926 De Forest's Phonofilm had been successfully demonstrated in over fifty theatres and this system became the basis of Movietone. Though his ideas were on the right lines, the technology was insufficiently developed and it was left to others to produce a system acceptable to the film industry. However, De Forest had played a key role in transforming the nature of the film industry; within a space of five years the production of silent films had all but ceased.In the following decade De Forest applied the Audion to the development of medical diathermy. Finally, after spending most of his working life as an independent inventor and entrepreneur, he worked for a time during the Second World War at the Bell Telephone Laboratories on military applications of electronics.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsInstitute of Electronic and Radio Engineers Medal of Honour 1922. President, Institute of Electronic and Radio Engineers 1930. Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Edison Medal 1946.Bibliography1904, "Electrolytic detectors", Electrician 54:94 (describes the electrolytic detector). 1907, US patent no. 841,387 (the Audion).1950, Father of Radio, Chicago: WIlcox \& Follett (autobiography).De Forest gave his own account of the development of his sound-on-film system in a series of articles: 1923. "The Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 16 (May): 61–75; 1924. "Phonofilm progress", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 20:17–19; 1927, "Recent developments in the Phonofilm", Transactions of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 27:64–76; 1941, "Pioneering in talking pictures", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 36 (January): 41–9.Further ReadingG.Carneal, 1930, A Conqueror of Space (biography).I.Levine, 1964, Electronics Pioneer, Lee De Forest (biography).E.I.Sponable, 1947, "Historical development of sound films", Journal of the Society of Motion Picture Engineers 48 (April): 275–303 (an authoritative account of De Forest's sound-film work, by Case's assistant).W.R.McLaurin, 1949, Invention and Innovation in the Radio Industry.C.F.Booth, 1955, "Fleming and De Forest. An appreciation", in Thermionic Valves 1904– 1954, IEE.V.J.Phillips, 1980, Early Radio Detectors, London: Peter Peregrinus.KF / JW -
40 Szilard, Leo
SUBJECT AREA: Weapons and armour[br]b. 11 February 1898 Budapest, Hungaryd. 30 May 1964 La Jolla, California, USA[br]Hungarian (naturalized American in 1943) nuclear-and biophysicist.[br]The son of an engineer, Szilard, after service in the Austro-Hungarian army during the First World War, studied electrical engineering at the University of Berlin. Obtaining his doctorate there in 1922, he joined the faculty and concentrated his studies on thermodynamics. He later began to develop an interest in nuclear physics, and in 1933, shortly after Hitler came to power, Szilard emigrated to Britain because of his Jewish heritage.In 1934 he conceived the idea of a nuclear chain reaction through the breakdown of beryllium into helium and took out a British patent on it, but later realized that this process would not work. In 1937 he moved to the USA and continued his research at the University of Columbia, and the following year Hahn and Meitner discovered nuclear fission with uranium; this gave Szilard the breakthrough he needed. In 1939 he realized that a nuclear chain reaction could be produced through nuclear fission and that a weapon with many times the destructive power of the conventional high-explosive bomb could be produced. Only too aware of the progress being made by German nuclear scientists, he believed that it was essential that the USA should create an atomic bomb before Hitler. Consequently he drafted a letter to President Roosevelt that summer and, with two fellow Hungarian émigrés, persuaded Albert Einstein to sign it. The result was the setting up of the Uranium Committee.It was not, however, until December 1941 that active steps began to be taken to produce such a weapon and it was a further nine months before the project was properly co-ordinated under the umbrella of the Manhattan Project. In the meantime, Szilard moved to join Enrico Fermi at the University of Chicago and it was here, at the end of 1942, in a squash court under the football stadium, that they successfully developed the world's first self-sustaining nuclear reactor. Szilard, who became an American citizen in 1943, continued to work on the Manhattan Project. In 1945, however, when the Western Allies began to believe that only the atomic bomb could bring the war against Japan to an end, Szilard and a number of other Manhattan Project scientists objected that it would be immoral to use it against populated targets.Although he would continue to campaign against nuclear warfare for the rest of his life, Szilard now abandoned nuclear research. In 1946 he became Professor of Biophysics at the University of Chicago and devoted himself to experimental work on bacterial mutations and biochemical mechanisms, as well as theoretical research on ageing and memory.[br]Principal Honours and DistinctionsAtoms for Peace award 1959.Further ReadingKosta Tsipis, 1985, Understanding Nuclear Weapons, London: Wildwood House, pp. 16–19, 26, 28, 32 (a brief account of his work on the atomic bomb).A collection of his correspondence and memories was brought out by Spencer Weart and Gertrud W.Szilard in 1978.CM
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