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1 грязные слухи
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2 лживые слухи
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3 заколдованный круг
книжн.1) (положение, из которого трудно найти выход) a vicious circle; hopeless (desperate) situation- Гостиные, сплетни, балы, тщеславие, ничтожество - вот заколдованный круг, из которого я не могу выйти. (Л. Толстой, Война и мир) — 'Parlours, gossip, balls, vanity, pettiness - this is the vicious circle which I cannot break.'
2) (вид логической ошибки, несуразность) a vicious circle; a situation in which the solution produces a result that brings back the initial problemСледовательно, опровержение совершенно нелепо, но, увы, совершенно необходимо. Следовательно - заколдованный круг. (Л. Жуховицкий, Остановиться, оглянуться...) — Consequently, a refutation was absurd but, alas, vital all the same. Consequently, one was up against a vicious circle.
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