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1 Male
1. n геогр. Мале2. n мужчина, лицо мужского полаevery male who had attained the age of eighteen — все лица мужского пола, достигшие восемнадцатилетнего возраста
3. n самец4. n театр. мужские роли5. a мужской; мужского полаmale child — мальчик, ребёнок мужского пола
6. a тех. входящий в другую деталь, охватываемыйmale die — пуансон, подвижной штамп
Синонимический ряд:1. manly (adj.) macho; manlike; manly; masculine; paternal; staminate; virile2. man (noun) beau; blade; boy; chap; fellow; gentleman; guy; man; swainАнтонимический ряд:female; maidenly; unmanly; womanly -
2 male
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4 a word and a blow
1) брань или угроза и рукоприкладство [выражение создано английским писателем Дж. Баньяном; см. цитату]So soon as the man overtook me, he was but a word and a blow. (J. Bunyan, ‘Pilgrim's Progress’, part I) — Догнав меня, этот человек незамедлительно перешел от брани к рукоприкладству.
You're thinking that people don't keep up old jealousies for twenty years or so. Perhaps not. Not just primitive, brute jealousy. That means a word and a blow. But the thing that rankles is hurt vanity. (D. L. Sayers, ‘Whose Body?’, ch. X) — Вы считаете, что человек не может двадцать пять лет питать чувство ревности. Скорее всего, это так. Но я говорю не о грубом, низменном чувстве, находящим выход в побоях и брани, а о том, что может глодать сердце до конца дней, - об уязвленном самолюбии.
2) поспешные, скоропалительные действия; необдуманный поступокMy cousins are grieved... they did not expect that I would be a word and a blow, as they phrase it. (S. Richardson, ‘Grandison’, book IV, ch. XXVI) — Мои родственники огорчаются... они, по их собственному выражению, не ожидали, что я так быстро перейду к действиям.
The longer he lived, the more certain he became of the prime necessity of virile and decisive action in all the affairs of life. A word and a blow - and the blow first! (J. Galsworthy, ‘Caravan’, ‘The First and the Last’) — Чем старше он становился, тем яснее для него была необходимость решительного и мужественного поведения во всех случаях жизни. От слов к действиям! Но действия раньше слов!
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