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1 vulgar
['vʌlgə] 1. прил.1)а) грубый; вульгарныйб) пошлый•Syn:Ant:2) заурядный, тривиальный, избитый3) простонародный; плебейскийvulgar herd — презр. чернь
4) народный, родной, национальный ( о языке)They read the Gospels, they preached, and they prayed, in the vulgar tongue. — Они читали Библию, молились и проповедовали на родном языке.
These plants had a different vulgar name in every province. — В каждой области эти растения называют по-разному, на своём диалекте.
5) широко распространённый, общий••2. сущ.; уст.; пренебр.( the vulgar) простонародье, чернь, низы -
2 money makes the man
посл.деньги делают человека [этим. лат. divitiae virum faciunt]Here, you know, "money makes the man", as the vulgar proverb has it. (E. Bulwer-Lytton, ‘Pelham’, ch. 35) — В нашей стране "деньги делают человека", как гласит циничная пословица.
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