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1 without rhyme or reason
1) бессмысленно, без всякого смысла; ≈ ни складу ни ладу; ни к селу ни к городу (тж. neither rhyme nor reason или there is no rhyme or reason) [neither rhyme nor reason шекспировское выражение; см. цитату]Rosalind: "But are you so much in love as your rhymes speak?" Orlando: "Neither rhyme nor reason can express how much." (W. Shakespeare, ‘As You Like It’, act III, sc. 2) — Розалинда: "Неужели вы так страстно влюблены, как говорят ваши стихи?" Орландо: "Ни стихи, ни ум человеческий не в силах выразить, как страстно." (перевод Т. Щепкиной-Куперник)
Dromio of Syracuse: "Was there ever any man thus beaten out of season. When in the why and the wherefore is neither rhyme nor reason? " (W. Shakespeare, ‘The Comedy of Errors’, act II, sc. 2) — Дромио Сиракузский: "Ну били ли кого-нибудь так, ни за что в награду? В таких "за что" и "почему" ни складу нет, ни ладу. " (перевод А. Некора)
Nowadays when a play is badly constructed, when its people act without rhyme or reason... we sit up and say it has atmosphere. (W. S. Maugham, ‘Don Fernanda’, ch. VIII) — В наше время, когда пьеса плохо построена, когда поступки действующих лиц абсолютно бессмысленны, мы говорим: пьеса хорошо передает атмосферу эпохи.
This proceeding of Poirot's in respect of the cocoa puzzled me intensely. I could see neither rhyme nor reason in it. (A. Christie, ‘The Mysterious Affair at Styles’, ch. VIII) — Отношение Пуаро к какао поставило меня в тупик. Его поведение было необъяснимо.
...it just seems so incongruous for the first citizen of California to gamble over a Senatorial seat with a political adventurer. There is no rhyme or reason in it. (I. Stone, ‘Immortal Wife’, ch. 98) —...так нелепо, когда первый гражданин Калифорнии и политический авантюрист разыгрывают места в сенате. Не лезет ни в какие ворота.
2) ни с того ни с сего; ≈ за здоро/ во живёшьWhen she received it, who had long received no letters... she... sobbed, laughed, clasped her hands on her breast, and without rhyme or reason began singing... (J. Galsworthy, ‘Caravan’, ‘The Bright Side’) — Получив письмо, миссис Гергардт, которая так долго не получала никаких вестей... стала рыдать, смеяться, прижимать письмо к груди и вдруг совершенно неожиданно запела...
Not only was she engaged to be married, the wedding day had been set... when suddenly, without rhyme or reason, she breaks the whole thing off in favour of a total stranger. (A. J. Cronin, ‘The Judas Tree’, part II, ch. V) — Моя дочь не только была обручена, но и был назначен даже день ее свадьбы... И вдруг совершенно неожиданно, как говорится, ни с того ни с сего она все порвала, причем ради совершенно незнакомого человека.
Without any rhyme or reason it came to me suddenly that I didn't care about it any more. (P. H. Johnson, ‘The Survival of the Fittest’, part III, ch. IV) — Вдруг неизвестно почему я почувствовала, что Кит мне совершенно безразличен.
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