Elon Musk: Tesla, SpaceX Flashcards

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plaid

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Клетчатый:

  • After about fifteen minutes, Musk showed up wearing leather shoes, designer jeans, and a plaid dress shirt.
  • Well, you start with that plaid shirt from 1994.

Плед:

  • I’ll get my plaid loose to cover ye.
  • I’ve got it on under the plaid.
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sturdy

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Крепкий, прочный:

  • He’s absurdly broad-shouldered, sturdy and thick.
  • It is, after all, a fine and sturdy ship.
  • A sturdy, lightweight steel frame On all four wheels.
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strut

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Ходить с важным видом:

  • You’d figure he would use this frame to his advantage and perform an alpha-male strut when entering a room.
  • They strut around like roosters down here.
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frame

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Телосложение, корпус, рама:

  • You’d figure he would use this frame to his advantage and perform an alpha-male strut when entering a room.
  • A sturdy, lightweight steel frame on all four wheels.
  • There are methods of torture that even your pathetic frame could endure.
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sheepish

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Робкий, застенчивый:

  • Instead, he tends to be almost sheepish.
  • I didn’t mean to make you feel sheepish.
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tilt

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Наклон:

  • And it’s this tilt that creates the seasons.
  • Patient presents with a distinct neck tilt.

Наклонять:

  • It’s head tilted slightly down while walking, a quick handshake hello after reaching the table, and then butt in seat.
  • All right, tilt the screen towards you.
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of sorts

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Своего рода:

  • Thanks to our friend there, we’re keeping them in a… prison of sorts.
  • I’m a Knight myself of sorts, a champion of light and life.
  • Well, that’s a religion of sorts.
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sting

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Ужалить, жало, укус:

  • His rejection stung but thrust me into dogged reporter mode.
  • And now the bees, they come to sting.
  • The first sting will paralyse you and the second will kill you.
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thrust

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Направление, направленность:

  • His rejection stung but thrust me into dogged reporter mode.
  • We support their general thrust, although, of course, they require some clarification.

Толчок:

  • And another engine to provide the thrust.
  • Even if we plotted a course for Earth using maximum sublight thrust, it’d take years.
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dogged

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Упорный, упрямый:

  • His rejection stung but thrust me into dogged reporter mode.
  • I happen to know that you’re too dogged an investigator to allow the only witness in this case to simply disappear.
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meddle

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Вмешиваться, лезть:

  • He would not meddle with my text, but he wanted the chance to set the record straight in spots that he deemed factually inaccurate.
  • I promised Valentina I wouldn’t meddle in her life.
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anguish

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Страдание, мучение:

  • He’s also wired like a scientist and suffers mental anguish at the sight of a factual error.
  • Imagine her surprise when she finds herself in that fiery pit of anguish, facing the real Lord Rahl.
  • The Holy See followed with anguish and alarm the events that covered Rwanda in blood last year.
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deem

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Думать, считать, полагать:

  • He would not meddle with my text, but he wanted the chance to set the record straight in spots that he deemed factually inaccurate.
  • Perhaps you should ask the machine for a bit more information about Cyrus Wells before you deem him insignificant.
  • Slovenia welcomed any request for technical assistance that the State deem necessary.
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gnaw

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Грызть, терзать:

  • A mistake on a printed page would gnaw at his soul - forever.
  • I just feel like if you do marry Ted, I can see it being the kind of thing that might gnaw at you over the years.
  • See, I owe you and it’s beginning to gnaw at me. Understand?
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prone

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Сколонный, подверженный:

  • He’s prone to verbose answers to even the simplest questions as well, and the thought of thirty-page footnotes seemed all too real.
  • The Asia-Pacific region is the most disaster prone in the world.

Ничком (лицом вниз):

  • Found the victim lying on the bedroom floor, prone.
  • what are the potential hazards of operating on a patient in a prone position?
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sermon

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Проповедь, наставление, нравоучение:

  • Some adrenaline released and mixed with the gin and, and I launched into what was meant to be a forty-five-minute sermon about all the reasons Musk should let me burrow deep into his life and do so while getting exactly none of the controls he wanted in return.
  • The priest said in his sermon that Socialists were bad French.
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notorious

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Пресловутый, печатьно известный:

  • Musk burns throught PR staffers notoriously fast, and Tesla was in the process of hunting for a new communications chief.
  • Carmilla Pines, notorious treasure hunter.
  • Her notorious brother’s in prison.
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humongous

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Огромный, гигантский:

  • A big, humongous pick for the Cleveland Browns.
  • And it had this humongous scope on it, like a huge neon sign saying “can’t miss”.
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hunk

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Кусок, ломоть:

  • The plan worked for all of a ninety seconds. Meat. Hunk. Gone.
  • You’re a big hunk of hero sandwich.
  • It should look like a hunk of wood.
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burrow

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Нора:

  • And burrow means Rabbit.
  • It’ll have taken them to its burrow.

Рыться:

  • Some adrenaline released and mixed with the gin and, and I launched into what was meant to be a forty-five-minute sermon about all the reasons Musk should let me burrow deep into his life and do so while getting exactly none of the controls he wanted in return.
  • It’s this other secret place to burrow into
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inherent

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Свойственный, присущий:

  • The speech revolved around the inherent limitation of footnotes, Musk coming off like a control freak and my journalist integrity being compromised.
  • The inherent difficulties of the topic were also stressed, in particular the complexity of assessing the existence of a rule of customary international law.

Неотъемлемый:

  • Thousands were incarcerated in prisons for demanding their inherent political rights.
  • The pre-existing inherent sovereignty of indigenous peoples was not justly considered.
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wound

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Рана:

  • Forensic services matched metallic paint from the wound to…
  • Single, sharp-force wound to the neck.

Отверстие:

  • At this range, the exit wound ought to be about the size of a small tangerine.

Ранить:

  • What I say may wound you.
  • Don’t wound me with desperate lies.
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wind down

(same as wound down)

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Свертываться, сворачиваться:

  • As the work of the mission begins to wind down, my delegation reiterates its consistent support for the mandate of the mission.
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riddle

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Загадка:

  • The oddity of the moment left me speechless for a beat, while my every synapse fired trying to figre out if this was some sort of riddle, and, if so, how it should be answered artfully.
  • A good riddle reveals the asker.
  • Most retarded riddle I’ve ever heard.
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barren

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Бесплодный:

  • Or a barren piece of ground that neither side wants.
  • Here he is, this brilliant doctor, stuck with a barren wife.

Пустынный, безжизненный:

  • The poster to the left depicts Mars as it is today - a cold barren red orb.
  • Any places on Earth remotely similar are completely barren.
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orb

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Шар, сфера:

  • The poster to the left depicts Mars as it is today - a cold barren red orb.
  • Reiss is going to use the orb to find Pandora’s box.
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extinguish

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Потушить:

  • If the fire doesn’t extinguish, the water will be dried up.
  • Guards, help me extinguish this inferno before it scorches the project…

Уничтожить:

  • If we can solve sustainable energy and be well on our way to becoming a multiplanetary species with a self-sustaining civilization on another planet - to cope with a worst-case scenario happening and extinguishing human nonsciousness - then I think that would be really good.
  • You’re here to burn down the building and extinguish all the evidence therein.
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sustain

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Поддерживать, сохранять:

  • If we can solve sustainable energy and be well on our way to becoming a multiplanetary species with a self-sustaining civilization on another planet - to cope with a worst-case scenario happening and extinguishing human consciousness - then I think that would be really good.
  • If it is to boost its trade and sustain GDP growth, Africa must diversify its exports.
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hatred

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Ненависть (вражда):

  • Musk is a sci-fi version of P.T.Barnum who has gotten extraordinarily rich by preying on people’s fear and self-hatred.
  • Racial discrimination and hatred were prohibited under several enactments.
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peddle

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Торговля (мелочная), торговать, барыжить:

  • He’s the guy with the electric cars, solar panels and rockets peddling false hope.
  • Is this how relationships work in the modern era, everybody peddling their flesh like a street bazaar?
  • You’ve been peddling a second chance at life.
  • They mostly peddle girls and drugs.
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warp

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Искривление, деформация:

  • Silicon Valley, though, operates within a warped version of reality, and outside the confines of it’s shared fantasy, Musk often comes off as a much more polarizing figure.
  • Remember, the warp has a 10-foot diameter, so…
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confines

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Границы, рамки, пределы:

  • Silicon Valley, though, operates within a warped version of reality, and outside the confines of it’s shared fantasy, Musk often comes off as a much more polarizing figure.
  • However, we are convinced that this environmental tragedy has effects far beyond the confines of the region.
  • We overcome confines and create new reality.
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strive

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Стараться, стремиться, прилагать усилия:

  • Musk’s ready willingness to tacle impossible things has turned him into a deity in Silicon Valley, where fellow CEOs like Page speak of him in reverential ave, and budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon”, just as they just as they had been strinving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.
  • Gender sensitivity is a goal towards which all parliaments must strive.
  • Let us strive together for the most important goal of humankind: peace.
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budding

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Многообещающий:

  • Musk’s ready willingness to tacle impossible things has turned him into a deity in Silicon Valley, where fellow CEOs like Page speak of him in reverential ave, and budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon”, just as they just as they had been strinving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.
  • This budding scientist was also a passionate mystic.
  • And I know I’m biased, but I do think she’s a budding young genius.

Начинающий:

  • That’s a huge score for a budding thief.
  • As a budding entrepreneur myself, I was wondering.
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reverential

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Почтительный, благоговейный:

  • Musk’s ready willingness to tacle impossible things has turned him into a deity in Silicon Valley, where fellow CEOs like Page speak of him in reverential ave, and budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon”, just as they just as they had been strinving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.
  • Ethelinda, reverential wife of Mr Thomas Sapsea.
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deity

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Божество:

  • Musk’s ready willingness to tacle impossible things has turned him into a deity in Silicon Valley, where fellow CEOs like Page speak of him in reverential ave, and budding entrepreneurs strive “to be like Elon”, just as they just as they had been strinving in years past to mimic Steve Jobs.
  • Take some of these rupees and put them on this thing in front of the deity here.
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blotch

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Пятно:

  • On this occation, for example, Musk’s assistant had just handed him some cookies-and-cream ice cream with sprinkles on top, and he then talked earnestly about saving humanity while a blotch of the dessert hung from his lower lip.
  • He’s got a red blotch on his hand.

Прыщ:

  • He says, “The market crash caused a blotch on the face of America”.
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earnestly

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Искренне, настоятельно, добросовестно:

  • On this occation, for example, Musk’s assistant had just handed him some cookies-and-cream ice cream with sprinkles on top, and he then talked earnestly about saving humanity while a blotch of the dessert hung from his lower lip.
  • It is earnestly hoped that nuclear disarmament efforts will be accelerated and intensified.
  • At the same time, the Government continues to strive earnestly to reach a political solution and bring about national reconciliation.
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devotion

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Обожание:

  • This group tends to be a mix of Ayn Rand devotees and engineer absolutists who see their hyperlogical worldviews as the Answer for averyone.

Преданность, верность:

  • At that moment devotion to our land and common sense won.
  • Your devotion to my boys was pure, Paul.
  • One knotted with devotion shouldn’t untie easily.
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prattle

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Болтать, трепаться:

  • But the techno-utopians do get tiresome with their platitudes and their ability to prattle on for hours without saying much of substance.
  • I remember listening to Carter prattle on about solar activity and a… corona something.
  • I’m bored with this prattle.
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tiresome

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Утомительный:

  • But the techno-utopians do get tiresome with their platitudes and their ability to prattle on for hours without saying much of substance.
  • He’s also prone to excuses, which I find tiresome.

Надоедливый:

  • Just as soon as that tiresome young man relinquishes her.
  • Well, it only ticks in When I’m in the presence of tiresome people.
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platitude

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Банальность, избитость:

  • But the techno-utopians do get tiresome with their platitudes and their ability to prattle on for hours without saying much of substance.
  • Every platitude, every resolution, every noble sentiment is used to camouflage home-grown tyrannies.
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concert

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Концерт:

  • I enjoyed the concert except that the hall was cold.

Сообща:

  • Working in concert, these influence makers could then work to get the word out much more effectively.
  • It is only when all are working in concert that the vision for the future can be realized.
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disconcerting

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Тревожный:

  • More disconcerting is their underlying message that humans are flawed and our humanity is an annoying burden that needs to be dealt with in due cource.
  • It is equally disconcerting to observe that most political parties in Lebanon are apparently preparing for the possible further deterioration of the situation.

Сбивающий с толку:

  • It’s a bit disconcerting to see you out of costume.
  • The immobility of the Conference on Disarmament is disconcerting but not entirely surprising.
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in due course

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Со временем, в положенный срок, в надлежащее время:

  • More disconcerting is their underlying message that humans are flawed and our humanity is an annoying burden that needs to be dealt with in due cource.
  • On 1 July 2015, the two sides made an oral agreement, and both sides will sign the contract in a due course.

В должном порядке, должным образом:

  • Grayson will be dealt with in due course, but for now, I must demand your full attention on this crisis.
  • That includes the nuclear issue, which will be dealt with in due course in the appropriate forum within the multilateral talks.
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highfalutin

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Напыщенный:

  • When I’d caught Musk at Silicon Valley events, his highfalutin talk often sounded straight out of the techno-utopian playbook.
  • “Empire” is a highfalutin word, but that’s what I’ve built.
  • They enjoyed a high-class, highfalutin lifestyle.
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beleguered

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Осажденный:

  • His once-beleaguered companies were succeeding at unprecedented things.
  • The Philippines, thus, became the first country to join the United States in the offer of military assistance to beleaguered South Korea.
  • Yet cities - in particular those in developed countries - are beleaguered by high levels of pollution and increasing greenhouse gas emissions.
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automotive

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Автомобильный:

  • Tesla Motors delivered the Model S, a beautiful, all-electric sedan that took the automative industry’s breath away and slapped Detroit sober.
  • Therefore, he encouraged cooperation among ITS stakeholders, ITU and the automotive industry.
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slap

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Бить, шлепать, давать пощечину:

  • Tesla Motors delivered the Model S, a beautiful, all-electric sedan that took the automative industry’s breath away and slapped Detroit sober.
  • I might get drunk and slap you again.
  • He could hardly slap her hand away.
  • If you slap her, she won’t come home tomorrow.
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sober

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Трезвый:

  • Tesla Motors delivered the Model S, a beautiful, all-electric sedan that took the automative industry’s breath away and slapped Detroit sober.
  • She was sober enough to ID the three of you.
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feat

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Подвиг:

  • These two feats elevated Musk to the rarest heights among business titans.
  • No one imagined the Brain dare repeat his feat.
  • Pregnancy is a feat, darlin’.
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elevate

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Поднимать, возвышать, облагораживать:

  • We must enlighten the people, elevate their cultural level.
  • These two feats elevated Musk to the rarest heights among business titans.
  • You need to polish your looks and elevate your styling.
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poised to

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Готовый к:

  • He was also the chairman and largest shareholder of SolarCity, a booming solar energy company poised to file for an initial public offering.
  • It was the person who was poised to kill her in cold blood.
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file

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Файл, дело, досье, папка, бумаги, материалы…:

  • Cannot access file because file name is null or empty.
  • Settings that not in configuration file are not altered with file load.

Регистрировать, подать, обратиться:

  • He was also the chairman and largest shareholder of SolarCity, a booming solar energy company poised to file for an initial public offering.
  • They can go to the Public Solicitor’s Office or a private lawyer and file a human rights complaint.
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swoop

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Ворваться, напасть:

  • He’s trying to swoop in our moment of weakness and take everything.
  • They swoop in and steal your jackpot.
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one fell swoop

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Одним ударом:

  • Musk had somehow delivered the biggest advances the space, automotive, and energy industries had seen in decades in what felt like one fell swoop.
  • She attacked at night, slaughtered everyone in one fell swoop.
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appendage

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Придаток, отросток, приложение:

  • The judicial system has turned to an appendage of executive authority.
  • You know most men would give at least one appendage to be in your shoes.
  • How dare you offer me that diseased appendage?

Подчиненный:

  • At this point point in Musk’s life, everyting ran throught his assistant/loyal appendage Mary Beth Brown.
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bleak

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Мрачный, холодный:

  • It’s a bleak part of Los Angeles County in which groupings of run-down houses, run-down shops, and run-down eateries surround huge, industrial complexes that appear to have been built during some kind of architectural Boring Rectangle movement.
  • I guess life with my father must have been pretty bleak and miserable for her.
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dreck

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Мусор:

  • Did Elon Musk really stick his company in the middle of this dreck?
  • Trust me, that Chardonnay that you’re drinking is dreck.
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ostentatious

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Показной:

  • Then, okay, things start to make more sense when you see one 550,000-square-foot rectangle painted an ostentatious hue of “Unity of Body, Soul, and Mind” white.
  • Alexander’s nickname, “the Magnificent”, reflected his ostentatious and luxurious lifestyle.
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hue

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Оттенок, тон, окрас, цвет:

  • Then, okay, things start to make more sense when you see one 550,000-square-foot rectangle painted an ostentatious hue of “Unity of Body, Soul, and Mind” white.
  • And secondly, you don’t even own anything in the cornflower hue.
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62
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weld

A

Сварка, варить, сваривать, объединять:

  • Near the back were massive delivery bays that allowed for the arrival of hunks of metal, which were transported to two-story-high welding machines.
  • The ability to bend, shape, and weld CPVC enables its use in a wide variety of processes and applications.
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63
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whir

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Шум, шуметь:

  • There were hundreds of bodies in constant motion whirring around a variety of bizarre machines.
  • The weird whir of broken fax machine.
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bizarre

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Странный, причудливый, забавный:

  • There were hundreds of bodies in constant motion whirring around a variety of bizarre machines.
  • I’ve… had the most bizarre dream.
  • This can produce bizarre sounds and render music disharmonious.
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65
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top up

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Пополнять, доливать, заправлять:

  • In the parking lot outside the studio, Tesla has built one of its recharging stations where Los Angeles drivers can top up with electricity for free.
  • You can top up my Scotch by way of an apology.
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66
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halt

A

Прекратить, остановить, пресечь, покончить:

  • His South African accent remains present but fading, and the charm of it is not enought to offset the halting nature of Musk’s speech pattern.
  • They must halt suicide bombings against civilians.
  • But we can halt and reverse that trend.
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67
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rumble

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Урчать:

  • Like many as engineer or physicist, Musk will pause while fishing around for exact phrasing, and he’ll often go rumbling down an esoteric, scientific rabbit hole without providng any helping hands or simplified explanations along the way.

Грохот, рокот, гул:

  • But when we started running, there was a really loud rumble.
  • It’s the fight known as “rumble in the jungle”.
  • She said: “All will be well. I can already hear our tanks rumble.”
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68
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off-putting

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Отталкивающий:

  • Musk expects you to keep up. None of this is off-putting. Musk, in fact, will toss out plenty of jokes and can be downright charming.
  • So smart it’s off-putting.
  • That good hair and that handsome face… it’s a little off-putting.
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69
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downright

A

Совершенно, прямо таки, явно:

  • Musk expects you to keep up. None of this is off-putting. Musk, in fact, will toss out plenty of jokes and can be downright charming.
  • Your ex-husband was downright rude to me.
  • I must be downright adorable right now.
70
Q

slink

A

Красться:

  • This is not the guy who slinks into the restoraunt.
  • And then I slink out into the night, never to talk to her again.
71
Q

joint

A

Сочленение, объединение:

  • It’s the guy who owns the joint and strides about with authority.

Совместный, общий, объединенный, единый:

  • Therefore, a joint dialogue and joint search for solutions of existing problems was very important.
  • Seek UNESCO support for joint activities on cultural preservation.
72
Q

stride

A

Шаг, шагать, походка:

  • It’s the guy who owns the joint and strides about with authority.
  • So, the average stride length for a man of that height is 1.8 meters.
  • Your stride indicates a recent release of tension.
73
Q

disgorge

A

Извергать:

  • At each station, employees rushed up to Musk and disgorged information.
  • We demand that Ms. Barrett remove her offending blog and disgorge any profits she may have earned.
74
Q

intently

A

Пристально, внимательно:

  • He listened intently, processed it, and nodded when satisfied.
  • As I came closer to him, trying to walk fast, I noticed that he was looking at me intently.
75
Q

dump

A

Свалка, дыра, сброс:

  • The people moved away and Musk moved to the next information dump.

Бросать, сбросить, выбросить:

  • She has to either dump him or forgive him.
  • People don’t do you favours after you dump them.
76
Q

tweak

A

Настроить, подправить, подрегулировать:

  • They wanted to show off new 3-D rendering technology that would allow Tesla to tweak the finish of a virtual Model S and see in great detail how things like shadows and streetlights played off the car’s body.
  • And that means that, maybe if we tweak it a little bit, we can increase the health and longevity of people.
77
Q

shtick

A

Трюк, фокус, фишка:

  • The men did their best to sell Musk on the idea while the sound of drills and giant industrial fans drowned out their shtick.
  • So I came up with a shtick that seemed to impress a crowd.
78
Q

don

A

Надеть:

  • Musk, wearing leather shoes, designer jeans, and a black T-shirt, which is essentially his work uniform, had to don 3-D goggles for the demonstration and seemed unmoved.
  • At the plant, the criminals make him don a special mask to become the infamous Red Hood.
79
Q

scaffold

A

Строительные леса, леса, эшафот:

  • He told them he’d think about it and then walked toward the source of the loudest noise - a workshop deep in the design studio where Tesla engineers were building the scaffolding for the thirty-foot decorative towers that go outside the charging rooms.
  • That scaffold needs rebuilding from the ground up.
  • My men will replace the workers on the scaffold.
80
Q

hop

A

Прыгать, запрыгнуть, сесть:

  • Musk and I eventually hop into his car - a black Model S - and zip back to the main SpaceX building.
  • With this short rope… we’ve somehow managed to… hop and jump, the three of us together.
  • We should just hop into the empty bed right here.
81
Q

zip

A

Молния:

  • I’m wearing this dress to the party, but the zip’s jiggered.
  • I give it two buttons and a zip.

Застегивать, промелькнуть:

  • Musk and O eventually hop into his car - a black Model S - and zip back to the main SpaceX building.
  • I couldn’t zip the dress without it.
82
Q

pursue

A

Заниматься, преследовать, придерживаться, гнаться:

  • “I think there are probably too many smart people pursuing Internet stuff, finance and law”, Musk said on the way.
  • For the biennium 2012-2013, UN-Women will pursue two main priorities.

Продолжать:

  • The two Committees must therefore pursue their efforts.
  • Orion and Defence were unable to immediately pursue.
83
Q

revelation

A

Откровение, открытие, разоблачение:

  • Musk land was a revelation.
  • Surely you’d agree this revelation about government corruption deserves the public’s utmost attention.
84
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implore

A

Умолять, заклинать, просить:

  • It’s one part of the city that locals will implore you to avoid.
  • I implore you to meet truth with truth.
  • I implore them to let me live, and see him return to the throne.
85
Q

deranged

A

Сумасшедший, ненормальный, невменяемый, безумный:

  • Without trying very hard you can find someone pulling down his pants and pooping in between parked cars or encounter some deranged sort bashing his head into the side of a bus stop.
  • It was his deranged mind who caused its awakening.
  • No! I won’t see you end up like Skinner. Twisted and deranged.
86
Q

bash

A

Бить, колотить:

  • Without trying very hard you can find someone pulling down his pants and pooping in between parked cars or encounter some deranged sort bashing his head into the side of a bus stop.
  • I have to bash you a bit so you look like a prisoner.
  • You were the one trying to bash her door in when you found out.

Вечеринка, банкет:

  • Big bash in the cemetery one night, parade on the next.
  • Our sorority is throwing a huge bash tonight.
87
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soil

A

Почва, земля, грунт:

  • Healthy and fertile soil was essential to agricultural productivity, food security and sustainable agriculture.
  • The real the first act of nuclear terrorism on American soil.

Пачкать, марать:

  • At dive bars near the local strip clubs, transvestites hit on curious businessman and drunks fall asleep on couches and soil themselves as part of their lazy Sunday ritual.
  • You wouldn’t want to soil her name, right?
  • I don’t want to soil my hands.
88
Q

gritty

A

Суровый:

  • It’s the gritty, knife-stabby part of San-Francisco and turned out to be a great place to watch the dotcom dream die.
  • You know, a warm, fuzzy ending doesn’t really make sense for a gritty crime novel.
  • The opening cinematic takes place in a gritty, war-torn future depicting a final battle between the world’s greatest heroes and villains.

Песчаный:

  • Her skin is a gritty beach in paradise.
89
Q

stab

A

Ударить, заколоть, зарезать, пырнуть, колоть:

  • It’s the gritty, knife-stabby part of San-Francisco and turned out to be a great place to watch the dotcom dream die.
  • Otherwise, don’t worry he’d still stab us in the back when needed.
  • 39 stab wounds is very specific.
90
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greed

A

Жадность, алчность, корысть, жажда наживы:

  • San Francisco has an enduring history with greed.
  • Forgive our greed and rejection of your ways.
  • And when he died in prison, it really hit me what greed can do to a soul.
91
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lust

A

Жажда, желание, желать:

  • It became a city on the back of the gold rush, and not even a catastrophic earthquake could slow San-Francisco’s economic lust for long.
  • And all that talent, that lust for life, wiped out because of her.

Похоть, страсть:

  • I’ve seen the dirty lust in your eyes when you look at her.
  • Well, that was lust, not love.
92
Q

granola

A

Овсянка с орехами, сушеными фруктами (обычно с молоком)…

  • Don’t let the granola vibes fool you.

Овсяный:

  • I have an American maid, and all she’s good at is eating my granola bars.
  • Yes, feelings about the stolen granola bars.
93
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vibe

A

Атмосфера, вибрации, предчувствие, энергетика:

  • The sea and everything, palm trees, sand, the whole Caribbean vibe.
  • Nothing was actually happening, but I got a bad vibe.
  • A vibe like you’ve got a fire inside of you.
94
Q

bust

A

Бюст:

  • The bust, waist, and hips are called inflection points, and the ratios of their circumferences are used to define basic body shapes.

Арест, облава:

  • Officials are saying this bust is a part of a larger investigation scheduled to ramp up across the state.

Разрашать, ломать:

  • Booms and busts are the rhythm of this place.
  • Lucky he didn’t bust up something before we got here.
  • Nobody left to fix them if they go bust.
95
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avarice

A

Алчность, жадность, скупость:

  • And, in 2000, San Francisco had been overtaken by the boom of all booms and consumed by avarice.
  • The paradox of capitalism is that it converts avarice, greed, and envy into virtues.
  • Do not think your wider corruption and avarice is obscured to me, Inspector.
96
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delusion

A

Заблуждение, иллюзия, обман, наваждение:

  • The pulses of energy from this shared delusion were palpable, producing a constant buzz that vibrated across the city.
  • I assure you that this is a total delusion on your part.
  • You take that delusion out of my son’s head, and you crush it.
97
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pulpable

A

Ощутимый, осязаемый:

  • The pulses of energy from this shared delusion were palpable, producing a constant buzz that vibrated across the city.
  • After so many years of chaos and lawlessness, people would like to see palpable progress towards good governance under the rule of law.
  • Unfortunately, no palpable progress has been made in respect of full nuclear disarmament.
98
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depraved

A

Развратный, развращенный, извращенный:

  • And here I was in the center of the most depraved part of San Francisco, watching just how high and low people get when consumed by excess.
  • I mean, who knows what kind of twisted, depraved, unholy world we’re about to step into.
  • At the age of 14, he was tempted by a depraved woman who was about 30 years old.
99
Q

eager

A

Стремиться, жаждать, быть намеренным:

  • You just had to have an idea for some sort of Internet thing and announce it to the world on order for eager investors to fund your thought experiment.
  • The Democratic Republic of the Congo is eager to maintain good-neighbourly relations with Rwanda and all its other neighbours.
  • Governments and other actors are sometimes eager to promote return as the preferred solution.
100
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denizen

A

Житель, завсегдатай:

  • Valley denizens took very literally the cliche of working as hard as you play.
  • He’s a denizen of those woods you’re visiting, and he cares about preserving them.
  • What sort of a jungle denizen might this be?
101
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debauchery

A

Распутство, дебош, кутеж, разврат:

  • But when the time to decompress arrived, there were plenty of options for total debauchery.
  • This is the result of depravity, debauchery and degradation that society is undergoing today.
  • Before what I can only imagine was a night of drunken debauchery.
102
Q

outdo

A

Превзойти, перещеголять, переплюнуть:

  • The hot companies and media powers of the time seemed to locked in a struggle to outdo each other with ever fancier parties.
  • They all try to outdo each other.
  • I was so stubborn I tried to outdo my sister-in-law.
103
Q

venue

A

Место проведения, место встречи, форум, площадка, мероприятие:

  • Old-line companies trying to look “with it” would regularly buy space at a concert venue and then order up some dancers, acrobats, open bars, and the Barenaked ladies.
  • The dates and venue are also important.
  • The venue and theme will be announced shortly.
104
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reminiscence

A

Воспоминание, напоминать:

  • It’s more fun to reminiscence on irrational exuberance than the mess that gets left behind.
  • The proposed prototype strategic framework is reminiscent of the old one United Nations approach.
  • His behavioral patterns are reminiscent of my own.
  • The bone damage is reminiscent of multiple myeloma.
105
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exuberance

A

Изобилие, избыток:

  • It’s more fun to reminiscence on irrational exuberance than the mess that gets left behind.
  • Now, see, that right there is the exuberance of youth.
  • I think we can all be forgiven for a little youthful exuberance.
106
Q

lump

A

Кусок, опухоль, глыба, шишка:

  • Instead of the Barenaked Ladies, you get the occational Neil Diamond tribute band at a trade show, some free T-shirts, and a lump of shame.
  • He can turn a lump of lead into gold.
  • Man, I got a lump on my head the size of Nebraska.
  • I know, it’s just not exactly great timing - the lump and everything.
107
Q

rehab

A

Реабилитация, лечение:

  • It was if Silicon Valley had entered rehab en masse.
  • I don’t know, I guess rehab is better than divorce court.
  • He suffered a life-changing trauma, months of painful rehab.
108
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en masse

A

Массово, вместе, скопом, коллективно:

  • It was if Silicon Valley had entered rehab en masse.
  • These molecules can be used individually or en masse to form new kinds of materials.
  • In response to their call, Albanian pupils and teachers abandoned the schools at will and en masse.
109
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malaise

A

Болезнь, недомогание, дискомфорт:

  • The evidence of this malaise is in the companies and ideas formed during this period. Betwee Google and Apple’s introduction of the iPhone in 2007, there’s a wasteland of ho-hum companies.
  • We have to acknowledge that there is a certain malaise throughout the disarmament forum and machinery, both at the international and regional levels.
  • We must all recognize that the Conference on Disarmament as we have known it will not long survive if this malaise continues.
110
Q

ho-hum

A

Used to express boredom or resignation (скучный):

  • Despite the numbers, retail brokers reported another ho-hum session.
  • As predicted , her performance was ho-hum.
  • The evidence of this malaise is in the companies and ideas formed during this period. Betwee Google and Apple’s introduction of the iPhone in 2007, there’s a wasteland of ho-hum companies.
111
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thrive

A

Процветать, преуспевать, развиваться, преуспеть, благоденствовать:

  • Google had appeared and really started to thrive around 2002, but it was an outlier.
  • People must be able to thrive “both as an individual and as a member of larger communities”.
  • The strength of societies is based upon their ability to thrive with their own capacities and resources.
112
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outlier

A

Посторонний, аномалия, обособленный:

  • Google had appeared and really started to thrive around 2002, but it was an outlier.
  • The exception, the outlier drew our attention and led us to something that taught us very important things about the rest of biology.
  • And I would tell you that every one of my patients is an outlier, is an exception.
113
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lull

A

Затишье, перерыв:

  • One of first people to suggest that this lull in innovation could siganl a much larger problem was Jonathan Huebner, a physicist who works at the Pentagon’s Naval Air Warfare Center in China Lake, California.
  • Their hunger for updated information was only intensified by the continued lull in action on Shaw Island.

Убаюкивать, усыплять, успокаивать:

  • President Leonid Kuchma’s regime tries to lull both Ukrainians and the outside world about this dark state of affairs.
  • I want to caution members about something else: to let sweet talk by leaders of these regimes lull us into inaction is to repeat the worst mistakes of this century.
114
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ensemble

A

A group of musicians, actors, or dancers who perform together, a group of items viewed as a whole rather than individually:

  • Middle-aged, thin, and balding, hi likes to wear a dirt-inspired ensemble of khaki pantsm a brown-striped shirt, and a canvas khaki jacket.
115
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miff

A

Раздражать:

  • Following the dot-com bust, he became miffed at the ho-hum nature of the supposed innovations crossing his desk.
  • My maid’s touchy, everything miffs her!
116
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indictment

A

Обвинене, обвинительный приговор:

  • In 2005, Huebner delivered a paper, “A Possible Declining Trend in Worldwide Innovation”, which was either an indictment of Silicon Valley of at least an ominous warning.
  • The indictment was submitted by the author to the Kocaeli 3rd Labour Court as evidence.
117
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ominous

A

Зловещий, угрожающий:

  • In 2005, Huebner delivered a paper, “A Possible Declining Trend in Worldwide Innovation”, which was either an indictment of Silicon Valley of at least an ominous warning.
  • A forest to the southwest is an ominous feng shui sign.
118
Q

trunk

A

Ствол:

  • Huebner opted to use a tree metaphor to describe what he saw as the state of innovation. Man has already climbed past the trunk of the tree and gone out on its major limbs, mining most of the really big, game-changing ideas - the wheel, electricity, the airplane, the telephone, the transistor.

Багажник, сундук, чемодан:

  • So when Eckhart opened the trunk, Caldrone had free hands.
  • Would you believe I dropped my keys in the trunk…
119
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limbs

A

Конечности, ветви:

  • Huebner opted to use a tree metaphor to describe what he saw as the state of innovation. Man has already climbed past the trunk of the tree and gone out on its major limbs, mining most of the really big, game-changing ideas - the wheel, electricity, the airplane, the telephone, the transistor.
  • Many children had died, lost limbs or suffered psychological trauma.
120
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dangle

A

Висеть, болтаться, размахивать:

  • Now we’re left dangling near the end of the branches at the top of the tree and mostly just refining past inventions.
  • The sword you dangle over my head would cut deeply.
121
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cohort

A

Когорта, соратники, пособники:

  • In an essay called “What Happened to the Future”, Thiel and his cohorts described how Twitter, it’s 140-character messages, and similar inventions have let the public down.
  • Six cohorts will more than do the job.
122
Q

dystopian

A

Мрачный, антиутопический:

  • He argued that science fiction, which once celebrated the future, has turned dystopian because people no longer have an optimistic view of technology’s ability to change the world.
  • Rand portrays innovative industrialists as akin to Atlas in Greek mythology, carrying on his back a dystopian world of growing and overbearing collectivist government.
123
Q

morph

A

Превращаться:

  • Musk made $22 million from the deal and poured almost all of it into his next venture, a start-up that would morph into PayPal.
  • History also suggests that financial crises tend to morph over time.
124
Q

decamp

A

Покидать, скрываться, выступать из лагеря:

  • Instead of hanging around Silicon Valley and falling into the same funk as his peers, however, Musk decamped to Los Angeles.
  • Perhaps we should decamp to the bedroom, to not corrupt the country mice.
125
Q

funk

A

Хандра:

  • Instead of hanging around Silicon Valley and falling into the same funk as his peers, however, Musk decamped to Los Angeles’.
  • Or you could snap out of this funk and come and help me end this.
  • Mary seems to be in a bit of a funk about this Mexican night, thinks she’s not getting enough support.

Бояться, избегать из-за страха:

  • I could have seen him this morning but I funked it.
126
Q

crotchety

A

Капризный, раздражительный:

  • The crotchety Luddites in the music industry were a pleasure to deal with compared to Musk’s foes who build weapons and countries for a living.
  • I am getting crotchety in my old age.
  • I know Bobby’s a little crotchety, but he’s great.
127
Q

Luddite

A

A person opposed to new technology or ways of working, a member of any of the bands of English workers who destroyed machinery, especially in cotton and woolen mills, that they believed was threatening their jobs:

  • The crotchety Luddites in the music industry were a pleasure to deal with compared to Musk’s foes who build weapons and countries for a living.
  • I’m supposed to take advice from a Luddite who thinks the last great technological achievement was given to us by Johannes Gutenberg?
128
Q

payload

A

Полезная нагрузка, груз, грузоподъемность:

  • SpaceX has been testing reusable rockets that can carry payloads to space and land back on Earth, on their launchpads, with precision.
  • It is well understood that the range of a missile is affected by the payload.
  • For the purpose of in- service conformity testing the payload may be reproduced and an artificial load may be used.
129
Q

devastating

A

Разрушительный, губительный, сокрушительный, катастрофический:

  • If the company can perfect this technology, it will deal a devastating blow to all of it’s competitors and almost assuredly push some mainstays of the rockets industry out of business while establishing the United States as the world leader for taking cargo and humans to space.
  • Yet another category was devastating harm, which was generally intolerable.
  • The effect on our peaceful tourist destinations was devastating.
130
Q

revamp

A

Перестроить, реконструировать, модернизировать:

  • With Tesla Motors, Musk has tried to revamo the way cars are manufactured and sold, while building out a worldwide fuel distribution network at the same time.
  • This could totally revamp the pesticide industries throughout the world.
  • Faced with mediocre ratings, its producers attempted to revamp the series during this season.
131
Q

affront

A

Оскорбление, вызов, посягательство:

  • The direct sales model embraced by Tesla stands as a major affront to car dealers used to haggling with their customers and making their profits from exorbitant maintanance fees.
  • They explain that racial discrimination is an implicit affront to human dignity and causes damage.
  • This is not an affront to international trade in arms, but a question of being responsible traders and consumers.
132
Q

haggle

A

Торговля, торговаться:

  • The direct sales model embraced by Tesla stands as a major affront to car dealers used to haggling with their customers and making their profits from exorbitant maintanance fees.
  • Then you can’t afford to haggle over price.
  • I had to haggle a bit, but I got you a magnificent motorboat at half price.
133
Q

exorbitant

A

Чрезмерный, непомерный:

  • The direct sales model embraced by Tesla stands as a major affront to car dealers used to haggling with their customers and making their profits from exorbitant maintanance fees.
  • Our servants demand exorbitant wages and seem to have lost all sense of place.
134
Q

decay

A

Распад, разложение, распадаться, гнить:

  • While much of America’s infrastructure decays, Musk is building a futuristic end-to-end transportation system that would allow the United States to leapfrog the rest of the world.
  • Our servants demand exorbitant wages and seem to have lost all sense of place.
  • Corruption, the car park mafia, cultural decay…
135
Q

incumbent

A

Сотрудник, должностное лицо:

  • The Musk Co. empire of factories, tens of thousands of workers, and industrial might has incumbents on the run and has turned Musk into one of the richest men in the world, with a net worth around $10 billion.
  • Given the responsibilities and interaction of the future incumbent, it is suggested that the post be located in the New York office.
  • The incumbent will also mentor the National Officers in these states.

Нынешний, действующий:

  • The contract of the incumbent Director was extended until March 2014.
  • The incumbent Congressional Representative, Eni F. H. Faleomavaega, who has represented American Samoa in Washington, D.C. for the past 12 years, was also re-elected.
136
Q

loopy

A

Сумасшедший, хитрый, чокнутый:

  • While the “putting men on Mars” talk can strike some people as loopy, it gave Musk a unique rallying cry for his companies.
  • You’ve finally driven him loopy.
  • That’s one of those loopy things mom would say.
137
Q

rally

A

Митинг:

  • One mass rally was organized by the opposition in Phnom Penh in May.
  • He’s not back from the civil rights rally.

Сполотить, объединить, мобилизовать:

  • We must rally the faithful under the banner of Rome.
  • If Lorenzo is still alive, he might yet rally his people.
  • Only nationalism or religious ethics rally people.
138
Q

rallying cry

A

Боевой клич, объединяющий лозунг:

  • While the “putting men on Mars” talk can strike some people as loopy, it gave Musk a unique rallying cry for his companies.
  • That rallying cry has inspired peoples and nations throughout this century.
139
Q

sweep

A

Подметать, обыскать, прочесать, осматривать:

  • You can sweep up hair a few shifts a week.
  • We’ll sweep car by car, moving from front to back.
  • Stay seated while I make a sweep.
140
Q

loathe

A

Ненавидеть, чувствовать отвращение:

  • Some employees love him for this. Others loathe him but remain oddly loyal out of respect for his drive and mission.
  • All my life I’ve been taught to hate and loathe them.
  • To loathe, a target for all of your anger.
141
Q

possession

A

Одержимость:

  • He’s the possessed genious on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted.

Владение, обладание:

  • Teachers worry that banning possession of seditious materials will undermine academic freedom.
  • France formally ceded possession of Dominica to Great Britain in 1763.
142
Q

concoct

A

Придумать, состряпать, выдумать, изобрести:

  • He’s the possessed genious on the grandest quest anyone has ever concocted.
  • In recent years, it’s allowed us to concoct a simple, yet powerful description of how the universe is built up.
  • We want to concoct a fake romance.
143
Q

endeavor

A

Стремление, попытка, усилие, ничинание:

  • The life that Musk has created to manage all of these endeavors is preposterous.
  • We believe that our common endeavour should be to continue towards achieving this objective.
  • The Secretary-General will make every endeavour to facilitate this process as resources permit.
144
Q

preposterous

A

Нелепый, абсурдный:

  • The life that Musk has created to manage all of these endeavors is preposterous.
  • Shelley was brought to us having been given the preposterous diagnosis by a psychiatrist comparing her to a wood nymph.
  • There’s an utterly preposterous myth that it is the distance run from the Battle of Marathon back to Athens.
145
Q

custody

A

Заключение, содержание под стражей:

  • Quinn stays in our custody until I say otherwise.
  • They were reportedly transferred to El Fasher and kept in NISS custody.
  • Medium custody prisoners require continuous supervision.

Опека:

  • He shares custody of his five young boys - twins and triplets - with his ex-wife, Justine, and has them four days a week.
146
Q

carve

A

Вырезать, резать, разделать:

  • I need to find a girlfriend. That’s whu i need to carve out just a little more time.
  • Maybe not, but I could carve her heart out.
  • Perhaps you could carve it into a bar of soap.
147
Q

festivity

A

Праздник, торжество:

  • Musk rarely finds time to decompress, but when he does, the festivities are just as dramatic as the rest of his life.
  • The tournament turned into a real festivity for all children and their parents.
148
Q

patio

A

Патио, внутренный дворик:

  • When the train arrived in Venice the next day, Musk’s family had dinner and then hunk out on the patio of their hotel overlooking the Grand Canal until 9 A.M.
  • And to get to the patio, you go through the dining room.
  • You must be very careful as you cross the patio.
149
Q

midget

A

Карлик:

  • Musk loves costume parties as well, and turned up at one dressed like a knight and using a parasol to duel a midget wearing a Darth Vader costume.
  • It’s times like these I appreciate being a midget.
  • That said I believe our midget is the key to this.
150
Q

compatriot

A

Соотечественник, земляк:

  • One of the worlds’s top sumo wrestlers showed up at the party along with some of his compatriots.
  • He is a close compatriot to General Thaddeus Ross and an active participant in his operations to capture or kill the Hulk.
151
Q

gonad

A

Яйцо:

  • The knife thrower then went to work. “Still, I thought, he would maybe hit one gonad but not both”.
  • Your gonad is being used for research.
152
Q

onlooker

A

Зритель, наблюдатель:

  • The onlookers were stunned and frightened for Musk’s safety.
  • But, as an impartial onlooker I think I might have a bit of an advice to give you.
  • It is obvious that Armenia is not a detached onlooker in this situation.
153
Q

jiggle

A

Трясти, качать:

  • He was three hundred and fifty pounds, and they were not jiggly pounds.
  • If you jiggle the frame you can get it open.
  • Some you got to jiggle the key in the ignition.
154
Q

ridicule

A

Высмеивать, насмехаться:

  • She watched him lose his entire fortune and get ridiculed by the press.
  • But instead of gratitude, I get scorn, ridicule, mockery.
  • The court will gladly expose us to ridicule.
155
Q

infant

A

Младенец, детский:

  • She knows that the sting of these years remains and has combined with the other traumas in Musk’s life - the tragic loss of an infant son and a brutal upbringing is South Africa - to create a tortured soul.
  • It also noted progress in reducing poverty and infant mortality and promoting religious harmony.
  • Education is a determining factor in infant mortality levels.
156
Q

upbringing

A

Детство, воспитание:

  • She knows that the sting of these years remains and has combined with the other traumas in Musk’s life - the tragic loss of an infant son and a brutal upbringing is South Africa - to create a tortured soul.
  • But if you had my dad and my upbringing…
157
Q

conduct

A

Проводить, осуществлять, организовывать:

  • Inside of the Tesla offices, hundreds of young men were at work - some of the designing car parts on computers and others conducting experiments with electronics equipment on their desks.
  • In some countries these networks lack the resources to successfully conduct their work.

Поведение:

  • Such conduct based on administrative convenience is unacceptable.
  • No code of conduct binds them.
158
Q

uproarious

A

Шумный, буйный:

  • Musk uproarious laugh would erupt every few minutes and carry throught the entire floor.
  • The whole group burst out in uproarious laughter.
  • Around 1 AM , ScHoolboy Q took the stage to uproarious applause from the crowd.
159
Q

adore

A

Обожать, боготворить:

  • Musk adores the word, and so do most of the people in his inner circle.
  • Please bring us the baby we already love and adore.
  • I mean, everyone is here to adore you.
160
Q

visionary

A

A person with original ideas about what the future will or could be like (фантазер, мечтатель):

  • This kind of declaration seems to fit with our impressions of other visionaries.
  • Once more a visionary idea became law.

Воображаемый, мечтательный, призрачный:

  • What are these visionary beings you have introduced?
  • It has garnered praise for its original concept and visionary story.
161
Q

chastise

A

Наказывать, отчитывать:

  • It’s not hard to imagine Howard Hughes or Steve Jobs chastising their workforse in a similar way.
  • I see that you, like I, came up here to chastise Santiago.
  • The results prompted the president of the International Federation of Gymnastics to publicly chastise the judges.
162
Q

despise

A

Презирать, ненавидеть:

  • In the two decades Musk has spent creating companies, he’s left behind a trail of people who either adore or despise him.
  • You mustn’t despise him because he didn’t win a prize.
  • You start to despise yourself at as young as age three.
163
Q

gory

A

Кровавый, окровавленный:

  • During the course of my reporting, these people lined up to give me their take on Musk and the gory details of how he and his businesses operate.
  • She let herself in and there he was - in all his gory.
  • They want to see the gory aspect of the drug problem.
164
Q

spectacular

A

Впечатляющий, захватывающий, эффектный, зрелищный:

  • He’s merged atoms and bits in ways that few people thought possible and the results have been spectacular.
  • There could have been a rather spectacular explosion.
165
Q

detractor

A

Клеветник:

  • On the other hand, Musk’s companies have already accomplished far more than his loudest detractors thought possible, and the promise of what’s to come has to leave hardened types feeling optimistic during their weaker moments.
  • Your biggest detractor attacks you at your own show, and - …
  • A blanket strategy will galvanize as many detractors as supporters.
166
Q

meld

A

Объединяться:

  • The integration mentioned by Jung - the harmonious melding of software, electronics, advanced materials, and computing horsepower - appears to be Musk’s gift.
  • He could suffer brain damage, but he’s confident he’ll be able to break the meld before that happens.
  • Marriages which meld the noble houses together and keep the fabric of the Republic strong.
167
Q

squint

A

Щуриться:

  • Squint ever so slightly, and it looks like Musk could be using his skills to pave the way toward an age of astonishing machines and science fiction dreams made manifest.
  • If you squint, you can still see the face.

Косоглазие:

  • I have a bad squint.
  • I’ll lay you five to one, George Pratt, your first kid has a squint and a wrinkled brow!
168
Q

manifest

A

Декларация, провозглашать:

  • Squint ever so slightly, and it looks like Musk could be using his skills to pave the way toward an age of astonishing machines and science fiction dreams made manifest.
  • Well, this is the cargo manifest you filed with Italian customs.

Проявляться, продемонстрировать, провозглашать:

  • Regrettably, racism continued to manifest itself in many forms.
  • Of course, there are other situations in which one may be compelled to manifest one’s conscientiously held beliefs.
169
Q

astonishing

A

Удивительный, изумительный, поразительный:

  • Squint ever so slightly, and it looks like Musk could be using his skills to pave the way toward an age of astonishing machines and science fiction dreams made manifest.
  • Richard Owen himself purchased the most astonishing fossil for his museum.
  • The Grimstad Times has published an astonishing report.
170
Q

outlandish

A

Диковинный, нелепый:

  • Born in South Africa, Musk now looks like America’s most innovative industrialist and outlandish thinker and the person most likely to set silicon valley on a more ambitious course.
  • But you pay me for my outlandish theories.
  • Our big eyes, curly hair, big long noses, pale skin, extravagant gestures, outlandish costumes…
171
Q

fathom

A

Понять, постичь, осознать, вникнуть:

  • These advances are simultaneously difficult to fathom and seemingly inevitable of Musk can simply buy enough time to make them work.
  • You cannot fathom the beauty in the art we create.
  • Because one cannot fathom what another has in his teapot.
172
Q

inevitable

A

Неизбежный, неминуемый:

  • These advances are simultaneously difficult to fathom and seemingly inevitable of Musk can simply buy enough time to make them work.
  • In any case, it is an inevitable process.
  • I start junior year tomorrow, so insanity’s inevitable.