1032. At the top level див. А-998.

1033. at the top of one's lungs (або throat, voice) [тж. at the pitch of one's lungs (або voice)] дуже голосно, на весь голос; див. тж. В-1089;

"What is the matter? Anything wrong?" This was the cry from the Lady Mine.

"Yes!" I shouted, at the top of my lungs (I. Lon­don).

"Mr Pickwick, mother," said Mr. Wardle, at the top of his voice (Ch. Dickens).

Calm and smiling, but shouting above the bun ing shells, she drew the children round her, made them, close their ears with their fingers and sing at the pitch of their lungs (A. Cronin).

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1034. at the top of one's speed дуже швидко;

Mr. Pickwick cared not for appearances in such an extreme case, and urged on by Sam Weller, he kept at the very top of his speed until he reached the door of Manor Farm (Ch. Dickens).

1035. at the top of one's throat (або voice) див. А-1033.

1036. at the top of the ladder (або tree) в перших рядах, попереду; що займає знач­ не місце; див. тж. А-968; С-753 та Т-1789;

Let me see the man who . should give the cold shoulder to anybody I chose to protect and patron­ise if I were at the top of the tree, Tom (Ch, Dick­ens).

1037. at the touch of a magic wand див. A-638.

1038. at the utmost (або uttermost) що­ найбільше; див. тж. А-873.

1039. at the very least див. А-873.

1040. at the very loose див. А-1002.

1041. at the very nick of time див. А-1006.

1042. at the very outside див. А-1007.

1043. at the very stroke of the hour див. A-1006.

1044. at the very tail of something див. A-1031.

1045. at the world's end див. А-961.

1046. at the worst [тж. at worst; if (або when) (the) worst came (або comes) to (the) worst; заст. when hard comes to hard] у най­ гіршому випадку, разі, якщо трапиться най­ гірше; див. тж. А-813;

...At the worst, obscure honesty is better than gaudy crime (E. Bulwer Lytton).

"If the worst comes to the worst, Master Path­finder," said he, "we must strike" (/. Cooper).

And if I can't get a job there I'll try Lawrence, and then if worst comes to worst I can land some­thing at Rivers (J. Steele).

1047. at the zenith of one's fame (або glory, powers і т. д.) в зеніті слави, в роз­ квіті сил і т. д.

1048. at this distance of time коли минуло стільки часу;

...It is another thing, at this distance of time, to lay our hands on the plain evidence which can alone justify anything like a public assertion of his guilt (W. Collins).

1049. at this juncture 1) за таких обста­ вин;

Even the Times Washington correspondent has to admit that "there is much speculation on the poli­tical motives of Washington in seeking a debate 1m the U. N. Assembly] at this juncture (D.W.L., Nov. 2, 1953).

2) у цей момент;

At this juncture shuffling is heard in the hall, and lapping is heard at the dining-room door (Ch. Dickens).

1050. at this present див. А-934.

1051. at this present speaking див. А-1019.

1052. at this rate див. А-960.

1053. at this time of day 1) на даному етапі;

I assure you, that even at this time of day, if she wished to marry, she might easily find a re­spectable match (W. Scott).

2) так пізно;

I have lived to a fine purpose, truly, if I a-m to be taught my grammar at this time of day (H. Fielding).

1054. Attic salt (або wit) дотепи, тонка насмішка [етим. лат. sal Atticum. Аттика ко­ лись славилась дотепністю її жителів];

...Whose form and pedigree have scarce a fault, Shall I, I say, suppress my attic salt (G. Byron).

1055. at times (гаю. at times and again) іноді, інколи;

At times he shocked them with the vividness of the narrative and his terms of speech (7. London).

1056. attitude of mind див. Т-2176.

1057. attract (або draw) attention, to (тж. to attract one's attention) притягати, привер­ тати увагу; див. тж. С-43;

Philpot made a little ball of paper and threw it at him'' to attract his attention (R. Tressell).

1058. attract (або draw) one's eye (або the eye of one), to привернути чийсь погляд, зацікавити когось;

The woods, the rivers, the lawns of Devon and of Dorset, attract the eye of the ingenious traveller, and retard his pace, which delay he afterwards compensates by swiftly scouring over the gloomy heath of Bagshot (H. Fielding).

1059. at (або in) wait рідк. чекаючи (ко­ гось, щось).

1060. at will коли завгодно, коли спаде на думку, коли захочеться; як завгодно; див. тж. А-825;

The base of my tree was hidden in the bushes and much lower than the knoll where the den was. So I could come and go at will without scaring the foxes (E. Seton-Thompson).

1061. at worst див. А-1046.

1062. Augean stable (або stables) авгієві стайні, занедбане, занехаяне місце [етим. міф.}; див. тж. С-706;

This was the Augean stable which had to be cle­aned, and poor Hercules was weak and frail and physically more fitted for a sick-room than for such a task (A. Doyle).

1063. augur good (або well), to бути доб­ рою прикметою; див. тж. А-1064;

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The people are beginning to see through the anti-Communist racket — and this augurs well for the future of the Republic (D.W.N.Y., March. 13, U>53).

1064. augur ill, to бути поганою прикме­ тою; див. тж. А-1063.

1065. augur well, to див. А-1063.

1066. Augustan age, the вік Августа; пе- рен. класичний, золотий вік літератури й мистецтва.

1067. auld lang syne шотл. давні часи, добрі давні часи (відповідає англ. old long- since);

And she was glad to be able to send a present of twenty shillings to Mrs. Page for the sake of auld lang syne (W. Maxwell).

1068. Auld Reekie шот. розм. м. Едінбург.

1069. Aunt Sally «тітка Саллі» (популяр­ на гра в Англії,, в якій треба дерев'яним або шкіряним м'ячем вибити глиняну люль­ ку з рота гротескної жіночої голови, що стоїть на стовпі); перен. предмет, об'єкт на­ падок, жартів;

Professor Robbins is in need of an Aunt Sally at which to shy certain bricks which he has prepared ,(L.M., Jan. 1354).

1070. austerity measures режим ' економії.

1071. Australian ballot таємне голосування (на виборчій дільниці; форма таємного го­ лосування, яка вперше застосовувалася в Австралії). '

1072. author of all evil, the злий дух, дия­ вол; див. тж. С-807.

1073. autumn of (one's або the) life, the схил життя, старість.

1074. avoid evil and it will avoid thee присл. не чіпай лиха, і воно тебе не заче­ пить; ^ не чіпай лиха, коли воно спить; див. тж. D-605.

1075. avuncular relation жарт, лихвар '(жарт, побудований на двох значеннях слова uncle: 1) дядько і 2) лихвар).

1076. await (або wait) one's convenience, to ждати, очікувати прихильного ставлення з чийогось боку, ждати чиєїсь прихильності.

1077. awaken (або wake up) to the fact (або the situation), to розуміти, усвідомлю­ вати щось;

Nowadays workers are beginning to awaken to the fact that wars are for capitalists (Th. Dreiser),

1078. awake with a start, to див. W-38.

1079. award a contract, to амер. укласти, скласти угоду; здати підряд.

1080. award (one) the golden apple, to (тж. to award the golden apple to one) визнати якусь жінку самою вродливою [етим. міф.];

То which would he award the golden apple if she stood side by side with Anne? (I. Galsworthy).

1081. away ahead розм. значно, набагато кращий;

Say would you like to try one or two of these cigarettes? We can take them from the bottom. You'll like them, they're Russian — away ahead of Egyptian (S. Leacock).

1082. away (або way) back амер. (тж. англ. in the year one) дуже давно, з давніх часів, з давніх давен;

All of my folks from away back yonder lay sleep­ing there, and it's hard lines to have their rest disturbed (I. Conroy).

A frock-coat made in the year one, to judge by the cut of it! (I. Galsworthy) .

1083. away with it! розм. заберіть це геть!

1084. away with you! розм. [тж. розм. be gone; be off (with you); get along (або away, off, out) with you; розм. get out of my sight (або of here); розм. get (або go) about your business; off with you; розм. off you go; розм. out of my sight; розм. out you go] за­ бирайся геть!, геть з очей! див. тж. G-624, G-1765 та G-1959;

Take my silk handkerchief and wrap your throat up. There's a cold wind. Away with you (B. Shaw).

"Be off," said the man (H. Beecher Stowe).

Be off with you: I don't want you (B. Shaw).

I had to get up early for the washing. Now get along with you and get out, of the house early (7. London).

"Off with you," said Father, no longer jolly. "This moment. Off you go!" (K. Mansfield).

Then she turned fiercely to the men —

"Enough of this! Out you go — you others! I close" (7. Conrad).

1085. awkward age, the перехідний вік.

1086. awkward squad 1) військ, взвод но­ вобранців;

You have brought out the awkward squad this morning, colonel! Let me see if I can manage them better (E. Voynich).

2) новаки, недосвідчені люди (тж. babes and sucklings); див. тж. G-2095, J-27, 1) та R-147, 1);

"Nay, if you take it on that tone, Mark," said the cavalier, making an effort to laugh, evidently that he might conceal a tendency to a different emotion, "thou wilt make children of us both — babes and sucklings" (W. Scott).

1087. ax(e) to grind, an свої власні інте­ реси, зацікавленість (звич. вжив, з дієсло­ вом to have);

Publicans, shopkeeper/, teamsters and contrac­tors as well as prospectors and miners — all t people who depended for their living on the pro­gress and development of these struggling gold fields towns — resented the way their interests were ignored by southern politicians with axes to grind on mining industry (K. S. Prichard).

1085. ayes have it, the більшість за (при голосуванні); див. тж, 1SI-266.

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1. babe (або child) of love [тж. child of shame (або sin); love child; natural child] позашлюбна дитина; див. тж. В-187;

...But I am the child of shame (E. Bulwer Lyt-ion).

Jolly, the child of sin, pudgy-faced, with his tow-coloured hair brushed off his forehead, and a dimple in his chin, had an air of stubborn amiability, and the eyes of a Forsyte (J. Galsworthy).

"A love child," returned Betty Higden, dropping her voice; "parents never known; found in the street" (Ch. Dickens).

2. Babel (або babel) of tongues (або voices) галас, гармидер, розгардіяш, змі­ шання або мішанина мов, вавілонське стов­ потворіння; див. тж. С-1270;

There is presently a Babel of tongues. The end of Miss Watson's story of how she sent in her card... is lost in the general din (R. Broughton).

Amid the babel of voices, Hurstwood heard one close beside him (Th. Dreiser).

3. babes and sucklings див. А-1086, 2).

4. babes in the wood 1) заст. поставлені до ганебного стовпа; посаджені в колодки; 2) простаки, наївні, довірливі люди (тж. children in the wocd) [вираз взято з старої балади];

І feel as if we were back seven years, Jon. Do you wish we were? Babes in the wood once more? (J. Galsworthy).

We looked at one another, half laughing at our being like the children in the wood (Ch. Dickens).

5. babe (або child) unborn, the невинна людина; немовля; див. тж. 1-589, 2);

Mr. Pendennis knows no more of this business than the babe unborn (W. Thackeray).

6. Baboo English заст. неправильна, пиш­ номовна англійська мова індійців (особл. мова індійських чиновників, які мають по­ верхову освіту).

7. baby girl (тж. амер. сл. sugar baby) ко­ хана, полюбовниця;

That plane is like the boss's baby girl (M. Wil­son).

8. baby's dummy соска-пустишка;

We'll buy you a distorting mirror and a baby's dummy to suck in due time," said Brian (J. Lind­say).

9. Bacchus has drowned more men than Neptune (тж. wine has drowned more men than the sea) присл. Вакх утопив більше людей, ніж Нептун; вино загубило більше

людей, ніж море [етим. фр. Bacchus а поуе plus d'hommes que Neptune].

10. bachelor girl (спочатку амер.) неза­ міжня дівчина, що живе самостійно, «холо­ стячка».

11. bachelor (або gentleman) of the saddle амер. жарт, ковбой;

It was mid-July, a lull for these hard-riding bachelors of the saddle (O. Wister).

These gentlemen of the saddle were sitting quite expressionless upon their horses (O. Wister).

12. bachelor's buttons ґудзики, які можна прикріпити не пришиваючи їх, «радість хо­ лостяка»; див. тж. W-269.

13. bachelor's wife рідк. дружина, що іс­ нує лише в уяві; мрія холостяка.

14. back a loser, to ставити гроші не на того коня (і програти).

15. back and belly одяг і харчі або їжа.

16. back and edge заст. 1) цілком і пов­ ністю; 2) з усієї сили.

17. back and fill, to 1) мор. лежати в дрей­ фі, поперемінне обстенюючи і наповнюючи паруси; 2) амер. перен. вагатися, виявляти нерішучість, часто змінювати свої погляди або рішення; ^ сім п'ятниць на тиждень [тж. англ. to be in several (або in twen­ ty, in two) minds; to chop and change; to have two minds];

By Saint Paul! they are in two minds, and a bold rush may turn them (A. Doyle).

You lose the jobber's turn and the brokerage both times, so it is just as much your interest not to sell and buy as it is Mr. Hempstead's to get you to chop and change. That's plain, isn't it? (F. Har­ris).

18. back and forth 1) туди й сюди, взад і вперед, в різні боки (тж. to and fro; up and down);

I must have passed that shop back and forth six times during that manful struggle (M. Twain).

He grew weary of running to and fro on the short track (Th. Dreiser).

2) з усіх боків, грунтовно, досконало; без кінця, весь час;

...Не joked back and forth with the landlady (A. Saxton).

19. back answer (або talk) заперечення; нечемність; див. тж. А-456;

And I don't want any back answers or argument about it. You just move yourself a bit quicker or leave it alone altogether (R. Tressell).

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20. back bench, the парл. лава для рядо­ вих членів партії (звідси backbencher, back­ bencher — рядовий член парламенту).

21. back countries (тж. back country; back country districts; back lands) амер. внутріш­ ні, віддалені райони країни; глуш, глушина;

So I left, and struck for the back country CAT. Twain),

22. back is broad enough (to bear the blame, responsibility і т. д.), one's у когось досить іпирока спина (щоб взяти на себе обвинувачення, відповідальність і т. д.); див. тж. S-940;

Oh, it was nothing. I guess my back's broad enough to bear a few hard words fW. Maugham).

23. back lands див. В-21.

24. back number (тж. back-number) 1) ста­ рий номер (газети, журналу);

On a table I noticed, in the midst of a pile of papers and books, some back numbers of LeMino-iaure, a magazine that appeared between the two world wars (Af. & M., March. 1948).

2) перен. відстала від життя людина; щось старомодне, застаріле; що вийшло з ужитку;

They'll see I'm no back-number yet, by any means (O. Henry).

Any new idea gets seized and talked out of existence. It never gets farther than the brain, and the brain gets bored; and there it is, already a back number (7. Galsworthy).

25. back of beyond, the (тж. the Back of Beyond) (спочатку шотл.) віддалений ку­ точок; ^ казна-де, де Макар телят не пас;

Most of the recruits we're getting now are dumb Indians from the Back of Beyond (G. Trease).

26. back (або nape) of one's (або the) head (або neck) потилиця;

In the interval they stood in the bar, Con with his hat on the back of his head, froth on his mous­tache, brown boots, happily planted (A. Cronin).

At length one of them, laughing a great roister­ing laugh, stooped and seized the dog by the nape of the neck and swung him round in the air (ff. Саме).

27. back one's judgement against the field,

to кидати виклик усім; іти на значний риск;

Of course, he might have taken up something else — butterflies, photography, archaeology, or first editions; some other sport in which you backed your judgment against the field, and collected the results; but he had never regretted choosing pic­tures (7. Galsworthy).

28. back-seat driving амер. сл. «поради» пасажира шоферу, як вести машину; перен. втручання в чужі спра-ви; поради, яких не просять. _<

29. back slang (тж. back-slang) жаргон, у якому слова вимовляються у зворотному порядку (namow замість woman);

Meek... I used to speak it at school. English back slang, sir.

Tallboys. Back slang? What do you mean? Meek. English spelt backwards (B, Shaw).

30. backstairs influence таємний, закуліс­ ний вплив; див. тж. Н-1322.

31. back street глуха, віддалена вулиця.

32. back talk див. В-19.

33. back the oars, to 1) мор. табанити, гребти заднім ходом (тж. to back water); 2) перен. брати назад свої слова; відступа­ ти, відмовлятися (від своїх планів, заду­ мів); зрікатися своїх слів; пасувати.

34. back the wrong horse, to [тж. to get (або have, take) the wrong sow by the ear; to hunt (або run) the wrong hare; to lay (або put, set) the saddle on the wrong horse; to saddle the wrong horse; амер. to bark up а (або the) wrong tree; to get (або take) the wrong pig by the tail; to get a wrong pig by the leg; to wake up the wrong pas­ senger] зробити невдалий вибір, помилити-, ся, звернутися не туди, куди слід, помилково обвинуватити людину, прорахуватися, ^ по­ пасти пальцем у небо; див. тж. G-496, В-163, 2) та С-1138;

So you backed the wrong horse, after all. Dick! (K. S. Prichard).

There had been a time when Billy thought the party's internationalism was barking up, a wrong tree. He no longer thought so. Now he felt very keenly how cruelly the American system affected the lives of other people all over the world (Beth Me Henry and Frederick N. Myers).

You're barking up the wrong tree. You're merely showing how far you still are from the real world (]., Lindsay).

35. back water, to 1) див. В-33, 1);2) амер. перен. відступити, відмовитися, взяти назад свої слова, не додержати слова, спасувати.

36. baculine (або birchen) argument жарт., ірон. «паличний» аргумент, бійка [етим. лат. argumentum baculinum];

The baculine method was a quite common mode of argument in those days... (W. Thackeray). •

...But that will not happen, unless you had the same birchen argument to convince me (H. Field­ing).

37. bad actor амер. [тж. англ. broken (або weak) reed; weak vessel] ненадійна лю­ дина [етим. англ. виразів бібл.];

Let's not assume too quickly, though, that Mr. Budenz as a witness is a broken reed (M. & "I., Jan., 1952).

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Berenice was moved by this affection for her, which she knew to be genuine; but what a fool her mother had been, what a weak reed, indeed, she was to lean upon! (Th. Dreiser).

Twemlow going on to play, she rests her eyes again, knowing her ears to be quite enough for-the contents of so weak a vessel (Ch. Dickens).

38. bad beginning makes a bad ending, a

присл. ^ погано почнеш, погано і закінчиш; яке посієш, таке й пожнеш; див. тж. А-725.

39. bad (або ill) blood (тж. ill feeling; ill will) ворожнеча, ворожі стосунки (звич. вжив, з дієсловами to breed, to incite, to make, to stir up); див. тж. D-748;

There was bad blood between us (M. Twain). I had forgotten that there was ill blood betwixt you (A. Doyle).

40. bad books (тж. black books; bad graces) немилість [звич. вжив, у виразах to be in one's bad або black books (або graces)]; див. тж. G-1506 та В-910;

They'll only fix something and ruin us. I'm al­ready down in their bad books (I. Lindsay).

41. bad break обмовка, недоречне заува­ ження, фальшивий крок (звич. вжив, з діє­ словом to make);

But the bad break Mr. Sampson anticipated did not materialize (Th. Dreiser).

42. bad bush is better than the open field, a

присл. ^ краще хоч поганий родич, ніж ніякого.

43. bad case [тж. bad character; bad egg; bad halfpenny; bad hat; bad (або hard) lot; bad penny; bad sort; rotten egg (або dog, sheep)] розм. погана, непутяща людина; див. тж. G-1608;

Не was a bad case too, in a different way (Ch. Dickens).

Lady Clavering has told me that they were not happy, and that her husband was a bad character (W. Thackeray).

You'll find a bunch of rough boys here — bad eggs — but you want to stay clear of them (I. Con-roy).

The hawk-like man was clearly a "bad hat" (J. Galsworthy).

He's a bad one, Mr. Lightfoot, a bad lot, Sir, and that you know (W. Thackeray).

"They tell me at Timothy's," said Nicholas lower­ing his voice, "that Dartie has gone off at last. That'll be a relief to your father. He was a rotten egg" (J. Galsworthy).

I don't know — except that Alf said to Paddy Cavan was a rotten dog and he couldn't work for him any longer (K. S. Prichard).

44. bad cess to one! ірл. розм. (тж. ірл. bad scran to one!) (не)хай йому всячина!; щоб йому пуття не було!;

Bad scran to her, you'd think she'd stirred the kitchen with a stick (A. Cronin).

45. bad character див. В-43.

46. bad coin фальшива або неповноцінна монета; перен. щось фальшиве, неповноцін­ не, погане; див. тж. В-178;

You offer your love to a pledged woman. It is only base love that is basely offered. It is bad coin, sir, and goes back dishonoured (H. Caine).

47. bad compromise is better than a good lawsuit, а (тж. better a lean peace than a fat victory) присл. ^ краще солом'яна згода, ніж золота звада.

48. bad (або evil) conscience нечиста со­ вість; див. тж. G-2165, С-724 та В-2108;

And Lao Tze suffered from pangs of bad consc­ience about his love of the world, and the gout (Mulk Raj Anand).

...It is better for a man to die at peace with himself, than to live haunted by an evil conscience (J. Cooper).

49. bad custom is like a good cake, better broken than kept а присл. ^ бійся поганої звички, як ворога.

50. bad debt безнадійний борг;

Someone hadn't paid for a funeral and there were a lot of bad debts on his books (K.. S. Prichard).

51. bad egg див. В-43.

52. bad fairy злий геній.

53. bad faith 1) несумлінність, недобросо­ вісність, несовісність.

2) зрада, зрадництво, віроломство, віро­ломність (тж. Punic faith) [етим. лат. mala fides; fides Punica. Віроломність карфагенян увійшла у римлян у приказку] • див. тж. G-1526;

Our Punic faith

Is infamous, and branded to a proverb (J. Addi-son).

54. bad form невихованість, нетактовність, погані манери, поганий тон; див. тж. G-1532;

It is not like you to make things go roughly and with bad form (O. Henry).

55. bad (або evil, ill) fortune [тж. bad" (або hard, ill, rough) luck] невдача, нещастя, не­ везіння; див. тж. G-I534;

What great man has not been called upon to face evil fortune? (W. Thackeray).

It was their ill fortune, at about the time of dawn and in the last stage of their journey, to have a restive pair of horses (Ch. Dickens).

Here ill luck, or rather bad luck, sent Mrs. Wes­tern to see her maid in tears (H. Fielding).

56. Badger State, the амер. «штат борсу­ ків» (так називають штат Вісконсін) [у цьо­ му штаті було багато борсуків. Борсук зо­ бражений і на гербі цього штату].

bad

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bad

57. bad graces див. В-40.

58. bad halfpenny див. В-43.

59. bad (або pour) hand at something, a

(тж. not much of a hand at something) не­вміла, невправна, слаба, недосвідчена в чо­мусь людина, поганий майстер; див. тж. С-1456;

So Mr. Pinchbold was considered a bad hand at making a bargain (С/г. Collins).

"Your father is such a poor hand at business," she went on, "and he gets so worried at times" (Th. Dreiser").

60. bad hat див. В-43.

60. bad (або evil) hour поганий, неслуш- «ий час; див. тж. 1-241;

...In an evil hour the government broke faith with the people (K. S. Prichard).

62. bad house (тж. bawdy house; disorder­ ly house; house of disrepute; house of ill fame; house of ill repute; house of prostitu­ tion; house of sin; амер. parlor house) евф. публічний дім, дім розпусти.

63. bad is the best ^ попереду нічого хорошого не передбачається, не буде.

64. bad job, а безнадійна, пропаща спра- >ва; див. тж. G-1481.

65. Bad Lands, the амер. неродючі області на заході СІЛА;