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Germany's president, Christian Wulff, paid his first official visit to Turkey last week, accompanied by his lissom wife, Bettina — скорый, проворный; легкий (в движениях).

It endured listless donors and woeful budgets — апатичный, бездеятельный, безразличный, вялый.

Seamlessly, the dancers move from breakdance to something more lithe — гибкий, податливый.

Charles Freeman argues that no government is without sin and that there should be no political litmus test for hosting the Games — re­action for litmus — реакция на лакмус.

The book gives way to a forlorn litany of the events — литания, длинный и скучный перечень чего-л.

It is understandable that China should want to make it riskier for the American navy to operate close to its own littoral — прибрежные воды.

These days the liveried doormen in Athens's finest hotels stare out at sleeveless drummers in a protest tent camp — носящий ливрею.

A big export-oriented economy is booming but its trading partners are livid — разозленный, в ярости.

Partisans took to their bunkers erpts from Justinian's "Digest" of Roman law suggest that 6th-century sea captains, innkeepers and livery­men could not refuse board to any cargo, man or horse — член гильдии.

Partisans took to their bunkers to lob bombs at each other, the truth of the matter be damned — зашвырнуть, бросить.

Energy and economic growth always grew in lockstep and to think otherwise was dangerously naive — шаг в ногу (в строю).

To an urban locavore, pricey fuel does not sound so terrible — тот, кто питается местной пищей.

Tom Campbell insists that this is not so: "This is not the Met in lockdown mode" — ограничивать возможности, функциональность.

Locust investors strip companies bare and then move on — саранча перелетная.

As the locus of innovation moves on to other fields, can informa­tion technology ever regain its pre-eminence? — центральная позиция, ключевая точка.

For Valdis Dombrovskis, the prime minister, the euro has been a lodestar through years of crisis — путеводная звезда, идеал.

The Tories had descended from their lofty ground of deficit-cut­ting austerity to low politics — величественный.

The two companies are at loggerheads over everything from apps to acquisitions — иметь резкие разногласия, быть в ссоре.

Allegations of log-rolling, though denied, plagued the voting last

year for 2018 — взаимная поддержка между членами Конгресса.

A new law may do little to break India's land-acquisition logj am — залом, затор, завал.

The pair loll on a green hillside at Murnau south of Munich where Munter had bought a house — стоять (облокотясь) в ленивой позе.

It has managed to convert the capital ofUK into Londonistan, a nas­ty nest of all kinds of Islamic terrorists and fanatics — преобладающее население мусульман.

Using longitudinal data on college-going Americans who were aged between 12 and 17 in 1997, the authors found that student-loan deb­tors were in fact more likely than non-debtors — продольный.

Astronomers may have found their first Saturn looka- like — имитация; близкая к оригиналу копия (аппаратного или программного обеспечения).

For even as the country trumpets planned space missions, it fails to build good loos today — уборная, туалет.

The idea that modern central banks with their loosey-goosey printing presses have generated an epidemic of inflation is a little nuts — непринужденный, раскованный.

But it is the insight Sparks brings to an old subject that confirms what we have always suspected, that "The Arch" really is more lollapa- looza liturgist than he is preacher man — что-либо исключительного

качества в своем классе.

Other conspiracy theories about Mr Obama are even loopier — странный, чудаковатый; с чудинкой; сумасшедший.

The Greens reckon that lopping a day off the working week would begin to redress the inequalities between men and women — урезывать.

The fate is lopsided as before; it was a lopsided fight, hastily ar­ranged, poorly refereed, and pitting a big bruiser against bantams — кривобокий; наклоненный.

A kinder interpretation may be that, even for the loquacious Mr Campbell, there is not much left to say; to neutralise politically dan­gerous or excessively loquaciousoutsiders — болтливый, говорливый.

Israeli security says it recently uncovered a plot to blow up a lorry- load of explosives under a Tel Aviv skyscraper — грузовик.

They are loth to take part in it — не склонный, не желающий; де­лающий неохотно.

A backlash against extreme Puritanism, particularly among the up­per classes who observed the louche goings on at court — пользующийся дурной репутацией.

Other southern states combine conspicuous religiosity with wide­spread loucheness — плохая репутация.

A well-known loudmouth professor at Peking University was

suggesting that some in the former colony were "British running dogs" — крикун.