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Yet, I still prefer econometrics to the classical abstract "social science" mumbo jumbo approaches — бессмысленное бормотание, бессмысленный текст.

When Mr Fo won the Nobel prize in 1997 he received it on behalf of all mummers, tumblers and clowns — актер, шут.

Must every country on the planet advertise daft balances etc just for the privelege of being left alone to munch an apple?; A new era of big data, blockchains and robots is about to munch away the fat margins of corporate America — чавкать; шамкать; «перемалывать».

The programme's contradictions — camp and sincere, profound and silly, slapstick and mundane — enable it to transcend differences of geography — земной, мирской.

Smaller, cleverer and more accurate munitions are changing warfare — военное имущество; снаряжение (оружие, боеприпасы).

Thanks to the munificence of the emir of Qatar, who is said to put at least $400m a year into its coffers — необыкновенная щедрость.

To reach this conclusion Dr Fonken split her murine subjects into three groups — мышиный; мышевидный.

To clean up the Augean murk of Russian banks — мрак, темнота, мрачность.

In Britainthere were more murmurs of discontent among Con­servative MPs — шепот.

Deng Xiaoping muscled diehard Maoists out of the leadership and took over himself — врываться силой.

The next few years may show whether Mr Harper's victory and Mr Layton's success has eliminated the mushy middle, or merely placed it in abeyance — мягкий; кашеобразной консистенции.

One of his volunteers has taken to collecting rain water in a barrel and straining it three times through muslin before drinking — муслин.

Treatments that are rarely based on science that would pass mus­ter with the authorities — пройти осмотр, проверку.

Mr Singh swiftly tried to muster support for restoring a peace process between the two rivals — собирать, организовывать.

But in the 11 days between start and finish, the mushers have to travel 450 miles (724 km) over the snow-covered spine of the Rockies — путешествовать по снегу с помощью собачьих упряжек.

Latvian collapse doesn't really cut the mustard — oтвечать ожиданиям, удовлетворять требованиям, соответствовать, под­ходить.

Around Brussels, there is much muttering about German selfish­ness and even nationalism — ворчание.

China will find it hard to win friends and influence nations so long as it muzzles its best advocates — заставить молчать; надевать намордник.

If you have money — and even if you don't — you can now pay for your purchases in myriad ways — несметное число, мириады.

But the regime and its myrmidons managed eventually to crush the sedition, in marked contrast to several neighbouring Arab dictator­ships — беззаветно преданный слуга.

His break came when he recognised a popular trend and focused his imagination on how to mythologise it — придать мифический смысл.

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The Greeks may be poised to nab their home-grown terrorists, at last — задержать, схватить на месте преступления.

In America, by contrast, intellectuals are mocked as "pointy- heads" and "nattering nabobs — набоб, наваб (наместник провинции в Монгольской империи).

Roosevelt led America from the nadir of economic distress to the zenith of power; The nadir of his career — упадок; деградация.

They could not say: actually Englishmen of his upbringing think it naff for men to wear visible wedding rings — безвкусный, дрянной.

It went to the heart of the nagging worry about the silver- tongued young senator from Illinois — ворчливый, вечно недовольный, сердитый.

Something else is beginning to nag at investors — придираться; привязываться.

A former policeman himself, Makana is no na'if, but he rapidly finds himself in a perilous world peopled with Egypt's ultra-rich, Islamic militants and Russian organised crime. It's a heady mix, but one that Mr Bilal pulls off with verve — наивный.

The move comes at a nail-biting time for major Western oil com­panies in Kazakhstan; Embarassing nail-biter — возбужденный, нервный.

Mr Trump says a lot of things that are nakedly false — непри­крытый, явный.

Bboth whale and human societies favour a transition to sterile nannyhood — нянькаться.

Members of Congress are too nannied by staff to stride about hatching plots, one-on-one. In the real Washington — сюсюкаться.

All this might sound a bit namby-pamby to pioneers like Sister Dong — жеманство; сентиментальность.

Mexico has extradited suspected narcos in unprecedented num­bers — наркотраффиканты.

The government and Repsol insist that nary a puff of gas will reach Chile — нисколько, ничего, ни капли; ни единого nary a red cent — ни цента.

They were afraid he would inculcate ideas of true independence as well as accountability into a nascent class of patriotic Persian leaders — рождающийся, возникающий; в стадии возникновения.