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Seen as a whole, the Moon in these images resembles a pitted sphere of pumice more than a cue ball — пористый вулканический материал.

First the dollar took a battering, then the euro got pummelled and finally sterling hit the canvas; For estern leaders grimly accustomed to the months-long pummelling of presidential or parliamentary contests; Clinton is pummeling home the message — бить, избивать (особенно кулаками).

George Washington was as punctilious about his honour, as fine a horseman and as deep in debt as any of them — педантичный, скру­пулезный, щепетильный до мелочей.

And they smell, not terribly, but pungently, when squished or when they cluster — сильный, пронзительный.

In the punishing climate of Iraq — трудный, тяжелый, изнури­тельный punishing work schedule — напряженный рабочий график.

Britons interested in politics face a raucous punditocracy ea­ger to assure them that their countrymen are becoming more liberal or more conservatives — элита влиятельных экспертов и политических комментаторов.

Its passage was "remarkable and improbable" because the pundit- ry, lobbying and game-playing of Washington had made it easy to doubt America's ability to do "such a big thing" — ученые мужи.

Taxi drivers smuggle ammunition and AK-47s from Egypt beneath punnets of strawberries — квадратная или прямоугольная корзинка.

Small children, people with certain cognitive impairments and punsters may retrieve the wrong word from the mental lexicon — остряк; каламбурист.

In promising a referendum on Europe, the prime minister is taking a punt — удар по подброшенному мячу, удар с рук (в американском футболе, регби).

Why punters seem to be so good at guessing is a puzzle — жертва надувательства.

Or are euro-prices just too high for your puny dollar? — слабый, маленький.

Mr Xi and the party congress in a few months' time will have much more say over how to transform the pupa into a butterfly — куколка.

The EU itself sometimes displays a puppyish eagerness to have its military pretensions stroked — щенячий.

She exposes his scholarly purblindness and political naivety and his late realisation of the true nature of German National Socialism — непредусмотрительный; тупой.

The ultimate purveyor of luxury — поставщик; Purveyor to their Majesties — поставщик их величеств.

Marriage is in the purview of religious authiorities — часть статута, заключающая само постановление.

When George Benjamin goes into composing purdah, he al­ways loses a lot of weight because the process is so intensive — секрет, тайна.

People like you are in a sort of purgatory because no one would ever come out and tell you that he doesn't want your business any­more — чистилище, мучение, страдание, пытка.

The guardians of Chinese language purity are challenging the French in their bid to keep out dastardly English words — чистота, безукоризненность, безупречность.

But Mr Kaczynski appears to be in the grip of full-blown pyroma- nia — пиромания, импульсивное поджигательство.

The Republic could purport to have the right to pre-empt BP's en­tire interests — претендовать (на что-л.), заявлять (о чем-л.).

Customers may purr about the ease of summoning a smart town car, especially where taxis are old — урчать, мурлыкать.

If the spending plans for Britain over the next five years, set out by George Osborne this week, were an animal, they would be a pushmi- pullyu a "gazelle-unicorn cross" which has two heads (one of each) at opposite ends of its body — разнонаправленное движение.

Some called Congressman Wilson a booz-head and a pussy- hound — бабник.

What harm can one unarmed man living in a pusillanimous country representing its unarmed populace can do? — малодушный, трусливый.

Withering dithering and pussyfooting in the hopes of some sort of consensus is horrendously counter-productive — сверхосторож­ность.

Russians wanted to help Georgia justify its putative NATO mem­bership; Do anything to salvage its putative capital, other than plaintively cry "theft" — мнимый, предполагаемый.

Press conference before the election had a Putinesque tone — ny- тинизм.

How on earth can such a putrid stew of vice and pestilence be expected to self-transform into a chorus of angels? — гнилой, про­гнивший.

The Olympic movement was once putrescent, too — гниющий; гнилостный.

That is not true, however, of the put-upon architects who have to design America's embassies — одурачить.

The result is that India now putters on at less than half what it could achieve — игрок, делающий удар клюшкой.

Of course, you don't actually need to pace the mean streets of Newcastle to purloin a copy of the Mag — совершать мелкую кражу.

The remainder, they claim, were caused by flying sparks from elec­tricity pylons or human carelessness — опора, пилон.