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If you are young, years of rote learning in dreary state schools did not prepare you well for this new world — механическое запо­минание.

It is a simple message, but one that America's health officials have tried time and again to drill into the minds of their rotund fellow citi­zens — полный, круглый, пухлый.

His friends back home were constrained by their rote-based educa­tion, losing countless hours to courses on Ho Chi Minh Thought; the traits that made it an economic powerhouse in the 20th century — easy capi­tal, big companies, rote learning, management by mandarins and stable jobs for male breadwinners — are ill-suited to the 21st — механическое запоминание.

Pears was often on tour and had a roving eye — странствовать.

550,000 Haitians have gathered in 337 makeshift camps and tar­paulin; almost as many are sleeping rough — лишенный комфорта, суровый (об условиях жизни).

In May a mob broke into his office to rough him up — жестоко обращаться.

At his confirmation hearings for the post of secretary of state he rode roughshod over his interrogators — жестокость.

To help readers find all our China coverage in one place, each week we round-up links to the Sino-centric articles — собирать, созывать (в одном месте).

Oil prices are in a rout, with no clear sign of the bottom yet. Janu­ary 29th 2015 — беспорядочное бегство; стремительное отступление.

The conservatives have rubbished the Hartz commission's pro­posals — превращать в груду обломков.

China is exploring the global rubble — бутовый камень, бу­лыжник.

The rub is that when specialists start talking with laymen, they fre­quently appear to forget about the difference in the level of knowledge — затруднение, препятствие, помеха.

To blithley subsume all laws under one rubric — the rule of law — is pointless because there can then be no agreement — заглавие, заго­ловок.

A demand to make Irish an official language is causing ructions- a noisy, often violent, quarrel or fight — скандальный.

Use senior rather than ranking, rumpus rather than ruckus, and rumbustious rather than rambunctious — гвалт, гудение, гул.

Schroder's government will belatedly try to make up for the time it wasted in the rudderless beginnings of its second term — без руководства, бесконтрольный.

Very few government programs can pass even a rudimentary ROI analysis — элементарный.

People fall in love and sing about it, or they murder someone and rue the day — сожалеть, чувствовать угрызения совести по поводу (чего-л.).

The Palestinians, rueful now that they failed to nail down what was then on offer, want the new talks to resume from where the old ones left — грустный, унылый, печальный.

Britain's small shopkeepers rue the day they called for a probe of retailing — раскаиваться, сожалеть.

Handled better, the move might have ruffled fewer feathers — ерошить (перья, волосы).

But for so many to write revisionist claptrap in a hotel-sponsored competition is rum indeed — странный, чудной, подозрительный.

Cracking the rumbustious market is the kind of offensive that Korea's shock-troop salesmen relish — шумный, буйный.

Carrefour's problems are a mere rumble compared with the earth­quake that is about to hit European retail; He quickly found a middle ground between the smooth music he was raised on and the hellbent early rumblings of rock — рокот.

It is a trade well chosen for a ruminating hero whose life is about to be tested; Pundits continue to ruminate over it — раздумывать; размышлять.

Mr Maliki, who leads the rump of the Dawa party, the third main Shia faction; The rump of guerillas — "охвостье", огузок; зад.

Where slicker rivals chop, change and pander, the rumpled Mr Paul hews to his principles even when they are unpopular — помятый.

Some 10,000 senior members of the former ruling party, which dominated Tunisian politics for five decades, have been banned from run­ning for office. So why the rumpus? — шум, гам; ссора.

Here is a quick rundown of my opinion on the two solutions — краткое описание, краткое изложение.

The 5,000-year-old chambered tomb of Maes Howe, in Orkney, is mostly famous for the runes left behind by some 12th-century Vikings — руна (эпическая песня у карелов и финнов).

It is a ruse familiar to officials the world over: if you have embar­rassing or controversial news, release it on a Friday, the later the better — ухищрение, хитрость.

An old lady's russet wig lies in the road, lost perhaps as she took flight after the earthquake, tsunami and nuclear disaster — грубая домотканая шерстяная ткань.

Cells in the body, like workers on the job, can get stuck in a rut, doing the same old thing day after day without prospect of promotion or relocation — привычная колея; рутина.

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Despite all the sabre-rattling, neither Iran nor America wants confrontation just yet — бряцание оружием; угрозы.