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szerény
képzelőerőddel is ki fogod találni, melyik szó hiányzik (adok
dőlt betűs segítséget). a fordításban viszont szinte biztosan
elkövetsz egy hibát, még ha haladósnak is érzed magad...
Muhammad
Ali, the silver-tongued boxer and civil rights champion who famously
proclaimed himself "The Greatest" and then spent a lifetime
living up to the billing, is dead.
Ali
died Friday at a Phoenix-area hospital, where he had spent the past
few days being treated for respiratory complications, a family
spokesman confirmed to NBC News. He was 74.
"After
a 32-year battle with Parkinson's disease, Muhammad Ali has passed
away at the age of 74. The three-time World Heavyweight Champion
boxer died this evening," Bob Gunnell, a family spokesman, told
NBC News...
...In
recent years, Ali's health began to suffer dramatically. There was a
death scare in 2013, and last year he was rushed to the hospital
after being found unresponsive. He recovered and returned to his new
home in Arizona.
In
his final years, Ali was barely able to speak. Asked to share his
personal philosophy with NPR in 2009, Ali let his wife read his
essay: "I never thought of the possibility of failing, only of
the fame and glory I was going to get when I won," Ali wrote. "I
could see it. I could almost feel it. When I proclaimed that I was
the greatest of all time, I believed in myself, and I still do."
kitalálod-e, miért nincs
jelentősége –
Samuel Johnson szerint? (szerinted igaza
van?!) a fordítással komolyan tesztelheted magad, vajon tényleg
haladó vagy-e (vagy csak beképzelt)...
Wikipedia:
Samuel Johnson (18 September 1709 [O.S. 7 September] – 13 December
1784), often referred to as Dr Johnson, was an English writer who
made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist,
moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer.
Johnson was a devout Anglican and committed Tory, and has been
described as "arguably the most distinguished man of letters in
English history"...
In 1746, a group of publishers
approached Johnson with an idea about creating an authoritative
dictionary of the English language. A contract with William Strahan
and associates, worth 1,500 guineas, was signed on the morning of 18
June 1746. Johnson claimed that he could finish the project in three
years. In comparison, the Académie Française had forty scholars
spending forty years to complete their dictionary, which prompted
Johnson to claim, "This is the proportion. Let me see; forty
times forty is sixteen hundred. As three to sixteen hundred, so is
the proportion of an Englishman to a Frenchman." Although he did
not succeed in completing the work in three years, he did manage to
finish it in eight. Some criticised the dictionary, including Thomas
Babington Macaulay, who described Johnson as "a wretched
etymologist," but according to Bate, the Dictionary "easily
ranks as one of the greatest single achievements of scholarship, and
probably the greatest ever performed by one individual who laboured
under anything like the disadvantages in a comparable length of
time."...
...The Dictionary was finally
published in April 1755, with the title page acknowledging that
Oxford had awarded Johnson a Master of Arts degree in anticipation of
the work. The dictionary as published was a huge book. Its pages were
nearly 18 inches (46 cm) tall, and the book was 20 inches (51 cm)
wide when opened; it contained 42,773 entries, to which only a few
more were added in subsequent editions, and it sold for the
extravagant price of £4 10s, perhaps the rough equivalent of £350
today. An important innovation in English lexicography was to
illustrate the meanings of his words by literary quotation, of which
there were approximately 114,000. The authors most frequently cited
include William Shakespeare, John Milton and John Dryden. It was
years beforeJohnson's Dictionary, as it came to be known, turned a
profit. Authors' royalties were unknown at the time, and Johnson,
once his contract to deliver the book was fulfilled, received no
further money from its sale. Years later, many of its quotations
would be repeated by various editions of the Webster's Dictionary and
the New English Dictionary.
ha elmúltál 18, sőt, akkor
kitalálhatod, mi lehet a hiányzó szó... segíthet, ha elárulom,
hogy a forrás: Woody Allen?... aztán a fordításhoz adok kis
segítséget, de csak akkor ugorj neki, ha haladó (vagy nagyképű)
vagy :)
Gonna
tell a love story now, 'cause you have background material on me. Ah,
this occurred before I was married, a long time ago, out in
Manhattan, I was in Manhattan. I was at City Center, this was ages
ago, I was watching a ballet at City Center, and I'm not a ballet fan
at all, but they were doing the dying swan, and there was a rumour,
that some bookmakers had drifted into town from upstate New York, and
that they had fixed the ballet. Apparently there was a lot of money
bet on the swan to live. And I look at the box, and I see a girl, and
my weak spot is women, ah, so I always think someday they're gonna
make me a birthday party, and wheel out a tremendous birthday cake,
and a giant, naked woman is gonna leap out of the cake and hurt me
and leap back in the cake.
So
I pick up this girl, I was very glib, and she was a brilliant girl,
she was a Bennington girl, studying at Bennington to be a woman male
nurse at a four-year program, working on a term paper on the
increasing incidents of heterosexuality amongst homosexuals. The girl
was a swinger, however, I must....The girl was brought up in Darien,
Conneticut, and when she was younger, she had a little brother about
six years old, eight years...his parents sent the kid to military
school. And while he was there, he stole jam or something, and they
caught him, and they wanted to do things right, 'cause it was
military school, so they held a court martial there. They found the
kid guilty. They shot him. They returned to his parents half the
tuition.
Meanwhile,
I was running amok with his sister, his sister was fabulous, she was
a great, great, blonde, and she had tatooed on the inner surface of
her thigh, the words 'Bird lives', which, unfortunately, I was never
privileged to see in the relationship, but had it been printed in
Braille, I would have had a great thing going with her. We used to go
up to her apartment late at night, and all her beatnik friends would
be sitting crosslegged on each other there, and they would be trying
to make opium out of the poppies given out by veterans on street
corners. She used to plug in her twelve and a half dollar hi-fi set,
y'know, with the teakwood needle, and put on the record albums on of
Marcel Marceau, y'know, just...
She
crushed me, I...Every time I tell the story, I'm reminded...I was
what you would call, not a intellectual, up to her...she was...I was
thrown out of college, and when I was thrown out of college I got a
job on Madison Avenue in New york, a real dyed-in-the-wool
advertising agency on Madison Avenue, wanted a man to come in, and
they pay him ninetyfive dollars a week, and to sit in their office,
and to look jewish. They wanted to prove to the outside world, that
they would hire minority groups, y'know. So I was the one they hired,
y'know. I was the show jew at the agency. I tried to look jewish
desperately, y'know. I used to read my memos from right to left all
the time. They fired me finally, 'cause I took off too many jewish
holidays.
na,
mit gondolsz, hogy fejezi be ezt egy istentelenül profi
politikus?... és hogyan oldja meg, hogy – nő létére – ne
kelljen a „he” személyes névmást használnia? nem a nyelvtan
itt a nehéz :)
Wikipedia:
Margaret Hilda Thatcher, Baroness Thatcher, LG, OM, PC, FRS, FRIC
(née Roberts; 13 October 1925 – 8 April 2013) was a British
stateswoman and politician who was the Prime Minister of the United
Kingdom from 1979 to 1990 and the Leader of the Conservative Party
from 1975 to 1990. She was the longest-serving British Prime Minister
of the 20th century and is currently the only woman to have held the
office. A Soviet journalist dubbed her the "Iron Lady", a
nickname that became associated with her uncompromising politics and
leadership style. As Prime Minister, she implemented policies that
have come to be known as Thatcherism.
Originally
a research chemist before becoming a barrister, Thatcher was elected
Member of Parliament (MP) for Finchley in 1959. Edward Heath
appointed her Secretary of State for Education and Science in his
1970 government. In 1975, Thatcher defeated Heath in the Conservative
Party leadership election to become Leader of the Opposition and
became the first woman to lead a major political party in the United
Kingdom. She became Prime Minister after winning the 1979 general
election...
...Thatcher
became Prime Minister on 4 May 1979. Arriving at 10 Downing Street,
she said, in a paraphrase of St. Francis of Assisi's prayer Make Me
an Instrument of Your Peace:
Where
there is discord, may we bring harmony. Where there is error, may we
bring truth. Where there is doubt, may we bring faith. And where
there is despair, may we bring hope.
