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Перевод: gird

[существительное]
колкое замечание; насмешка ;
[глагол]
насмехаться; подпоясывать; опоясывать; подпоясываться; прикреплять саблю к поясу; прикреплять шашку к поясу; окружать; мерить в обхвате; облекать властью

Тезаурус:

1. Yet there remains an important element of truth in the observation, "another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not".
2. FRENCH inventors are being urged to gird themselves for an economic war against foreigners who steal their ideas.
3. When thou wast young, thou girdedst thyself and walkedst whither thou wouldst; but when thou shalt be old, thou shalt stretch forth thy hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whither thou wouldst not.
4. But the thrust of these essays is not so special, nor so self-serving; those who nowadays gird at "the canon", as an array of allegedly classic masterpieces in literature, their classic status imposed as an instrument of cultural oppression, need to take account of how in these essays Pound challenged the canon, requiring that it be revised.
5. Prospective students, anxious for sun and romance as well as the release of their creative genius, should gird themselves by reading Swallow, Thomas's novel about an Olympiad of storytellers which involves hours and hours of improvising in prose and verse.
6. This was nothing to what came ten years later, no more than a mini-boom, but prices began to rise and estate agents to rub their hands and gird their loins and look about them.
7. Edward I, as duke of Aquitaine, was particularly sought after by Gascon nobles as a patron of knighthood, prepared to gird them and their sons with the sword which was the symbol of their order.
8. If (and hopefully when) you do finally quit, it may create more of a problem than if you gird your mental loins at the outset and make up your mind to do it first and foremost.
9. After his election, he went to the "Milanese" church of San Carlo Borromeo and quite openly wept (why not? we used to pray for the "gift of tears") as he quoted the words of Jesus to Peter: "When you were young, you girded yourself and walked where you would; but when you are old, you will stretch out your hands, and another will gird you and carry you where you do not wish to go" (John 21.18).
10. MR UNIVERSE will gird up his loins in briefs which bring a new meaning to the term bikini line, clip his diamond ear-stud into place and take the rattler from his Guildford home to Luton this week to begin his reign by promoting a new range of office furniture.
11. But be quick: pick up your phone or else gird up your loins, grab your staff and hie you like blazes, sprinting as though pursued by the fires of hell, to the Arts Theatre or the Festival box office, whereupon you should pawn your handbag or your jock strap - even your jewels, just as long as you succeed in laying claim to a seat.
12. It's time to gird your loins, bake your cakes and man/woman the NCT stall at the local summer festivals.
13. but the feeble gird on strength