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Перевод: scourge

[существительное]
бич ; плеть ; кара ; наказание; бедствие;
[глагол]
бичевать; карать; наказывать; полосовать

Тезаурус:

1. We have got the scourge of inflation under control.
2. LAST WEEK the Seasick Summit, this week the Strasbourg summit, which saw Mrs Thatcher, so often the scourge of Europe, being polite and conciliatory, eliciting applause from the other 11 members of the EC.
3. His blistering turn of speed, cavalier attitude and rank bad discipline made him an instant hit with the fans and yet another scourge for the beleaguered authorities to cope with.
4. As an extreme example of the Breakthrough Phenomenon, the scourge of hi-jacking is quite fascinating.
5. Secondly, he was accepted as the single-handed architect and creator of Germany's "economic miracle" of the 1930s, eliminating the scourge of mass unemployment which continued to plague other European nations, revitalizing the economy, providing improved living standards, and offering a new basis of lasting prosperity.
6. He was later to become notorious as the scourge of Sutherland for his role in the highland clearances.
7. The "scourge of criminal violence" was, Whitelaw argued, a danger to the whole framework of consent and legality on which the political institutions of British society were based.
8. Inflation was the scourge of the mid-1970s but not the mid-1980s.
9. Zuwaya exchanges, methods of saving, accounting and investing were far removed from those which are used to scourge and oppress workers.
10. He can be the scourge of the corrupt old guard.
11. Certainly it can be concluded that the circumstances of Sisson's early life fuelled his salutary hatreds and helped form the outsider's perspective which now makes him a scourge of the age's insidious orthodoxies.
12. SCOURGE OF EUROPE
13. George Halket (1690-;1756), schoolmaster in the parish of Rathen, songwriter, satirist and Hanoverian scourge.