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Перевод: bushel

[существительное]
бушель ;
[глагол]
чинить; чинить мужское платье

Тезаурус:

1. Always involved with every side of the production and never one to hide his light under a bushel, he was credited in every programme as co-writing, composing, designing, and making props and scenery - a one-man band.
2. First, commodities and stocks are homogeneous goods; paintings, drawings and works of art in general are not; a bushel of wheat sold in Chicago in 1947 is almost identical to a bushel sold in London twenty-five years later, while even two Picassos may be very different goods (a fortiori, a Picasso is different from a Chagall).
3. Soilless composts can also be put together at home, as in general they consist of 75 per cent granulated peat and 25 per cent fine sand; the amount of plant food and chalk in the proprietary kinds varies from brand to brand, and you can add your own as required, though a good general mixture can be obtained by adding about 28 g (1 oz) general fertilizer and 28 g (1 oz) chalk to 1 bushel gallons (36 litres) (by bulk) of compost, mixing all the ingredients thoroughly.
4. Unemployment rose dramatically, while the manufacturing industry declined steeply, producing in 1932 only just over half its output in 1929. wheat fell from 1.05 a bushel in 1929 to 39 cents in 1932, and similar falls occurred for most other agricultural products.
5. "Joan hides her light under a bushel," says one who knows her well.
6. "I would say he was too proud to put his light above a bushel."
7. "So far they've had good bushel weights."
8. The trouble with anonymous contributions to this page, not that I'm not grateful for anything I can get, is that the people who send them can't get a lovely Community Care mug whereas those like Nicholas Holbrook, (see below) who refuse to hide their creative light under a bushel, have a mug winging its way to them at this very moment.
9. In the reign of Edward III, for example, a forester of Inglewood Forest, in a suit against the Abbot of St Mary's, York, claimed to have food and drink at the table of the abbot's grooms every Friday, together with the right to carry away, whenever he pleased, a flagon of the best ale in the abbot's cellar and two tallow candles from the abbot's chamber, a bushel of oats for his horse, and a loaf of black bread for his dog.
10. Though most merchants say it is too early to come up with a firm idea of the trade, the initial reports on quality suggest some low nitrogens and good bushel weights, at least for the Puffin that seems to predominate at the moment.
11. Sales of soyabeans to the Soviet Union have helped to underpin prices, which rose to 5.80 a bushel in Chicago this week.
12. And he shall thresh 1 measure of corn of which 4 make a bushel for one work, and thresh two measures of barley or pease retch, or beans or 1 quarter of oats for one work.