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Перевод: checkmate

[существительное]
шах и мат; полное поражение; поражение;
[глагол]
сделать мат; нанести полное поражение; парализовать противника; расстраивать планы

Тезаурус:

1. He was able to checkmate the French evolutionists' efforts to use the duck-billed platypus as a link between reptiles and mammals because he alone had access to a good supply of specimens.
2. In late November, on the strength of this certificate - attesting to his own mental good health, and that the gun was to be used only for reasonable purposes - Lepine went to Checkmate Sports, a hunting and fishing store in north Montreal, and purchased a Sturm-Ruger Mini-14 semi-automatic rifle, ammunition and a magazine clip.
3. One of the highlights in the latest batch of Chandos's midprice Collect series is a triptych which offers excellent Australian performances of the five best numbers from Bliss 's colourful Checkmate ballet, the only existing version of Rubbra's powerful Fifth Symphony and (added for this reissue) Tippett 's Little Music for string orchestra.
4. If they succeed in cutting it, they will have achieved checkmate.
5. CHARACTERLESS thriller KNIGHT MOVES (Cert 18; General) will leave you guessing who-dunnit until its macabre checkmate.
6. He took small parts in ballets by Ashton (a courtier at the ball in the premiere of Cinderella , one of the revellers in the cave scene of Apparitions ) and de Valois ( Checkmate, Don Quixote and Job ), walked on as a pall-bearer in Helpmann's Hamlet , and appeared in the classics, where his most prominent parts were a mazurka dancer in Swan Lake and a marquess in the hunting scene of The Sleeping Beauty .
7. The conclusion of the Griffin mission was, first, that US aid would help France and Vietnam to checkmate Chinese communist invasion, if it came; and second, it was assumed that it would somehow "sterilise areas of Vietminh infection".
8. Banks have come up with a development of their IOR Checkmate sails, which were Kevlar and Mylar, and now build CHS Checkmate sails in a special Dacron fabric developed in the UK; they carry no CHS penalty.
9. Some of them are to be found in Checkmate when the Red Pawns pick their way from square to square, whilst their Queen guides her King to his throne with tender steps.
10. This happened in Benjamin Britten's The Prince of the Pagodas and, originally, in the Red Knight's dance in Checkmate (Arthur Bliss later shortened it, giving it much greater strength and significance).
11. His greatest achievements in this field were undoubtedly the Enigma Variations of Elgar and four dances from Sir Arthur Bliss's ballet Checkmate, though even a short hymn setting was done to perfection.
12. Amongst the most important of these carefully plotted works are: de Falla's The Three-Cornered Hat (1919) which originally accompanied a mime play and so fascinated Diaghilev that he commissioned the composer to enlarge it for Massine's ballet (see page 59); Vaughan William's Job, commissioned by Diaghilev, was unused until de Valois created her important "Masque for Dancing" (1931) (this marked the inaugural performance of what has become The Royal Ballet); Arthur Bliss' Checkmate (1937) was choreographed by de Valois after both composer and choreographer had worked on the plot; Prokofiev's Romeo and Juliet was composed with the help of a Shakespearean theatre expert and has been used notably by Lavrovsky, Ashton and MacMillan (see page 26); and Ashton provided a roughly outlined plot for Hans Werner Henze's score for Ondine (1958).