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Перевод: pestilence

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бубонная чума; эпидемия ; мор ; поветрие
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Тезаурус:

1. Celia perished trying to help some natives dying of pestilence.
2. A townscape of nightmare yellows: sky, buildings, furniture, wallpaper, faces - the colour of age, heat, pestilence, bile and jaundice, bruisings and stainings, with a stronger connotation of dirt in Russian than in English; the colour of the tickets of identification which prostitutes were required to carry; the colour of Raskolnikov's "cubbyhole" of a room; and the colour which greets him when he comes to after fainting at the police station and sees a man "holding a yellow glass filled with yellow water".
3. In his illness he dreamt that the whole world was condemned to fall victim to some terrible and unknown pestilence that was coming upon Europe out of the depths of Asia.
4. A sudden and miraculous plague breaks out in the camp, and though Aaron, as priest, runs into the midst of the people with ritual of atonement, he cannot stop the pestilence before 14,700 lie dead.
5. So, after lunching at one of the excellent local inns, we contented ourselves with making a wide sweep South to the River Dove and back up to the Derwent, - stopping at Castleton which, with its show caves and fluorspar (Blue John stone) mines shouldn't be missed and at Eyam which was so badly ravaged by the pestilence of 1665/6 that it is still known as The Plague Village.
6. Oh: car of menace, car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming, Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We're au fait with entropy Gaia, Ecosphere, synergy Words for greening But their meaning's A linguistic mystery Oh: politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh: public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter, clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry, gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world's decay Oh, tidings of comfort and joy, Oh, tidings of comfort and joy We can't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Cannot be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world's demise If forests burn it's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy, Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his
7. David is compelled to choose between three classical punishments - disasters, famine or pestilence.
8. Come, lovely pestilence!
9. While the pestilence is raging, he buys the threshing floor of Araunah for 50 shekels, an altar is built and, after he has made a sacrifice, the pestilence ceases.
10. Neither prayers nor demonstrations halted the advance of the pestilence, which traversed the country from Glasgow, where 3,200 died, to Exeter, where there were 400 deaths.
11. I will strike them with pestilence and disinherit them, and I will make of you" (that is Moses) "a nation greater and mightier than they."
12. Brightness falls from the air ; Thomas Nashe: "In Time of Pestilence"