فوق لیسانس مترجمی زبان انگلیسی

VOCABULARY:

A

A week after the United States announced new sanctions against Iran, Undersecretary of State Nicholas Burns met with French officials to press for other Western allies to follow suit, or at least loosen their economic ties with the Islamic republic.

suit 

noun (plural suits)

1. a set of clothes made from the same material, consisting of a jacket and trousers or a skirt, sometimes together with a vest

2. a piece of clothing or set of clothes worn for a particular purpose (often used in combination)

  a diving suit

3. card games set of playing cards: one of the four different sets of playing cards in a pack

4. law legal proceedings: a case brought to a law court

5. petition: a petition, especially to somebody in authority (formal)

6. business executive: a business executive, especially when seen as an anonymous bureaucrat (slang)

7. set of sails or tools: a set of sails or tools

8. a man’s wooing of a woman and attempts to persuade her to marry him (archaic)

follow suit to do the same as somebody else has done to play a card of the same suit as the previous player

B

Burns also faulted China and Russia, which have strong economic interests in Iran, for stalling progress toward a third set of Security Council sanctions. He said China was increasing its trade with Iran, "which of course is a very negative development."

Stall:

[Early 19th century. Alteration of obsolete stale “decoy, pickpocket’s accomplice,” from Anglo-Norman estale , literally “something set up.”]

1. to delay or obstruct somebody, or to use delaying tactics

2. to prolong holding the ball when a football or basketball team is in the lead so as to use up time and prevent an opponent from scoring

Synonyms:  bogged down, caught up, delayed, stalled, slowed down, held up, overinvolved, hindered, mired, stuck

C

European concerns have been mounting that the United States might attack to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons. France, which has sounded increasingly stern on Iran in recent months, and Britain have called for stronger European sanctions — but the rest of the EU remains divided on how to defuse the standoff and avoid war.

Standoff:

a situation in which no result or conclusion can be reached because the two sides in a contest or dispute are equally matched or are equally intransigent

Synonym:  stalemate, impasse, deadlock, logjam, standstill

Fill in the blank with appropriate word.

a. faulted     b. tough-minded    c. loosen      d. mounting    e. stern

1. press for other Western allies to follow suit, or at least …… their economic ties with the Islamic republic.

2. Burns also ….. China and Russia, which have strong economic interests in Iran.

3. European concerns have been ….. that the United States might attack to prevent Iran from developing nuclear weapons

4. "If we want diplomacy to succeed, we're going to have to see more ….. diplomacy,"

5. France has sounded increasingly …. on Iran in recent months

1.c   2.a    3.d   4.b   5.e

Languages for fun

English: Knead

French: pétrir

German: kneten

Spanish:  dough

Italian: dough

English: deforestation

French: déboisement, déforestation

German: Waldsterben

Spanish:  deforestación

English: dentist

French: dentiste (masculin/feminine) 

German: Zahnarzt

Spanish:  dentista (masculino y femenino) 

English: cat

French: chat(te féminin) masculin 

German: Katze

Spanish: gato masculino   

Let's learn Italian:

peggio

1. adverb  worse

il peggio è che the worst of it is that;

avere la peggio get the worst of it;

di male in peggio from bad to worse

perquisizione feminine  search;

[Early 18th century. From medieval Latin perquisitum , literally “something searched for,” from perquirere “to seek for,” from quaerere “to seek.” English: perquisite ]  

perquisizione personale body search;

di perquisizione search warrant

mandato

masculine politics  mandate; law   warrant; mandato bancario banker's order; mandato di pagamento payment order; mandato d'arresto arrest warrant

marcia

feminine  (plural  -ce)march; sports  walk

marciapiede

masculine  pavement,

American English  sidewalk;

railway  platform

marciare march

mare

masculine  sea;

in alto mare on the high seas

alta marea high tide;

bassa marea low tide

marino

sea, marine

marittimo maritime

masticare

chew= masticate

eliminare

transitive verb  eliminate;

information technology  delete

elmetto

masculine  helmet

ellenico

(plural  -ci) Hellenic

eliporto

masculine  heliport

elicottero

masculine  helicopter

eliambulanza

feminine  air ambulance

elevato

high; figurative  elevated, lofty

گلستان سعدی ^{(علیه رحمه)}

سه چیز پایدار نماند مال بی تجارت و علم بی بحث و ملک بی سیاست

^{[در بعضی از نسخ این قطعه در اینجا ثبت است]}

وقتی به لطف گوی و مدارا و مردمی             باشد   که  در کمند   آوری    دلی

وقتی به قهر گوی که صد کوزه نبات             گه گه چنان به کار نیاید که حنظلی

Three things cannot subsist without three things: property without trade, science without controversy and a country without punishment.

     Speak sometimes in a friendly, conciliatory, manly way

Perhaps thou wilt ensnare a heart with the lasso.

    Sometimes speak in anger; for a hundred jars of sugar

Will on occasion not have the effect of one dose of colocynth.

colocynth: a homeopathic remedy prepared from the squirting cucumber and used to treat various conditions including headaches

lasso: a long stiff piece of rope or cord with a sliding noose at one end, used especially for catching horses and cattle. Also called lariat

Syn: noose, rope, riata, loop, tether

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