Говори и пиши как The Eсonomist

An entire floor of Degas's Paris house was stuffed with easels displaying old masters, which favoured visitors were allowed to view — мольберт.

For its cosmic ambition, ITER run into the earthiest of difficulties: spiraling costs — изумительный, ошеломительный.

Compared to the abolition of slavery, it may not be earth-shat­tering — поразительный, удивительный.

The real choice for him is not when his measures would start to bite in earnest — всерьез, серьезно.

Though humorous, the book needn't be classified as "relentlessly middle-brow, or easy-peasy", clarified Sir Andrew Motion — легкотня.

Better to be part of a foreign group than to see clients ebbing away to the big American investment banks — приходить в упадок; ухудшаться.

America's conservatives are in ebullient mood — кипучий, полный энтузиазма.

The cost of driving easily eclipsed the war in iraq, unemployment, health care or terrorism — затмевать, заслонять.

Though the king has opened an admirably ecumenical dialogue with leaders of other faiths, no church or synagogue may yet be built on Saudi soil — экуменический, всемирный выступающий за достижение религиозного единства все христиан.

The American embassy is tucked between a narrow sidestreet and the bustling Garden Ring, near a swampy little river eddy — маленький водоворот, воронка.

Bank of Namibia is at the leading edge of a trend — задавать тон.

Nothing is going to be edgier than wearing AIG apparel — раздраженный, нетерпеливый.

The answer to the question is not particularly edifying — поучительный, нравоучительный.

An eerie

silence falls over Donetsk as tensions rise in eastern Ukraine — жуткий, зловещий.

The man is an eejit, as we say in Farsi — идиот, дурак.

The euro crisis has recreated a rift between a Germanic north and a Latin south that decades of integration tried to efface — стирать, вычеркивать, удалять.

Food and Drug Administration testing for the safety and effica­cy of drugs has given the market confidence — эффективность, сила; действенность.

The effervescent French president; a fit of collective efferves­cence as multitudes descend upon the city to witness the inauguration of the 44th president — возбуждение, подъем.

In art as in life, both Kims are effeminate and podgy — делать женоподобным, уподобляться женщине.

The effete corps ofimpudent snobs; they are considered effete — хилый, неспособный к действию, истощенный.

It showed Mr Rudd trying to record a message in Mandarin, losing his temper, effing and blinding, banging a desk and abusing Australian officials and a Chinese interpreter — ругаться на чем свет стоит.

With its heady mix of eartly effluence and celestial protectionism, Rome simply cannot leave you cold — поток, течение, обилие.

Manufacturing failed to compensate for the losses, even if a cul­tural efflorescence led by the Beatles accompanied the economic woes — вершина, кульминация, расцвет.

Не has achieved this partly through sheer verbal effrontery, as in his badmouthing of George Bush — наглость, нахальство.

Though some found the book "tedious and effulgent", such as Jay McInerney, writing in the New York Times, many embraced it as a weirdly compassionate — блестящий, сияющий.

The poet's soppy romanticism, flinty egalitarianism and ridicule of pomposity have universal appeal — эгалитаризм.

Be surprised to learn that a man so close to the pinnacle of power was such a bad egg — непутевый, никудышный человек.

German voters, egged on by xenophobic tabloid headlines, do not want to pay for that — быть в неудобном положении.

I am not French, and I acknowledge and reject Napoleon's ego­maniac

tendencies — эгоист.

Complain all you want, but only if you're not guilty of even more egregious behavior — вопиющий, отъявленный, очевидный.

It also contains Asiatic black bears, egrets and, according to some, an extremely rare subspecies of the Siberian tiger — цапля.

Transneft seeks to eke out savings across its business — с трудом зарабатывать на жизнь, пробавляться, перебиваться.

But it is India's elan, both in terms of its economy and a newly po­lished image — стремительность, напор, натиск.

This iteration is less elegiac, but it is probably too late — элеги­ческий; грустный.

The country still feels elephantine, its infrastructure is rick­ety, its electricity patchy, most of its roads unpaved and potholed — слоноподобный; неуклюжий.

Small, slight and bespectacled, with a thoughtful elfin manner and a ready grin, he looks perhaps half his age, and chats freely and easily — чудесный, магический.

The White House designed the meetings to elicit two other com­mitments — извлекать; вытягивать.