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beetle

1. ['biːtl] брит. / амер.
  сущ.
  1. жук
  2. разг. таракан
  3. (Beetle) "жук" (малолитражный автомобиль марки "Фольксваген")
2. ['biːtl]
  гл.; брит.; разг.
  быстро двигаться
['biːtl] брит. / амер.
1. сущ.
  1. тех. баба; кувалда
  2. толкушка, пестик (используется в домашнем хозяйстве)
2. гл.
  1. трамбовать; вколачивать, забивать
  2. дробить (камни)
  3. толочь, разминать
['biːtl] брит. / амер.
1. прил.
  нависший (обычно о бровях)
2. гл.
  свисать, нависать, выдаваться

Biology (En-Ru)

beetle

жук; pl жуки (Coleoptera)

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If you will venture out on the limb as far as you think safe, and not let go the beetle, I’ll make you a present of a silver dollar as soon as you get down.”
Если ты проберешься еще немного вперед, осторожно, конечно, чтобы не грохнуться вниз, и если ты будешь держать жука, я подарю тебе серебряный доллар, сразу, как только ты спустишься.
Poe, Edgar Allan / The Gold-BugПо, Эдгар Аллан / Золотой жук
Золотой жук
По, Эдгар Аллан
© Издательство "Наука", 1970
The Gold-Bug
Poe, Edgar Allan
© Wordsworth Editions 2004

What they saw in line with the pointing finger of Carolinus was a large black beetle-large, but not extraordinarily so.
Там, куда указывал палец Каролинуса, они увидели черного жука, большого, но не очень.
Dickson, Gordon / Dragon at WarДиксон, Гордон / Дракон на войне
Дракон на войне
Диксон, Гордон
Dragon at War
Dickson, Gordon

“I sent for you,” said he, in a grandiloquent tone, when I had completed my examination of the beetle, “I sent for you, that I might have your counsel and assistance in furthering the views of Fate and of the bug——”
– Я послал за вами, – начал Легран торжественным тоном, когда я кончил осмотр, – я послал за вами, чтобы испросить совета и вашей помощи для уяснения воли Судьбы и жука…
Poe, Edgar Allan / The Gold-BugПо, Эдгар Аллан / Золотой жук
Золотой жук
По, Эдгар Аллан
© Издательство "Наука", 1970
The Gold-Bug
Poe, Edgar Allan
© Wordsworth Editions 2004

He was looking at Richie as if he had discovered an interesting new beetle.
Он смотрел на Ричи так, словно обнаружил нового интересного жука.
King, Stephen / Salem's LotКинг, Стивен / Салимов удел
Салимов удел
Кинг, Стивен
© Е.Ю. Александрова, 1992. Перевод
Salem's Lot
King, Stephen
© 1975 by Stephen King

“But,” I interposed, “you say that the skull was not upon the parchment when you made the drawing of the beetle.
– Все это так, – прервал я Леграна, – но вы ведь сами сказали, что, когда рисовали жука на пергаменте, там не было черепа.
Poe, Edgar Allan / The Gold-BugПо, Эдгар Аллан / Золотой жук
Золотой жук
По, Эдгар Аллан
© Издательство "Наука", 1970
The Gold-Bug
Poe, Edgar Allan
© Wordsworth Editions 2004

Falcon, a gaunt beast of Dutch extraction with sloping hind-quarters, as black as a beetle, turned out to be little better than Ermine.
Сокол, вороной, как жук, жеребец голландской породы, со свислым задом и поджарый, оказался немного получше Горностая.
Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.1Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.1
Записки охотника т.1
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975
A Sportsman's Sketches v.1
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar

I'll crush him like a beetle without it.
-- Я его и без того как таракана придавлю.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Come, tell me the truth. Crush me like a beetle.
Ну, объявляй правду, дави меня как таракана...
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Millions of Nosema club together to mass-produce juvenile hormone in the beetle larva's body, thereby preventing it from turning into an adult.
Миллионы этих паразитов образуют скопление, начинающее массовое производство ювенильного гормона в теле личинки-хозяина, что препятствует ее превращению во взрослое насекомое.
Dawkins, Richard / The Selfish GeneДокинз, Ричард / Эгоистичный ген
Эгоистичный ген
Докинз, Ричард
The Selfish Gene
Dawkins, Richard
© Richard Dawkins 1989

Like a beetle tied by the leg, I moved continually round and round my beloved little lodge. I would gladly have stopped there altogether, it seemed ... but that was impossible. My mother scolded me, and sometimes Zinaida herself drove me away.
Как привязанный за ножку жук, я кружился постоянно вокруг любимого флигелька: казалось, остался бы там навсегда... но это было невозможно; матушка ворчала на меня, иногда сама Зинаида меня прогоняла.
Turgenev, I.S. / First loveТургенев, И.С. / Первая любовь
Первая любовь
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1978
First love
Turgenev, I.S.
© BiblioBazaar, LLC

“I see you’ve regained your composure, you Newf dung beetle.”
— Я вижу, ты вернул себе самообладание, жук навозный. —
Proulx, Annie / The Shipping NewsПрул, Энни / Корабельные новости
Корабельные новости
Прул, Энни
© 1993 by Annie Proulx
© Издание на русском языке, перевод. ЗАО ТИД "Амфора", 2005
The Shipping News
Proulx, Annie
© 1993 by Annie Proulx

And I'll crush Mitya like a beetle.
А Митьку я раздавлю как таракана.
Dostoevsky, Fyodor / The brothers KaramazovДостоевский, Фёдор / Братья Карамазовы
Братья Карамазовы
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1988
The brothers Karamazov
Dostoevsky, Fyodor

No more than the life of a louse, of a black beetle, less in fact because the old woman is doing harm.
Не более как жизнь вши, таракана, да и того не стоит, потому что старушонка вредна.
Достоевский, Фёдор / Преступление и наказаниеDostoevsky, Fyodor / Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment
Dostoevsky, Fyodor
© 2009 Rhodes Media
Преступление и наказание
Достоевский, Фёдор
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1970

It's hardly bigger, the swallow, than a beetle....
Вся-то она, ласточка, не больше жука…
Тургенев, И.С. / Записки охотника т.2Turgenev, I.S. / A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
A Sportsman's Sketches v.2
Turgenev, I.S.
© 2006 BiblioBazaar
Записки охотника т.2
Тургенев, И.С.
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1975

The old prisoners could make a pet of a mouse or a beetle strayed out of a hole. Here the unpierceable walls were washed every morning by an automatic sluice.
Прежде узник мог приручить мышь или хотя бы мокрицу – но эти непроницаемые стены мыли каждый день.
Chesterton, G.K. / The Ball and the CrossЧестертон, Г.К. / Шар и крест
Шар и крест
Честертон, Г.К.
© Н. Трауберг, перевод, 2000
The Ball and the Cross
Chesterton, G.K.
© 2008 BiblioBazaar

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'biːtlNounжукExamples

May beetle — майский жук

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Collocations

ambrosia beetle

древесинник

ambrosia beetle

короед

ant beetle

муравьежук

bark beetle

жук-короед

bee-beetle

пчелиный жучок

beetle head

баба

beetle head

головка трамбовки

beetle head

ударная часть бабы

beetle off

быстро удаляться

beetle off

убегать

black beetle

черный таракан

burying beetle

могильщик

cambium beetle

жук-короед

cambium beetle

заболонник

Capricorn beetle

дровосек

Word forms

beetle

verb

Basic forms
Past	beetled
Imperative	beetle
Present Participle (Participle I)	beetling
Past Participle (Participle II)	beetled

Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I beetle	we beetle
you beetle	you beetle
he/she/it beetles	they beetle

Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am beetling	we are beetling
you are beetling	you are beetling
he/she/it is beetling	they are beetling

Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have beetled	we have beetled
you have beetled	you have beetled
he/she/it has beetled	they have beetled

Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been beetling	we have been beetling
you have been beetling	you have been beetling
he/she/it has been beetling	they have been beetling

Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I beetled	we beetled
you beetled	you beetled
he/she/it beetled	they beetled

Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was beetling	we were beetling
you were beetling	you were beetling
he/she/it was beetling	they were beetling

Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had beetled	we had beetled
you had beetled	you had beetled
he/she/it had beetled	they had beetled

Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been beetling	we had been beetling
you had been beetling	you had been beetling
he/she/it had been beetling	they had been beetling

Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will beetle	we shall/will beetle
you will beetle	you will beetle
he/she/it will beetle	they will beetle

Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be beetling	we shall/will be beetling
you will be beetling	you will be beetling
he/she/it will be beetling	they will be beetling

Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have beetled	we shall/will have beetled
you will have beetled	you will have beetled
he/she/it will have beetled	they will have beetled

Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been beetling	we shall/will have been beetling
you will have been beetling	you will have been beetling
he/she/it will have been beetling	they will have been beetling

Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would beetle	we should/would beetle
you would beetle	you would beetle
he/she/it would beetle	they would beetle

Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be beetling	we should/would be beetling
you would be beetling	you would be beetling
he/she/it would be beetling	they would be beetling

Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have beetled	we should/would have beetled
you would have beetled	you would have beetled
he/she/it would have beetled	they would have beetled

Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been beetling	we should/would have been beetling
you would have been beetling	you would have been beetling
he/she/it would have been beetling	they would have been beetling

Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am beetled	we are beetled
you are beetled	you are beetled
he/she/it is beetled	they are beetled

Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being beetled	we are being beetled
you are being beetled	you are being beetled
he/she/it is being beetled	they are being beetled

Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been beetled	we have been beetled
you have been beetled	you have been beetled
he/she/it has been beetled	they have been beetled

Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was beetled	we were beetled
you were beetled	you were beetled
he/she/it was beetled	they were beetled

Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being beetled	we were being beetled
you were being beetled	you were being beetled
he/she/it was being beetled	they were being beetled

Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been beetled	we had been beetled
you had been beetled	you had been beetled
he/she/it had been beetled	they had been beetled

Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be beetled	we shall/will be beetled
you will be beetled	you will be beetled
he/she/it will be beetled	they will be beetled

Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been beetled	we shall/will have been beetled
you will have been beetled	you will have been beetled
he/she/it will have been beetled	they will have been beetled

beetle

noun

	Singular	Plural
Common case	beetle	beetles
Possessive case	beetle's	beetles'

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beetle

Biology (En-Ru)

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beetle

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