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Перевод: fortune
[существительное]
счастье; удача ; счастливый случай; судьба ; фортуна ; богатство; состояние;
[глагол]
случаться; наткнуться
Тезаурус:
- His assurances that it was still possible to declare war and survive were appreciated most of all by the "military-industrial complex" - the Pentagon, the RAND Corporation (for which Kahn's research was done) and the thriving weapons industry, Deterrence always had and will have one decisive advantage over Disarmament as a policy: it makes some people a fortune.
- But they were as aware as anyone of the variables of timing and electoral fortune which could dictate the succession or lead Tory MPs to "skip a generation" and look to such figures as John Major and Chris Patten.
- Blair's job took him to troutless Humberside, but after two years, good fortune posted him back to Aberdeenshire.
- Rugby Union: Andrew mines rich vein of good fortune
- The company's 74-year-old founder, Mr Soedono Salim (better known by his Chinese name of Liem Sioe Liong) has turned presidential favours into a personal fortune worth at least 2 billion.
- We said we will try to extract that sulphur so we are spending a fortune, well over a billion in the first instance, and then another 600 million after that, to try to take the sulphur out."
- Neues Deutschland, the GDR party daily, displayed a declaration by Erich Honecker, the country's leader, that "the existence of the Socialist German Democratic Republic is good fortune for our people, and for the peoples of Europe".
- In Sybil , the humble heroine turns out to be an heiress and is able to marry her well-meaning aristocratic lover without compromising the class system, and a similar stroke of good fortune resolves the love stories in Shirley and North and South .
- Presumably for tax reasons, most refused to list their incomes and the magazine compiled its list with educated guesses, as Forbes and Fortune do with their much longer, global rich-lists.
- The notion is the very opposite to that widespread but typically Greek attribution of envy to the universe itself, as divinely personified by the envy of the gods, who lie in wait to punish the good fortune or prominence of mortals.
- Fortune and fame at last.
- A reporter from the magazine telephoned him in Mexico where he was filming The Fortune with Warren Beatty.
- Topping the list is Barbara Piasecka-Johnson, who does not really count: she inherited her 550m fortune from her husband, chairman of America's Johnson and Johnson company, whom she met while working as a maid in his house.
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