| A German court has thrown out the case of a schoolteacher against a pupil who had allegedly been tormenting her by scrawling pictures of rabbits on the blackboard. | Немецкий суд отклонил обвинения, выдвинутые против ученицы, якобы мучившей учительницу нарисованными на доске картинками кроликов. |
| throw somebody/something ↔ out (phrasal verb) – if people throw out a plan or suggestion, they refuse to accept it: The idea was thrown out by the committee allegedly [ə’leʤɪdlɪ] – (formal) used when reporting something that people say is true, although it has not been proved (по утверждению): a sports car, allegedly stolen in Manchester torment [tɔː’ment] – to make someone suffer a lot, especially mentally (мучить): Seth was tormented by feelings of guilt. scrawl [skrɔːl] – to write in a careless and untidy way, so that your words are not easy to read (писать неразборчиво): He scrawled his name at the bottom. |
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| The teacher claimed that the pupil was abusing her by playing on her fear of rabbits. | Учительница заявила, что подопечная оскорбляла ее, играя на ее кролико-фобии. |
| The court in Vechta, northern Germany declined to hear the complaint of the teacher, who was seeking an injunction against the 14-year-old girl to stop her from making the drawings or claiming the plaintiff had a paralysing fear of rabbits. | Суд Вечты, что в северной Германии, отказался выслушивать жалобу учительницы, которая требовала наложить судебное ограничение на 14-летнюю девочку и запретить ей рисовать или говорить, что у истца есть парализующая боязнь кроликов. |
| injunction [ɪn’ʤʌŋkʃ(ə)n] – (law) an order given by a court which tells someone not to do something (судебный запрет) The family is seeking an injunction against the book’s publication. claim – to state that something is true, even though it has not been proved The product claims ‘to make you thin without dieting’. plaintiff [‘pleɪntɪf] – someone who brings a legal action against another person in a court of law (=complainant) (истец) |
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| “The plaintiff now has a month to appeal the verdict,” said Mechthild Beckermann, the court’s chief judge. | “Истец в течение месяца имеет право подать на апелляцию” – сказал Mechthild Beckermann, главный судья. |
| appeal – to make a formal request to a court or someone in authority asking for a decision to be changed: She is not happy with the decision and plans to appeal. |
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| Witnesses had told the judge that the teacher ran sobbing out of the classroom when she saw the image of a rabbit on the blackboard. | Очевидцы сообщили судье, что преподавательница, увидев изображение кролика на классной доске, всхлипывая, выбежала из комнаты. |
| sob – to cry noisily while breathing in short sudden bursts: He began sobbing uncontrollably. |
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| The girl denied making the drawings. | Девочка опровергла авторство рисунка. |
| Two years ago at another school, the teacher took a pupil to court and reached a settlement in which the teenager agreed never again to claim that the plaintiff “freaked out” when she saw a rabbit or heard the word. | Два года назад, уже в другой школе, учительница привлекла ученика в суд и добилась решения, в котором подросток согласился никогда не утверждать, что истец “сходит с ума”, когда она видит кролика или слышит это слово. |
| freak out (phrasal verb) – to become very anxious, upset or afraid, or make someone very anxious, upset or afraid (беситься, сходить с ума): The whole idea freaked me out. |
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Источник: http://www.telegraph.co.uk
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