Description
The Exeter English-Russian Dictionary of Cultural Terms is a unique and up-to-date work of reference whose aim is to provide English speakers who possess at least some knowledge of Russian with the Russian equivalents of foreign and cultural terms in widespread use. The book provides the Russian for some 7,000 foreign and cultural words, terms and phrases which form part of English vocabulary and to which English speakers of Russian might need to refer. Potential users include students, academics and translators as well as anyone who would like to hold their own in cultured conversation. The references are wide-ranging and embrace the social and natural sciences as well as the humanities. Examples of words and phrases: The Arabian Nights, Labours of Hercules, Sturm und Drang, Rockefeller Centre, The Nuremberg Trials, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Oedipus Rex, The Black Forest, Hamlet, The Seven Wonders of the World, Titian, Joan of Arc, Nibelungenlied.
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