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Them. Suggest their Russian equivalents.
| 1 a doom merchant | - a person who predicts bad things to happen. |
| 2 to sound the death knell for smth | - sign that something will soon fail or stop existing. |
| 3 a poor cousin to | - (here) unimportant or secondary in significance. |
| 4 lucrative [`lu:krətɪv ] (adj) | - profitable. |
| 5 to come into one’s own | - to become very good, useful, or important in a particular situation. |
| 6 on average – (phr.) | - based on a calculation about how many times something usually happens, how much money someone usually gets, - - how often people usually do something, etc. |
| 7 on the back of something (phr.) | - as a result of something that already exists or something you have already done. |
| 8 to command advances | - command a high fee/wage/price, etc. |
| 9 a fertileperiod | - fruitful period. |
| 10 a real buzz | - a strong feeling of excitement, pleasure, or success, or a similar feeling from drinking alcohol or taking drugs. |
| 11 to fuel the boom | - to make something, especially something bad, increase or become stronger. |
| 12 bespectacled (adj.) | - someone wearing spectacles. |
| 13 in pre-teens (phr.) | - children who are not in their teens yet. |
| 14 an award-winning author | - someone rewarded with a prize for something they have done. |
| 15 sophisticated questions | - intricate and challenging questions. |
| 16 mental nourishment | something that helps a feeling, idea, or belief to grow stronger emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment. |
| 17 a failed writer | - someone who wanted to be a writer but was unsuccessful. |
| 18 boom (v,n) - | - quick increase of business activity; to increase and be very successful. |
| 19 virtually (adv.) | - practically. |
| 20 feted[feitid] (adj.) | - celebrated. |
| 21 a publishing outfit | a group of people who work together as a team or organization in the business of producing books and magazines . |
| 22 smitten (p.p.) | suddenly feeling that you love someone or something very much. |
| 23 like a bushfire (phr.) | - quickly (an idiom). |
| 24 acquisitive (adj.) | - sensitive, receptive. |
| 25 relevant (adj.) | - directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered. |
| 26 off limits (phr.) | - If a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there; forbidden. |
| 27 to relish (the chance) ) | - to enjoy an experience or the thought of something that is going to happen. |
| 28 the literati | -a small group of people in a society who know a lot about literature. |
| 29 redemption | - the state of being freed from the power of evil, believed by Christians to be made possible by Jesus Christ. |
| 30 to bid, bidding | - you bid for goods in an auction |
| 31 bode ill, bode well | to predict something bad/good to happen. |
| 32 to keep a low profile | to behave quietly and avoid doing things that will make people notice you. |
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