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Слово "epitome". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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  1. epitome uk[ɪˈpɪt.ə.mi] us[ɪˈpɪ.ə.mi]существительное, книжное выражение
    1. конспект, сокращение

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      1. That, now, is what old Bowditch in his Epitome calls the zodiac, and what my almanac below calls ditto.
        Вот это, стало быть, и есть то самое, что старик Боудич зовет в своем "Руководстве" зодиаком и что точно так же именуется в календаре, который лежит у меня внизу.
        Моби Дик, или Белый кит. Герман Мелвилл, стр. 451
    2. изображение в миниатюре

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      1. Miss Garland, herself, shall cease to be an individual—but only temporarily, I am happy to add"—(a low bow, full of the old-time grace). "She shall represent her sex; she shall be the embodiment, the epitome of womankind—the heart and brain, I may say, of God's masterpiece of creation.
        Сама мисс Гарленд перестает быть индивидуумом… только на время, я счастлив добавить (низкий поклон, полный старомодной грации), — она будет представлять свой пол, она будет квинтэссенцией женского, племени, сердцем и разумом, я бы сказал, венца творения.
        Яблоко сфинкса. О. Генри, стр. 8
      2. He hated Ellen O’Hara above anyone else, for she was the epitome of all that he hated in Southerners.
        И с особенной силой ненавидел он Эллин О’Хара, ибо она была олицетворением всего, столь ненавистного ему в южанах.
        УНЕСЕННЫЕ ВЕТРОМ Том 1. Маргарет Митчелл, стр. 93
      3. ‘Who’s they?’ Dunbar demanded suspiciously. In a bed in the small private section at the end of the ward, always working ceaselessly behind the green plyboard partition, was the solemn middle-aged colonel who was visited every day by a gentle, sweet-faced woman with curly ash-blond hair who was not a nurse and not a Wac and not a Red Cross girl but who nevertheless appeared faithfully at the hospital in Pianosa each afternoon wearing pretty pastel summer dresses that were very smart and white leather pumps with heels half high at the base of nylon seams that were inevitably straight. The colonel was in Communications, and he was kept busy day and night transmitting glutinous messages from the interior into square pads of gauze which he sealed meticulously and delivered to a covered white pail that stood on the night table beside his bed. The colonel was gorgeous. He had a cavernous mouth, cavernous cheeks, cavernous, sad, mildewed eyes. His face was the color of clouded silver. He coughed quietly, gingerly, and dabbed the pads slowly at his lips with a distaste that had become automatic. The colonel dwelt in a vortex of specialists who were still specializing in trying to determine what was troubling him. They hurled lights in his eyes to see if he could see, rammed needles into nerves to hear if he could feel. There was a urologist for his urine, a lymphologist for his lymph, an endocrinologist for his endocrines, a psychologist for his psyche, a dermatologist for his derma; there was a pathologist for his pathos, a cystologist for his cysts, and a bald and pedantic cetologist from the zoology department at Harvard who had been shanghaied ruthlessly into the Medical Corps by a faulty anode in an I.B.M. machine and spent his sessions with the dying colonel trying to discuss Moby Dick with him. The colonel had really been investigated. There was not an organ of his body that had not been drugged and derogated, dusted and dredged, fingered and photographed, removed, plundered and replaced. Neat, slender and erect, the woman touched him often as she sat by his bedside and was the epitome of stately sorrow each time she smiled. The colonel was tall, thin and stooped. When he rose to walk, he bent forward even more, making a deep cavity of his body, and placed his feet down very carefully, moving ahead by inches from the knees down. There were violet pools under his eyes. The woman spoke softly, softer than the colonel coughed, and none of the men in the ward ever heard her voice.
        — Кто это ему предоставит? — подозрительно переспросил Данбэр.
        Уловка-22. Джозеф Хеллер, стр. 9

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