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Слово "immemorial". Англо-русский словарь Мюллера

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  1. immemorial [ˌɪmɪˈmɔ:rɪəl]имя прилагательное
    1. незапамятный;
      from time immemorial с незапамятных времён

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      1. I afterwards learnt that it was to try whether we had concealed any diamonds. This is the practice established from time immemorial, among civilised nations that scour the seas.
        Вскоре я поняла, что это делается для того, чтобы узнать, не спрятали ли мы там бриллианты; это обычай, принятый с незапамятных времен всеми просвещенными нациями, которые ведут морскую торговлю.
        Кандид, или Оптимизм. Вольтер, стр. 24
      2. She once had children, a husband, a family, relations, everything around her was at the boil, there were all these smiles, so to speak, and suddenly—total zero, everything's gone smash, she's left alone, like . . . some sort of fly bearing a curse from time immemorial.
        Когда-то имела детей, мужа, семейство, родных, все это кругом нее, так сказать, кипело, все эти, так сказать, улыбки, и вдруг - полный пас, все в трубу вылетело, осталась одна как… муха какая-нибудь, носящая на себе от века проклятие.
        Идиот. Федор Михайлович Достоевский, стр. 178
    2. древний

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      1. It was the belief of those who knew him best, that he would positively have taken the very singular step of giving up the House of Seven Gables to the representative of Matthew Maule, but for the unspeakable tumult which a suspicious of the old gentleman's project awakened among his Pyncheon relatives. Their exertions had the effect of suspending his purpose; but it was feared that he would perform, after death, by the operation of his last will, what he had so hardly been prevented from doing in his proper lifetime. But there is no one thing which men so rarely do, whatever the provocation or inducement, as to bequeath patrimonial property away from their own blood. They may love other individuals far better than their relatives—they may even cherish dislike or positive hatred to the latter; but yet, in view of death, the strong prejudice of propinquity revives, and impels the testator to send down his estate in the line marked out by custom so immemorial that it looks like nature. In all the Pyncheons, this feeling had the energy of disease. It was too powerful for the conscientious scruples of the old bachelor; at whose death, accordingly, the mansion-house, together with most of his other riches, passed into the possession of his next legal representative.
        Жилище покойного вместе с большей частью других богатств досталось в наследство ближайшему законному родственнику.
        Дом о семи шпилях. Натаниэль Готорн, стр. 19
      2. He gives them the seasons, each season different yet every year the same, so that spring is always felt as a novelty yet always as the recurrence of an immemorial theme.
        Он дает им времена года, каждое из которых отлично от предыдущего, однако всякий год такое же; скажем, весна всегда воспринимается как обновление и в то же время как повторение вечной темы.
        Письма Баламута. Клайв Стейплз Льюис, стр. 66

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