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spruce

[spruːs] брит. / амер.

сущ.
1. 1. бот. ель (лат. Picea)
  2. древесина ели или хвойного дерева
2. хвойное дерево
1. прил.; разг.
  нарядный, элегантный, изящный; щеголеватый
2. гл.; разг.; = spruce up
  приводить в порядок, украшать; наряжать, прихорашивать

Biology (En-Ru)

spruce

ель (Picea)

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I looked around and saw a huge old spruce toppling slowly across the lane, its ragged stump on fire.
Я оглянулся и увидел огромную старую ель, медленно валившуюся поперек дороги. Ее комель уже горел.
King, Stephen / Bag of BonesКинг, Стивен / Мешок с костями
Мешок с костями
Кинг, Стивен
© 1998 Стивен Кинг
© 1999, АСТ
© перевод В. Вебера
Bag of Bones
King, Stephen
© 1998 by Stephen King

Women with urogenital diseases have been treated with phytotherapy that involved using extracts and tinctures obtained from onion, garlic, reddish, horseradish, pine and spruce needles, and jupiter.
Для лечения женщин с урогенитальными заболеваниями использовали методы фитотерапии: экстракты и настойки, полученные из лука, чеснока, редьки, хрена, хвои ели, сосны, можжевельника.
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Chuckling, admiring the fine weather, savoring this dramatic solution the gods had provided to his problem, Wallie continued over to the pool at the base of the waterfall to spruce himself up.
Радуясь прекрасной погоде и столь эффектному решению его проблемы, которое обеспечили ему боги, Уолли направился к пруду у основания водопада, чтобы привести себя в порядок.
Duncan, Dave / Coming of WisdomДункан, Дэйв / Обретение мудрости
Обретение мудрости
Дункан, Дэйв
Coming of Wisdom
Duncan, Dave
© 1988 by D. J. Duncan

True moss dark coniferous forests with spruce sub-zone.
Истинные моховые темные хвойные леса с подзоной ели.
© «Сахалин Энерджи» 2006
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© Sakhalin Energy 2006
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We curved the hill and entered a forest of spruce, the path serpentining between the treeboles, the wheels running silent on immemorial mould.
Мы обогнули холм и въехали в еловый лес. Дорога серпантином вилась меж древесных стволов, и колеса повозки беззвучно катили по земле, которая поросла мхом с времен незапамятных.
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard / From sea to seaКиплинг, Джозеф Редьярд / От моря до моря
От моря до моря
Киплинг, Джозеф Редьярд
© Издательство "Мысль", 1983
From sea to sea
Kipling, Joseph Rudyard
© BiblioLife, LLC

They had been taken to the middle of the forest where there wasn't a single hut or dug-out; in the depths of winter they had begun a new life, building camp-fires, making beds out of spruce-branches, melting snow in saucepans, burying their dead…
Он рассказал, как привели их в зимний лес, где ни землянки, ни шалаша, и как начали они там новую жизнь, разводя костры, устраивая постели из еловых веток, растапливая в котелках снег, как хоронили умерших…
Grossman, Vasily / Life and FateГроссман, Василий / Жизнь и судьба
Жизнь и судьба
Гроссман, Василий
© Издательство "Книжная палата", 1988
Life and Fate
Grossman, Vasily
© 1980 by Editions L'Age D'Homme
© 1985 by Collins Harvill

With her brother’s help, she had built the iceboat she rode now. Its sixteen-foot hull had been constructed from hand-picked Sitka-spruce.
С помощью брата она своими руками собрала этот буер длиной в пять с половиной метров из отборных еловых досок.
Rollins, James / Ice HuntРоллинс, Джеймс / Айсберг
Айсберг
Роллинс, Джеймс
© 2003 by Jim Czajkowski
© В. Шуверов, перевод, 2009
© ООО "Издательство "Эксмо", издание на русском языке, 2009
Ice Hunt
Rollins, James
© 2003 by Jim Czajkowski

During the ban, they had celebrated Christmas by laughing, not very cheerfully, at the Christmas tree Karl Pascal had contrived out of a spruce bough and tinfoil from cigarette packages.
На рождество запрет еще не был снят, и они отпраздновали его возле елки, сооруженной Карлом Паскалем из еловой ветки и папиросной фольги.
Lewis, Sinclair / It can't happen hereЛьюис, Синклер / У нас это невозможно
У нас это невозможно
Льюис, Синклер
© Издательство "Правда", 1965
It can't happen here
Lewis, Sinclair
© Sinclair Lewis, 1935
© renewed, Michael Lewis, 1963

With regard to being spruce, sir, that's where it is, you see.'
А насчет франтовства, сэр, так вот в этом-то, понимаете, и все дело.
Dickens, Charles / Martin ChuzzlewitДиккенс, Чарльз / Жизнь и приключения Мартина Чезлвита
Жизнь и приключения Мартина Чезлвита
Диккенс, Чарльз
© Государственное издательство художественной литературы, 1960
Martin Chuzzlewit
Dickens, Charles
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1994

They were running along a narrow alley flanked on either side by a growth of young spruce. Through the trees the mouth of the alley could be seen, opening out on a moonlit glade.
Они с волчицей бежали по узкой прогалине, окаймленной по обеим сторонам зарослью молодых елей и выходившей на залитую луной поляну.
London, Jack / White FangЛондон, Джек / Белый Клык
Белый Клык
Лондон, Джек
© Издательство «ОЛМА-ПРЕСС», 2002
White Fang
London, Jack
© Wordsworth Editions Limited 1992

There was never anything so gallant, so spruce, so brilliant, and so well disposed as the two armies.
Что может быть прекраснее, подвижнее, великолепнее и слаженнее, чем две армии!
Voltaire / CandideВольтер / Кандид
Кандид
Вольтер
© Издательство "Художественная литература", 1965
Candide
Voltaire
© 1918 by BONI & LIVERIGHT, INC.

For, instead of a long train with royal diadems, I saw in one family two fiddlers, three spruce courtiers, and an Italian prelate. In another, a barber, an abbot, and two cardinals.
Вместо величественного ряда венценосных особ я увидел в одной династии двух скрипачей, трех ловких царедворцев и одного итальянского прелата; в другой - цирюльника, аббата и двух кардиналов.
Swift, Jonathan / Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the worldСвифт, Джонатан / Путешествия Гулливера
Путешествия Гулливера
Свифт, Джонатан
© Издательство "Правда", 1987
Gulliver's travels into several remote nations of the world
Swift, Jonathan

CGNC is an extract from pine and spruce green needles.
Хвойную хлорофилло-каротиновую пасту (ХХКП) выделяют из древесной зелени хвойных пород сосны и ели.
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Known is also a balsamic ointment “Karagaj” containing an oily extract of hot pepper, an alcoholic solution of resin from the Schrenk spruce, camphor, menthol, and a base.
Известна бальзамическая мазь «Kapaгaй, содержащая масляный экстракт стручкового перца, спиртовой раствор смолы тянь-шаньской ели, камфору, ментол, основу.
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She had noticed that he was roughly clad, presenting a contrast to the young merchant, who was vulgarly spruce in his attire.
Она заметила, что незнакомец был одет, как простолюдин; это особенно бросалось в глаза рядом с крикливо щеголеватым костюмом молодого коммерсанта.
Conan Doyle, Arthur / The Firm Of GirdlestoneКонан Дойль, Артур / Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Торговый Дом Гердлстон
Конан Дойль, Артур
© Издательство "Правда", 1966
The Firm Of Girdlestone
Conan Doyle, Arthur
© 1889 by John W. Lowell

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spruːsNounель

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1.
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Collocations

black spruce

черная ель

blue spruce

ель голубая

common spruce

ель европейская

common spruce

ель обыкновенная

grass spruce forest

травяной ельник

Norway spruce

обыкновенная ель

red spruce

красная ель

spruce forest

еловый лес

spruce forest

ельник

spruce pine

сосна виргинская

spruce pole

еловый столб

spruce wood tannin

лигносульфоновая кислота

white spruce

ель

spruce up

марафетиться

spruce up

охорашиваться

Word forms

spruce

verb

Basic forms
Past	spruced
Imperative	spruce
Present Participle (Participle I)	sprucing
Past Participle (Participle II)	spruced

Present Indefinite, Active Voice
I spruce	we spruce
you spruce	you spruce
he/she/it spruces	they spruce

Present Continuous, Active Voice
I am sprucing	we are sprucing
you are sprucing	you are sprucing
he/she/it is sprucing	they are sprucing

Present Perfect, Active Voice
I have spruced	we have spruced
you have spruced	you have spruced
he/she/it has spruced	they have spruced

Present Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I have been sprucing	we have been sprucing
you have been sprucing	you have been sprucing
he/she/it has been sprucing	they have been sprucing

Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I spruced	we spruced
you spruced	you spruced
he/she/it spruced	they spruced

Past Continuous, Active Voice
I was sprucing	we were sprucing
you were sprucing	you were sprucing
he/she/it was sprucing	they were sprucing

Past Perfect, Active Voice
I had spruced	we had spruced
you had spruced	you had spruced
he/she/it had spruced	they had spruced

Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I had been sprucing	we had been sprucing
you had been sprucing	you had been sprucing
he/she/it had been sprucing	they had been sprucing

Future Indefinite, Active Voice
I shall/will spruce	we shall/will spruce
you will spruce	you will spruce
he/she/it will spruce	they will spruce

Future Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will be sprucing	we shall/will be sprucing
you will be sprucing	you will be sprucing
he/she/it will be sprucing	they will be sprucing

Future Perfect, Active Voice
I shall/will have spruced	we shall/will have spruced
you will have spruced	you will have spruced
he/she/it will have spruced	they will have spruced

Future Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I shall/will have been sprucing	we shall/will have been sprucing
you will have been sprucing	you will have been sprucing
he/she/it will have been sprucing	they will have been sprucing

Future in the Past Indefinite, Active Voice
I should/would spruce	we should/would spruce
you would spruce	you would spruce
he/she/it would spruce	they would spruce

Future in the Past Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would be sprucing	we should/would be sprucing
you would be sprucing	you would be sprucing
he/she/it would be sprucing	they would be sprucing

Future in the Past Perfect, Active Voice
I should/would have spruced	we should/would have spruced
you would have spruced	you would have spruced
he/she/it would have spruced	they would have spruced

Future in the Past Perfect Continuous, Active Voice
I should/would have been sprucing	we should/would have been sprucing
you would have been sprucing	you would have been sprucing
he/she/it would have been sprucing	they would have been sprucing

Present Indefinite, Passive Voice
I am spruced	we are spruced
you are spruced	you are spruced
he/she/it is spruced	they are spruced

Present Continuous, Passive Voice
I am being spruced	we are being spruced
you are being spruced	you are being spruced
he/she/it is being spruced	they are being spruced

Present Perfect, Passive Voice
I have been spruced	we have been spruced
you have been spruced	you have been spruced
he/she/it has been spruced	they have been spruced

Past Indefinite, Passive Voice
I was spruced	we were spruced
you were spruced	you were spruced
he/she/it was spruced	they were spruced

Past Continuous, Passive Voice
I was being spruced	we were being spruced
you were being spruced	you were being spruced
he/she/it was being spruced	they were being spruced

Past Perfect, Passive Voice
I had been spruced	we had been spruced
you had been spruced	you had been spruced
he/she/it had been spruced	they had been spruced

Future Indefinite, Passive Voice
I shall/will be spruced	we shall/will be spruced
you will be spruced	you will be spruced
he/she/it will be spruced	they will be spruced

Future Perfect, Passive Voice
I shall/will have been spruced	we shall/will have been spruced
you will have been spruced	you will have been spruced
he/she/it will have been spruced	they will have been spruced

spruce

noun

	Singular	Plural
Common case	spruce	spruces
Possessive case	spruce's	spruces'

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