it’s a bit rich

it’s a bit rich
•• rich (It’s a bit rich)

•• * Словари, в том числе переводные, фиксируют парадоксальное значение слова rich. Аmerican Нeritage – (informal) highly amusing; БАРСсмешной, абсурдный, that’s a rich idea – это же курам на смех. В последнее время это значение стало особенно актуальным, в частности в модном фразеологизме it’s a bit rich (вариант it’s rather rich). Приведу несколько примеров:
•• North America’s fanatical indeed hysterical antipathy to smoking is the subject of regular, amused stories here. Still, it’s a bit rich to be lectured on the subject by a region whose carbon dioxide emissions may cause more global warming than the rest of the world together. (Из письма британского читателя в журнал Time) Given that there has been a great degree of compliance, it is rather rich for you to make Saddam wholly responsible for continuing the sanctions which continue the agony. (журнал Prоspect, UK)
•• The enemy of my enemy is my friend: remember that one? And it’s a bit rich for the US, in a conflict with both Al-Qaeda and Iraq, to blame them for having an enemy in common. (британский сайт nickdenton.org)
•• Один пример небританского происхождения, из газеты Sunday Times (South Africa):
•• It’s a bit rich of the World Economic Forum to debate poverty amid five-star luxury.
•• Видимо, во всех случаях глубинный смысл выражения идет от словосочетания rich irony, подчеркивается, что «одно не вяжется с другим». В переводе возможны варианты типа это уж слишком (вспоминается лесковское «немножко множко»), не странно/парадокс ли, что... и т.п.
•• Забавный пример (заголовок и первый абзац статьи в New York Daily News), где rich обыгрывается на стыке двух значений:
•• Jacko pleading poverty? That’s rich. Michael Jackson does have problems, but they’re not of the financial kind. Despite reports that the Gloved One is plagued by money woes stemming from numerous debts, the pop star is still bringing in the bucks.
•• В переводе иронию придется передать каким-то иным способом, например, У Джексона не хватает денег? Скорее чего-то другого. А вот варианты, предложенные посетителями сайта «Дополнения к “Моему несистематическому словарю”»: У Джексона не хватает денег? Я вас умоляю! Джексон обеднел? Богатое воображение...
•• В этом и в следующем примере фраза it’s a bit rich употребляется для выражения глубинного значения «бессовестности» (близкое по значению английское unconscionable относится к более высокому стилистическому регистру):
•• The IRA again complained to the European Court of Human Rights about the SAS ‘shoot-to-kill’ policy, but it fell on deaf ears. The British Government was still seething over the Brighton bombing of 12 October 1984 and felt it was a bit rich for the IRA to demand its protection: after all, these were the terrorists who had recently attempted to assassinate Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher and her entire cabinet.

English-Russian nonsystematic dictionary . 2014.

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