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   Anton Shepelev to Denis Mosko:   
      
   DM>> How translate it to my "intermediate" english level?   
      
   AS> I  do  not  see anything special in the phrase "bear the   
   AS> brunt of"   
      
   What effort have you put in translating the phrase,  presum-   
   ably  into Russian?  Have you tried looking it up in dictio-   
   naries, first monolingual (defining, explanatory) ones, then   
   English-Russian ones? That failing, have you tried to trans-   
   late each individual word?   
      
   My understanding, without consulting a dictionary to correct   
   or refresh it, is that `brunt' here means the major negative   
   impact.  For example, the rich bear the brunt of a  progres-   
   sive  tax,  elderly people bear the brunt of the coronavirus   
   pandemic.   
      
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