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dabble While some people dabbled, the widespread use of tarot cards for divination only took off in the late 1700s, when Frenchman Jean-Baptise Alliette published the first definitive guide to tarot card reading. I dabble with magic. We all like to dabble from time to time.

баловаться, заниматься поверхностно, плескаться

diamonds / hearts / clubs / spades

бубны (буби) / черви (червы) / трефы (крести) / пики

strong-willed

волевой

divination / fortune-telling While some people dabbled, the widespread use of tarot cards for divination only took off in the late 1700s, when Frenchman Jean-Baptise Alliette published the first definitive guide to tarot card reading.

гадание, предсказание

two-faced

двуличный, лживый

intricacy / complication / complexity / difficulty / complication Like Etteilla, the Rider-Waite deck included a printed guide on how to read the deck and the meanings of each card. In this deck, the intricacy of the scenes told a story when cards were placed together.

запутанность, сложность

considerable The printing press had yet to arrive, and since hand-painted cards were all that existed, it cost a considerable amount of cash to commission what was essentially dozens of teensy paintings.

значительный, существенный, немалый

tarot cards 1909 was the next time tarot cards received a major update.

карты Таро

trump Like any deck, these early tarot cards - tarocchi cards, in Italian - had suits, trump cards, and even pips.

козырь

deck of cards Like other decks, the first recorded tarot cards showed up in Europe in the 15th century, with the most popular sets selling in Italy to wealthy families.

колода карт

teensy, tiny, wee, teeny-weeny, teensy-weensy The printing press had yet to arrive, and since hand-painted cards were all that existed, it cost a considerable amount of cash to commission what was essentially dozens of teensy paintings.

крошечный, маленький

miniature, diminutive

миниатюрный, крохотный

minuscule (miniscule)

незначительный, ничтожный

easy-going

общительный

occult Though today we associate them with the occult, tarot cards were originally just another card game - one similar to modern-day bridge, in fact.

оккультный

open-minded / narrow-minded

открытый, широких взглядов / ограниченный, узколобый

initial / initially Tolerance initially implied religious tolerance, but over time this concept incorporated other meanings. Your initial step to making money by selling Chinese products online is research.

первоначальный, начальный / изначально

pips (a small shape or symbol) Like any deck, these early tarot cards - tarocchi cards, in Italian - had suits, trump cards, and even pips.

пипсы (точки на домино и костях; символы на игральной карте)

to splash around in Kids just love to splash around in water and swim. She loves water and often sneaks into the bathroom to splash around in a bathtub.

плескаться

bad-tempered / good-tempered / even-tempered

раздражительный / добродушный / уравновешенный

absent-minded

рассеянный, забывчивый

laid-back

расслабленный, вальяжный, непринужденный

alongside, beside, next to Pseudonymed Etteilla, he wrote a guide to using the cards and released his own deck alongside it.

рядом, бок о бок, около

tight-fisted, stingy, mean

скупой, жадный

self-centred

эгоистичный, эгоцентричный


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