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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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