Them. Suggest their Russian equivalents

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48 Despite new electronic technologies, adults do read printed pages. What about children? Do they read more or less nowadays? Discuss it with your partner/s and then with the group.

1 a doom merchant	- a person who predicts bad things to happen.
2 to sound the death knell for smth	- sign that something will soon fail or stop existing.
3 a poor cousin to	- (here) unimportant or secondary in significance.
4 lucrative [ `lu:krətɪv ] (adj)	- profitable.
5 to come into one’s own	- to become very good, useful, or important in a particular situation.
6 on average – (phr.)	- based on a calculation about how many times something usually happens, how much money someone usually gets, - - how often people usually do something, etc.
7 on the back of something (phr.)	- as a result of something that already exists or something you have already done.
8 to command advances	- command a high fee/wage/price, etc.
9 a fertileperiod	- fruitful period.
10 a real buzz	- a strong feeling of excitement, pleasure, or success, or a similar feeling from drinking alcohol or taking drugs.
11 to fuel the boom	- to make something, especially something bad, increase or become stronger.
12 bespectacled (adj.)	- someone wearing spectacles.
13 in pre-teens (phr.)	- children who are not in their teens yet.
14 an award-winning author	- someone rewarded with a prize for something they have done.
15 sophisticated questions	- intricate and challenging questions.
16 mental nourishment	something that helps a feeling, idea, or belief to grow stronger emotional/intellectual/spiritual nourishment.
17 a failed writer	- someone who wanted to be a writer but was unsuccessful.
18 boom (v,n) -	- quick increase of business activity; to increase and be very successful.
19 virtually (adv.)	- practically.
20 feted[feitid] (adj.)	- celebrated.
21 a publishing outfit	a group of people who work together as a team or organization in the business of producing books and magazines.
22 smitten (p.p.)	suddenly feeling that you love someone or something very much.
23 like a bushfire (phr.)	- quickly (an idiom).
24 acquisitive (adj.)	- sensitive, receptive.
25 relevant (adj.)	- directly relating to the subject or problem being discussed or considered.
26 off limits (phr.)	- If a place is off limits, you are not allowed to go there; forbidden.
27 to relish (the chance))	- to enjoy an experience or the thought of something that is going to happen.
28 the literati	-a small group of people in a society who know a lot about literature.
29 redemption	- the state of being freed from the power of evil, believed by Christians to be made possible by Jesus Christ.
30 to bid, bidding	- you bid for goods in an auction
31 bode ill, bode well	to predict something bad/good to happen.
32 to keep a low profile	to behave quietly and avoid doing things that will make people notice you.

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