AS> 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 brunt of"

 AS> What effort have you put in translating the phrase,  presum- ably  into
 AS> Russian?  Have you tried looking it up in dictio- naries, first
 AS> monolingual (defining, explanatory) ones, then English-Russian ones? That
 AS> failing, have you tried to trans- late each individual word?

 AS> My understanding, without consulting a dictionary to correct or refresh
 AS> it, is that `brunt' here means the major negative impact.  For example,
 AS> the rich bear the brunt of a  progressive  tax
The rich bear the brunt of a exclusive Porshe Cayenne?

- is it ok by language? 

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