по мере

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[PrepP; Invar; Prep; the resulting PrepP is adv]

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1. (used to denote the gradual progression of an action expressed predominantly by a deverbal noun) in conjunction or proportion with (the action denoted by the deverbal noun):

- as;

- as (sth.) progresses;

- (the...,) the...;

- in measure with;

- whenever.

     ♦ По мере уменьшения запаса угля мы стали топить всё реже и реже. As our stores of coal diminished, we turned on the heat less and less often.

     ♦ Рифмы по мере моей охоты за ними сложились у меня в практическую систему несколько карточного порядка (Набоков 1). As my hunt for them progressed, rhymes settled down into a practical system somewhat on the order of a card index (1a).

     ♦ В русском войске по мере отступления всё более и более разгорается дух озлобления против врага... (Толстой 6). The farther the Russian army retreats, the more intensely burns its animosity against the enemy... (6a).

     ♦ ...По мере приближения к Москве [Ростов] приходил всё более и более в нетерпение (Толстой 5). ...[Rostov] grew more and more impatient the nearer they got to Moscow (5a).

     ♦ Мать продолжала трепетать и мучиться, а Дарданелов по мере тревог её всё более и более воспринимал надежду (Достоевский 1). His mother went on trembling and suffering, and Dardanelov's hopes increased more and more in measure with her anxiety (1a).

     ♦ Она [жена Хабу га] тоже сидела сейчас на кухне и лущила в подол кукурузу, откуда по мере наполнения ссыпала её в таз (Искандер 3). She [Khabug's wife], too, sat in the kitchen now. She was shelling corn into her lap; whenever her skirt filled up she poured the corn into a pan (3a).

2. по мере сил, надобности и т.п. to the degree that (one's ability, strength etc allows, the situation demands etc): по мере сил ≈ as much as one can; to the extent of one's abilities (powers); to the best of one's ability; || по мере надобности ≈ as need dictates; if (as) need be.

     ♦ "Раз тюремщики вершат правое дело - твоя обязанность помогать им по мере сил" (Солженицын 3). "Since our jailers are in the right, it's your duty to help them as much as you can" (3a).

     ♦ ...Он [нарядчик] не заносчив и всегда рад по мере сил помочь политическим (Гинзбург 2). ...Не [the work assigner] was not arrogant, and he was always glad to help politicals to the extent of his powers (2a).

     ♦ Работал инструментальщик без нормы, по мере надобности, а в основном по своему усмотрению (Гинзбург 2). The toolsetter worked without any fixed norm. He worked as need dictated, or rather, on the whole, as he thought fit (2a).