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Uncle Tom Typhoid Mary (Am inf) – «Тифозная Мэри», инфекционный больной, переносчик инфекции; чума, зараза (о человеке) Mary Mallon (1869–1938), better known as Typhoid Mary, was the first person in the United States identified as the first healthy typhoid carrier. She was presumed to have infected some 51 people, three of whom died, over the course of her career as a cook. She was forcibly isolated twice by public health authorities and died after nearly three decades altogether in isolation. Today, Typhoid Mary is a generic term for anyone who, knowingly or not, spreads something undesirable. U Uncle Sam (Am) – «дядя Сэм» (ироническое прозвище США); шутливая расшифровка букв US (United States) The government of the USA; the USA. The phrase is apparently a humorous interpretation of the letters stamped on army supply boxes of 1812, i.e. US. The War of 1812 was a military conflict fought between the forces of the United States of America and those of the British Empire. Uncle Tom – «дядя Том», прозвище человека, заискивающего перед более сильным; персонаж романа Г. БичерСтоу «Хижина дяди Тома» A derogatory term for a person who perceives themselves to be of low status, and is excessively subservient to authority figures; particularly a black person who behaves in a subservient manner to white people. The term comes from the title character of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s 1852 novel “Uncle Tom’s Cabin”. Critical and popular views of both the character and the novel have shifted over time, leading to a shift in the term’s use. The current sense of the phrase is argumentative as the real Uncle Tom was a black man born into slavery who gave his life to protect other 167