• МИР ТЕСЕН coll
[usu. indep. sent; Invar; more often this WO]
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⇒ no matter where one is he may meet or hear about s.o. whom he knows or who is in some way connected with people or events in his past (often said when meeting an acquaintance unexpectedly):
- it's a small world;
- small world!;
- the world is a small place.
♦ Эйдлин - известный китаист... И Сергей Сергеевич китаист, ученик Эйдлина. Кроме того, как вы помните, Сергей Сергеевич - личный друг Николая Т. Федоренко. А Николай Т. Федоренко тоже, кроме всего прочего, китаист. И если вы достанете сборник Восемнадцать стихотворений Мао Цзэдуна... то там вы прочтёте "перевод под редакцией Н. Федоренко и Л. Эйдлина". Вот как тесен мир! (Войнович 3). Eidlin is a well-known Sinologist. And Sergei Sergeevich is also a Sinologist, Eidlin's student. Besides that, as you remember, Sergei Sergeevich is a personal friend of Nikolai T. Fedorenko. And Nikolai T. Fedorenko is also, besides everything else, a Sinologist. If you look at Eighteen Poems by Mao Tse-tung...you will see "Translation edited by N. Fedorenko and L. Eidlin." Small world! (3a).