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Постоянно встречается слово meshback, как обозначение чего-то совсем мне непонятного. Подскажите, что тут имеется ввиду.

Вот примеры

Chia had complained to Hester that the caps made them both look like meshbacks.

Описание женщины: Big red lips, multilevel mascara, padded shoulders out to here, tiny little skirt, white cowboy boots. Like that country singer her mother liked, Ashleigh Modine Carter. Kind of a meshback thing, but with money.

The Graceland (такая модель автомобиля) was meshback pure and simple, designed to sell to the kind of American who made a point of trying not to buy imports

A Japanese man in a black meshback that said “Whiskey Clone” across the front was sitting in a swivel chair in front of the monitors, pouring himself a hot drink out of a big thermos with pink flowers on the side.

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“I have to port,” Chia said. “Find my friend I’m staying with…”

Вместо to connect можно говорить to port

“Boss looks happy,” the man said, sounding no more Japanese than Maryalice. He took a sip from his thermos cup.
“Yeah,” Maryalice said, “He’s so glad to see me, he’s beside himself.”

he’s beside himself - так он рад или нет. Или это что-то вроде "вне себя от радости"?

“Means there’s some way back out of this batshit.”

Если bullshit для вас слишком грубо, говорите batshit

“Looks like a good night,” Maryalice said, surveying the screens.
“Just fair,” he said. “Fair to middling.”
“Quit talking like that,” Maryalice said. “You’ll have me doing it.”

Сразу несколько вопросов
1. “Just fair,” he said. “Fair to middling.” - он рад или нет? (просто не знаю значения этих слов в данном контексте)
2. “You’ll have me doing it.” - Означает, "ты меня доведешь"?

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Новый вид прически. Если вам ваш конский хвост надоел, переходите на свинский
The star, he gathered, was a little girl with pigtails

Make-up по бандитски
In the end, they were sent along with no more than a moderate touch-up. (немного начистили пятаки)

Микрофон теперь будет mike
The commentator held a hand mike near the top to pick up the hum it was producing

А это что значит? Это я про spin control
--“Our sources within the organization assure us there is no cause for concern,”
--“Spin control,” Chia said.

Перехватили девочку "cut her out"
When Mitsuko had closed the door behind her, Chia checked that the Sandbenders was still ported, put the goggles back on, and selected the Seattle chapter’s main site.
She never got there. Zona Rosa was waiting to cut her out.

Hell of a job on short notice - времени не было подготовиться, правильно?

She was no balls, your Kelsey. Естественно, она же девушка, бугага

А под конец немного про эрекцию.

We are erecting a site for the discussion

In the course of our friend’s career, a structure has been erected to optimize that flow, to minimize losses. That structure now constitutes a corporate entity in its own right.

The site Mitsuko’s chapter had erected for the meeting reminded Chia of Japanese prints she’d seen on a school trip to the museum in Seattle

The sole surviving witness was Rez, whom Blackwell escorted to the barricade the guards had erected in the exercise yard.

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Сначала просто понравившаяся фраза
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Between stations there was a gray shudder beyond the windows of the silent train. Not as of surfaces rushing past, but as if particulate matter were being vibrated there at some crucial rate, just prior to the emergence of a new order of being.
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Забавная концепция
A sect ‘New Logic.’ They say the world will end when the combined weight of all the human nervous tissue on the planet reaches a specific figure.
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And it beats wrestling large pieces of high-end electronics
Так короче, чем it's more difficult
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Blackwell was serving a nine-year sentence, in an Australian maximum-security prison, when Rez talked his way in. To give a concert.
talked his way in - смысл понятен. А вот что за эмоциональный оттенок?
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His security people resigned on the spot.
on the spot - то есть, немедленно?
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Еще немного юридического жаргона
It took Rez’s lawyers three months to get Blackwell’s sentence reversed on a technicality.

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Chia had never been in a car this small, let alone a cab.
Все-таки манера выражаться престранная. Ясно, что речь идет о маленькой машине, но вот детали...
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If he’d anticipated her at all, it had been as some industrial-strength synthesis of Japan’s last three dozen top female media faces.
Вот как это понять - industrial-strength synthesis ? Я понимаю, киберпанк и все такое, но можно же и попроще выражаться
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Пару раз про вздохи
“Are you all right?” she asked, under her breath.
Это такой оборот "under her breath"???
Arleigh’s sharp intake of breath.
Тоже неплохо

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Someone shoved Laney out of the way, from behind, and he fell across the nearest table. He found himself staring straight down, for a second, into the taut gray latex lap of a woman who screamed explosively just before the table gave way.
Вежливый стол - уступил дорогу :)

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What do you think you’re doing, Yamazaki? You want us both to wind up wearing smaller shoes, or what?
Крутиться как ужи на сковородке? Я правильно понял?

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