| English | Russian |
| be en route | ожидать (there's one more startling surprise en route, right now. VLZ_58) |
| en route | на ходу (golos-tatiana) |
| mise en scene | представление ("For the night of his election last May …, he arranged a dramatic mise-en-scène: while loudspeakers played Beethoven's 'Ode to Joy,' the new president walked alone across the courtyard of the Louvre as spotlights threw his larger-than-life shadow on the façade of the former royal palace." VLZ_58) |
| mise en scene | окружение ("The action … took place around me as if I were invisible, though that illusion was quickly dispelled when a large rectangular mirror was wheeled to within a few feet of where I sat. Gulp. The plot may not have thickened at that point, but my self-consciousness surely did. Like it or not, I was now part of the mise-en-scène…." VLZ_58) |
