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Перевод: beard
[существительное] борода ; растительность на лице; ость [бот.] ; ость колоса; мочка растения; зазубрина ; зубец ; кончик вязального крючка; [глагол] смело выступать против; отесывать края доски
Тезаурус:
- He thought he caught a glimpse of an eyepatch and an immense black beard.
- "Oh, I think I must choose the shade," Miss Beard replied.
- Miss Beard cried.
- He hated his body, the scrawny legs on which the kneecaps protruded like deformities, the small blinking eyes too closely set, the sparse beard which couldn't disguise the weakness of the mouth and chin.
- Eventually he'd give up and walk away, his grey beard moving up and down as he mumbled to himself, the words spilling out of his almost toothless mouth.
- Who, apart from a few latter-day Edwardians, is interested in a windbag with a funny beard, who wrote (at great length) about socialism, and whose (long) plays are comedies of ill-manners, featuring semi-melodramatic characters from a forgotten age?
- Pacepa says that Ceauescu was afraid of poisoning after the CIA's attempt to murder Fidel Castro by impregnating his clothes with potions to make his beard fall out, and so he ordered the Securitate department which provided all his personal needs free of charge to arrange for the manufacture of a new set of clothes for every day of his life.
- His beard and teeth got in the way.
- Among the perennial plants that perform a dual role to perfection is the goat's beard, Aruncus dioicus, a 4ft-6ft tall perennial of which I am especially fond.
- It was an admission that he was growing old; vet the brief appearance he made on stage, with his white beard, long robe and crown, was telling enough, and would never be forgotten.
- Father Christmas much, but I know it is, cos it's got a red suit and a white beard.
- The landlord thought for a bit, stroking his beard, before he gave his decision.
- But before the great affair struck up, one looked around at the new faces: Steve Milligan, who used to be our foreign editor at the Sunday Times , Lady Olga Maitland, nicer than her impossible opinions, whom I chiefly remember for being very good about expenses at the Sunday Express (one wonders if Kelvin Mackenzie might have slipped in late for Chislehurst), Nigel Jones, the Lib Dem from Cheltenham with the Lenin beard, and a man and woman sitting together, pointed out as Gordon and Brigid Prentice who, if they flourish in Labour politics, will be compared in the Sun two elections from now with the Ceausescus.
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