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Перевод: flimsy
[прилагательное] хрупкий; непрочный; легкий; тонкий; шаткий; неосновательный; неубедительный; банальный; пошлый; [существительное] тонкая бумага; папиросная бумага; тонкое женское белье; телеграмма
Тезаурус:
- Giving a place a special label, and, in some cases, fencing it off, may raise people's awareness, but offers only a flimsy barrier against developers.
- As Hugo entered the office he whirled round, blundering into his flimsy chair and almost overturning it.
- Convolute eruption clouds tower above them, raining hot ashes on the helpless humans who live on their flanks, and glowing tongues of liquid rock ooze inexorably downwards, engulfing the flimsy structures which stand in their way.
- Poor folk had long been the chief sufferers from the raids of the body-snatchers, because of the flimsy coffins and shallow graves to which their corpses were consigned.
- Supported by four Landrovers and equipped with a few flimsy spares, they sported jeans and shorts rather than jodhpurs, tee-shirts instead of ties and jackets, while on their heads they wore cheches - and definitely not pith-helmets. but if the style was different, the spirit was certainly reminiscent of those pioneer days.
- The flimsy butterfly nets on sale are a waste of time.
- Early versions were comparatively flimsy mouldings which tended to suffer from brittleness and yellowing as they aged, and which relied on complicated channellings and fixing clips for their installation.
- It has always been assumed that the bony orbitosphenoid of amphisbaenians evolved from the flimsy cartilage of lizards by the straightforward ossification of cartilage - the process whereby nearly all bones are formed during the embryonic development of any animal.
- Often, the same bit of flimsy facetiousness gets disgorged with a frequency that suggests the whole thing is a product of some mechanically chortling Xerox machine.
- The port of Anjer quite simply ceased to exist as the succession of great waves washed over it, carrying away all the flimsy wooden buildings that made up the town.
- When we arrived at Papillote, which had advertised itself as being "in the rainforest", we found that its flimsy buildings were half engulfed by the surrounding forest.
- Cuzco, however, like Florence, another beautiful red-roofed city, was able to retain its dignity and integrity under the tourist onslaught; to demand that here at least, no matter how flimsy your knowledge, you had to reach some accommodation with the past.
- It is not possible to review this novel without such a background sketch, however flimsy.
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