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Перевод: galling
[прилагательное] неприятный; [существительное] раздражение; ссадина
Тезаурус:
- And so, despite the undeniably galling aspect of being asked to rejoice in so meagre a victory after decades of hammering on the hallowed portals of power, I believe it would be foolish to look this particular gift-horse in the mouth.
- We might say it is galling for people to hear such things when they have been told they will die in the wilderness, but at least the promises of God remain very much in force for their children.
- It was galling to her to observe his change in demeanour.
- I find it galling that they seem to keep looking for jam today.
- It must be very galling for the KGB and GRU, having secured some seemingly important technical secret from the West as the result of a long, complex, covert operation, to see it wasted simply because Russian industry is quite incapable of utilising it.
- As in the UK, bright young people find it extra galling that some of those who are occupying the jobs they need are not nearly as bright as they.
- It would be galling to lose your job because of a dispute with a customer or client, when your employer regards you as a capable performer, but this can occur if somehow you offend a person or organisation whose business is valuable to your company.
- It must indeed have been most galling for him to be so addressed by one such as I."
- This is particularly galling in areas where Britain is strong.
- My grandmother would give orders to the eldest and these would be passed down - as I got older I found this particularly galling!
- Given the demoralisation caused by this neglect, it is somewhat galling to hear Labour spokesmen smugly declare that there is no support for socialism in Northern Ireland.
- But if your repertoire includes standards like Won't Get Fooled Again, Substitute, and My Generation, it must be galling to be made to justify your desire to go out and play them.
- She must find it galling to be confused, as she often is, with Dian Fossey, the American disciple of Louis Leakey who studied gorillas in Rwanda; her life and murder - probably by poachers - became the subject of a Hollywood film.
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