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Перевод: moribund
[прилагательное] агонирующий; умирающий
Тезаурус:
- What keeps dancers fresh is new work to dance, and by that reckoning Russian ballet has been moribund since the 1917 revolution.
- And even then the poor moribund critters had to be dropped from a great height to get a satisfactory thump for the sound track.
- Here, public art becomes a tonic that can galvanise moribund cities, enthuse alien-ated youth, plug into popular culture and repay risky investments with a dividend of social solidarity.
- Surely he would not dare to ask that Akram and Waquar Younis be permitted 25 overs each and that a little life be left in pitches which are now the equivalent of a moribund second-day Test strip?
- In patrilineal descent groups, he argued, the individual family and private property were prominent and the communal principle already moribund.
- Lenders fell into two camps, depending on how much they fear a further drying up of already moribund mortgage demand.
- Dinosaurs could not have been moribund because they were still diversifying into new orders.
- I thought it was a place for the aged and moribund - St Cemetery's-on-Sea!"
- The scenery was grim, the food was unappetising, fashion was all but non-existent (he did buy a Burberry raincoat - his "famous blue raincoat" - which he adorned till someone relieved him of it in New York 20 years later), the arts were struggling, almost moribund, despite the explosive qualities of Kingsley Amis, John Osborne, Colin Wilson, and Alan Sillitoe; and the weather was atrocious.
- The European Wars of the mid-eighteenth century had seen the militia revived from its moribund state, but the quota of men and equipment on each Sussex village became a heavy strain.
- The moribund management, dominated by WG Edington, chief general manager from 1951 to 1956, failed to keep pace with the expansion of rival lenders.
- In the age of the life-support machine, we may sometimes look back wistfully to those days, when doctors and relatives of the moribund person were not faced with the agonising decision whether or not to preserve the existence of a human vegetable.
- This, they argue, will give a new lease of life to moribund markets in cities like Hamburg and Hanover, which lie close to the former border between the two Germanies - near the once feared Soviet army, that is, and some way from once all-important markets to the West.
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