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Перевод: passerby
[прилагательное] прохожий; [существительное] проезжий
Тезаурус:
- At 45 Mainwaring Road the upper maisonette was still advertising itself for sale - no less than six boards competing for the passerby's attention.
- They recognized ambiguity, in cases where, for example, a pronoun might have one of two referents; they recognized syntactical mistakes, as when a character in the story not previously mentioned was introduced as "the passerby", when the indefinite article would have been appropriate; they quickly spotted mistakes in tense.
- From his imaginary tomb he greeted the passerby trilingually: If you are a Syrian, Salam; if you are a Phoenician, Naidios the word is certainly corrupt,; if you are a Greek, Chaire; and say the same yourself (Anth.
- If a passerby were to decline to lend the constable his map or his ladder to assist, he may be wilfully obstructing the constable; but he would not he obstructing the constable in the execution of his duty.
- For the exasperated livestock farmer, with fears for the future of his pig unit or broiler house, for the fruit-grower alarmed by the possibility of a poisonous spray inadvertently finding its way into the metabolism of a casual passerby, and for the cereals farmer who does not take kindly to his best malting barley being trampled down in order to create an impromptu picnic site, the simplest solution is to go in for siege tactics.
- Thus the passerby would observe in large letters the exhortation, "I urge everyone to go and see The Hooded Owl now! - Times".
- A man passerby caught in the same hail of bullets was wounded in the arm.
- Franco gestured at his head with two fingers and thumb cocked, "But the bad dream isn't quite over for our beloved Leader," he hit the words hard, for the benefit of a passerby, who smiled and nodded in assent.
- A number of whores caught and convicted at their second offence were being taken, their heads shaved, a white wand in their hands, down towards the Tun near Cornhill, the open gaol where they stood to be reviled by any passerby.
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