Перевод слова

Перевод: pinprick

[существительное]
булавочный укол; досада ; мелкая неприятность

Тезаурус:

1. Just a pinprick on her left arm.
2. If you can spot the minute pinprick and area of discolouration around it - a magnifying glass is useful - the fly has already left a visiting card.
3. An example is a pinprick.
4. Neurological examination showed reduced pinprick sensation in both feet.
5. The high society platinum beauty brought up in a secluded hot-house may look a million dollars on the show stand, but is all too liable to fall flat on her face at the first pinprick of adversity and does not stand a chance unless she is cocooned in protective sprays.
6. In this case, however, pinprick testing followed by intradermal injections of hydrocortisone sodium succinate 100 g/l and dexamethasone sodium phosphate 4 g/l gave negative results and the patient declined further challenges.
7. The Australian patrols laid ambushes in the way Mike Calvert had taught them: pinprick harassment frustrated the Japanese until every misfortune was blamed on the guerrillas.
8. Its eye, a tiny pinprick, gazed unblinking into the darkness.
9. But she could have been slipped something somewhere, through a pinprick.
10. The traffic was no more now than a hum, an occasional pinprick of light edging along Bayswater Road and Park Lane.
11. Why the pinprick on the left arm?
12. This doesn't require prohibitively much energy: a male's tiny pinprick can be seen by a female from some distance on a dark night, since her eyes are exposed directly to the light source itself.
13. "No marks, bar a pinprick; no prints; no weapon; no motive"