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Перевод: quirk
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каламбур ; игра слов; причуда ; выкрутасы ; выверт ; бзик ; росчерк пера; завиток ; небольшой желобок; галтель ;
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Тезаурус:
- Some bizarre quirk led Newman to take a route back to London past the bell tower where Sandy had died.
- You wondered what genetic quirk there was.
- But it can only be a quirk; and the force of its "goodness" is strictly limited and circumscribed.
- Further: a quirk of the Coriolis Force means that the journey is slightly uphill, with the Pacific Ocean about six inches higher than the Atlantic.
- By a quirk of fortune, a mint was here in the 18C.
- If they can stomach this quirk of undemocracy to keep their MPs in line, why not?
- These are all regarded as non-finite clauses (see Quirk and Greenbaum (1973) especially 11.2-;4).
- And then, under pressure from Walter Ash, she allowed to slip into her mind the faint, faint hope that by some quirk of reasoning her mother might be persuaded to agree.
- It was a quirk of financial prudence that attended the coming of a great war.
- Sutton-born Geoff Chilvers had been with the Palace as a Junior in the early days of the 2nd World War and had appeared at Selhurst Park in an interesting schoolboy game that was used as an experiment with numbered players, but his extraordinary claim to footballing fame, which will delight fans with a statistical quirk in their nature, is that he made his debut with a League club as a 16-year-old in a match where his side scored double figures.
- Alas, US Gold have retained this irritating quirk, and you've only three credits to play with (I tried putting a 50p piece into my Commodore when I ran out, but it got jammed between the keys).
- The garment is so peculiar that we might dismiss it as a quirk of the rhyton carver's imagination, but for the fact that it features again on a seal impression from Agia Triadha, where the rhyton also originated.
- This quirk was, however, outweighed by his integrity and devotion to his patients.
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