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Перевод: taint
[существительное] пятно; позор ; зараза ; испорченность ; болезнь в скрытом состоянии; примесь ; налет ; [глагол] разлагать; заражать; портить; заражаться; портиться; загнивать
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- Always discard lamb fat, as the strong taste will taint a dripping pot.
- Of course, merely artificial creations are unnatural and are therefore unjust; but if there is indeed a common descent from Adam, and the world is a family grown demographically from him and his wife, there must be potential descent groups larger than nations which have no taint of artificiality.
- At lunch at the commissary of 20th Century Fox, Spyros P. Skouras (he who had insisted that his movie makers clear themselves of Communist taint) asked in his speech where else in the world but in America could a poor Greek boy have become so important a person as president of 20th Century Fox?
- The same letter also indicates how certain heterosexual anxieties structured in and by sexual difference are projected by Lawrence on to the homosexual, a move which his critics sometimes follow in trying to save him from the taint of homosexual desire.
- In most ways this book reflected great credit on both poets, and was affecting evidence of their mutual trust, of how their common dedication to the poetic calling had precluded any taint of rivalry or wounded amour-propre .
- But the scruples would spawn in his head, giving a cynical taint to his image of himself.
- Catty and stale aromas may develop and taint the beer.
- You let nasty little personal grudges creep in, and you taint the experience.
- Yet one of Carreras's most attractive features, apart from the splendour of his singing, is the way he has managed to avoid any disingenuous taint of backing modestly into the limelight.
- I must as a matter of honour remove all possible ambiguities of expression, avoid any taint of pretence, or dishonesty, or literary sleight of hand.
- Compare them with a tanker full of chemicals which are corrosive, taint water at minute levels and kill living organisms at low doses: PCBs aren't like that.
- * Tea should always be made in a china tea-pot - metal pots will taint the brew.
- The inability of the Party substantially to improve its image despite the personal sacrifices frequently shown by individuals in, for instance, the NSV (the Party's welfare organization), had its roots in the unpopularity of so many manifestations of the Party's social and political role during the 1930s: the alienation produced by the attacks on the Christian Churches, the overbearing arrogance of the "little Hitlers", the hooliganism and loutish vulgarity of the organized mobs, and the irremovable taint of corruption and venality.
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