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Перевод: unthinkable
[прилагательное] невообразимый; немыслимый; неправдоподобный; невероятный
Тезаурус:
- But then the unthinkable happened.
- The country was in the middle of a world recession with unemployment well above two million and looking set to break the three million mark, a prospect that a few years before would have seemed unthinkable.
- This sudden glasnost, unthinkable a week ago, was evidently the result of the Politburo statement on Wednesday calling for discussion of the country's problems and for media that were "close to life".
- And there is an increasing number of instances of assault at work targeted at community nurses and staff on accident and emergency units in hospital (Finney, 1988), a circumstance which would have been almost unthinkable even a decade ago.
- Others may feel that the cage has become, or is becoming, somewhat more explicit as a result of central government activity - leading to an emphasis upon the direct controls which would have appeared as unthinkable only a decade ago.
- But once our hero was free and the villain disposed of, M always granted him "passionate leave", thus setting the seal of HMG's approval on well-earned fornication, unthinkable in Colonel Buchan's day.
- One of these areas was Russia, especially because the interest that his work had aroused there made him consider the previously unthinkable possibility of a communist revolution occurring in that country.
- In the early 1980s, there had been a noticeably leftwards swing in some urban authorities, and to some councils the idea of upholding an initiative apparently rooted in the laissez-faire capitalism of the nineteenth century was unthinkable.
- She added that the number of people who opted for cremation was increasing although there was still a section of society to whom cremation was unthinkable.
- For a nation which had fought a costly war of survival and independence to invite back the very presence which threatened national existence was, and remained unthinkable.
- It was unthinkable to begin walking before knowing the repair was complete, so I sat glumly on the wheelbarrow which we had lifted off the trailer.
- During the close season in 1990 the unthinkable happened.
- Although pumping out water can bring problems if aquifers do not have a chance to recharge, groundwater is such an enormous resource that it would be unthinkable for us to stop using it.
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