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Перевод: unwary
[прилагательное] неосторожный; опрометчивый
Тезаурус:
- It will help policemen and insurance assessors to extract sensible evidence from befuddled witnesses, tease effective instructions out of skilled but inarticulate craftsmen, and trick unwary criminals into much completer confessions than they had intended.
- one who pretends to have picked up an apparently valuable (but actually worthless) ring which he palms off on an unwary buyer.
- If we want to know in precisely what circumstances such a gene would increase in frequency, we have to carry out calculations which have proved to be full of pitfalls for the unwary.
- Other pranks included a chair which, when sat upon, pinned down the unwary with a pair of mechanical arms: another was a slipper placed upon the floor which, when kicked, caused a weird and ghostly apparition to arise.
- But these are murky areas into which the unwary amateur ventures at his peril.
- While the courts should not be slow to protect the unwary from possible error, the transsexual is usually well able to understand what is involved in surgery, and is usually operated on only after careful screening.
- Between now and 3 June, the unwary visitor may well fall into it.
- Killington renders it back almost into its original powder form - leaving only a few "death cookies" (rock-hard lumps) to trap the unwary.
- Some cautions must be mentioned, however: a good torch is essential, the floor is a carpet of clinging mud that sucks sandals and light shoes off the feet of visitors inadequately shod (wellingtons are the best footgear), and the ceiling is in places low enough to crack the skulls of unwary explorers.
- For the unwary it is a feeling as infectious as embarrassment or flirtatiousness.
- Unwary buyers could find someone else laying claim to their property.
- In section 1, I have chosen various gliding areas which involve special hazards for the unwary, and have suggested how to prevent accidents by being conscious of potentially difficult situations.
- The modern obsession with the tube - that evanescent twist of the wave as it curls itself up into the form of a vagina to lure in unwary youths like bees into the mouths of flowers - perpetuates the equation of surfing and sex.
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