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Перевод: vague
[прилагательное] неопределенный; расплывчатый; неясный; смутный; рассеянный; отсутствующий; неуловимый
Тезаурус:
- Whereas the most the Prime Minister had ever conceded before polling day was a vague pledge to "take stock", Mr Lang, while stressing the need to preserve the Union at all costs, said: "I'm certainly not ruling out change
- They were later to acquire the vague title of "Nepmen", but in 1922 they were not so clear-cut a phenomenon, and even by the end of NEP it was not possible, despite all Bolshevik propaganda efforts, to lump their origins and subsequent characteristics into the same abstract pigeon-hole.
- It was quieter than usual downstairs, yet there were vague sounds of movement and alien conversation, as if normal domestic work had been interrupted and replaced by something more significant, and sinister.
- Given that it is the crucial phrase, it is perhaps surprising that the definition of breach of the peace has always been vague.
- Maybe we Scots and Irish have paid a high price for our long memories, but who in Scotland or Ireland has not some attitude to the Great Hunger, or the Clearances, or just to a vague morass of names, Culloden and Robert the Bruce and Rebel Songs?
- Quite apart from the development of new police tactics and the emergence of new common-law public order powers, the open-ended and vague nature of the traditional law has continued the erratic erosion of freedom for those whose views, attitudes, or behaviour is out of the mainstream.
- The dates on the letters are quite clear, but a vague possibility is that they refer to the first actual parachute operation and that the dates are confused - by perhaps a month.
- Some of the officers were riding back to explain matters to their men, though since they knew little themselves their assurances were necessarily vague.
- However vague may be the concept of "medical care adequate for health", the right clearly cannot be realised if there are no doctors.
- Full discussion of this model is outwith the scope of the present paper, and we are leaving vague the discussion of types of role-mapping which might be important: for the present purpose, by role-mappings of atomic discourse elements, we mean any mapping between a description and an underlying knowledge structure which has been invoked during the understanding process (and, of course, there may be more than one).
- Donald chose not to confront this vague, if morally positive statement.
- Behind that lie the less easily quantifiable facts of the effects of war service in mingling classes and breaking attitudes, the powerful if vague sense that sacrifice and austerity required a matching improvement in the quality of life in a free society, and the experience of life under siege as contributing to a stronger sense of community and fraternity.
- "I HAVE received vague but disquieting information about the inaccessibility of the Willoughbys" old home," wrote William Dutt in 1914, who was keen to see Parham Old Hall (or the Moat Hall as it is sometimes called), before nightfall.
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