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Перевод: veritable
[прилагательное] настоящий; подлинный; истинный
Тезаурус:
- It is nearly a year and a half since David Howell, the then Secretary of State for Energy, announced that Sir Frank would be the inspector at the public inquiry into the plans of the Central Electricity Generating Board to build a pressurised-water reactor (PWR) at Sizewell in Suffolk, and there has been a veritable deluge of documentation from all sides in the past 18 months, giving Sir Frank more than enough preliminary reading.
- But when her relationship with SHE's sex columnist Doctor David Delvin started getting serious, Christine became a veritable bag of nerves.
- The Master of the Horse (Grand cuyer) controlled a dozen chief assistants who in turn were overseers of a veritable army of coachmen, grooms, etc., responsible for the organization of horses and carriages.
- The obese, even the mildly chubby, sometimes regard slim people as veritable paragons of virtue when it comes to food.
- There must have been a veritable orchard flourishing in her wake, which could account for the sudden urge to build an orangery among the nobbery.
- For instance, among the veritable rarities that have come my way in that time, I have had at least as many disappointments as pleasant surprises.
- From 1860 on, however, a dramatic increase in the number of such works occurred; a veritable explosion of major publications took place which owed a great deal to the excitement aroused by The Origin of Species .
- But to Paula Ladies' Fashions was a veritable Aladdin's cave of delights.
- It is a veritable enigma, and the answer to it would probably not put more fish into my net, but would greatly satisfy my curiosity.
- Five feet high and weighing one hundred and seventy pounds, a veritable Humpty Dumpty of a woman, Mrs Stych had no hope of ever being able to wear pants gracefully.
- The vituperative messages which poured forth in a veritable torrent of abuse were repeatedly drowned by the dissenting majority who kept up an incessant chant: "Return to work.
- History layered upon history in almost geological strata, within the levels of which were preserved corpse upon corpse upon corpse - so that the upheaving rockface of history seemed a veritable conglomerate of compressed cadavers, human, abhuman, and alien, a cosmos-spanning coral reef composed of innumerable crushed skeletons
- The staff available in teachers' colleges consisted in the main of dignified old gentlemen, veritable repositories of folklore and tradition, ever eager to discuss finer points of language with other scholars, but totally unequipped to teach reading methods.
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