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Перевод: aberration

[существительное]
отклонение; отклонение от правильного пути; отклонение от стандарта; заблуждение; помрачение ума; аберрация [биол.]

Тезаурус:

1. CONSUMER inflation in America jumped an unexpected 1/2 p.c. last month, but economists said the figure was an aberration and did not shake their belief that inflation is moderating.
2. As he did so his wife raised her eyebrows as if at some freakish aberration.
3. All were agreed that multiple homage was an aberration, displeasing to God; but we may assume that it was rare for a man to refuse a good gift or a bargain on this account.
4. His latest examination from Pakistan will reveal whether it was a temporary aberration or the start of a gentle decline.
5. The attempt by the power behind his throne, Warwick - now duke of Northumberland - to secure the succession for his strongly Protestant daughter-in-law Lady Jane Grey was a dismal failure; and England was now ruled by the Catholic Mary Tudor, then in her late thirties, married to Philip of Spain, and therefore potentially capable of establishing a Catholic dynasty which would make Henry VIII, Somerset and Northumberland look like a temporary aberration.
6. The outbreak of violence in this area was therefore widely presented as an aberration.
7. The Tories regard it as an aberration that would be catastrophic for Britain's system of government.
8. Only gradually did my colleagues and I come to realise that we were reporting on a social phenomenon - an aberration triggered by fear of being left behind in a pay race, aggravated by mounting greed and, finally, sustained by sheer bolshieness.
9. But before we jump to the conclusion that Pound had simply had a brainstorm, or had been trapped by misplaced compassion for Dunning as a lame duck, we ought to consider another possibility - that imagism, and Pound's endorsement of Ford's insistence on "the prose tradition", had never been for him more than an aberration, though in the short term a very profitable one, from a way of feeling that impelled him always toward the cantabile , a proclivity that would, in the interests of melody, tolerate notably eccentric diction.
10. If by some aberration as was Jimmy Carter the sitting President is upset, Augusta National would again be host to the chief executive.
11. He had evidently suffered a fit of amnesia, and overlooked not only the European Communities Act, 1972, which tore a great hole in this country's legislative independence, but that much earlier aberration, the signature of the European Convention of Human Rights in 1950.
12. Before you dismiss that as a cultural aberration of Gaeldom, consider my second reason.
13. The chemist Compte (1798-;1857) expressed it in quite brutal terms: "If mathematical analysis should ever hold prominent place in chemistry - an aberration which is happily almost impossible - it would occasion a rapid and widespread degeneration of that science".