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Перевод: distasteful

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Тезаурус:

1. Asimov's problem is greater, certain implications of his original trilogy being slightly distasteful.
2. Distasteful families
3. It is a task which some of the more well-bred staff in the royal household find frankly distasteful - the private secretary to the Prince of Wales, Sir John Riddell, reputedly once told a producer from Thames Television, working on a fortieth birthday tribute to the Prince, that "dealing with you people is like having one's private parts slowly nibbled by rats" - but they go along with it because the deferential attitude of most of the media is the means of engaging popular support for the ins of monarchy.
4. "A disgraceful racket and a a distasteful one too."
5. Recent experiments using chicks as "predators", and coloured, distasteful crumbs as prey, indicate that although the chicks at first eat the brightly coloured, aposematic, crumbs more quickly than cryptic (inconspicuous) crumbs, they also learn to avoid distasteful crumbs more quickly when they are brightly coloured than when they are cryptic (Figure 1).
6. But how could the association of distasteful and bright coloration (aposematic) evolve in natural populations?
7. Men like Pugin, Ruskin and William Morris turned a distasteful and then a blind eye to the fast growing urban sprawl and preferred to live in genuine or fake medieval houses by rivers or lakes.
8. However distasteful it may be to some people, this does at least provide a rational explanation for the behaviour of those bystanders, even if it does not excuse them.
9. It was simply that most people, while wanting the ends, preferred to walk away from the means: especially when they were distasteful, and most especially when they failed.
10. In his Descent of Man and Selection in Relation to Sex , therefore, Darwin concluded that for distasteful species "the most gaudy colours would be serviceable, and might have been gained by variation and the survival of the most-easily recognised individuals".
11. Such names will be distasteful to many older people, but perhaps their introduction is the prelude to recognition of other people's potential value and, in common with other caricatured portrayals, some of them are amusing or even helpful.
12. "Personally I consider it distasteful.
13. They found thinking about child sexual abuse emotionally distasteful.