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Перевод: elusive

[прилагательное]
неуловимый; ускользающий; уклончивый; ненадежный; слабый; незапоминающийся; ускользающий из памяти

Тезаурус:

1. Of all study skills, perhaps the most elusive is the ability to organise and manage time effectively.
2. Success in this field was elusive until in 1915, Yamagiwa and Ichikawa produced tumours by painting coal tar on the ears of rabbits.
3. Doreen McBarnet and Christopher Whelan in a paper entitled The Elusive Spirit of the Law consider the limits of formalism in attempts to control market activity and the possible effectiveness of anti-formalist strategies such as that claimed by the ASB.
4. The only one of them that I was interested in, though, was either extremely elusive, or not there.
5. If the object of our faith were as elusive as the Loch Ness monster or as inconsequential as whether to have a third cup of afternoon tea, then doubt makes little difference.
6. The d - d elusive S.A.S.
7. Somatostatin, a hormone that inhibits the release of growth hormone, is now well know, but its opposite proved elusive.
8. Again, because of the elusive if all-pervading nature of the theme, it is difficult to formalise into legislation on humanising work as several European countries have discovered by experience.
9. At Queen's Park, Trinidad in the First "Test" contact was proving particularly elusive for Ian Salisbury, causing Clayton Lambert at short leg to comment: "Hey, you man, bowl him a straight one.
10. It was the cure that was so elusive.
11. She is capricious, elusive and quite irresistible.
12. The crush can generate "pressure" on ministers, and affect the elusive "mood of the House" that MPs like to interpret as the will of the nation.
13. Location, Sensation, Modalities, Concominants I muttered looking around me, trying to imprint some image of elusive Englishness.