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Перевод: minnow

[существительное]
пескарь [зоол.] ; гольян [зоол.] ; мелкая рыбешка; мелюзга ; блесна

Тезаурус:

1. According to Sir Hector Laing, Chairman of United Biscuits: "In a world where the large food companies are getting larger, backed by the cash resources of very rich large partners, it is not good enough to be a minnow: in order to compete internationally each company has to get bigger."
2. From which country does the wild White Cloud Mountain Minnow originate?
3. The market was beginning to internationalise and our business was starting to look like a minnow in a very big ocean.
4. It is the end of October and the water temperature has dropped several degrees in the past few weeks, the minnow shoals are less numerous and the chub are fighting fit.
5. PITTENCRIEF, which allowed a 3.9m bid for oil minnow AmBrit International to lapse following the arrival of a higher bid earlier this year, is considering demerging its oil and gas interests.
6. "Minnow" hosts Council
7. G. affinis is a small (4.6 cm long), surface-feeding minnow which originated in the United States and has been used for many years in many parts of the world to control mosquito larvae.
8. But Speyhawk is a minnow compared to some big fish currently feeling the pain: Olympia York, the world's largest property company, and Gerald Ronson's Heron International are both trying, in Third World style, to reschedule their debts.
9. So while the male bi-coloured damselfish attracts his mates by chirping - the sound increasing to a crescendo if a female happens to pass by - there is a species of minnow which purrs, the cod grunts and the love song of the male haddock resembles the sound of a motorbike, a quite unmelodious call which it can sustain for periods of up to twenty minutes.
10. TEXAN oil and gas exploration minnow Aviva Petroleum sank back into the red last year with an 8.7m loss, against 1990's 537,000 profit, on revenue down from 12.2m to 9.3m.
11. Compared with Charity, he was a mere minnow capable of slipping through the net as easy as winking.
12. Minnow
13. This man had as little sympathy for the environment as a pike might have kind feelings towards a minnow.