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Перевод: sterile

[прилагательное]
бесплодный; неспособный к деторождению; стерильный; стерилизованный; безрезультатный

Тезаурус:

1. Prevention of infection is the objective whenever surgical wounds are cleaned and covered with a sterile dressing or spray.
2. Negative methods of responding in marking are likely to produce sterile, cumulative consequences in a child's writing: pupils quickly discern what is acceptable to the teacher and merely aim to fulfil those expectations.
3. I don't wish to reopen sterile arguments about the meaning of "is-ness".
4. We produced up to 10000 sterile hybrid males per day.
5. This initial fragmentation is one of the essential processes that leads to the conversion of sterile rock into fertile soil.
6. For example, when it was discovered in the 1970s that male workers in America and Costa Rica had been made permanently sterile by a pesticide called dibromochloropropane, the substance was banned.
7. As is usual with hybrids, the plants were sterile.
8. Her entire role in life is to get pregnant by Fred, her lord and master; to lie down between the legs of his wife Serena, who's sterile and desperate; to shut up and spread them.
9. The expectation of finding carbonaceous chondrites in Antarctica prompted the American teams, beginning in the 1977 season, to use sterile collecting procedures patterned on those developed for lunar samples returned by the Apollo missions.
10. I believe a close examination of his recorded opinions, and of the idiom in which those opinions were expressed (an idiom, even to the end, as much British as American), would show that Pound too was not insensible to the ideal of the aristocratic amateur in the arts, and was at least sometimes resentful, just as Yeats was, that political and socio-economic developments had made that attitude to the arts impracticable and sterile.
11. Two hideous yuppies in tubular stainless steel sipping minimalist cocktails - no olives or fruit salad - God, give my ageing pectorals strength! - and contemplating how much they can borrow to house their sterile fucking, dear.
12. Some of the conflict will be negative and sterile, impeding the work of delivering services, but some of it may be constructive and positive, where there can be genuine debate about the balance between patient care priorities and securing value for tax-payers" money.
13. The group is only too aware that the dangers of conifer plantations are not limited to creating great black tracts of sterile land (nothing grows beneath their dense needles).