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Перевод: torpor

[существительное]
тупость ; апатия ; безразличие; оцепенение; онемелость ; торпор

Тезаурус:

1. After gorging itself it would lie down and go into a digestive torpor, and could alternately eat and doze over a period of several weeks.
2. The prophet Tawney, now writing for the Manchester Guardian and still committed to an extension of grammar-school opportunities could, on the twenty-first anniversary of Secondary Education for All , write: "Now, at last, the reign of organised torpor masquerading as statesmanship shows signs of ending."
3. Most flesh-eating reptiles have simple spikes that prevent them from chewing their prey; they have to gulp it down whole and then remain in a torpor for days or weeks to digest the meal.
4. An eight-point plan to beat teacher shortages was unveiled yesterday by Mr Jack Straw, Labour's education spoksman, who accused ministers of being "trapped in a torpor induced by ignorance" about the true nature of the crisis.
5. This, maybe, was my opportunity to escape from the torpor into which I had sunk.
6. IS KELANTAN, the most conservative of Malaysia's 13 states, waking from its traditional torpor?
7. Probably the most important effect of his reading of Joyce was to make him all the more aware of the possibilities of his anthropological reading, especially when applied to modern city life in the context of inanity or death: city life was filled with fatal torpor and Eliot described London as shrivelling, like an aged little bookkeeper.
8. Early on Saturday evening, however, while Prague seemed sunk in its customary weekend torpor, West Germany's veteran foreign minister, Hans-Dietrich Genscher, arrived unannounced, hotfoot from the United Nations.
9. Many people have succumbed to torpor after a week's heavy drinking.
10. Le Chant du Rossignol is much more animated and characterful with a more sharply focused recording, but hardly rescues the disc from the ball and chain of balletic torpor.
11. Hibernation and Torpor in Mammals and Birds by C. P. Lyman et at (Academic 24-;80) is a useful survey but has very little about birds.
12. "The oddly shrewd-hearted torpor of being carried home in the dark, a tourist, in my father's arms" enshrines the notion of love as essentially menacing and predatory.
13. The more time in the day the patient is idle, the more he is likely to sink into a torpor of laziness.